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208 Announces New Menu – Oxford, Mississippi

Local Food
on February 22nd, 2012 by - No Comments

208 Announces New Menu

Local restaurant 208  in Oxford, Mississippi has announced their new spring menu. Stop by for a great meal with your friends at one of Oxford’s oldest restaurant locations. 208 is at 208 South Lamar Boulevard.

Appetizers

Lobster Nachos
Crispy Wonton Chips Topped with Lobster Meat, Avocado Salsa and Sriracha Sour Cream… 13

Shrimp and Crabmeat Wontons
Ginger – Lime Dip, Red Pepper Coulis, Chives… 9

Bruschetta
Roasted Tomatoes, Fresh Mozzarella, Basil Chiffonade, Ciabatta Bread, Topped with a Balsamic Reduction and Basil Olive Oil… 8

Wasabi Pea Encrusted Ahi Tuna
Marinated Cucumber, Lime Infused Soy Sauce… 15

Shrimp Satey
Orange Sesame Grilled Shrimp with a Black Sesame Rice Salad… 10

Ravioli
Ask Server for Daily Ravioli… 9

Soup and Salads

Charleston She Crab Soup
Blue Crab Meat, Dry Sherry, Spices… 8

Iceberg Wedge
Tomato, Cucumber, Bacon, Chive and Your Choice of;
Buttermilk Ranch, Blue Cheese, Balsamic Vinaigrette, Honey Mustard… 7

Caesar Salad
Romaine lettuce, Creamy Caesar Dressing, Grana Padano, Red Onions, Focaccia Croutons… 8

Vegetable Strudel
Roasted Tomatoes, Goat Cheese, Asparagus Tips, Caramelized Onions over a Composed Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette… 9

House
Mixed Spinach and Arugula, Roasted Tomatoes, Bacon, Goat Cheese, Brown Sugar Saffron Pear, with and Orange Sherry Vinaigrette-… 9

To Any Salad: Add Seared Jumbo Shrimp -6   Add Salmon -6   Add Chicken-6

Small Plates

Carolina Crab Cake
Over Original Grit Girl Polenta, Sriracha, Lemon Buerre Blanc… 16

Add additional crab cake… 9

Famous 208 Burger
In- House Ground Beef Tenderloin, Topped with your Choice of Blue Cheese, Cheddar, or Swiss, and Sautéed Mushrooms and Onions… 12

Lobster Mac
Shell Pasta, Lobster Meat, Sauce Mornay, Herbed Bread Crumbs… 14

Tarragon Grilled Quail
Wild Mushroom Caramelized Butternut Tian with a Cranberry Demi… 16

6 oz. Beef Tenderloin
Topped with Jumbo Lump Crabmeat Béarnaise, Madeira Port Demi-Glace over Whipped Potatoes and Seasonal Vegetables… 28

Tempura Fried Scallops
Sautéed Roasted Tomatoes, Bacon, Shitake, Baby Bok Choy, with a Sesame Orange Reduction… 19

Smoked Chicken Chop Salad
Iceberg, Mixed Greens, Romaine, Roasted Red Peppers, Prosciutto, Walnuts, Macerated Cranberries, with a Tarragon Shallot Vinaigrette… 13

Large Plates

Almond and Black Sesame Grouper
Over Original Grit Girl Polenta, Lump Crabmeat, Lemon Buerre Blanc, Wilted Arugula… 24

Pork Confit
Roasted Root Vegetables, Crispy Fried Leeks, with a Port Mushroom Demi… 22

Stuffed Chicken
Andouille Stuffed Chicken, Roasted Fingerling Potatoes, and Roasted Squash Gratin… 21

Honey Soy Ginger Glazed Salmon
Shitake Wild Mushroom Risotto, Sautéed Spinach… 22

10 oz. Beef Tenderloin
Topped with jumbo lump crabmeat béarnaise, Madeira Port Demi-Glace, Whipped Potatoes, Seasonal Vegetables… 36

Traditional Shrimp Scampi
House Made Basil Pasta, Seared Shrimp in a Lemon White Wine Sauce… 19

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Distracted: Presented by Ole Miss Theatre (2/28-3/4)

Theatre
on February 20th, 2012 by - No Comments

The University of Mississippi Ole Miss Theatre presents
Distracted

February 28th through Sunday March 4th in Meek Auditorium

Evening performances will begin at 7:30 pm with Saturday and Sunday matinee performances at 2 pm. This smart and timely comedy centers around a mother trying to deal with a son who may have ADHD. The play leaves the audience wondering if we all haven’t become too distracted by our modern culture.

A reception will follow the opening night performance, and a question and answer session with the director, designers, and cast will follow the Sunday, March 4th matinee performance. For tickets please call the UM Box Office 662-915-7411.

COMING SOON FROM OLE MISS THEATRE:

An Evening of Cinema
Thursday, April 12 – Saturday, April 14
Meek Auditorium
The department is pleased to present student-written, student-directed, and student-produced short films, and the winning entries of the second annual UM Cinema Competition.
Special Events: Meet the film producers at a question-and-answer session immediately following each screening. A reception will follow the Friday evening screening in Meek Hall.

Showstoppers
Wednesday, April 25 – Friday, April 27; Sunday, April 29
Fulton Chapel
Join us for another season of Ole Miss Theatre’s popular Broadway revue. Showstoppers: Backstage Broadway opens the curtain on the life of the performer.
Special Event: Opening night reception Wednesday, April 25, immediately following the performance.

