{"id":29942,"date":"2026-05-20T12:04:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29942"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:04:52","slug":"wednesday-update-336","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/20\/wednesday-update-336\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like a new Afro-Caribbean restaurant may be opening in the Downtown core. There&#8217;s a sign in the window of 16 S. Second advertising that style of cuisine. That would be the former Elliott&#8217;s Burgers location, next door to Paula &amp; Raiford&#8217;s Disco.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jwoodssportsbar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">J Woods Sports Bar<\/a> is now open in Harbor Town.<\/p>\n<p>Book him, Dan-O! The Hawaii Five-O is the burger of the week at Momma&#8217;s: Angus beef topped with grilled pineapple, ham, Swiss, lettuce, tomato, and teriyaki sauce.<\/p>\n<p>All the way from Louisiana, the Lauren Lee Band is here to headline this Thursday&#8217;s Peabody rooftop party. 6-10 PM. $15 to get in, $40 VIP.<\/p>\n<p>NBA players recently <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/nba-players-voted-memphis-last-170628004.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted<\/a> Memphis the number-one franchise they did not want to be traded to.<\/p>\n<p>Ritual Coffee at 505 S. Main will have its grand opening celebration next Wednesday, May 27 from 4 to 6 PM. The first 50 customers will receive a free drink ticket. Ribbon-cutting at 4:15.<\/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>Looks like a new Afro-Caribbean restaurant may be opening in the Downtown core. There&#8217;s a sign in the window of 16 S. Second advertising that style of cuisine. That would be the former Elliott&#8217;s Burgers location, next door to Paula &amp; Raiford&#8217;s Disco. J Woods Sports Bar is now open in Harbor Town. Book him, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/20\/wednesday-update-336\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wednesday 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\/29942"}],"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=29942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29945,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29942\/revisions\/29945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29942"}],"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! -->