{"id":28999,"date":"2025-08-23T09:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28999"},"modified":"2025-08-23T09:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:02:17","slug":"saturday-update-308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/23\/saturday-update-308\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were reports on the news this morning of a large police presence at Talbot and Wagner last night about 10:30. Anyone know what was going on?<\/p>\n<p>Want to be a volunteer for the 2025 St. Jude Marathon on December 6? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2025\/08\/22\/volunteer-cheer-registration-st-jude-memphis-marathon-weekend-now-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Registration is now open.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fire that damaged the Metro shopping center at Crump and Danny Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.localmemphis.com\/article\/news\/local\/metro-shopping-plaza-fire-plans\/522-9dcd97e5-0ae2-4f41-a0ee-b33449b803c6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will simply speed up its demolition<\/a>, owners say. The center was set to be torn down anyway to make space for mixed-use housing and retail.<\/p>\n<p>Aloft Hotel seeks a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glassdoor.com\/job-listing\/front-desk-agent-aloft-hotel-downtown-memphis-tn-JV_IC1144463_KO0,16_KE17,48.htm?jl=1009486409258\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">front desk agent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new Mississippi River bridge into Memphis will be called <a href=\"https:\/\/downtownmemphis.com\/post\/new-mississippi-river-bridge-to-be-called-kings-crossing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kings&#8217; Crossing<\/a> in a nod to three Kings associated with the city: MLK Jr., Elvis, and B.B. WHAT ABOUT LAWLER?????<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s REZA: Edge of Illusion performance at the Halloran Center has been canceled.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a specialty ticket to tonight&#8217;s Redbirds game that gets you a BBQ buffet and another that gets you a Hogwarts hat. First pitch vs. the Gwinnett Stripers is tonight at 6:35. Fireworks after the game.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on a Week 1 college football list of games of interest to Memphians. That should be ready to go Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><em><strong>I gratefully accept tips:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span>Venmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were reports on the news this morning of a large police presence at Talbot and Wagner last night about 10:30. Anyone know what was going on? Want to be a volunteer for the 2025 St. Jude Marathon on December 6? Registration is now open. The fire that damaged the Metro shopping center at Crump &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/23\/saturday-update-308\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28999"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29002,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28999\/revisions\/29002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->