The Memphis Italian Festival starts today and runs through Saturday. It’s at Marquette Park at the corner of Park and Mt.Moriah and runs from 6 pm to 10 pm today and 11 am to 11 pm Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n
I probably won’t go myself, because this is one of those events where it’s not much fun if you don’t know someone in one of the booths (but invitations to booths might change my mind: e-mail me your invitations<\/a>). Besides, the fest is about a 9-mile drive from my apartment, which means I’d have to severely limit the alcohol intake to be able to drive home, and what fun is that? On the plus side, there would probably be some good tube top sightings, considering it’s an outdoor festival in early June, with highs in the mid-80s.<\/p>\n 25% chance I’ll go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Memphis Italian Festival starts today and runs through Saturday. It’s at Marquette Park at the corner of Park and Mt.Moriah and runs from 6 pm to 10 pm today and 11 am to 11 pm Friday and Saturday. I probably won’t go myself, because this is one of those events where it’s not much … Continue reading “Memphis Italian Festival is this weekend”<\/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\/461"}],"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=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}