Since 2014, students in the English master’s program have hosted a monthly reading series called Broken English. Changing periodically as master’s students enter and graduate, second-year graduate students serve as the program’s emcees, while first- and third-year students read their own works. But this year, along with the expected change in hosts, the series will […]
Named after a small Mississippi town, the musical project Rock Eupora has been one of the state’s most exciting indie acts for a while now. Clayton Waller self-recorded Rock Eupora’s first album, “Blanks,” in his house in Starkville during his senior year at Mississippi State. He later moved to Nashville and in 2016 recorded “Soon […]
The latest Spike Lee joint, “BlacKkKlansman,” tells the “crazy, outrageous, incredible” story of a black man who infiltrated the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. Although the film is set nearly 30 years in the past, its narrative and themes resound in today’s political climate, and the kicker is that it’s based […]
Amongst demanding classes, social obligations and football games that shut the town down, it’s easy to get bogged down and forget everything the campus and Oxford have to offer. One of the incredible things that Oxford boasts is a continuing legacy of serving as a home and source of inspiration for dozens of writers. There’s […]
Bryant has its rotating globe and Ventress has its stained glass, but across the Grove from those buildings, Lamar Hall has become known for the loud, party music that bumps out of its POD market. The small store known for selling snacks to students rushing between classes also serves up music – everything from boy bands […]
Three years ago, in “Dime Store Cowgirl,” country songstress Kacey Musgraves humbly celebrated staying in a hotel with a pool and “felt really small under Mount Rushmore.” That song was on her sophomore release, “Pageant Material,” but in her latest album, “Golden Hour,” released March 30, Musgraves gets past those insecurities, contributes her own sound […]
Whether the images are ones that people recall with nostalgia – pageant queens, all-American football stars and Greek Revival buildings – or those that people try to hide from – young men rioting at James Meredith’s admittance and bullet holes in the Lyceum’s columns – depictions of the University of Mississippi and Oxford during the […]
When discussing the Migos’ 2017 “Culture” album with Fader, Offset said, “The new album title is about the culture of hip-hop music. It’s time to let the culture be known. It’s time to claim it. And it’s time to claim that we are the Migos, and for people to understand that this is what we […]
When I first saw the new film “Call Me by Your Name,” I couldn’t stop thinking about it. The lush and summery setting, the carefree attitudes of the characters, the intense, emotional love the main characters feel for one another all ran through my head until I could see it a second time. The film […]
In one of the most powerful and telling images of the civil rights era, a white teenager angrily shouts at a black teenager clutching a textbook to her chest and stoically walking to school. The black woman, one of the first nine black students at Little Rock Central High, is Elizabeth Eckford; the white woman, […]
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