Published on June 19th, 2018 | by Randy Weeks
I did not want to write this article. I had other plans—oddly, a different take on death. But the suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain last week have resurrected the pain of my own brother’s ... Read More →
Published on June 19th, 2018 | by TLV News
Local writing group Oxford Writes will present “Word Perfect Selfie” as a part of the 2018 Art-er Limits Fringe Festival, taking place at The Powerhouse in Oxford, Mississippi on August 10, and featuring self-published authors of the Mid-South. Self-published ... Read More →
Published on June 19th, 2018 | by Nature Humphries
Tuesday, June 19, 2018 Sponsored by Landshark Delivery Local Entertainment Skinny: (Scroll all the way down for entertainment across North Mississippi) Lafayette County & Oxford Public Library: Sew-A-Story: A Fabric Art Workshop (3 pm; ages 8 and up) ... Read More →
Published on June 19th, 2018 | by TLV News
Governing Institute Announces Women in Government Leadership Class of 2019 Twenty-five honorees selected for annual program to highlight extraordinary elected women and pay it forward to the next generation of women seeking public office WASHINGTON, D.C. – June ... Read More →
Published on June 18th, 2018 | by Newt Rayburn
Notice that certain commission members will be included in the meeting via teleconference, subject to City of Oxford Code of Ordinances Section 2-82. Agenda item attachments and meeting minutes are available for download here. Call to ... Read More →
Published on June 18th, 2018 | by TLV News
Monday, June 18, 2018 Sponsored by Landshark Delivery Local Entertainment Skinny: (Scroll all the way down for entertainment across North Mississippi) Blind Pig: Trivia Night (8:30 pm; $5 to play) Lafayette County & Oxford Public Library: Maker Mondays: ... Read More →
Published on June 16th, 2018 | by TLV News
Saturday, June 16, 2018 Sponsored by Landshark Delivery Local Entertainment Skinny: (Scroll all the way down for entertainment across North Mississippi) Lafayette County & Oxford Public Library: Saturday StoryPlay (3:30 pm) Levee: DJ MAX VICTORY Moe’s BBQ: DAMEIN WASH The Local ... Read More →
Published on June 15th, 2018 | by Newt Rayburn
Friday, June 15, 2018 Sponsored by Landshark Delivery Local Entertainment Skinny: (Scroll all the way down for entertainment across North Mississippi) Lafayette County & Oxford Public Library: Toddler Time (10 am); Story Time Around the Campfire with Storyteller Rebecca ... Read More →
Published on June 15th, 2018 | by TLV News
In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II—Robert de La Rochefoucauld, an aristocrat ... Read More →
Published on June 14th, 2018 | by Nature Humphries
Thursday, June 14, 2018 Sponsored by Landshark Delivery Local Entertainment Skinny: Scroll all the way down for entertainment across North Mississippi Lafayette County & Oxford Public Library: Chess Camp for Beginners (10:30 am; ages 6 and up); Advanced ... Read More →
Published on June 13th, 2018 | by TLV News
Praised by the Washington Post as “Tennessee Williams . . . transposed to the twenty-first-century South,” Nick White returns with a stunning short-story collection that tackles issues of masculinity, identity, and place, with a sharp eye for social commentary ... Read More →
Published on June 13th, 2018 | by TLV News
Author Rachel Noble and illustrator Zoey Abbott will be at Square Books Jr. in Oxford, Mississippi on June 21st at 10 am for a special story time and signing of Finn’s Feather! Finn knows his brother is gone. ... Read More →
Published on June 13th, 2018 | by TLV News
When a flood washes away much of a small community along the Cumberland River in Tennessee, Asher Sharp, an evangelical preacher there, starts to see his life anew. He has already lost a brother due to his inability to ... Read More →
Published on June 13th, 2018 | by TLV News
North Mississippi‘s idyllic rolling hills and deep forests hide a history steeped in blood. America’s first serial killers, the Harpe brothers, brutally murdered as many as fifty people at the end of the 1700s before finally meeting their end ... Read More →
Published on June 13th, 2018 | by TLV News
Ole Miss golfer Braden Thornberry will make his major championship debut this week at the 118th United States Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, New York (June 14-17). Thornberry will begin the “toughest test in golf” ... Read More →
