The DM reports that Crazy Coop at the corner of Madison and Main is closing. The owner said the restaurant never did develop a regular crowd.<\/p>\n
The Downtown Memphis Commission has received a $74 million state grant<\/a> to improve Beale Street. It’ll go toward safety, lighting, accessibility, things like that. Some of the money will be used to create event spaces.<\/p>\n College basketball players at mostly lesser-known schools have been accused of point shaving<\/a> in connection with a gambling ring. The University of Memphis was not named in the allegations, but conference rival Tulane was.<\/p>\n Butteriffic Bakery and Cafe on S. Second is planning a big celebration for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday. They’ll have cookie samples, a DJ, vendors, and food trucks. The bakery is less than a 5 minute walk from the civil rights museum.<\/p>\n Reminder: My friends Saturday Sunset<\/a> – the full 4-piece band – play downstairs tonight at Earnestine & Hazel’s.<\/p>\n Get ready for lows in the teens and single-digit wind chills Sunday morning.<\/p>\n The Grizzlies lost to the Orlando Magic yesterday in Berlin. They’ll get a rematch in London at 11 AM CST Sunday. TV: Amazon Prime<\/p>\n Bleacher Report is now saying the Heat are unlikely to trade for Ja Morant<\/a> even though he recently bought a house in Miami.<\/p>\n Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> The DM reports that Crazy Coop at the corner of Madison and Main is closing. The owner said the restaurant never did develop a regular crowd. The Downtown Memphis Commission has received a $74 million state grant to improve Beale Street. It’ll go toward safety, lighting, accessibility, things like that. Some of the money will … Continue reading “Frupdate”<\/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\/29495"}],"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=29495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29497,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29495\/revisions\/29497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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