‘Elvis’ lands eight Oscar nods, including Best Picture
Austin Butler, the young actor who took on the formidable role of Elvis Presley, is also one of five Best Actor finalists.
Chris Herrington
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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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Music Lisa Marie Presley comes home to Graceland in public memorial
More than a thousand mourners — including Axl Rose, Billy Corgan and Alanis Morrisette — gathered at Graceland to remember Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley, who died in Los Angeles on Jan. 12.
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$10 Deals $10 Deal: Fries come with that at Young Avenue Deli
Who says snacks can’t be a solo meal? But, if that goes against your principles, get a sandwich on the side.
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies Mailbag: Is this team still too young to go all the way?
Are Ja Morant’s Grizzlies too young to win a title? Chris Herrington examines that question and fields queries on potential playoff matchups, rotations and more in this month’s Grizzlies Mailbag.
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Memphis Grizzlies Morant, Adams, Brooks combine in last seconds for Grizzlies’ 11th straight win
The Grizzlies tied the longest winning streak in franchise history by making the plays in the final seconds to edge the Cavaliers 115-114.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Photos at Tone, AI at MoSH and two Dolly Parton parties
This week, the late George Hunt has a posthumous exhibition, Playhouse presents the story of Alabama’s “Scottsboro Boys” and Black Lodge hosts a showtunes rave.
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Arts & Culture Lisa Marie Presley to be buried at Graceland
While the Elvis estate is overseen by a separate company, Lisa Marie Presley had been the sole owner of the mansion and its grounds, inherited after her father’s 1977 death.
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Food Cup after cup: From Otherlands to Comeback to the Anti Gentrification Coffee Club
With the Grind City Coffee Xpo heating up this weekend, Chris Herrington looks at the way Memphis’ coffee culture has evolved.
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Food Memphis Coffee Shop Guide: Downtown
As coffee shops have gotten more serious about these dark arts and home setups increasingly mimic what professional baristas can concoct, connoisseurship is definitely on the rise.
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Midtown Memphis Coffee Shop Guide: Midtown
As we continue our three-part Coffee Shop Guide, we hit Midtown, where Memphis’ modern coffee shop scene all began.
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Food Memphis Coffee Shop Guide: East Memphis and beyond
Today, we wrap up our local coffee shop guide by heading to East Memphis and beyond, from the University District to the Heights, from just beyond the loop to the Collierville Town Square. To Whitehaven and Southaven and Bartlett and Germantown.
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News and Features One more cup: Final thoughts on a month-long Memphis coffee-shop tour
Chris Herrington ranks the Mid-South’s coffee shops by best atmosphere, best pastries, best outdoor seating and, with a humble asterisk, best coffee.
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: A special Grizzlies team wins on a special day
Dating back to the Pyramid days, this game and all that surrounds it is a major event for Memphis and for the Grizzlies, once a symbol of the city’s arrival as an NBA market and always a testament to its meaning.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Beer for wizards, Sondheim’s greatest hits and MLK Day events
This week, a TheatreWorks play centers on Chicago’s Pekin Theater, the Mid-South’s wilderness is on display at the Dixon and the 1980s are back at Minglewood.
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: Grizzlies have become a different ‘Team Alley-Oop’
The Grizzlies are the only team in the top five in tossing oops in both half-court and transition basketball. Find you a team that can do both? Found ‘em.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizzlies podcast: Jaren Jackson Jr. is NBA award favorite
Jaren Jackson Jr. is the favorite to win Defensive Player of the Year. Drew Hill and Chris Herrington break down his chances.
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: Even on a team full of stars, Tyus Jones is playing best ball ever
Jones is a backup point guard, one of the better ones in the NBA. But he conceives himself as more, the Grizzlies now pay him as more, and over the past couple of seasons he’s been playing that way.
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Visual Arts ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ tops Southeastern film critics 2022 list
Director Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” was cited as the film “that best evokes the spirit of the South” this year.
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Music Late Stax Records founder Jim Stewart to receive ‘special’ Grammy
Other Memphians to receive the award include Sun Records founder Sam Phillips (1991), Beale Street jazz legend W.C. Handy (1993) and Royal Studios impresario Willie Mitchell (2008).
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Grizzlies Podcast Talking Grizzlies defense, sophomores and the trade market with John Hollinger
Chris Herrington and The Athletic’s John Hollinger talk about the defensive rise of Dillon Brooks, the sophomore seasons of Santi Aldama and Ziaire Williams and how the Grizzlies might approach the trade market.
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Visual Arts Making of ‘Elvis,’ the movie, exhibit punctuates birthday week of Elvis, the man
As the “Elvis” movie looks ahead to possible Oscar nominations, an exhibit about the making of the film opens at Graceland.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Artists go incognito, Dan Montgomery’s back and the Brooks gets ‘wild’
This week, manifest your dreams with a vision board, or learn the arts of mindfulness and origami. Plus, Lisa Marie Presley will be in town for Elvis’ birthday weekend.
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: There are two types of great NBA defenders, and the Grizzlies have both
The Grizzlies have two very different Defensive Player of the Year candidates in Jaren Jackson Jr. and Dillon Brooks. But the duo’s on-court synergy has given the team what might be the NBA’s best defense.
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Midtown Herrington: Where does Midtown end, or begin? A defining question for a modern Memphis
Defining Midtown is perhaps the key question of Memphis geography, in part because it helps define the rest of the core city. If Midtown is encased by Downtown, South Memphis, East Memphis and North Memphis — and maybe that’s debatable, too — then defining Midtown partly defines the rest.
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Memphis Grizzlies Jones, Adams tie career marks as Grizzlies pull away late from Kings
In addition to outstanding performances from Jones and Adams, there was Ja Morant, with another 30-point game, building his 35-8-5 stat line on a heavy diet of slicing floaters and electric layups.
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