Mempho Music Festival announces new dates, new location
The festival is now slated for Oct. 1-3, moving west from its initial home at Shelby Farms Park to the Radians Amphitheater at the Memphis Botanic Garden.
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 1916 articles by Chris Herrington :
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February 2021
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Memphis Grizzlies ‘Grizzlies 20’ mailbag: Which season provided the team’s best shot at a title?
Circumstances that need to be weighed include two unpopular trades, injuries and the playoff opponents.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Dillon Brooks finds the balance, Ja Morant’s All-Star bid needs work
Here also is a compare-and-contrast injury evaluation for Jaren Jackson Jr. and Justise Winslow.
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January 2021
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Performing Arts Movies this week: Filming moves C-Y market, Malco expands opening, Sundance continues
Film shoots aren’t for sightseeing, but the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission notes that, with COVID a going concern, a shoot for ‘Women of the Movement’ will be even more closed than usual.
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Reviews Soup’s on! 12 (plus) to eat in or take home
It’s cold, it’s dreary, the days are short and dark. Soup might not cure COVID and it won’t make winter go away, but it’ll help get us through these last weeks.
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Grizzlies Podcast A dive into Grizzlies conspiracy
Grizzlies beat writer Drew Hill and columnist Chris Herrington look back at some of the hottest takes in Grizzlies fan history and gauge if the NBA is treating the Grizzlies’ COVID-19 situation different than the rest of the large-market teams.
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Memphis Grizzlies‘Grizzlies 20’ mailbag: A ‘true or false’ journey through franchise history
There were a lot of questions posed, but also some assessments that wanted confirmation (like, what about Hasheem Thabeet?).
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: As Grizzlies await return, team’s paths might be shifting
Plus: We’re accepting submissions to the mailbag, but with a twist.
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Business Memphis’ indoor movie theaters begin reopening
Major films including “Wonder Woman 1984” and “One Night in Miami” will be showing as theaters reopen following the newest health directive.
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Grizzlies Podcast What will delayed games mean for the Grizz?
Memphis won’t play again until the Jan. 27 game against the Chicago Bulls.
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Chris HerringtonHerrington: Goodbye to all that, as the Trump years end
The new president’s inaugural address called for unity and a lowering of the political temperature while still drawing some firm lines. Joe Biden said that “politics need not be a raging fire” and called for an end to an “uncivil war.”
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Arts & Culture Justin Timberlake, Stax Music Academy bring Memphis flavor to inauguration night
Performing from the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Memphis-bred superstar Timberlake and students from the Stax Academy were part of the “Celebrating America” broadcast following Wednesday’s presidential inauguration.
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: Grizzlies’ MLK Day win arrives at a pivot point
The West is starting to separate into layers of quality. How the Grizzlies fare in the next 10 games will be telling.
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Grizzlies Podcast Grizz find ways to win
Grizzlies beat writer Drew Hill and columnist Chris Herrington break down how the Grizzlies have done it and what to expect from the Memphis rotation moving forward.
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Chris HerringtonThe Memphis 10: Kustoff and company still side-stepping accountability
Plus, Zach Randolph’s honor, a case for Scooby Doo, and restaurants that are gone but not forgotten.
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Visual Arts Indie Memphis brings a dozen Sundance screenings to Summer Drive-In
Sundance has long been the American independent film scene’s most prominent launching pad.
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies get the motor going late, come out with 101-91 win
Grizzlies, facing Cavaliers for the second time in five days, were led by Dillon Brooks (21 points, seven rebounds).
Related story: Box score: Grizzlies 101, Cavaliers 91
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Spirit of Memphis Herrington: Elvis & Nixon oddity adds bonus to annual birthday celebration
An exhibit that opened recently marks the half-century anniversary of one of American culture’s more colorful and peculiar moments.
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Memphis GrizzliesHerrington: Grizzlies evaluate roster, stay alive while awaiting stars’ return
Chris Herrington: The absence of Grizzlies’ stars provides a chance to observe the trends of some players who are in outsized roles.
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Grizzlies Podcast Where does Bane fit in the pecking order?
Grizzlies beat writer Drew Hill and columnist Chris Herrington discuss the latest on the Grizzlies injury report and set expectations for the team as they wait for the stars to return.
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Chris HerringtonHerrington: Kustoff, Blackburn and Hagerty denounce the violence; they must also renounce the lies behind it
It was not a question of whether Blackburn or Hagerty or Kustoff would stand with Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden or Mitt Romney. Would they even be willing to stand with Mitch McConnell? None of them wanted what happened on Wednesday afternoon, but they all helped prepare the stage.
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Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies 20: From Pau to Marc, J-Will to Ja, the greatest players ranked
Weighing three factors, who ends up being the No. 1 Grizzlies player in 20 seasons in Memphis?
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December 2020
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Visual Arts Herrington: 2020 films worth watching
The pandemic reduced opportunities to see movies in the theater, but even the oddest, most disrupted of years produced plenty worth seeing.
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Grizzlies Podcast Ja Morant is hurt. Now what?
Daily Memphian Grizzlies beat writer Drew Hill and columnist Chris Herrington discuss Anderson’s impact moving forward and how much the Morant injury will mean to Memphis over the course of the regular season.
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Memphis Grizzlies Herrington: Four takes on Morant’s injury and what it means for the Grizzlies
Regardless of how long the point guard is out because of his ankle injury, the season is not lost.
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