Friends and Neighbors!

L-R Billie, Jessica, Kim and Rylie

To my sweet sweet Memphis Friends – As you probably know my friends from New Orleans Jessica and her sister Kim along with Kim’s daughters Billie (13) and Rylie (2) have evacuated from New Orleans to 310 S. Main. Not knowing if your home is going to survive or if you are going to have a job to go back to is absolutely gut wrenching. Please make them feel welcome while they are evacuated. Give them a call, help them find a wifi connection, show them around-they'll be looking for a grocery store and some entertainment, Edison can even bake them a cake or fix them a 4 course meal– just let them know that there is someone around to help out if they need it. Anything you can do will be greatly appreciated! Oh I forgot to mention Jessica’s weenies. Jessica brought her 4 rescued dachshunds – their names are longer than they are! From the photo above -L-R Lilliey Peepers Peppers Schnucombs Mango Toye,Sophiey Crazy Eye Killer Two Toned Jackson Spunky Brewster Toye, Graciey Floppy Ears Wienerella Sweet Baby Toye and Conniey Wang Chung Dung Toye

Jessica’s number is 504-331-6683.

Grizzlies sign Iranian centre Haddadi

Hadaddi is a Grizzlie !!

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Labor Day Weekend Schedule

• Friday - 5:30pm to 7:00pm - State Place Pool Party - State Place Condos
• Friday - 6:00pm to 9:00pm - August South Main Trolley Tour Night: Brandon's BBQ - South Main Street
• Friday til Sunday 9/7 - Various times - Delta Fair and Music Festival - Agricenter Intl
• Saturday - 7:30am to 1:00pm - Memphis Farmer's Market- Central Station Pavilion
• Saturday - 11:00am to 11:00pm - Memphis Music & Heritage Festival- Peabody & Gayoso on Main
• Saturday - 6:00pm - Memphis Tigers Football at Mississippi - [No coverage as of yet]
• Saturday - 4:00pm - 9:00pm - Cookout in the Burbs w Vic and Daniel - Olive Branch, MS
• Saturday - 9:00pm - til - Summer Party w Patrick C. - East Memphis
• Sunday - 11:00am to 11:00pm - Memphis Music & Heritage Festival- Peabody & Gayoso on Main
• Sunday - 7:00pm - Definitely Downtown Party w Patrick & Stephanie - Central Station
• Monday - 9:00am to 12:00pm - Chick-Fil-A 5K- Autozone Park

Imperial Forces Have Invaded San Francisco

Ghost River Beer - Made in Memphis

After the Bosco's Brewery tour, we are proud to learn that Ghost River beers are also made at the same brewery in South Main. The people behind local brew-pub Bosco's are launching the new line of their award-winning beers will soon be available at bars and restaurants around Memphis -- but not Bosco's. A list of restaurants and bars where the beers will be sold is available on the link below.

Click here for the original article.
Click here for the Ghost River website.

vote for Dumpling

go to the link and PLEASE vote for Dumpling....and vote often!
(he'll be crushed if he doesn't win....not figuratively)

http://wrvr.com/pages/2751485.php

TripAdvisor rates Memphis Zoo # 1 and Tennessee Aquarium # 2

TripAdvisor, the world's
largest travel community, today announced the top 10 aquariums and zoos in
the U.S., according to traveler popularity and TripAdvisor editors.

    Top 10 U.S. Aquariums
1. Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
2. Tennessee Aquarium, Chattanooga, Tennessee
3. Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California
4. Ripley's Aquarium, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
5. Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon
6. Dallas World Aquarium, Dallas, Texas
7. National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium, Dubuque, Iowa
8. Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, Illinois
9. Downtown Aquarium, Denver, Colorado
10. Florida Aquarium, Tampa, Florida


Top 10 U.S. Zoos
1. Memphis Zoo, Memphis, Tennessee
2. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona
3. St. Louis Zoo, St. Louis, Missouri
4. Henry Doorly Zoo, Omaha, Nebraska
5. San Diego Zoo, San Diego, California
6. San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park, Escondido, California
7. Miami Metrozoo, Miami, Florida
8. Indianapolis Zoo, Indianapolis, Indiana
9. Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, Washington
10. Palm Beach Zoo at Dreher Park, West Palm Beach, Florida

We have our own zoos here at South Main mainly housing drunken species
of (green) beetles & (blue) monkeys. Residents
have rated it #1 and attendance has never faltered.

Photograph Memphis on 8.16.08 !!

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is sponsoring an art project "A Day in the Life of Memphis" calling for photographs of Memphis between 12:01am until 11:59pm on August 16,2008.


Anyone can join, just snap up everything you can see or feel that describes the topic.


The selected photos will be put on display in the Brooks Museum gallery and online from September 20 thru November 2, 2008 exhibit.


Click here for entry form and instructions.

National Night Out Block Party Tuesday

National Night Out Block Party! Tues, Aug 5. South Main Historic Arts District. 636-4099. 5:30 - 8pm. Free. Opening Remarks given by Director Larry Godwin, Deputy Director Janice Pilot, Deputy Chief Steve Cole, Colonel Johnny Currin and Lt. Colonel Voretta Mhoon.

Source: DowntownMemphis.com

Elvis Presley International 5K Saturday

We gotta put on our blue running suede shoes and run them tender !! Thank you, thank you very much !!

For more info, click here.

No Tax on a Mac from the Apple Store

The state of Tennessee will have a Tax Holiday August 1 through August 3.

Need a MacBook? Apple Retail Store in Germantown is having extended store hours during the TN Tax Holiday.

Qualifying items include:

• Computers and qualifying peripherals with a combined sale price of $1,500 or less (before tax). Only items that are deemed necessary in the operation of computers qualify for the holiday.
• The exemption applies to desktops and laptops for personal use.
• The exemption is for the purchase of a CPU, but may include a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and connecting cables. Software pre-installed on the computer will also qualify for the exemption. The monitor, keyboard, mouse, and connecting cables must be purchased at the same time as the CPU in order to qualify.

For more info on the Apple Retail Store tax break, click here.
For more info on the Tennessee Tax Holiday, click here.

New Toll Bridge in Memphis ?

Start saving your quarters if you want to drive across the river ...

Full story detail here.

National Night Out

Tuesday August 5th

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

BLOCK PARTY

South Main @ G E Patterson

Opening remarks @ 5:30 +/- from police officials
FREE food & drink
we ALL need to show our support for our police department AND to find out ways to help keep crime out of our neighborhood

special thanks to:
MATA, Uptown Memphis, Arcade, Central Station Apartments, Earnestine & Hazel's, MoreSPACEPlace, AMTRAK and MANY more

music by Roy Hughes Entertainment

Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB) False Alarm

BrianC & Jen reported a crazy looking bug in their courtyard the other day. They furiously snapped a pic for the record. By first impression it looked like the notorious Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB) which has infested and destroyed forests in the eastern region of the US, Canada and Europe. The ALB is native to China and the Federal Government is trying to eradicate this species due to its potential impact to the forests.

This bug was not the ALB. After diligent research, BrianC figured it is a look-alike and commonly mistaken as the ALB. It is in fact a Florida Longhorn Beetle Plectrodera scalator (Fabricius).

There is another notorious beetle found in South Main and continues to wreak the livers of it's residents. It is the Green Beetle.

Oh well, after all this entymological crap, let's all go down to the Green Beetle and have a drink :)

More on the Florida Longhorn Beetles here.
More on the ALB here.

3,300 Residents Left Memphis

In recent years, many former Memphis residents have cited crime, high taxes, corruption and similar factors in their decisions to move.

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