Next American City is holding an URBANEXUS salon tonight at Stax Museum (926 E. McLemore).\u00a0 This will be a discussion of civic engagement in moving Memphis forward, and what various organizations around town are doing to accomplish this.\u00a0 Presenters will use 4 slides per minute for 4 minutes to illustrate what’s going on with their organizations.\u00a0 Presenters include<\/p>\n
Audience Q&A and reception will follow the presentations.\u00a0 Event starts at 6 PM.\u00a0 Good chance to learn about the positive things going on in Memphis, and learn about ways you can be an active citizen.<\/p>\n
There was an article<\/a> in the paper yesterday about Paula & Raiford’s Disco, set to open April 3.\u00a0 Says the new club will be 4 times the size of the old one – NICE!\u00a0 While it will resemble the old Hollywood Raiford’s, it will have Paula’s unique decorative touches.\u00a0 Can’t wait to see the place.<\/p>\n Calhoun’s will open early for the NCAA tournament this week, and they have the March Madness package.\u00a0 After sunset their 120″ projection HDTV will be tuned to the games on the back deck.\u00a0 They are also the latest bar to get into the crawfish boiling business – they’ll do boils every Sunday at 6 PM for $4.50 a pound.<\/p>\n Orleans on Front will have crawfish every Thursday (that’s tonight!) in addition to the boils they have on some Sundays.\u00a0 Don’t forget about their $4 happy hour!<\/p>\n I was downstairs in their Voodoo Room last night, where they were showing a Led Zeppelin concert on TV.\u00a0 It looked like it was their 1975 tour and was just amazing.\u00a0 They played songs I’d never seen on concert video before – “In My Time of Dying,” “Trampled Under Foot,” “Bron-Y-Aur Stomp,” and a few others, and of course “Stairway.”\u00a0 Jimmy Page was just amazing.\u00a0 It was amazing how much he improvised during the songs, and yet it all sounded like perfection.\u00a0 I gotta start collecting Zep concert DVDs.\u00a0 My only complaint is that Bonham wasn’t featured more.\u00a0 They cut to him occasionally, but he looked like just another drummer.\u00a0 The video didn’t give him the credit he deserved.\u00a0 Page and Plant were clearly the stars.\u00a0 I think I saw shots of John Paul Jones maybe twice in the hour of footage they showed.<\/p>\n Sitting at the Saucer watching the Tigers vs. Cal State-Northridge game.\u00a0 The Tigers apparently left their “D” back in Memphis and are down by 1 as I type this, with 12 minutes left in the first half.\u00a0 Hope they turn it around.\u00a0 Haven’t watched a game here in a while.\u00a0 There are a lot of different bars Downtown that show the tournament games, but the Saucer is home.\u00a0 Not sure where I’ll go to watch Saturday’s game (assuming we put CS Northridge away), but I definitely plan on watching the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight at the Saucer, because there will be a lot of people around for the tournament games held here.<\/p>\n Go Tigers!\u00a0 Gonna try and build a website while I watch the game.\u00a0 Tigers have turned it around and are up by 4 now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Next American City is holding an URBANEXUS salon tonight at Stax Museum (926 E. McLemore).\u00a0 This will be a discussion of civic engagement in moving Memphis forward, and what various organizations around town are doing to accomplish this.\u00a0 Presenters will use 4 slides per minute for 4 minutes to illustrate what’s going on with their … Continue reading “Thur update: URBANEXUS, Paula & Raiford’s Disco, March Madness and mudbugs at Calhoun’s, more mudbugs at Orleans”<\/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\/3405"}],"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=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3408,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions\/3408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}