{"id":29118,"date":"2025-09-30T11:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29118"},"modified":"2025-09-30T11:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:29:10","slug":"tuesday-update-343","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/30\/tuesday-update-343\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stayed out last night. From 1:30 to 7:15 AM I sat on a park bench in front of the Moxy Hotel across from Court Square. I saw neither hide nor hair of the National Guard or any other federal agency that got sent to Memphis. All I saw was the occasional MPD car cruising the Main Street pedestrian mall and that&#8217;s normal.<\/p>\n<p>I did hear that a lot of people were getting pulled over on Union for traffic violations. Better take it easy on the accelerator until this &#8220;deployment&#8221; wraps up.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s have a look at college football games of interest this coming weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kentucky at 12 Georgia, 11:00 AM, ABC<\/li>\n<li>9 Texas at Florida, 2:30 PM, ESPN<\/li>\n<li>16 Vanderbilt at 10 Alabama, 2:30 PM, ABC<\/li>\n<li>Texas State at Arkansas State, 3:00 PM, ESPNU<\/li>\n<li>3 Miami at 18 Florida State, 6:30 PM, ABC<\/li>\n<li>Mississippi State at 6 Texas A&amp;M, 6:30 PM, SEC Network<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tulsa at Memphis, 7:00 PM, ESPNU<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>God, what a craptastic slate of games. Arkansas, Tennessee, Ole Miss and LSU all have bye weeks.<\/p>\n<p>National Guardspeople stationed in Memphis &#8211; come by in uniform to Bardog Tavern, 73 Monroe, for either<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a complimentary Original Memphis Slider; or<\/li>\n<li>20 percent off food<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dine-in or take-out.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine &amp; Mary&#8217;s is getting some <a href=\"https:\/\/whatnow.com\/memphis\/restaurants\/catherine-marys-getting-a-fresh-perspective\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">improvements<\/a> to enhance the dining experience.<\/p>\n<p>A haunting group exhibition called <a href=\"https:\/\/downtownmemphis.com\/do\/danse-macabre-a-group-art-exhibition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Danse Macabre<\/a> comes to The Ugly Art Co. at 635 Madison in October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sowproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sow Project<\/a> offers free culinary training for the unemployed and underemployed. They&#8217;re having a <a href=\"https:\/\/downtownmemphis.com\/do\/the-sow-project-fall-harvest-dinner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fundraiser dinner<\/a> Thursday at 64 S. Main.<\/p>\n<p>Reggae in the Park After Dark will happen Fridays in October 7-11 PM in Court Square. Free to attend. Live music, Caribbean food vendors.<\/p>\n<p>Soul &amp; Spirits will hold a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1128543025201037\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Halloween market<\/a> this Saturday from 1 to 8.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m gonna stay out again tonight, because these upper 80s high\/mid 60s low days won&#8217;t be around much longer. I&#8217;ll be at E&amp;H tonight visiting Memphis Flyer poll winner Allison. She&#8217;ll be on day 15 of a 15x back-to-back and she has handled it like a champ. 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All I saw was the occasional MPD car cruising &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/30\/tuesday-update-343\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tuesday 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\/29118"}],"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=29118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29122,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29118\/revisions\/29122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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