{"id":29059,"date":"2025-09-11T11:56:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29059"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:56:18","slug":"thursday-update-357","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/11\/thursday-update-357\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigtickets.com\/e\/contemporary-media\/the-memphis-flyer-best-of-memphis-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets are now available<\/a> for the Memphis Flyer&#8217;s annual Best of Memphis party, where the winners of the 2025 BOM voting will be revealed. It&#8217;ll be at Loflin Yard the evening of Wednesday, September 24. The party is always catered by restaurants that are among the award winners, so you&#8217;re guaranteed to get some of the best food in town.<\/p>\n<p>The Flyer has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/ten-years-at-the-halloran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preview<\/a> of events that will happen this weekend at the Halloran Centre of Performing Arts, which will be celebrating its 10th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Also from the Flyer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/a-century-of-b-b-king\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Century of B.B. King.<\/a> Musicians from all over the world will be in Memphis this weekend in celebration of what would have been King&#8217;s 100th birthday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/could-memphis-be-next-for-national-guard-deployment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Trumpster is considering deploying the National Guard to Memphis<\/a> as a crime-fighting measure.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Memphian had praise for the Flying Saucer&#8217;s steak frites in a recent subscriber-only newsletter. The steak comes made-to-order and is topped with blue cheese butter. Just the thought of it makes my mouth water!<\/p>\n<p>Slider Inn Downtown is hiring managers, bartenders, and servers.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny Yancey and the Power to the People Jazz Orchestra featuring Gabrielle Cain will play this month&#8217;s Sunset Jazz concert in Court Square 5-7 PM Sunday, September 14. Bring nuts to feed the squirrels.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis Made Brewing and West Tennessee K-9 will host a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/543333522169651\/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2252%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22[%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22share_link%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22share_link%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%7B%5C%22invite_link_id%5C%22%3A786405514037341%7D%7D]%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Doggie Social at The Ravine<\/a> Friday 5-7.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1444386306612570\/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2252%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22[%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22share_link%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22share_link%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%7B%5C%22invite_link_id%5C%22%3A1307219627575430%7D%7D]%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The next Alley Dayz party<\/a> is set for Stereo Alley next to Hotel Indigo on Wednesday, September 17. There you can catch<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a live performance by Opera Memphis<\/li>\n<li>local vendors: makers, artisans, interactive pop-ups<\/li>\n<li>the opportunity to explore neighborhood restaurants including Biscuits &amp; Jams, Memphis Chess Club, and the Brass Door<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The folks behind the I Love Memphis Blog would love to meet their readers this afternoon 4:30-6:30 at Birdie&#8217;s, the sim-golf bar at 493 S. Main. One attendee will win a Sprock &#8216;n Roll party pedal bike ride for themselves and their friends.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, you can walk down Main to Earnestine &amp; Hazel&#8217;s and meet the writer behind another Memphis blog, Paul Ryburn&#8217;s Journal. He&#8217;ll be there from 5-til. The dream team of Allison and Dani will be slinging Soul Burgers, the ghosts will be playing the jukebox, and starting at 8 they&#8217;ll have karaoke.<\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow with a Frupdate.<\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><em><strong>I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/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>Tickets are now available for the Memphis Flyer&#8217;s annual Best of Memphis party, where the winners of the 2025 BOM voting will be revealed. It&#8217;ll be at Loflin Yard the evening of Wednesday, September 24. The party is always catered by restaurants that are among the award winners, so you&#8217;re guaranteed to get some of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/11\/thursday-update-357\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thursday 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\/29059"}],"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=29059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29061,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29059\/revisions\/29061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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