The To-Do List: Dierks Bentley, Doogie Howser’s mom and free park parties
This week, the Metal Museum displays bracelets from the past 70-plus years, The Bluff City Liars bring improv to TheatreWorks and you can drink martinis for a good cause.
Chris Herrington
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Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Remembering Jerry West, Tillman’s moment and latest rumors
A few thoughts on three Grizzlies-relevant items of NBA news this week.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Centers possibly pinging on Memphis Grizzlies’ radar
What level of center addition are the Grizzlies, with three stars on big contracts and a tax bill looming, willing or wanting to make? Here are 20 possibilities.
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Visual ArtsBaron Von Opperbean is coming back — this time to Mud Island
With new ‘BVO,’ artist Chris Reyes aims to bring ‘immersive entertainment’ to former Mud Island museum
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: For Grizzlies, NBA Finals offer hope for next season
The NBA Finals tip off Thursday night. How should the Grizzlies, watching from the couch, feel about that?
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies podcast: NBA Draft and offensive philosophy
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington discuss how the Grizzlies vision for the future could impact their draft decisions later this month.
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The Early WordThe Early Word: Council, Commission talk taxes, Memphis gets (Super)lo
Memphis dips into rainy day fund for FedExForum, airport giant Larry Cox remembered and Tiger coaches talk.
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The Early WordThe Early Word: Showboats end on a win, Pearson hits trail and a final Memphis pizza duel
A new law expands GPS monitors as a bail condition, Showboats end with a win and a final pizza duel.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Pasta! Pride! Beyoncé! Hot Girl Summer!
This week, zombies take over the big screen at Crosstown Theater, happy hours (with a view) are back at the Metal Museum and Memphis Made hosts a pinewood derby for grown-ups.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: 9 players the Grizzlies should consider at No. 9
A look at nine players Chris Herrington would consider the Grizzlies taking with their No. 9 overall pick in next month’s NBA Draft.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Surveying the Grizzlies’ post-draft-lottery landscape
This week we’ll skim the surface of potential draftees, potential trade or (less likely) free agency targets and the decisions the Grizzlies face about players they already have.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Hot seat label for Grizzlies’ Taylor Jenkins hard to avoid
The Memphis Grizzlies’ Taylor Jenkins won’t show up to training camp wearing a “Hot Seat” cap, but the label is applied frequently to NBA head coaches.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies podcast: Top draft prospects for pick No. 9
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington share their top prospects for the Grizzlies in the upcoming NBA draft. Will Donovan Clingan slide to No. 9?
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Food NewsMemphis in May or SmokeSlam? For two teams, the answer is both
You can find only two teams competing at both barbecue contests this weekend: Hank’s BBQ from Columbus, Mississippi, and Pork University of Clarksville, Tennessee.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies podcast: Draft lottery preview
The Memphis Grizzlies have a 31.9% chance of landing a draft pick inside the top four. Drew Hill and Chris Herrington discuss a few possible draft selections and how the draft order could impact Memphis’ overall strategy.
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Music HBO documentary captures story — and soul — of Stax
Stax is more than a great story. It’s great stories within great stories, with highs and lows and lessons and complexities, with big personalities and big moments and resonance beyond the music it produced.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Garden walk, fantasy films and the tea on Mr. Bridgerton
This week, vegan cheese meets wine at Crosstown, a new arts fest comes to Uptown and the City of Memphis turns 205.
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Dining GuidesSummer food tour: 15 faves on Germantown Parkway
Chris Herrington sounds off on some of his favorite places to eat along Germantown Parkway, including Cedars Restaurant, Two Empanadas, Germantown Commissary and more.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Bad-luck lottery bump is only the start of Grizzlies’ offseason journey
“The Grizzlies have a worse pick than they’d hoped to get but a better one than they would have imagined a few months ago before they embarked on the most unexpectedly bad season in franchise history.”
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MusicHerrington: The inaugural Riverbeat is over, but the conversation has just begun
There have now been two three-day music festivals staged in the redesigned Tom Lee Park by two different promoters, and while there have been differences in approach, there’s also plenty of commonality and a consistent takeaway.
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MusicYoung crowd, veteran Memphis royalty mark opening night of Riverbeat fest
A Memphis festival got off to a very Memphis start with the Lucky 7 Brass Band. In the wings were Odesza, Carla Thomas, Eric Gales and more.
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Music Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean bring rare Fugees’ reunion to Riverbeat Fest
The circuitous journey of the Fugees, a landmark 1990s’ New York hip-hop trio, landed them on the banks of the Mississippi River, at Memphis’ first Riverbeat Music Festival, on Saturday night.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: There’s upheaval in NBA playoffs. The Grizzlies watch and wait
LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant and Kawhi Leonard dominated for more than a decade. This could be the first time since 2005 none of them are in the second round of playoffs.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Food truck fests, river beats and what to do for Cinco de Mayo
This week, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra plays “Star Wars” tunes, Overton Park hosts a discussion on snakes and the Listening Lab celebrates a blues great’s 90th birthday.
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MusicRiverbeat Music Festival reimagines what a Memphis riverfront fest can be
How will the new Riverbeat Music Festival play out in the new Tom Lee Park, in the sound and on the ground? We’re about to find out.
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