{"id":566,"date":"2006-09-09T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-09T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=566"},"modified":"2006-09-09T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-09T18:49:00","slug":"art-on-tap-review-n-other-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/09\/art-on-tap-review-n-other-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Art On Tap review ‘n’ other stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I went to Art On Tap, the Dixon’s annual beer tasting\/fundraiser, for the first time, and WOW! What a great event. I took a cab down there and got there about 6:10, ten minutes after the start time, and the place was already packed. I walked around and sampled beers, the best of which were homemade brews by the Bluff City Brewers<\/a> club. It was a FUN crowd too – I must have known 50 people there, maybe more. Only problem was, I stopped to talk to so many people that I didn’t drink as much beer as I would have liked. Really good food too – jambalaya by Bluff City Bayou, burritos by Blue Coast Burrito, and BBQ sandwiches by (forgot the place’s name). The tasting was in a beautiful outdoor garden, and of course the Dempseys were excellent as always. This event is definitely going to be on my calendar for next year.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Chad and the Nuh-Uh Girl for the ride back downtown, and to Mike and Paola for offering a ride as well. Once back home I headed to (you guessed it) The Flying Saucer. Said a brief hello to the girl who had been the most beautiful woman at the beer tasting (she had on a silver dress that just about made my eyes pop out of my head), then rolled on to Earnestine & Hazel’s and then Raiford’s. First time I’ve seen Raiford’s since the renovation – it’s not much different, they got rid of that stupid drum set and I think they may have moved the bar back a foot or so, not sure. They’ve raised the cover to $12 after midnight. Yikes. When they raised it to 10 I really thought they were approaching the upper limit of what people are willing to pay. We’ll see if it lasts. Got about 2 hours of quality dancing in, then headed home.<\/p>\n

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Something’s been wrong with my cable modem at home – sometimes it finds the Internet, sometimes not. I took the laptop to the Union Avenue branch office yesterday at lunch to type a post, but one of the waitresses borrowed my laptop to look at MySpace pages. Oh, also, the fluffy-haired Romanian who works there is a brunette now.<\/p>\n

Speaking of lack of posts: Can’t resist pointing out that Charly<\/a> has not made a new post in 16 days, and hasn’t made a post about anything other than redneck NASCAR crap in 32 days.<\/p>\n

The Commercial Appeal had a review of my favorite new restaurant, Dawgie Style, yesterday. Check it out.<\/a><\/p>\n

Foot in Mouth Dept: Greg Hisky, from Greg Hisky and his Dixie Whisky Flyers who I saw at the Center for Southern Folklore Festival last weekend, e-mailed me to thank me for the endorsement. However, he said, his band members are not in their 60s as I estimated in my post – they have one member in his 40s, one in his 30s, and two in their 50s. Oops! Sorry about that.<\/p>\n

He told me that they will be playing at the P&H Cafe on Saturday, September 16 at 9 pm, for their Hank Williams (1923-1953) birthday party. That’s the day of Cooper-Young Fest, so that’s an option for some post-CY entertainment.<\/p>\n

Oh, by the way, Greg also told me that they jumped around on stage like The Dempseys when they were younger, and still can in short spurts.<\/p>\n

No plans for today… nothing going on that I know of except the Germantown Festival, and I have no interest in making the drive out to East Bumblefuck to check it out. Tomorrow I’ll be at Sleep Out Louie’s, of course. Outta here… have a good weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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