{"id":9423,"date":"2011-04-15T12:37:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T17:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=9423"},"modified":"2011-04-15T12:37:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T17:37:26","slug":"fri-update-grizzlies-and-hockey-watch-parties-metal-museum-arts-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/15\/fri-update-grizzlies-and-hockey-watch-parties-metal-museum-arts-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Fri update: Grizzlies and hockey watch parties, Metal Museum arts event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grizzlies have announced watch parties for the first two playoff games. They will set up screens outside on the FedExForum plaza and inside the Forum&#8217;s lobby, and the Jack Daniels Old No. 7 bar will be open for game viewing as well. Sunday&#8217;s party starts at 11 AM for the first game, and the second game&#8217;s watch party begins Wednesday at 6:30. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/grizzlies\/news\/grizzlies-playoff_watch_parties_plaza_parties-110414\">More info here.<\/a> (Hey, there&#8217;s Gary!)<\/p>\n<p>If hockey is more your thing than basketball, there&#8217;s a watch party for that as well. Tonight Kooky Canuck will show the playoffs on their new HDTVs, with Rangers vs. Capitals at 6:30 and Blackhawks vs. Canucks at 9.<\/p>\n<p>The Metal Museum is hosting Spring Arts on the Bluff Sunday. Performance by Hattiloo Theatre at 2 and the Stax Philharmonic at 3. There will be hands-on demos, blacksmiths working in the smithy, hot dogs from Cafe Eclectic and ice cream from Ms. Sally Anne&#8217;s. Blankets and lawn chairs are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Whew&#8230; fun night last night catching up with friends I hadn&#8217;t seen at a while. Saucer, then Kooky Canuck, then Raiford&#8217;s&#8230; it just doesn&#8217;t get much better than that. Tonight will probably be a quiet night. May get a few beers at the Saucer early in the evening, but I otherwise see myself sticking close to home. Ready for a long weekend of hot wing fest, brewfest, and crawfish fest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grizzlies have announced watch parties for the first two playoff games. They will set up screens outside on the FedExForum plaza and inside the Forum&#8217;s lobby, and the Jack Daniels Old No. 7 bar will be open for game viewing as well. Sunday&#8217;s party starts at 11 AM for the first game, and the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/15\/fri-update-grizzlies-and-hockey-watch-parties-metal-museum-arts-event\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fri update: Grizzlies and hockey watch parties, Metal Museum arts event&#8221;<\/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\/9423"}],"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=9423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9424,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions\/9424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->