Memphis Coffee Shop Guide: Midtown
As we continue our three-part Coffee Shop Guide, we hit Midtown, where Memphis’ modern coffee shop scene all began.
Chris Herrington
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Chris Herrington covers the Memphis Grizzlies and writes about Memphis culture, food, and civic life.
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January 2023
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Food Memphis Coffee Shop Guide: East Memphis and beyond
Today, we wrap up our local coffee shop guide by heading to East Memphis and beyond, from the University District to the Heights, from just beyond the loop to the Collierville Town Square. To Whitehaven and Southaven and Bartlett and Germantown.
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Food News One more cup: Final thoughts on a month-long Memphis coffee-shop tour
Chris Herrington ranks the Mid-South’s coffee shops by best atmosphere, best pastries, best outdoor seating and, with a humble asterisk, best coffee.
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: A special Grizzlies team wins on a special day
Dating back to the Pyramid days, this game and all that surrounds it is a major event for Memphis and for the Grizzlies, once a symbol of the city’s arrival as an NBA market and always a testament to its meaning.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Beer for wizards, Sondheim’s greatest hits and MLK Day events
This week, a TheatreWorks play centers on Chicago’s Pekin Theater, the Mid-South’s wilderness is on display at the Dixon and the 1980s are back at Minglewood.
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: Grizzlies have become a different ‘Team Alley-Oop’
The Grizzlies are the only team in the top five in tossing oops in both half-court and transition basketball. Find you a team that can do both? Found ‘em.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies podcast: Jaren Jackson Jr. is NBA award favorite
Jaren Jackson Jr. is the favorite to win Defensive Player of the Year. Drew Hill and Chris Herrington break down his chances.
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: Even on a team full of stars, Tyus Jones is playing best ball ever
Jones is a backup point guard, one of the better ones in the NBA. But he conceives himself as more, the Grizzlies now pay him as more, and over the past couple of seasons he’s been playing that way.
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Visual Arts ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ tops Southeastern film critics 2022 list
Director Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” was cited as the film “that best evokes the spirit of the South” this year.
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Music Late Stax Records founder Jim Stewart to receive ‘special’ Grammy
Other Memphians to receive the award include Sun Records founder Sam Phillips (1991), Beale Street jazz legend W.C. Handy (1993) and Royal Studios impresario Willie Mitchell (2008).
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Grizzlies Podcast Talking Grizzlies defense, sophomores and the trade market with John Hollinger
Chris Herrington and The Athletic’s John Hollinger talk about the defensive rise of Dillon Brooks, the sophomore seasons of Santi Aldama and Ziaire Williams and how the Grizzlies might approach the trade market.
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Visual Arts Making of ‘Elvis,’ the movie, exhibit punctuates birthday week of Elvis, the man
As the “Elvis” movie looks ahead to possible Oscar nominations, an exhibit about the making of the film opens at Graceland.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Artists go incognito, Dan Montgomery’s back and the Brooks gets ‘wild’
This week, manifest your dreams with a vision board, or learn the arts of mindfulness and origami. Plus, Lisa Marie Presley will be in town for Elvis’ birthday weekend.
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: There are two types of great NBA defenders, and the Grizzlies have both
The Grizzlies have two very different Defensive Player of the Year candidates in Jaren Jackson Jr. and Dillon Brooks. But the duo’s on-court synergy has given the team what might be the NBA’s best defense.
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Midtown Herrington: Where does Midtown end, or begin? A defining question for a modern Memphis
Defining Midtown is perhaps the key question of Memphis geography, in part because it helps define the rest of the core city. If Midtown is encased by Downtown, South Memphis, East Memphis and North Memphis — and maybe that’s debatable, too — then defining Midtown partly defines the rest.
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Memphis Grizzlies Jones, Adams tie career marks as Grizzlies pull away late from Kings
In addition to outstanding performances from Jones and Adams, there was Ja Morant, with another 30-point game, building his 35-8-5 stat line on a heavy diet of slicing floaters and electric layups.
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies’ dynamic defense helps bring down Pelicans
It takes a village to defend Zion Williamson, and the Grizzlies again had the right mix.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies podcast: Can Grizz get their groove back?
On this episode of The Daily Memphian’s Memphis Grizzlies podcast, beat writer Drew Hill and columnist Chris Herrington discuss the team’s disappointing road trip.
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FoodHandpicked by Herrington: The best food of 2022
An honest answer as to my favorite Memphis meal of 2022 brings us to Bishop, the Ticer/Hudman French brasserie at Central Station, and their selection of tinned seafood.
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: Something has struck at the core of the Grizzlies
The Grizzlies played as if their noisy, high-profile loss to Golden State had knocked the wind from them, and they were able to catch their breath only fleetingly.
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: After a Christmas comeuppance, Grizzlies face questions
The Grizzlies got whole over Christmas, putting their starting five together for the first time since April. It should have been the week the Grizzlies found their answer. Instead, they bring this full team home with more questions.
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Performing Arts Herrington shares his picks for best films, actors, actresses of 2022
From big-screen blockbusters to cheap chillers, Oscar favorites to under-the-radar international flicks, Chris Herrington shares his top films of 2022 — just in time for your holiday weekend viewing.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Liberty Bowl, Grizz watch party and a place to cry on Christmas Day
This week, watch “Home Alone” on the big screen, see Chris Gales at the Westin and spend Christmas night with The Sheiks.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Hear holiday tunes, run like a reindeer and party like an ogre
This week, go caroling without singing a note at Phil Kline’s “Unsilent Night,” give a homeless pet a better life for just $12 and see “Gremlins” on the big screen.
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Chris Herrington Herrington: This holiday season, Ja Morant has been giving gifts early
Before this holiday-season stretch commences, let’s stop to unwrap the most prominent present each main-roster member of the top-seeded Grizzlies has given us in this opening third of the season.
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