The Red Rooster is hosting their second annual Christmas in July party Saturday, July 25. This is a block party where they block off Lt. Lee Avenue. Last year they had a snow machine, sleighs and other Christmas decorations, and they dressed their rooster up as Santa. The event benefits Make-a-Wish, with tickets $25 in advance and $30 at the door. There will be complimentary gourmet hors d’ouevres and beer and wine, and a cash bar available for liquor. The Mud Flap Kings will perform, and Santa and Memphis celebrities will make an appearance. 901-521-1092 to purchase tickets.<\/p>\n
ArtsMemphis has announced the 2009-10 kickoff party for Bravo, their 21-45 year old arts group that does outings to various arts-related events throughout the year. The party will be a block party on Huling between Main and Front on Thursday, August 27, from 6:30 to 9 PM. Local galleries, restaurants, businesses, and artists will participate. It’s free to the public and there will be live music, free drinks, and local art. <\/p>\n
Their announcement says they have 4 levels of membership this year… that’s a new thing since the last time I was an active Bravo member in 2006. Info on each of the levels of membership here<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’m going to a birthday party\/pub crawl tonight. I got the invite last week on Facebook and looked at the bars on the list… Bardog, Silly Goose, Green Beetle, E&H, Paula & Raiford’s, Flying Saucer, Calhoun’s. Needless to say this was an EASY yes, given those destinations. Plus the birthday girl is someone who always comes up with new antics to make a party even more fun… there are said to be challenges along the way at each stop. Hmmm I suspect I better bring the extra batteries for the camera, because tonight may be memorable.<\/p>\n Other stuff on my agenda this weekend: Marci’s last shift behind the bar at the Saucer Saturday day; the Dempseys at Huey’s Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Red Rooster is hosting their second annual Christmas in July party Saturday, July 25. This is a block party where they block off Lt. Lee Avenue. Last year they had a snow machine, sleighs and other Christmas decorations, and they dressed their rooster up as Santa. The event benefits Make-a-Wish, with tickets $25 in … Continue reading “Fri update: Christmas in July, Bravo kickoff”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210"}],"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=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4211,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions\/4211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}