{"id":29856,"date":"2026-04-24T06:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29856"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:28:17","slug":"frupdate-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/24\/frupdate-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Frupdate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday! I spent Thursday evening at Earnestine &amp; Hazel&#8217;s, as I often do. A couple of pieces of news about the haunted dive bar:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They plan on adding dart boards (I think they said 3) upstairs<\/li>\n<li>They were phasing out Lay&#8217;s potato chips and phasing in Brim&#8217;s, in order to support a local brand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I picked up a restaurant tip last night. If you like soul food at The Four Way, try <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myrockinchair.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Rockin Chair<\/a> at 1542 Elvis Presley. My friends think it&#8217;s even better and Uber Eats will deliver it Downtown.<\/p>\n<p>The Milwaukee Bucks are <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/sports\/milwaukee-bucks-hires-former-grizzlies-coach-taylor-jenkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hiring<\/a> former Grizzlies head coach Taylor Jenkins.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a moth party at River Garden Saturday evening. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/moth-party-at-river-garden-tickets-1986076362865?aff=oddtdtcreator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Say what?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t there a local drag queen called Moth Moth Moth? I wonder if she&#8217;ll be there.<\/p>\n<p>Cooter in the news: <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/magnitude-4-0-earthquake-rattles-mid-south\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A magnitude 4.0 quake<\/a> struck the Missouri bootheel yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Lasr night&#8217;s BBQ on Beale community dinner was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2026\/04\/24\/first-ever-bbq-beale-community-dinner-draws-over-200-attendees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">well attended<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Soul &amp; Spirits&#8217; annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1186851493152972\/?acontext=%7B%22source%22%3A%2229%22%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3A%22event_profile_plus_create%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&amp;notif_id=1776970895000000&amp;notif_t=event_profile_plus_create&amp;ref=notif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manes on Main<\/a> party is set for Saturday, May 9. This event will celebrate lagers with limited beers and a special re-release. Good Groceries and Ritzie&#8217;s BBQ will be the food trucks on site.<\/p>\n<p>Are there ANY Downtown teams competing in Beale Street Wine Race this Sunday? Other than Beale Street bars.<\/p>\n<p>Today is Arbor Day.<\/p>\n<p>Jasper Float Spa in The Washburn seeks a <a href=\"https:\/\/choose901.com\/job\/jasper-float-spa-wellness-center-downtown-memphis-80-spa-manager-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spa manager<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Hyatt Centric seeks a <a href=\"https:\/\/welcometomemphis-jobsboard.jobboardly.com\/jobs\/director-of-finance-92a4e1d8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">director of finance<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/welcometomemphis-jobsboard.jobboardly.com\/jobs\/food-and-beverage-manager-3a9e0e6e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">food and beverage manager<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow with more news.<\/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>Happy Friday! I spent Thursday evening at Earnestine &amp; Hazel&#8217;s, as I often do. A couple of pieces of news about the haunted dive bar: They plan on adding dart boards (I think they said 3) upstairs They were phasing out Lay&#8217;s potato chips and phasing in Brim&#8217;s, in order to support a local brand &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/24\/frupdate-42\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Frupdate&#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\/29856"}],"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=29856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29858,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29856\/revisions\/29858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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