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<\/a><\/p>\nChuck, Robin, and Otto.\u00a0 Happy birthday Robin!<\/p>\n
Harmony and me<\/p>\n Mikey, Harmony, Dave, and Ryan, with a cameo appearance by Otto<\/p>\n Jean from Bardog Tavern took third place for Best Server.\u00a0 Bardog also took first place for Best New Bar.\u00a0 Hey, you know what I don’t see on that dress?\u00a0 Straps.\u00a0 TUBE TOP DRESS!\u00a0 “Looks best in a tube top” could be the best category the Flyer left out.<\/p>\n Michele from Calhoun’s, second place Best Server.<\/p>\n David from Bardog, looking snazzy in a suit.<\/p>\n Shane uses interpretive dance to explain the meaning of the Best Of party.<\/p>\n The venue was fantastic.\u00a0 It was my first time in Minglewood Hall, and the bands sounded great no matter where I stood in their large room.\u00a0 A first-class facility all the way.\u00a0 Congratulations for their first-place in Best Place to See Live Music, and for all they’ve accomplished in their first year.<\/p>\n Then there was the FOOD!\u00a0 Chicken and pineapple skewers from Huey’s, BBQ from Corky’s, sushi from Bluefin, fried green tomatoes from the Cupboard, some really delicious dry-rub hot wings from Central BBQ, some coconut shrimp that were really good but I can’t remember where they came from, and many more food vendors who catered the party.<\/p>\n Oh – speaking of which – I’m sure everyone’s wondering, “Free food… did the Nuh-Uh Girl show up?”\u00a0 No, due to poor wristband management on our part.\u00a0 The Flyer really cracked down on freeloaders this year… you had to be an invited guest to get in.\u00a0 I had an extra wristband, but thought that birthday girl Robin needed it.\u00a0 Once at the party, I found out she already had one.\u00a0 There was another extra wristband as well.\u00a0 So the Nuh-Uh Girl could have got in and enjoyed free food.\u00a0 But she didn’t.\u00a0 Too bad.\u00a0 She actually kinda did<\/em> deserve to be there – as much as she tweets and talks about Memphis restaurants and charity events, she really is sort of a stimulus to the economy.<\/p>\n About 9:30, the beer ran out, and not surprisingly, the party wound down about 9:31.\u00a0 Otto was our designated driver.\u00a0 “Want me to\u00a0drive you home?” he said.<\/p>\n “Yeah, but not the home where I sleep and pay rent.\u00a0 The home where I drink beer.”\u00a0 So Otto dropped me off at the Saucer, where I hung out for about an hour more.\u00a0 A tip of the hat to night shift bartenders Brionne, Graycen, and Whitney – out of everyone working the bar last night, they stood out for providing particularly excellent service.<\/p>\n When I get time, I’m going to post about the winners in some of the Best Of categories and compare to my votes.\u00a0 There were some categories where the voters nailed it, and others where I thought “WTF” when I read the winners – not so much because of who was there, but who wasn’t.\u00a0 That will be an extremely long post, so it will probably be Saturday or Sunday before I have time to type it.<\/p>\n All right.\u00a0 Back to work.\u00a0 Not sure what my after-work plans will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday I mentioned that I’d have to miss the Rendezvous alley party with the Dempseys and Soul Shockers, but I had a good reason… well, now I can reveal that reason.\u00a0 I was invited to the Memphis Flyer’s 2009 Best of Memphis party at Minglewood Hall.\u00a0 When the Best Of issue came out yesterday, I … Continue reading “Pics: Memphis Flyer Best of Memphis 2009 party”<\/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\/4757"}],"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=4757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4765,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions\/4765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n