{"id":29884,"date":"2026-05-04T11:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29884"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:45:26","slug":"monday-update-301","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/04\/monday-update-301\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re coming up on 6 months since MATA instituted its ride-for-free pilot program on buses and trolleys. I asked AI agent Google Gemini to list other cities where you can ride public transportation for free.<\/p>\n<p>Permanent or long-term<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kansas City, MO<\/li>\n<li>Tucson<\/li>\n<li>Richmond, VA<\/li>\n<li>Albuquerque<\/li>\n<li>Olympia, WA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pilot or specialized programs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fayetteville (GO HOGS!!)<\/li>\n<li>Orange County, NC (Chapel Hill)<\/li>\n<li>Iowa City, IA<\/li>\n<li>Detroit (rail only)<\/li>\n<li>Commerce, CA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ghost River Brewing Co. is closing its Beale Garden location and consolidating operations at its recently expanded headquarters at Main and Crump. Thursday will be the last day on Beale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ask.com\/?utm_campaign=mb&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_source=morning_brew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RIP Ask.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/a4b18e86bc8d86b306e7f88aa948b2dd\/international-respect-for-chickens-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Respect for Chickens Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What Now has an update on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatnow.com\/memphis\/restaurants\/ritual-bistro-brewing-up-may-opening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ritual Bistro<\/a>, opening this month in the old Bluff City Coffee space on South Main.<\/p>\n<p>Downtown business owners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/news\/riverbeat-boosts-downtown-memphis-economy-as-festival-wraps-up\/article_c385b1da-6296-4d25-a5a5-7152eaa8f016.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saw a bump<\/a> in business from Riverbeat; Midtown, not so much.<\/p>\n<p>Bardog will have a dollar off the following this Tuesday for Cinco de Mayo:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High Cotton Mexican Lager<\/li>\n<li>Corona<\/li>\n<li>Modelo<\/li>\n<li>Margaritas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cordelia&#8217;s Market now has tinned fish from Portugal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orpheum-memphis.com\/events\/jerry-seinfeld-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerry Seinfeld<\/a> is at the Orpheum this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Staying at the Union Mission the next 3 nights due to exhaustion (tonight) and rain in the forecast (Tue-Wed). New Salem MB, my favorite guest church, comes out there the first Monday of each month. Also, a lot of Mondays there&#8217;s chicken donated by Gus&#8217;s. 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>We&#8217;re coming up on 6 months since MATA instituted its ride-for-free pilot program on buses and trolleys. I asked AI agent Google Gemini to list other cities where you can ride public transportation for free. Permanent or long-term Kansas City, MO Tucson Richmond, VA Albuquerque Olympia, WA Pilot or specialized programs Fayetteville (GO HOGS!!) Orange &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/04\/monday-update-301\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday 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\/29884"}],"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=29884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29886,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29884\/revisions\/29886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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