Emmy-winning actor Gordon Clapp will portray the late Robert Frost in “Robert Frost: This Verse Business,” a one-man play about the poet’s life, Thursday night at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts. In the play, Frost takes audiences from scene to scene, speaking through both poetry and his thoughts on current topics. As the […]
The joint efforts of University of Mississippi LGBTQ advocates and sponsors culminated in Oxford’s first Gayla, an award ceremony celebrating members and allies of the LGBTQ community, held this Saturday. The event was hosted at the Powerhouse and coordinated by UM Pride Network President Regan Willis. The first hour opened with cocktails and hors […]
Independent country singer-songwriter, Leslie Tom makes her way to Mississippi this week on the second leg of her multipart tour. Tom and her band will perform at the Ledford House in Oxford at 7:30 p.m Thursday as part of the Hanky Panky tour. The performance will feature songs from Tom’s latest album, “Ain’t it […]
Award-winning authors Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Ross Gay are teaming up in Oxford this Tuesday for the release of Nezhukumatathil’s fourth poetry collection, “Oceanic.” Coming to Off Square Books on April 3, “Oceanic” will be the first book Nezhukumatathil launches in Mississippi. She’ll spend the evening reading aloud from her book, along with new poems […]
In a small-town New Jersey pizzeria, sounds of an old rusty Pac-Man machine blast in the distance, while two kids fight over who gets the next turn on the pinball machine in the corner and poke at one another until one sighs, gives up and cheers on his friend. “You’d go in, have a slice […]
Several of the University of Mississippi’s most distinguished alumni were honored with dinner and awards Friday night. The dinner and subsequent award ceremony began with an opening prayer from Bobby Bales, Alumni Association president-elect, followed by the recipient of the Outstanding Young Alumni Award, Candie L. Simmons. Simmons has been the marketing director for Regions […]
A new housing development is on its way to Oxford’s outskirts with plans of creating affordable housing opportunities for resident and non-resident city workers alike. The 96 new homes, set to be complete in 2020, will be built east of the Riverside Place apartments and an undeveloped section of land between Brittany Woods and Oxford High School. […]
Tropical storm Harvey sets its sights north this weekend, hitting Mississippi just in time for both Labor Day weekend and the start of college football season. After devastating the Houston metro area, the record-setting storm made its third and final landfall near the Louisiana-Texas border Wednesday. It is expected to travel northeast, hitting Oxford and […]
“I believe that you have the capacity to change the world,” Bryan Stevenson said. “We need a generation of people who are prepared to say things that haven’t been said and prepared to do things that haven’t been done.” The class of 2021 and transfer students gathered together in the Pavilion on Tuesday night for […]
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