Destination: Delicious Podcast: Isolated with takeout and TV
Jennifer Biggs, Chris Herrington and Natalie Van Gundy talk takeout and what they’re watching on the tube.
Chris Herrington
Columnist
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 1895 articles by Chris Herrington :
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April 2020
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Business Herrington: Local book, record shops ‘essential’ to the city we want to keep
These are not just places to go to find a thing you know you want. They are places to be. To share space with people who share your affinities. They are at their best when you go in just to browse and a book or record finds you.
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ReviewsQuarantine Cuisine: Hog & Hominy
Take-and-bake “pizza kits” of three of Hog & Hominy’s most elemental pies are available as part of the curbside takeout program at Catherine & Mary’s on South Main.
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Food Destination: Delicious Podcast: Keeping it in the house
What do you do when the cupboard's kinda bare and you're not supposed to go shopping and even if you do the stores are nearly empty?
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Opinion
Chris HerringtonHerrington: There’s too much we don’t – but should – know about coronavirus in Memphis
Shelby County has had deaths in 2.25% of coronavirus cases, compared to 1.61% in the rest of the state and 0.84% in Nashville’s Davidson County. Does this suggest that racial disparities are spiking higher rates locally? For now we can only guess.
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Memphis GrizzliesThe 50 best moments of the 2019-2020 Memphis Grizzlies season (Nos. 25-1)
From game-winning layups to buzzer-beating setups, Ja-dropping dunks landed or just missed, Ja Morant's personal highlight reel dominates our list of the best moments of the Grizzlies' season.
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Memphis GrizzliesThe 50 best moments of the 2019-2020 Memphis Grizzlies season (Nos. 50-26)
From irritating "King James" to dunking on the "Greek Freak," the Grizzlies proved a surprise to the rest of the league this season. Here are the first 25 of the 50 best moments from a young team ahead of schedule.
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Spirit of Memphis Herrington: Bootleg or DIY masks a sign of Memphis coming together to stay apart
The bootleg T-shirts that inspire Rebecca Fava’s face masks were symbols of a city coming together. Her masks, and other homemade endeavors like them, are perhaps fitting symbols of the city in pandemic times — coming together by staying apart.
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Chris Herrington Herrington: Scenes from the ‘crisis schooling’ front
Our forced experiment in not-really-home-schooling is likely to accelerate educational inequalities. My kids have a fridge full of food, reliable internet and two still-employed parents at home. Many of their fellow public school students do not have all of these things. Too many may not have any of them.
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March 2020
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Memphis GrizzliesGrizzlies final report: Jaren Jackson Jr. and the rest of the team’s bigs
Jaren Jackson Jr. took some big steps forward, and a couple to the side, in his second season. Looking ahead, he may be the Grizzlies' tipping-point player.
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OPINION
Chris HerringtonHerrington: Coronavirus uncertainty suggests Memphis in ‘Maybe’
Managing the coronavirus pandemic will be an uncertain process that takes more than a year to navigate. Are big public festivals compatible with this new reality?
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Chris Herrington Herrington: Back to business by Easter? Memphis leaders likely to follow science, not rhetoric
There are no good answers now. Only bad choices and worse ones. But evidence suggests that going hard on social-distancing is the best long-term bet for both public health and the economy.
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies final report: Ja Morant and the rest of the team’s guards
A good year for the backcourt: The Grizzlies found a star in Ja Morant and keepers in Tyus Jones and De'Anthony Melton.
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Chris Herrington Herrington: Strickland’s leadership encouraging as coronavirus hits home for Memphis
Whatever you think of his policy priorities, Strickland prides himself on being a data-driven executive, and his managerial seriousness has served him, and the city, well in this unprecedented moment.
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Health Care Coronavirus daily blog, March 9: Baptist patient improving
Editor's note: Due to the serious public health implications associated with COVID-19, The Daily Memphian is making our coronavirus coverage accessible to all readers — no subscription needed.
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Business Coronavirus daily blog, March 10: U of M athletics releases statement
CBU faculty member, student under self-quarantine; Le Bonheur updates visitor policy; stocks rebound.
Editor's note: Due to the serious public health implications associated with COVID-19, The Daily Memphian is making our coronavirus coverage accessible to all readers.
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Coronavirus Coronavirus daily blog, March 13: Grizzlies to pay game-night employees
- Germantown cancels programming until end of March
- Bartlett changes municipal services
- Municipal school districts to close through March 27
- First Shelby County coronavirus patient released from hospital
- Weekend looms large for restaurateurs
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Chris Herrington Herrington: Vacationing in the time of coronavirus
While I was sitting in an oddly peaceful purgatory, people close to me have lost jobs and postponed weddings. I’ve eavesdropped on conversations about how to keep people employed while also keeping them safe.
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Podcasts Grizzlies Podcast: Team Questions ahead of Team Answers as coronavirus puts NBA on pause
Daily Memphian Grizzlies writers Chris Herrington and Don Wade discuss the impact of coronavirus on the team and the NBA season. One likely possibility: If and when games resume, they do so absent fans in FedExForum and other NBA arenas.
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies, NBA navigate uncertainty in wake of suspended season
At home and on the other side of the country, the Grizzlies are in the same position as the rest of the NBA: Still trying to figure things out.
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Memphis Grizzlies NBA season suspended ‘until further notice’
The NBA season has been suspended "until further notice" after a Utah Jazz player tested positive for COVID-19.
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Memphis Grizzlies Late charge comes up short as Grizz fall to Magic, drop under .500 again
The Grizzlies lost an early lead and then couldn't complete a late comeback in falling to the Orlando Magic, 120-115.
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies, NBA adjust to changing coronavirus reality, wait for what’s next
Grizzlies coaches and players adjusted to changing protocols ahead of Tuesday night's game at FedExForum, and prepared for the prospect of more.
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies Jaren Jackson Jr., Justise Winslow return likely in next week
The Grizzlies' unexpected playoff push is about to get a boost with the return-from-injury of forwards Jaren Jackson Jr. and Justise Winslow.
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizz Week: Josh Jackson surging, playoff odds rising, Jontay Porter arriving
Josh Jackson has made the most of his late-season elevation into the Grizzlies rotation, but could he be playing his way out of Memphis? Plus: The Grizzlies make a surprise Sunday signing.
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