Caroline McCutchen

A fairy-tale reimagined: Broadway’s ‘Anastasia’ takes center stage

As the Ford Center celebrates its 20th anniversary this season, Broadway’s “Anastasia” delighted the audience with a dazzling performance on Monday, Nov. 14 at the Ford Center.  “Anastasia” explores a mythology that has persisted for more than 100 years: Grand Duchess Anastasia’s miraculous survival. Capturing a turning point in Russia’s history, the play begins in […]

Flatland Cavalry brings Texas charm to Oxford

A mix of both Texas and Nashville influences, Flatland Cavalry consists of leader and chief lyricist Cleto Cordero, fiddle player Wesley Hall, guitarist Reid Dillon, drummer Jason Albers, bassist Jonathan Saenz and utility instrumentalist Adam Gallegos.  The country music band visits The Lyric in Oxford tonight following the release of their highly anticipated EP “Songs […]

Love Should Be Sweet: Alpha Chi Omega supports the House of Grace

“Here at House of Grace, we are driven by a single goal: to do our part in making the world a better place for all,” states the organization’s mission statement.  Established in 1998, the House of Grace provides residential shelter and support services in their efforts to raise awareness about domestic violence, as well as […]

Big Clown rocks the Grove

Through its annual event Sarahfest, the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies aims to build community by celebrating diversity and artistic expression. This year, Sarahfest partnered with the Southern Documentary Project, the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and Yoknapatawpha Arts Council to showcase the creative works of Christina Alison Huff and […]

Beyond the Bounds of Brass: Canadian Brass at the Ford Center

From renditions of classical pieces to intricately crafted compositions, musical quintet Canadian Brass displayed a wide range of talent at the Ford Center on Oct. 8.  Over their 52 years of existence, the chamber group has received 2 Grammy nominations, 16 Juno nominations and received the German Echo Award for Goldberg Variations. Their newest album, […]

The emergence of a new era: Dawn of the Arts

Dawn of the Arts, the celebratory concert at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts, will introduce the Institute for the Arts, an organization that aims to recognize the creative talent in the UM Department of Art and Art History, the Department of Music and the Department of Theatre and Film. World-renowned concert […]

50 years later: Title IX and moving towards equitability in athletics

Keith Carter, University of Mississippi vice chancellor for intercollegiate athletics, Yolette “Coach Yo” McPhee-McCuin, women’s basketball head coach, Rita Igbokwe, a senior center on the women’s basketball team, and Rick Cleveland, renowned sports journalist, gathered at the Overby Center Tuesday, Sept. 13, for a panel discussion of Title IX and its impact on women’s sports […]

Activist anthropologist Jodi Skipper explores Behind the Big House at Off Square Books

From University of Mississippi students to North Mississippi natives, members of the community eagerly swarmed Off Square Books to listen to author Jodi Skipper share a glimpse of her new book, “Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South.” Skipper, an associate professor of anthropology and southern studies at the […]

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