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Lovers of poetry and music gathered together Wednesday night to display their talents at an open mic night hosted in the Residential College South dining hall. This event was the result of a collaboration between UM Jam Club and Turning...

Off Square Books turned supernatural on Friday, as “Twilight” fans filled the location to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first novel in the well-known vampire series. The night featured themed snacks, “Twilight” trivia, a blind drawing to win a...

Nathan Oakes, the director of education and student programs at the Center for Practical Ethics (CPE), hosted this semester’s first “Just Conversations” on the evening of Monday, Sept. 22 in the gallery of Bryant Hall. The event presented students with...

Indie rock band The Bends played The Lyric on Thursday before the highly anticipated Ole Miss versus LSU game. Accompanied by opener Yazoo, the concert offered both teams’ fans a chance to enjoy musical calm before the storm of game...

Ole Miss Theatre and Film, in collaboration with the Southern Punk Archive, hosted a screening of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren’s short films with a live score by Memphis post-punk band Optic Sink, on Thursday, Sept. 18. The event followed the...

Award-winning author Kiran Desai shared insights about her new novel “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” at Square Books on Tuesday evening. The event put Desai in conversation with Sheila Sundar, associate professor of English and creative writing at the...

Flyer for the Water Valley Literary Festival. Photo courtesy Hubert Creekmore Literary Society Mississippi is nicknamed “The Birthplace of America’s Music,” though it is also home to a large and impactful literary community. This is exactly what the Water Valley...

The eve of home Ole Miss Football games begins with the anticipation of Trash Can Friday, a tradition in which the Department of Landscape Services dots the Grove with red and blue trash cans. In the midst of a bustling...

Student preforms at Open Mic Night in the union on Sep 12. Photo by Nataly Tello. Providing pizza, cookies and a microphone, the University of Mississippi Department of English hosted its first open mic night of the fall semester Thursday...

This past weekend, the Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library, a branch of the First Regional Library system, was filled with noise. Blasts from party horns bounced off the walls and voices rang throughout the building as the library system...