{"id":29094,"date":"2025-09-24T11:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29094"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:28:07","slug":"wednesday-update-309","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/24\/wednesday-update-309\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_0022-1-1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-29096\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_0022-1-1.jpeg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_0022-1-1.jpeg?resize=500%2C375 500w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_0022-1-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C225 300w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_0022-1-1.jpeg?w=1024 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>With #VoteForAllison, October 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Memphis Flyer <a href=\"https:\/\/bom25.memphisflyer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Best of Memphis 2025<\/a> poll results are in.<\/p>\n<p>CONGRATULATIONS to #VoteForAllison on second place in Best Server. You deserve it! Allison has changed workplaces since being nominated and is at Earnestine &amp; Hazel&#8217;s now. Go see her Thursday from 5 PM-1 AM for Thursday Night Football, karaoke, and a Soul Burger.<\/p>\n<p>Also congratulations to Bardog on Best Bar. Also well deserved!<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/4701e7bd43fc0fe9df2a0b0cc09ccf01\/national-horchata-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Horchata Day<\/a>. Maciel\u2019s can help you celebrate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatnow.com\/memphis\/restaurants\/uptown-memphis-welcomes-a-new-fast-food-spot-with-free-meals-for-cow-costumed-guests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wear a cow costume<\/a> to get a free meal at the grand opening of Chick-fil-A Uptown tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/3-memphis-spots-make-southern-living-best-bbq-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Three Memphis restaurants made Southern Living\u2019s best BBQ list<\/a> and two of them are downtown: the Rendezvous and Cozy Corner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/09\/22\/michelob-ultra-overtakes-modelo-especial-as-best-selling-us-beer.html?utm_campaign=mb&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_source=morning_brew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michelob Ultra has overtaken Modelo<\/a> as the best selling beer brand in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.universe.com\/events\/memphis-grizzlies-2025-open-practice-presented-by-tn-lottery-tickets-WFJH5S\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reserve your spot<\/a> for the Memphis Grizzlies open practice at 1 PM on Saturday, October 4.<\/p>\n<p>Two Southern Heritage Classic week events are coming to the Orpheum: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orpheum-memphis.com\/events\/classic-comedy-feat-bruce-bruce-adele-givens-jay-lamont-and-ambrose-jones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Classic Comedy<\/a> featuring Bruce Bruce, Sheryl Underwood, Jammin Jay Lamont and Ambrose Jones on Thursday and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orpheum-memphis.com\/events\/branford-marsalis-quartet-belonging-tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Branford Marsalis Quartet\u2019s Belonging Tour<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Once again staying in tonight to avoid the storms. 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:\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>With #VoteForAllison, October 2024 The Memphis Flyer Best of Memphis 2025 poll results are in. CONGRATULATIONS to #VoteForAllison on second place in Best Server. You deserve it! Allison has changed workplaces since being nominated and is at Earnestine &amp; Hazel&#8217;s now. Go see her Thursday from 5 PM-1 AM for Thursday Night Football, karaoke, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/24\/wednesday-update-309\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wednesday 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\/29094"}],"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=29094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29098,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29094\/revisions\/29098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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