The To-Do List: Water lanterns, Black art and LL Cool J’s hip-hop party
This week, celebrate Robert Raiford’s memory at an outdoor disco, eat your way around the globe at the Germantown International Festival and take a peek inside Ballet Memphis.
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.
There are 1906 articles by Chris Herrington :
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: Disrespect? The Grizzlies won’t find much on NBA schedule
To the degree Memphis fans care about national television attention, it could have been so much worse.
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Grizzlies Insider: Will teams care about the in-season tournament? We must wait to find out.
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Table TalkTable Talk: The supermarket vs. the specialty stores
Was the supermarket a good idea? Like Holiday Inn, another Memphis business with a feel for the future, Piggly Wiggly tapped into the changing habits of a century that would be defined by cars.
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Sports Herrington: Rewatching ‘The Blind Side’ after Oher/Tuohy revelations
“The story ‘The Blind Side’ tells is built on a matrix of hot-button issues: Race, wealth, religion, public and private schools, as well as high school and college football. That matrix is fertile ground for problems of inequity, exploitation and paternalism. In other words, this garden is actually a minefield.”
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Elvis, golf and party where Swifties can ‘Shake It Off’
This week, Large Professor plays on the anniversary of hip-hop, Michael Oher signs his new book and Crosstown’s plaza becomes a water park.
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Sound Bites Germantown Parkway eats, Liquor Store and more
On this week’s Sound Bites, Holly Whitfield and Chris Herrington talk about some food stories they’ve each recently written and one recent Memphis food event they both missed.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Pau Gasol brings the Grizzlies to the Hall of Fame
Gasol began his NBA journey with the Grizzlies, and that period is more than a footnote as he enters the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this weekend.
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Table TalkTable Talk: Memphis Made, Central go whole hog; Second Line’s Oktoberfest
Second Line’s regular menu will be replaced, temporarily, by a German one, Sugar Ghost opens a second location in Germantown and a Summer Avenue favorite moves down the road.
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Chris HerringtonGrizzlies Mailbag: Jaren Jackson Jr. at center, fifth starter contenders, more
This week, it’s the Grizzlies’ contender status, Jaren Jackson Jr. at center, last season’s road woes and lots more hoops stuff.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Ja Morant’s new ink? Like so much else, a temptation to interpret
Morant’s every public appearance (in literal, not marketing terms) is subject to attention and interpretation.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: A feast, a picnic and Gangsta Boo’s ‘heavenly’ birthday
This week, Friends of George’s presents “The Drag Boat,” Collierville celebrates trains and the Streetdog Foundation celebrates 14 years with a cowboy-themed dog party.
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies Mailbag: Will Desmond Bane be an All-Star?
As always, questions were accepted on the Memphis Grizzlies, the wider NBA and “there’s more to life than basketball.”
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Chris HerringtonHerrington: What summer play meant for Jake LaRavia, David Roddy and other young Grizzlies
Chris Herrington breaks down how each of the under-contract Grizzlies that participated in summer league played in Salt Lake City and Las Vegas.
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies empty bench in summer finale
Most of the time in this game was logged by unsigned free agents trying to catch the eye of scouts, such as mustachioed point guard Frankie Ferrari, who became a Summer League cult favorite.
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Sound Bites Pambazos, baleadas and other recent Memphis food finds
Chris Herrington talks with Joshua Carlucci, a former chef and teacher who’s become a regular contributor to The Daily Memphian food section.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies podcast: Summer league storylines
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington discuss the summer league performances from Jake LaRavia, David Roddy and Kenneth Lofton Jr.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Women’s punk, roller derby and Meddlesome mayhem
New art shows are opening at ANF Architects, the Metal Museum and Church Health. And big stars are back for the Big3 basketball game.
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Table TalkTable Talk: Food is for exploring, at home and away
Chris Herrington summarizes recent Daily Memphian food coverage, including a recent Sound Bites episode about the best Memphis restaurants to take out-of-town visitors.
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Chris HerringtonHerrington: Reading the fine print on recent Grizzlies trades and signings
New details emerge on recent Memphis Grizzlies transactions, and Chris Herrington breaks them down.
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Chris Herrington Herrington: Marcus Smart is here to give the Grizzlies more ‘juice’
Memphis Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins talks about about what having both Smart and Jaren Jackson Jr. — the NBA’s past two Defensive Players of the Year — will mean to the team.
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Memphis Grizzlies Summer League: LaRavia has bounce-back performance in Grizzlies win
The headline for the Grizzlies-Thunder Summer League contest wasn’t Chet Holmgren or Kenneth Lofton Jr., as expected, but Jake LaRavia, the team’s top pick in the 2022 draft.
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Memphis Grizzlies Summer League: Roddy, Lofton team up to secure Grizzlies win
The Grizzlies played from behind for much of the game, but sealed their victory with a David Roddy/Kenneth Lofton Jr. combo in the game’s final minute.
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: Derrick Rose’s improbably long career returns him, improbably, to Memphis
The Memphis Grizzlies made what may be the most curious and questionable signing from the opening night of NBA free agency.
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Chris HerringtonHerrington: Bane’s deal, Brooks’ exit and more Grizzlies free agency notes
The negotiation period for NBA free agency is now mostly over, but the big moves of the offseason have perhaps just begun.
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: What Dillon Brooks meant to Memphis, and why he’s gone
Some much-needed perspective to Dillon the Villain’s exit from the Grizzlies following six seasons with the NBA franchise.
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