{"id":29530,"date":"2026-01-29T08:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29530"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:58:11","slug":"thursday-update-373","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/29\/thursday-update-373\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Cornhole League&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/iplaycornhole.com\/2526-open-memphis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memphis Signature Open<\/a> happens at the Renasant Convention Center this weekend. Open events for players of all skill levels the entire 3 days.<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/91eee1fbe40ec8adc62a5695a538d024\/national-corn-chip-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Corn Chip Day<\/a>. I recommend celebrating with the very pinnacle of the chip world &#8211; chili cheese Fritos. Maybe make a crockpot of Rotel dip to go with them.<\/p>\n<p>Penny&#8217;s 9-10 Tigers host Florida Atlantic at FedExForum tonight at 7. It&#8217;s the Coaches vs. Cancer game. TV: ESPN2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orpheum-memphis.com\/events\/live-rich-die-poor-zora-awakening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Rich Die Poor, Zora Awakening<\/a> is scheduled for the Halloran Centre Friday night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orpheum-memphis.com\/events\/anthony-q-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Southern Soul Lovers Tour<\/a> hits the Orpheum Saturday night, celebrating Anthony Q&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday at the Cannon Center, Memphis Symphony Orchestra performs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannoncenter.com\/events\/cannon-center\/memphis-symphony-orchestra-brahms-symphony-no-4-trumpet-virtuoso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brahms Symphony No. 4 &amp; Trumpet Virtuoso<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Save the date: Downtown Huey&#8217;s will host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/love-song-bingo-at-hueys-downtown-tickets-1981862794970?aff=ebdssbcategorybrowse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">love song bingo<\/a> the evening of February 10.<\/p>\n<p>Save the date: South Main is organizing a MARDI GRAS KRAWL for Sunday, February 15. A dozen or more businesses will participate. A second line parade will start things, and a band at Slider Inn will finish it off. Get your card punched at each stop, then hand it in at the end for a small South Main prize.<\/p>\n<p>Please BYO bags to Cordelia&#8217;s Market this week. Because deliveries can&#8217;t get there, they&#8217;ve run out of paper bags. They&#8217;ll be open 9-6 today.<\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow, I hope, 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>The American Cornhole League&#8217;s Memphis Signature Open happens at the Renasant Convention Center this weekend. Open events for players of all skill levels the entire 3 days. Today is National Corn Chip Day. I recommend celebrating with the very pinnacle of the chip world &#8211; chili cheese Fritos. Maybe make a crockpot of Rotel dip &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/29\/thursday-update-373\/\" 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\/29530"}],"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=29530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29532,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29530\/revisions\/29532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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