Published on June 13th, 2018 | by TLV News
In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by chance, in a provincial town in France. Suzanne Malherbe, a shy seventeen-year-old with a talent for drawing, is completely entranced by the brilliant but troubled Lucie Schwob, ... Read More →
Published on June 13th, 2018 | by TLV News
Twenty-two years ago in 1994, 38-year-old school teacher Robert Pollard and his merry band recorded Bee Thousand in a Dayton, Ohio, basement on a 4-track cassette recorder. This improbable rock classic became an enormously influential album; ... Read More →
Published on June 13th, 2018 | by TLV News
Oxford Police Department Major Jeff McCutchen, Sergeant Ben Hamilton, Sergeant Joshua Shipp, Corporal Zach Anderson, and Officer Jeremiah Brown competed in the 17th Annual National Law Fit Challenge last week in Desoto County, Mississippi. The Law Fit ... Read More →
Published on June 13th, 2018 | by TLV News
In the tradition of Big Fish and Amanda Coplin’s instant classic, The Orchardist, comes a debut novel of an unusual family who have made their home at the margins of an unusual place Wedged between the bluffs and the ... Read More →
Published on June 13th, 2018 | by TLV News
October 6 & 7, 2018 – Shelby Farms Park In Memphis, Tennessee Pre-Sale For Returning Fans Begins Monday, June 11, at 10 A.M. CST / Public On Sale Begins Friday, June 15, at 10 A.M. CST Mempho ... Read More →
Published on June 13th, 2018 | by TLV News
Four-day passes for Clarksdale, Mississippi’s 11th annual Deep Blues Festival “on track to sellout,” according to organizers. Deep Blues Festival organizers say that this year’s 11th edition promises to be the biggest and best yet ... Read More →
Published on June 12th, 2018 | by Newt Rayburn
Global hip-hop icons Nicki Minaj and Future announce they’ll be hitting the road together for the first time on their NickiHndrxx tour today. See dates below. The NickiHndrxx tour will be a can’t miss outing for fans of the hitmakers who dominate the modern hip-hop ... Read More →
Published on June 11th, 2018 | by TLV News
On Wednesday, June 6, 2018, an officer with the Oxford Police Department attempted to make a traffic stop on South 18th Street on a vehicle with no taillights. The vehicle continued until it stopped at a residence ... Read More →
Published on June 6th, 2018 | by TLV News
Snackbar, part of James Beard Award winner and author Chef John Currence’s City Grocery Restaurant Group, is proud to announce Mississippi Monday: A Summer Supper Series, benefitting Good Food For Oxford Schools. The series, hosted by ... Read More →
Published on June 6th, 2018 | by TLV News
On June 11, A Conversation with My Black Son will be featured as a part of the free Monday Movies screenings presented by the Oxford Film Festival, which will take place at the Burns-Belfry Museum & Multicultural Center, ... Read More →
Published on June 6th, 2018 | by Newt Rayburn
Oxford, Mississippi Man on Parole Charged with Domestic Violence and Aggravated Assault On Friday, June 1, 2018, at approximately 3:00 AM, the Oxford Police Department responded to Baptist Memorial Hospital – North Mississippi for a male and ... Read More →
Published on June 6th, 2018 | by Jay Hughes
There are two insanities we regularly tolerate in Mississippi: Politicians’ convenient post-vote version of truth, and the short memory of voters. The latest ruse claimed by lawmakers with selective memory is that some low-down, dirty trickster ... Read More →
Published on June 5th, 2018 | by TLV News
Singer/Songwriter Will Discuss and Perform Songs from His Latest Album, Rain Crow GRAMMY Museum® Mississippi, located in Cleveland, Mississippi, will present The Drop featuring Tony Joe White on June 7 at 7 pm in the Museum’s Sanders Soundstage. White ... Read More →
Published on June 5th, 2018 | by Randy Weeks
Last week I left a minister speechless. It wasn’t intentional. He only asked me a simple question and I answered him as honestly as I could. But he didn’t know what to do with my reply. ... Read More →
Published on June 5th, 2018 | by TLV News
When I heard of the recent passing of Ole Miss legend Billy Brewer, I was instantly transported to the moment that he and I crossed paths in the summer of 1987. Our brief encounter certainly made no impact ... Read More →
