{"id":29447,"date":"2026-01-03T08:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29447"},"modified":"2026-01-03T08:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:57:31","slug":"saturday-update-322","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/03\/saturday-update-322\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday update"},"content":{"rendered":"

My bartender at the Flying Saucer gave me some rather surprising news last night. Oregon-based Rogue Ales, one of the first and most successful microbreweries, has closed<\/a>.\u00a0 A group of investors acquired the business and mismanaged it. A note-on-the-door situation informed employees they no longer had jobs.<\/p>\n

There’s still some Rogue Dead Guy on tap at the Saucer. Get it while you can.<\/p>\n

Like ol’ Willie (Nelson, not Herenton), Penny’s Memphis Tigers are on the road again. They play the Rice Owls at 2. TV: ESPN+<\/p>\n

The U.S. has captured Venezuela’s president<\/a> following military strikes on that country, the Trumpster announced.<\/p>\n

Congrats to Navy on their 35-17 Liberty Bowl victory over Cincinnati yesterday.<\/p>\n

It was good catching up with C.J. and Kyla of Saturday Sunset<\/a> at Earnestine & Hazel’s last night. Their full 4-piece band will play downstairs there two Fridays this month, the 16th and 30th.<\/p>\n

KUYA, the Filipino restaurant going in at Main and Vance, will bring in local DJs<\/a>. Dancing with Filipina women??? I am SO there!<\/p>\n

Action News 5 is looking to hire a news anchor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First Horizon Bank seeks a marketing\/creative intern<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n

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My bartender at the Flying Saucer gave me some rather surprising news last night. Oregon-based Rogue Ales, one of the first and most successful microbreweries, has closed.\u00a0 A group of investors acquired the business and mismanaged it. A note-on-the-door situation informed employees they no longer had jobs. There’s still some Rogue Dead Guy on tap … Continue reading “Saturday update”<\/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\/29447"}],"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=29447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29449,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29447\/revisions\/29449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}