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.
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Chris Herrington covers the Memphis Grizzlies and writes about Memphis culture, food, and civic life. He lives in the Vollintine-Evergreen neighborhood of Midtown with his wife, two kids, and two dogs.
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Jennifer Biggs, Chris Herrington and Natalie Van Gundy talk takeout and what they’re watching on the tube.
Impatience was always going to be part of this matrix: There’s a natural urge to get past bad situations without fully dealing with them. But a governmental failure has fed this impatience, and it didn’t come from Nashville.
Jaren Jackson Jr. talks about training at home and what he's watching and the impact of now-former assistant coach Niele Ivey, who became Notre Dame's head coach on Wednesday.
From Sam Cooke to Motown, blues to the British Invasion to his own classic songwriting, Otis Redding’s groundbreaking 1965 album turned everything it touched into one man’s soulful sound.
What Chris Herrington saw and learned in his exclusive tour of Baptist’s COVID fighting efforts.
The Grizzlies and Fox Sports Southeast begin an eight-game, four-weekend trip through the team's playoff past, with new commentary from Tony Allen. Up first: Mike Conley's "mask game" and the franchise's first playoff win.
A constant factor of Memphis life seems more pressing now than usual: To paraphrase Texas songwriter Joe Ely, we may walk the streets of Memphis, but we’ll have you understand, Tennessee is not entirely the state we’re in.
Shelby County's path through coronavirus is a faucet not a switch: We'll gradually loosen the local economy, but will be prepared to restrict the flow of activity again if and when the virus spikes.
The past month has meant navigating a matrix of official restrictions and individual decisions, and so will the many months — maybe years — to come.
The Lucky Cat takeout menu offers family meals for four or six. The ramen, with ingredients packaged separately, travels surprisingly well.
The crazy-talented wunderkind Jay Reatard was coming into his own with 'Watch Me Fall.' Five months later, he was gone.
“Grizzlies Rewind: Playoff Edition” broadcasts remind us of the thrills of days and players gone by — especially the heroics of Z-Bo.
The city and county can loosen restrictions, but a tour of Midtown and Downtown neighborhoods shows businesses and potential customers still have decisions to make.
The diversity of masks and their origins would be charming if it wasn’t yet another sign of official dysfunction in our collective approach to controlling a pandemic.
In the 2013 playoffs against the Clippers, the Grizz dropped the first two games, but won the next four. The last game featured 7 technicals, 2 ejections, a floor brawl and the crowd chanting "Finish them."
Before the pandemic, the Memphis Zoo was a choose-your-own-adventure endeavor, but for the time being, visitors will be guided in one direction around the exhibits. “If you’re just here to see the giraffes it’s going to take you awhile, because you’re going to have to walk the walk,” says zoo CEO Jim Dean.
In all, the album comprises the coolest version of the Elvis the public tended to adore and rock puritans resist, mixing great schlock with great art until you can’t quite tell the difference.
With hints of restarting the NBA season, questions still remain on how to get the league up and going after the hiatus from the coronavirus pandemic.
The Forrest statue made the park unusable space for most Memphians. The Sons of Confederate Veterans lost the battle for the hearts and minds of Memphis, thank goodness, long before they lost the legal battle over moving the monuments to Forrest and Jefferson Davis.
This weekend's Grizzlies "Rewind” broadcasts — featuring fresh commentary from broadcaster Chris Vernon and former Grizz great Tony Allen — hit two more notable entries in the franchise’s playoff back pages.
The operational difference between “Phase 1” and “Phase 2” was always fairly narrow and has grown more so via “phase creep.”
This week, the Memphis Grizzlies joined the growing list of NBA teams who have reopened their practice facility to voluntary, individual player workouts. League-wide, practice facilities were closed on March 19 because of coronavirus concerns.
It’s hard to imagine many places of Memphis’ size with history and culture so rich and a sense of place so profound.
The elevation of mask-usage into a kind of political symbol is a drag — it’s flat-out dumb — but it’s happened, and I’d worry that a government requirement, even a loosely enforced one, would increase the political strife around the issue without a commensurate increase in compliance.
Cash recorded his debut single, released in June 1955, at Sun Records.