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Chris Herrington covers the Memphis Grizzlies and writes about Memphis culture, food, and civic life.
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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. Marcus Smart ‘reassured’ in return to practice, Ziaire Williams talks preseasonRelated story:
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.”
Waiting is a theme for the Memphis Grizzlies these days.Related story:
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.
Chris Herrington has all the info on the festival’s major features, movies of local interest and the revivals you can’t miss.
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? Grizzlies Insider: Despite Ja Morant suspension, ticket sales still on the rise for MemphisRelated stories:
This week’s restaurant news brings us a spate of openings and closings as well as the sale of a longtime family business.
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.
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington discuss the fallout of the Steven Adams injury news and recap the loss in the home opener.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
Memphis is checking some popular food-trend boxes while others, such as a Brazilian restaurant, still elude the area.
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.”
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington try to make sense of the Grizzlies’ 0-5 start to the season.
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.
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. Grizzlies Insider: All-business Bismack Biyombo is quickly making fansRelated story:
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.”
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington discuss how the Grizzlies secured their first win of the season on Sunday night.
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.
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.
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.
If you had been told, just after the Grizzlies were eliminated from the playoffs last spring, that the team would be starting Jacob Gilyard and Bismack Biyombo nine games into the following season, you might have guessed the season was going very poorly.
This week, single folks share their stories, Friends of George’s kicks off the holiday season and we learn to move past the trauma of those sad children’s movies from the 1990s. (“All Dogs Go to Heaven,” we’re looking at you.)