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<\/a><\/p>\nHere are some more pics from the festival:<\/p>\n
Looking north from G.E. Patterson.\u00a0 The booths were better spaced out this year and thanks to great weather, the festival was packed.<\/p>\n John D enjoying his favorite beverage, an ice cold Bud Light.<\/p>\n Clay lifts Stella the dog up to Calhoun’s window so she can order a beer.<\/p>\n I don’t even want to think about what Terry might have in that cylindrical-shaped bag.<\/p>\n UT fans made Calhoun’s look like a damn carrot patch yesterday.\u00a0 Reminder to festival-goers today:\u00a0 Calhoun’s has the NFL package and 10 TVs if you want to drop in and watch a game.\u00a0 $2 PBR.<\/p>\n Be sure to check out Shane Paris Art if you go to the festival today.\u00a0 His booth is located right in front of the Arcade on Main Street, second booth south of G.E. Patterson.\u00a0 Come support the work of a local Downtown artist.\u00a0 If you can’t make it to the festival today, check out Shane’s web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n Stella stalking a tennis ball in a parking lot near the festival<\/p>\n My plans for today:\u00a0 I was going to go to brunch at Sole this morning – seeing Melissa at Paula & Raiford’s Thursday night reminded me that I hadn’t been there in a while.\u00a0 But that plan changed the moment I found out the Young Guns are playing at 11:55 this morning at RiverArtsFest.\u00a0 The Young Guns are an absolute MUST SEE.<\/p>\n After that, I’ll probably hang out at the festival until it closes at 6, with at least one trip to the Nut House for cinnamon roasted pecans, and a trip to Central BBQ’s booth for BBQ nachos.\u00a0 And, of course, trips to Calhoun’s throughout the day for beer.\u00a0 After that I’ll head north to the Saucer for another lazy Sunday night with Brittney, then at 8:30 The Dempseys take the stage at Huey’s.\u00a0 It’s gonna be a long day…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Okay, let me give you the inside scoop on RiverArtsFest in 3 words:\u00a0 CINNAMON ROASTED PECANS.\u00a0 There is a vendor called The Nut House (pictured below) set up right next to the National Civil Rights Museum gift shop.\u00a0 They sell all kinds of nuts and their cinnamon roasted pecans are possibly the best thing I’ve … Continue reading “Pics and recap: RiverArtsFest day 1”<\/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\/5014"}],"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=5014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5023,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014\/revisions\/5023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5014"}],"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<\/a><\/p>\n