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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 2020
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ElectionsOpinion: Tennessee feels rural/urban divide
The Trump presidency has accelerated preexisting rural/urban divides and Tennessee, while not a “battleground” state, is one of the states where those divisions are most deeply felt.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Four paths the Grizzlies could take in this month’s NBA draft
Options for their second-round pick: Isaiah Stewart? Devon Dotson? Paul Reed? Or is there a trade scenario?
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October 2020
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Visual ArtsThe Memphis 10: The mind-bending ‘BVOE Multiverse’ gets an extension, still hopes for more
Putting BVOE in the Mid-South Coliseum remains Reyes’ dream scenario. And, yes, this seems far-fetched. But let me ask you this: What Mid-South Coliseum idea isn’t far-fetched?
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: The Grizzlies have four paths to their next star; should they be in a hurry to take them?
It’s also worth asking if the team actually needs a third big talent to complement Ja Morant and Jaren Jackson Jr.
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Visual Arts A viewer’s guide to the 2020 Indie Memphis Film Festival
The Indie Memphis Film Festival will go “Online & Outdoors” Oct. 21-29 as it reinvents itself this fall because of the pandemic.
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Chris HerringtonThe Memphis 10: Back to school, early voting, the most Memphis meal and more
Chris Herrington says he’s worried about kids going back to school, but worried about them not going back to school, and is rooting for SCS to find a safe way to do it. Plus, nine more opinions.
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ReviewsStreet Food: Soi No. 9’s October surprise, Crosstown’s fried chicken fracas and more
From chicken to tacos, this street food stroll has some mouth-watering treats in store.
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The Early Word The Early Word: Early voting resumes, Lee declines mask mandate, and how ’bout them Tigers?
Welcome to the working week. Your regular Early Wordsmith, Mary Cashiola, is at a secure, undisclosed location and I’m taking a turn in the captain’s seat today.
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Chris HerringtonThe Memphis 10: Are early voting lines in Memphis a sign of enthusiasm, or a sign of a problem?
Historically, I’m an Election Day voter. This year, I’m planning to break precedent. We’re in a pandemic. Everything’s a little unsettled. Well, everything except my personal ballot, which will be short on truly contested races and even shorter on indecision.
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ReviewsStreet Food: Tacos and paletas in Olive Branch
As a new recurring feature, I’ll be on the hunt for street-food finds in the Memphis area: good stuff from food trucks, farmers markets, gas stations, walk-up windows and the like.
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Visual Arts Indie Memphis adds high-profile screenings
“One Night in Miami,” the directorial debut of Oscar-winning actress Regina King, will be the Memphis festival’s “Closing Night” feature, screening at the Malco Summer Drive-In Oct. 29.
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Spirit of Memphis Hi-Tone reopens in its third location, to uncertain future
Hi-Tone stages have hosted innumerable local record-release shows and been at least a partial home for signature Memphis events.
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Chris HerringtonThe Memphis 10: Election thoughts from a most American city and more
It’s a truism that “all politics is local,” but perhaps a current truth is that all politics is exhaustingly national. With less than a month to go before the presidential election, it’s been hard to think about much else this week. So pardon me while I try to get it out of my system, from a Memphis-centric perspective. -
Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: Marc Gasol’s future, the NBA Finals’ Memphis moment, and more
We also address developments in jersey designs.
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Arts & Culture National Civil Rights Museum hosts Smithsonian ‘Green Book’ exhibit
“The Negro Motorist Green Book,” a new exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services, begins its public life at the Lorraine Motel, which is one of a shrinking number of “Green Book” locales still in existence.
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Visual ArtsArtist Christopher Reyes’ ‘BVOE’ is an immersive eruption of creativity, and maybe a preview of coming attractions
Reyes’ collaborated with more than 20 other Memphis artists to create the astounding “BVOE Quadrant 360” on the edges of Downtown Memphis. The multimedia artist launched and operated the late, lamented “Live From Memphis.”
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Chris HerringtonThe Memphis 10: Best craft beer names, Barrett on the bench and more
Craft beer naming is an art, or at least an, um, craft, and one that the growing number of Memphis breweries take with proper seriousness. In honor of the Virtual Memphis Beer Festival, we take a spin through local brewery websites to ponder beer names present and past.
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September 2020
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: NBA Finals preview from a Memphis perspective
The Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat meet in the NBA Finals, starting Wednesday. Here’s a look at the matchup, with some Memphis-centric observations where appropriate.
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Visual Arts Drive-in throwbacks, emerging filmmakers highlight 2020 Indie Memphis Film Festival slate
The Indie Memphis Film Festival offers a scaled-back and scattered outdoors pandemic edition this year.
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MusicThe Memphis 10: Rolling Stone’s top Memphis albums, and the ones they missed
Memphis doesn’t loom quite as large on this list as it does in pop music history writ-large, or larger.
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Chris HerringtonThe Memphis 10: Pandemic has shown football doesn’t just mean more, but maybe too much
If I’m reading the news correctly, playing high school football in Memphis amid a pandemic hasn’t just disrupted football, which was probably to be expected, but has disrupted school. In Collierville, a football-related outbreak didn’t just halt play. It switched the whole school to virtual learning for two weeks.
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Food NewsSummer Avenue taco truck tour: TacoNGanas stands out in a rich array of mobile Mexican street food
A Summer Avenue taco truck scene has bloomed through the summer, with at least eight regular trucks around the wider neighborhood and several others that seem to pop up more infrequently. If you live near Summer or Macon avenues between Highland and White Station, there’s a good chance you can walk to a taco truck.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: What shake-ups in Houston, OKC might mean for the Grizzlies
A quiet offseason for Memphis. Shake-ups likely at Houston and Oklahoma City. This might be the Grizzlies’ opportunity to leapfrog into playoff contention.
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Arts & Culture Indie Memphis goes ‘Online & Outdoors’ for 2020 film festival
The 23rd annual festival will offer more than 20 outdoor screenings at a variety of Memphis venues, including Malco’s Summer Drive-In, Shelby Farms, the Levitt Shell, the Grove at GPAC and the parking lot of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music.
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