{"id":28592,"date":"2025-04-26T10:06:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T15:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28592"},"modified":"2025-04-26T10:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T15:06:51","slug":"saturday-update-298","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/26\/saturday-update-298\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday update"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve probably heard of the Downtown Memphis Commission’s Open on Main initiative. The DMC gives small retail businesses the chance to have a storefront on or near Main Street, with rent covered for a period of time. Well, there’s a new incentive program called Table Ready<\/a>, designed to provide similar help for restaurants.<\/p>\n

Boycott Coffee on Madison in the Commonwealth Building appears to be back open to the public. For a while they were only doing corporate delivery orders.<\/p>\n

Ja Morant is listed as doubtful<\/a> for the Grizzlies’ Game 4 today vs. OKC (2:30 PM, TNT). The Grizzlies’ prospects of winning are also on the doubtful list.<\/p>\n

Round 4 of the NFL draft begins today and Shedeur Sanders is still available<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today is National Static Cling Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tonight is Soul Babies Songwriter Series<\/a> at South Main Sounds. Featuring Gerald Morgan Jr. and D’Vonna Taylor.<\/p>\n

There will be monster movies and discussion<\/a> today 1-4 PM at A. Schwab on Beale.<\/p>\n

Jeff Hulett<\/a> plays the front porch of South Point Grocery noon to 2 today.<\/p>\n

I wonder if Neptune Street which runs by Elmwood Cemetery was named for Neptune the planet… it was a newly discovered planet at the time the street grid in that area was laid out. In the 1850s that neighborhood was considered a suburb to the extent Eads, Oakland, and Piperton are today.<\/p>\n

One of the games you can rent (or play for free if a member) at Memphis Chess Club is called Happy Salmon. I feel as though my life is incomplete because I’ve never played it.<\/p>\n

That’s all I’ve got.<\/p>\n

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