Welcome to the weekend, Memphis! If you’re doing Dry January, congrats, you have made it, so let’s toast to that. But maybe wait until tomorrow. It’s Friday, Jan. 31, and you can see playwright Tennessee Williams’ paintings — some of them NSFW — at Rhodes College, beginning tonight. Speaking of playwrights, Anne Chmelewsky’s “Through the Looking Screen,” a play about online dating, opens at Germantown Community Theatre. Maybe take your Tinder match.

Saturday is opening day of an exhibition that brings six larger-than-life trolls to the Memphis Botanic Garden, and it’s also the first day for Good Fortune Co.’s month-long Lunar New Year bar crawl. The latter event gives you a good excuse to check out the new Bao Toan at Crosstown Concourse. As for sports, the Memphis Tigers women’s basketball team will play East Carolina at home.

Sunday is Groundhog Day, and here’s hoping for a repeat of the Memphis Grizzlies’ Martin Luther King Day win over the Minnesota Timberwolves when they play them again on their home court. The Tigers men will be ballin’ too, against Rice in Texas. Plus, the Memphis Restaurant Association’s annual food fest is on Sunday, and you can see if GloRilla gets a Grammy at a Dru’s Bar watch party. For even more weekend fun, go here.

The Grizzlies finally did it! They beat the Houston Rockets, 120-119, for the first time this season. And it was a win that stretched beyond a single W. The haters have been saying the Grizzlies couldn’t beat good teams, so they had something to prove with this one. And though they trailed until the end, star (ahem, All-Star) Jaren Jackson Jr. changed that with his game-winning free throws in the final seconds.

Speaking of teams our guys can’t seem to shake, Tulane has traditionally been that for the Memphis Tigers when they play them in New Orleans. But the Tigers finally beat the Green Wave, 68-56, on the road, for the first time since 2020. It didn’t look like a win would happen though, until sharpshooter Colby Rogers nailed a triple on his eighth try. That turned a one-point deficit for Memphis into a two-point lead, and the Tigers never trailed again.

Memphis City Council members and Shelby County commissioners have been getting private tours (“quiet tours,” as The Daily Memphian’s Samuel Hardiman calls them) of FedExForum over the past week, and they’re being briefed on the details of the arena’s planned renovations. This is happening as the city is considering spending $80 million for the first phase of renovations, part of a $550 million, multi-year project. Because these small tours are hosting just a couple of elected officials at a time, they’re allowed to be briefed on the expenditure of public funds without violating the Tennessee Open Meetings Act (hence the “quiet”). Here’s a look at what we know about the first phase of renovations though.

Plus, Shelby County wants more control over Memphis-Shelby County Schools funds, broken jail doors will take two years to fix and another big live music venue is on the way.