Chris Herrington
Herrington: Lessons learned from the 10-year fight over the Greensward
The decade-long struggle over a patch of grass in Overton Park has reflected a changing city and served as a kind of proxy battle for larger civic questions.
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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November 2023
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Start Kennard? ‘Frantic’ Grizzlies running out of answers
It’s barely the second week of November, and the Grizzlies are already two-thirds of the way to last season’s total home losses.
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Table TalkTable Talk: Chris Herrington moseys on down to Momma’s for Dining Week
For Downtown Dining Week, Chris Herrington visited Momma’s and said the restaurant’s fried chicken sandwich just might take the title for the city’s best.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies podcast: Memphis snaps losing streak
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington discuss how the Grizzlies secured their first win of the season on Sunday night.
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Memphis GrizzliesDeal will keep Grizzlies broadcasts on Bally Sports for rest of season
Viewers can continue to find the Grizzlies on Bally for the rest of this season. The broadcast status beyond this season is now “to be determined.”
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: The Grizzlies bring home a win, and a better team. Is it too late?
But if two wins would have been a lot better than one, the Grizzlies return home this week with something more than that one win: they’re bringing back a more functional team than the one they left with.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Talking Heads on-screen, Japan in the garden
This week, learn about the fungus among us at Meeman-Shelby, cheese the day at the Hi-Tone and get ready to spruce up your holiday tree at John Mark’s.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies Podcast: Memphis is 0-5. What now?
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington try to make sense of the Grizzlies’ 0-5 start to the season.
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Visual ArtsSofia Coppola’s ‘Priscilla’ explores the other side of the ‘Elvis’ story
One of the film’s tag lines is “dive into her world,” and Memphis will get its chance this weekend. Here are a few ways of thinking about Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” and how it compares to “Elvis.”
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Table TalkTable Talk: Vegan cheese now, Korean chicken later
Memphis is checking some popular food-trend boxes while others, such as a Brazilian restaurant, still elude the area.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: The Grizzlies are 0-4 and can’t score. What’s next?
The Memphis Grizzlies are 0-4 for the first time since 2004 (when they won 45 games and made the playoffs, by the way) and they cannot score. Their offense currently ranks 26th out of 30 NBA teams.
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October 2023
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: Some-assembly-required Grizzlies show signs of finished product
Coach Taylor Jenkins watched his team play a much better game against a much better opponent this second time out, and seemed about as at peace as a coach can be after a loss.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Halloween hike, underwater bubbles and ‘Beetlejuice’
This week, 1990s R&B legends Tony! Toni! Tone! play the Orpheum, spooky double dutch comes to Tom Lee and you can sample your way around India at the Agricenter.
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Music‘The Blues Society’ captures Memphis moment when ‘two fringes’ joined
“The Blues Society” captures the richness and inspiration of a cultural moment in Memphis, with performance footage of musicians such as Furry Lewis and Rev. Robert Wilkins and home-video footage of bohemian Memphis.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies podcast: Steven Adams injury, season opener
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington discuss the fallout of the Steven Adams injury news and recap the loss in the home opener.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Dying by the 3, and other Grizzlies first impressions
The Grizzlies were too reliant on 3-point shooting and had no defensive presence at the rim when Jaren Jackson Jr. wasn’t on the floor are two of the observations from the first game of the season.
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Table TalkTable Talk: Los Comales opens in Edge; Local closes in Overton Square
This week’s restaurant news brings us a spate of openings and closings as well as the sale of a longtime family business.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: As season opens, shaken Grizzlies must reinvent themselves on the fly
When the Grizzlies take the court Wednesday, it will do so without three of what would have been its top seven players, together accounting for $60 million of the team’s $150 million in player salary. How will the team refashion themselves on the fly?
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Arts & CultureA viewer’s guide to the 2023 Indie Memphis Film Festival
Chris Herrington has all the info on the festival’s major features, movies of local interest and the revivals you can’t miss.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Repair Days, River Arts and ‘Black Artists in America’
This week, art is on fire at the Dixon, the Memphis Roller Derby debuts home teams in a spooky double header and there are beer fests in Cooper-Young and at Wiseacre on Broad Avenue.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: It’s a game of wait-and-see with the Memphis Grizzlies
Waiting is a theme for the Memphis Grizzlies these days.
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Table TalkTable Talk: Hot (wing) takes on the Memphis dining scene
In tribute to Memphis dining habits, Chris Herrington offers not “hot takes” on our latest food stories, but instead “hot (wing) takes,” dividing the heat level of his opinions into “Honey Gold,” “Regular Hot” and “Suicide.”
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: NBA preview, predicting the Grizzlies (and everyone else)
Despite the uncertainty around Philadelphia’s trade-me-now star James Harden and the scheduled delay of the Grizzlies’ own Ja Morant, this season arrives with less chaos and uncertainty than a year ago.
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Marcus Smart ‘reassured’ in return to practice, Ziaire Williams talks preseason
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The Early WordThe Early Word: MATA considering cuts, a sad goodbye to ‘Brooks’
The Tennessee Attorney General talks, the Memphis election is certified and Tiger hoops is unranked (and that’s OK).
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Memphis Grizzlies Fourth-quarter comeback falls short as Grizzlies lose to Hawks
The Memphis Grizzlies continued to balance rest and research as they took a 103-102 road loss to the Atlanta Hawks in their third preseason game.
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