What’s at the movies this week? ‘A Knives Out Mystery,’ ‘Zootopia 2,’ more
Also opening this week: “Zootopia 2” hits the big screen along with Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen and Miles Teller.
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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Memphis Grizzlies Clutch defense, Edey’s return mark Grizzlies overtime road win
Basketball is sometimes called a “game of runs,” and this one was that for 45 minutes.
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies’ Zach Edey ‘questionable’ against New Orleans
Memphis Grizzlies center Zach Edey left Monday’s game against Denver, but not due to injury.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: With stars out, Grizzlies supporting cast steadies the ship
Frontcourt fixes, backcourt fixes and writing about yapping. Chris Herrington addresses each of those topics in this week’s Grizzlies column.
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies sign Kobe Bufkin
While the Memphis Grizzlies haven’t said so, it appears that Ja Morant will be out at least two more weeks with the right calf strain he suffered on Nov. 15 against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies, Zach Edey control the boards for win in Dallas
While still playing on a minutes restriction in his fourth game back from offseason ankle surgery, Zach Edey had a double-double, with 12 points, 15 rebounds and four blocks in 26 minutes.
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Grizzlies’ Ja Morant, Mavs’ Klay Thompson exchange words after Grizzlies win
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies update status of guard Ty Jerome
Ty Jerome suffered what the Grizzlies labeled a “high-grade” right calf strain Oct. 17 in a preseason game against the Miami Heat.
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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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