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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Chris Herrington covers the Memphis Grizzlies and writes about Memphis culture, food, and civic life.
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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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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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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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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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The To-Do List 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.
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Sound Bites Sound Bites: From Shelby Farms to Downtown to Summer Avenue
On this week’s Sound Bites, Holly Whitfield and Chris Herrington pore over the week’s food news for items of particular interest, including the University District’s Belltower Coffeehouse taking over the empty snack-shop space at Shelby Farms, and the return of a south-of-Downtown dive bar.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Consumer’s Guide to the 2023-2024 Grizzlies home schedule
Get excited for the season to come — here’s the Consumer’s Guide to the 2023-2024 Memphis Grizzlies home schedule.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Is Ja still basketball’s best young American player?
Morant’s now second NBA suspension, which will cost him the first 25 games of next season, risks an abdication of this conversational throne.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies podcast: NBA schedule release and FIBA World Cup
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington take a look at the Grizzlies’ schedule and discuss the future of Memphis players on Olympic rosters.
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Table TalkTable Talk: We’ll always treasure getting to visit with Jennifer Biggs
As we continue, in Jennifer Biggs’ great absence, to cover food and dining in Memphis, there’s a lot for us to figure out. But Jennifer’s generous, interested spirit — her insistence on taking the time and energy for a visit — will guide us.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: The apocalypse, Sweatfest and The Doobie Brothers (for real this time)
This week, MEMFix comes to Frayser, a mayoral forum tackles the arts and wrestling stars tackle each other as the WWE brings “Monday Night Raw” to the FedExForum.
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Sports Jaren Jackson Jr. scores 12 as Team USA romps in World Cup opener
Jaren Jackson Jr. had 12 points, four rebounds and a block in his FIBA World Cup debut as Team USA defeated New Zealand, 99-72, in their opening game of the competition in Manila, Philippines.
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Food News New Buster’s Butcher has sides, soup, sauces, condiments, oils, spices, rubs — and, yes, a lot of meats
Buster’s Butcher, adjacent to but separate from its parent, Buster’s Liquors & Wines in the University Center shopping complex, is a 2,200-square-foot playground for carnivorous cooks.
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Table TalkTable Talk: Sandwiches, Sichuan and more
Germantown Parkway and Cordova Road, just across from the Cordova International Farmers Market and its adjacent growing food truck scene might suddenly be a “most interesting food intersection in Memphis” contender — and perhaps most unlikely.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Beyonce, zines and many ways to celebrate 901 Day
This week, WLOK’s Stone Soul Picnic moves indoors, the Central Library hosts an LGBTQ 1980s dance party and former members of R.E.M. sing songs about baseball.
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Sound Bites Sound Bites: Buster’s Butcher, Petals of a Peony and more
On this week’s Sound Bites, food section contributor Joshua Carlucci and Chris Herrington discussed a couple of exciting new additions to the Memphis food scene that they’ve respectively written about in the past week and have each visited.
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Table TalkTable Talk: In Memphis, food sounds good, too
Grab a plate because we’ve got “Green Onions,” “Bar-B-Q,” “Beans and Cornbread” and “Sugar Puddin’” coming your way.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Gladys Knight, Cheap Trick and oodles of noodles
This week, the dream of the 2000s is Live at the Garden, an art exhibition at Rhodes is in “conversation” with one at the Brooks and the weenies will be running in Germantown.
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ReviewsNew Eats: ‘Waffle House Mex?’ At La Palapa, you can have it all.
Waffle House meets La Guadalupana? Two great things that go great together, it turns out, according to Chris Herrington.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Jaren Jackson Jr.’s World Cup a portrait of underperformance and misuse
“It’s hard not to be conspiratorial when the three players out to illness in the final game for Team USA were perhaps the three American players most ill-served by the experience.”
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Table TalkTable Talk: Guy Fieri is in Memphis, and festival/fair season is on.
Whether at Tom Lee Park or one of the many fests, get outside this weekend. And here’s hoping you find some good eats and drinks when you do.
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Chris HerringtonHerrington: Despite controversy, Tom Lee Park bringing people together
The scene at the center of Tom Lee Park this first week has felt like different types of Memphians — different ages and races, but even more so people from different neighborhoods and economic status — sharing free, open space, in a way that’s too rare.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Ballet, balloons, brews and Tabitha Brown
This week, Mempho brings Americana star Jason Isbell, Al Kapone plays a free show at the Shell and the Cooper-Young Festival is back.
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Sound Bites Sound Bites: Pronto Pups, funnel cakes and other fair/festival faves
In this week’s Sound Bites, producer Natalie Van Gundy and columnist Chris Herrington talk about some recent Memphis restaurant news: a new Elwood’s Shack looming, the opening of Hive Bagel & Deli and more.
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