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Street 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.
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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October 2020
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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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Chris HerringtonThe Memphis 10: A six-month COVID check-in, a Lucero set wishlist and more
With no clear national strategy for combating COVID-19, we’ve all sort of been rendered individual contractors in the field of public health.
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Chris HerringtonThe Memphis 10: Levitt Shell cleans up after recent vandalism, eyes 2021 return
For the Shell, the problem is the medium, not the message. Tagging has been a recurring issue. “When we’re sitting here empty, and it’s dark, I understand that it’s an empty canvas,” said Shell executive director Natalie Wilson.
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August 2020
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: The Grizzlies outside the protest bubble; Jaren Jackson Jr. among the unicorns
The team already was active as a nonpartisan advocate in voting, and we take a look at how Jackson fares against some other uniquely gifted players.
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Arts & Culture Bringing back Broadway: Orpheum prepares December return
The start of the 2020-21 season has been pushed back to December at least, and the theater has turned to inventive ways to make sure the show goes on.
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Chris HerringtonThe Memphis 10: Collierville Confederate markers another skirmish in struggle over Southern identity
The effort and cost it takes to pick up the litter left by these ahistorical Lost Cause organizations is a drag. I’m not here to tell Collierville what to do, but those Confederate markers will go away some day.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: The NBA playoffs through Beale St. Blue glasses
The early bubble playoff talk was about the high-profile veterans, but it looks as if it's the younger faces making the noise.
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Arts & Culture Malco reopens Memphis theaters, hoping people will come and movies will stay
The Memphis-based regional movie chain, with 36 locations across six states, will start reopening its indoor theaters Aug. 21, with significant physical upgrades that involve more luxurious – and reserved – seating.
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