{"id":29743,"date":"2026-03-26T11:40:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29743"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:40:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:40:53","slug":"thursday-update-379","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/26\/thursday-update-379\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karaoke at Earnestine &amp; Hazel&#8217;s last night was a blast. GM Keith and the most talented regular female singer did a duet of &#8220;Paradise by the Dashboard Light.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>4 Arkansas vs. 1 Arizona, 8:45 tonight, CBS. I&#8217;ll watch the game at the Flying Saucer since E&amp;H closes at 8 tonight for a private event.<\/p>\n<p>New way to get around Downtown: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocknrickshaws.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rock&#8217;n Rickshaws<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peter Blunt System plays Slider Inn Downtown this Friday 7-11 for Trolley Night.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/downtownmemphis.com\/do\/bbq-on-beale-community-dinner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBQ on Beale community dinner<\/a> Thursday, April 23. It will be hosted by the Downtown Neighborhood Association. The dinner will be the successor to last fall&#8217;s highly regarded Meal on Main.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/news\/nba-expansion-seattle-las-vegas-teams-vote-approved\/?utm_campaign=mb&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_source=morning_brew#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seattle and Las Vegas are very likely to get NBA expansion teams.<\/a> That means there&#8217;s a good chance the Grizzlies will get moved to the Eastern Conference, generally considered easier than the loaded West.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/news\/construction-resumes-after-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-against-new-brooks-museum-project\/article_1abfc4e5-db50-4d86-95d7-ded76f763388.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A judge dismissed a lawsuit by some old fuddy duddies<\/a> attempting to halt construction on the Brooks Museum&#8217;s new Downtown location.<\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow 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>Karaoke at Earnestine &amp; Hazel&#8217;s last night was a blast. GM Keith and the most talented regular female singer did a duet of &#8220;Paradise by the Dashboard Light.&#8221; 4 Arkansas vs. 1 Arizona, 8:45 tonight, CBS. I&#8217;ll watch the game at the Flying Saucer since E&amp;H closes at 8 tonight for a private event. New &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/26\/thursday-update-379\/\" 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\/29743"}],"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=29743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29746,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29743\/revisions\/29746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->