Arts & Culture

"Striking Voices," a photo and video documentary project about the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike in the winter and spring of 1968, is being exhibited in the University of Mississippi Center for the Study of Southern Culture's Gammill Gallery in Barnard...

The largest reenactment of the iconic "I AM A MAN" photograph took place on Beale Street in Memphis today commemorating the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and the people who participated in the 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike. The...

The Mississippi Delta is known for its blues music and juke joints, but Anne Freeman, a Greenwood native and current Oxford resident, is showcasing her debut Americana-folk album “Days Go By” with a listening party at 6 p.m. today at...

Carl Blackledge is an abstract painter born of the South. Raised in Laurel, he joined the Starving Artists Union in college and later moved to New Orleans before eventually relocating to Oxford. Blackledge’s work primarily consists of large-scale, expressionistic paintings...

Moon Taxi, an indie-alternative rock band based in Nashville, will return to The Lyric Oxford at 8 p.m. tonight as part of its “Let The Record Play” tour. The band released its fifth album, “Let The Record Play,” in January...

Monday 8:30 a.m. – Yoga in the Gallery – UM Museum   Tuesday 4 p.m. – Campus Recreation Job Fair – Turner Center   Wednesday 7 p.m. – Ole Miss Idol – Gertrude C. Ford Center 9 p.m. – Moon...

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...

The signs of spring: weekend baseball games, the warm sun on our backs, the smell of flowers in the air, and of course, the annual migration of dozens of corporate job recruiters from all over the South to The Inn...

"Paddle. Camp. Repeat." These three words are how memoirist Brian Castner described his latest book, “Disappointment River.” Castner will appear on Thacker Mountain Radio at 6 p.m. tonight at Off Square Books to talk about the book, which came out...

Easter is almost here, and if you’re anything like me, you’ve already been filling up on all the seasonal Easter candies that have stocked grocery store shelves since Valentine’s Day. Some candies are filled with weird gooey stuff, and others...