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Herrington: These Grizzlies need patience. Does a ‘joy’-less Ja Morant have any to give?
The demonstrative, communicative Morant fans witnessed in the season’s opening three-game homestand seemed like a distant memory Monday.
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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Visual Arts Memphis Movies This Week: Jennifer Lawrence in ‘Die My Love,’ Tom Cruise gets ‘Risky’
Could Jennifer Lawrence be back in a big way? Plus, alien attacks at the Pink Palace, and chickens on the run.
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Memphis GrizzliesGrizzlies 25: Courtney Lee cast a ‘tiny’ shadow but made big shots
Courtney Lee may have been the most anonymous good player in Memphis Grizzlies history. But one Lee moment, at least, was unforgettable.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Less drama, but the same old losing as Grizzlies fall to big, talented Rockets team
The Rockets controlled the game for most of the clock, giving Memphis its fourth loss in a row.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies podcast: Can Memphis get past recent struggles?
Drew Hill and Chris Herrington recap a rough start to the week for the Memphis Grizzlies. Can they get Jaren Jackson Jr. going?
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The To-Do List Booker T. takes the stage, and Stax offers a look inside ‘Bettye’s Bin’
This week, Fire Pit Fridays makes a comeback, Ken Burns’ new film screens for free and Meddlesome hosts what may be the shortest race ever.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: As Grizzlies drama passes, spotlight shifts to coach Tuomas Iisalo
After a few days of crashing out, the back-to-normal Grizzlies hit the road, with plenty to evaluate, on the sidelines and on the floor.
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Performing Arts Memphis Movies This Week: Ira Sachs, Mike McCarthy back on the big screen
Before Ira Sachs studied film and literature at Yale, he grew up in Memphis. And before he found a filmmaking groove in New York, he cut his teeth back home.
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Memphis Grizzlies Turnovers bury Grizzlies early as comeback falls short in New York
The Grizzlies played a great first half on Sunday. In New York on Tuesday, their good start didn’t even last a quarter.
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Memphis GrizzliesGrizzlies 25: Kyle Anderson played with his own style, at his own speed
It should come as no surprise that the man dubbed “Slow Mo” is one of nine players in Grizzlies history among the franchise’s top 20 in rebounds, assists, steals and blocks.
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Arts & Culture New Memphis-based novel recalls news industry’s bygone days
David Wesley Williams dodged layoffs in a more than 30-year newspaper career. In his novel “Come Again No More,” he memorializes a now-bygone era and celebrates his adopted hometown of Memphis.
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The To-Do List Hop on the Shamrock Shuttle, do yoga with pups and eat pudding with a fork
This week, the Memphis Zoo launches a new holiday lighting show with lanterns, and an Orpheum party goes “Back to the Future.”
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Memphis Grizzlies Ja Morant to return, Zach Edey upgraded for Grizzlies on Saturday
Updates on Ja Morant, Zach Edey, Cedric Coward and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope’s availability for Saturday’s game in Cleveland.
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Memphis GrizzliesGrizzlies get Edey back, lose Morant in loss to Cavs
Zach Edey had 13 points, seven rebounds and two blocks in 25 minutes in his first game of the season. Ja Morant left the game with right calf soreness.
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies sign Jahmai Mashack to two-way contract
Memphis signs former Tennessee Vols standout to give the team needed assistance at the guard position, which is dealing with injuries to Ja Morant, Ty Jerome, Scotty Pippen Jr. and Javon Small.
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Music Todd Snider was a singular songwriter and a voice for outcasts and underdogs
“Todd Snider launched his career in Memphis, and then reinvented himself a decade later. For his last 20 years, there was no songwriter quite like him.”
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Memphians remember musician Todd Snider, nomad storyteller who launched career from local bar
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Music Memphis was a character in several of Todd Snider’s songs. Here are the best of them.
Todd Snider died Friday, Nov. 14, at age 59. Chris Herrington looks at Snider’s best songs where Memphis was a character.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Zach Edey transformed the Grizzlies defense, but without a healthy point guard will it matter?
Amid drama and struggle, there’s some good stuff happening with the Grizzlies, the kind that can pay bigger dividends later if the team can ever keep a real guard or two on the floor. Here are three things Chris Herrington likes this week.
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Memphis Grizzlies Ja Morant to miss time with calf injury
The star point guard left Saturday’s game in Cleveland with right calf soreness, seemingly the result of a collision with Cavs’ guard Sam Merrill, and did not return.
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Visual Arts Memphis Movies This Week: ‘Wicked: For Good,’ ‘Pulp Fiction,’ Tav Falco
Chris Herrington says “Pulp Fiction” carries the thrill of a young director coming into his own, taking chances and pulling them off, discovering just how good he can be.
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies collapse late in San Antonio, lose fifth straight
The Grizzlies had a 101-100 lead over the San Antonio Spurs with just over three minutes to play, but surrendered a game-ending 11-0 run.
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Memphis GrizzliesGrizzlies 25: For 10 momentous playoff minutes, Darrell Arthur found basketball perfection
Some players pile up great moments throughout their career and some are remembered for rising up and just having one.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Five takes on the Grizzlies ending a five-game losing streak
Zach Edey’s bully ball, GG Jackson II playing better than his box score and more observations on the Memphis Grizzlies’ blowout win over Sacramento.
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The To-Do List Holiday event creep, plus a silent book club/disco and ‘Wicked’ good crafts
This week, a Tav Falco film gets the live-score treatment, “Romeo and Juliet” is re-told through a feminist lens and an art exhibition reinterprets the tarot.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies Podcast: When will they win again?
Chris Herrington and guest Keith Parish discuss a chaotic week for the Grizzlies, with the loss of Ja Morant, the return of Zach Edey and the rough fourth-quarter play of Jaren Jackson Jr.
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