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Music of the South Symposium (3/1-3/3)

Music & Shows Southern Culture
on February 20th, 2012 by - No Comments

The 2012 Music of the South Symposium celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture’s MA Program in Southern Studies and recognizes the rich tradition of music research explored by students in the program.

On Friday, March 2nd, the Center hosts a variety of panels and lectures on music research. The Symposium kicks off with a panel discussion, “40 Years of Living Blues.” This is followed by a discussion of New Media produced by the Center and then a series of films by Dr. Bill Ferris, Eric Feldman, and local musician Tyler Keith. A reception for students, faculty, alumni and friends of the Southern Studies MA Program will start at 5 pm at Barnard Observatory, featuring music by Warren Black, Jake Fussell, Steve Cheseborough, and others.

On Saturday, March 3rd, the Center hosts a day of lectures, academic readings, and film screenings focusing on such topics as Gospel music, Elvis Presley, and Thacker Mountain Radio. The conference concludes with a concert at the Lyric Theater at 8 pm. Among the music acts performing will be Tyler Keith, Tim Lee 3, Tommy Bryan Ledford Band, Jay Lang & The Devil’s Due, Caroline Herring, and others.

All lectures, panel discussions and films are free and open to the public.
For more detailed information, please visit: www.olemiss.edu/depts/south/

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On Race, Religion, and Recruiting (Red Cup Rebellion)

Red Cup Rebellion Sports
on February 20th, 2012 by - No Comments

With Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms giving college football fans, coaches, and players unprecedented interaction, the lines that once kept everyone separate have become increasingly blurred. With this comes the dissemination of opinions and information, accurate or otherwise, amongst rival fan bases in an attempt to denigrate the other, knowing very well that the people whose opinions are aimed to be swayed—college football recruits—are watching. Miniature online slap fights over football games won and lost have expanded beyond the water cooler and are now accessible by anyone with a smart phone or an internet connection.

Such has recently spawned an unprecedentedly ugly war of (misspelled) words—waged on Facebook walls, in Twitter feeds, and across the various blogs and message boards that make up the SEC’s online fan base—which has seen the oft taboo topics of race and religion come into play in a way that only serves to hurt all of those involved.

The most recent of these fights developed when Matt Wyatt, a former Mississippi State quarterback and co-host of the “Head to Head” radio show, made a hardly tenable claim that Hugh Freeze, while recruiting a player both Ole Miss and Mississippi State were after, called Bulldogs head coach Dan Mullen an atheist, as an attempt to sway said recruit against Mullen and State.

Now, the veracity of this claim is more than doubtable. It was reported once, and weakly so, on the aforementioned radio show and never verified elsewhere. For those of you who aren’t familiar with “Head to Head,” it’s a show broadcast throughout Mississippi co-hosted by two men, one partial to Ole Miss and the other to State, whose primary goal as radio hosts is to entertain their listening audience via their ardent support of their respective almae matres. Not to detract from the radio show, because it’s a great listen, but it isn’t journalism, nor does it even attempt to establish such a pretense. It is friendly banter, debate, and hearsay, sprinkled with a bit of news reporting and entertaining interviews.

So a guy, whose job is to be unashamedly biased towards Mississippi State on an sports entertainment radio show, offers little more than “I heard a guy who heard a guy who knows a guy” as evidence for his claim that Hugh Freeze made comments about Dan Mullen’s religiosity or perceived lack thereof (for the record, I’ve been informed that Mullen’s a practicing Catholic). This kind of unsupported claim is something which would only pass as “evidence” in a medieval court of law, yet, despite that, said “report” of Hugh Freeze’s recruiting tactics went viral, and fast, with Mississippi State fans taking to social media to express their outrage and disgust with Coach Freeze.

But, while I do not at all believe that this happened—again, because I don’t have any real reason to believe it did—I am more than willing, solely for the sake of this argument, to give State fans the benefit of the doubt and concede that this did indeed take place and that they are correct to be find such tactics offensive. Furthermore, they should be offended by subsequent online attacks from my fellow Rebel supporters, drumming up anti-Mullen rhetoric along similar lines.

You’re all right. Coach Freeze and my Rebel colleagues are wrong. But not because calling out Dan Mullen for being irreligious is wrong, but because attempting to use a coach’s religion, regardless of what that religion might be, as a negative recruiting tactic is wrong.

If Dan Mullen isn’t religious, so what? Using that to recruit against him only displays the prejudice of the recruiter and potential prejudice of the recruited against the irreligious. If Dan Mullen is religious, as has been reported to yours truly, then Coach Freeze isn’t only displaying a prejudice, but he’s lying as well. Neither scenario is one that I, as an Ole Miss fan, can say that I’m comfortable with. I don’t care what Dan Mullen’s religion is, and neither should Coach Freeze.

Mississippi State fans, likely offended that their football program’s savior was mislabeled as irreligious—a feeling itself which demonstrates religious prejudice—then took to YouTube to respond to this transgression by dusting off the tried and true “Ole Miss is racist” meme. In what is perhaps the most vicious manifestation of this horribly disgusting recruiting tactic, a lengthy video featuring footage from the riots which surrounded James Meredith’s 1962 enrollment was spliced under the Ole Miss script logo and set to music.

Never mind the fact that Ole Miss integrated well before many of the major public universities in the South, essentially bearing the onus of forever being emblematic of the struggle for American Civil Rights in our nation’s universities. Never mind the fact that Ole Miss and Oxford are progressive, welcoming places. Never mind Ole Miss’ large population of minority students. Because those retorts, frankly, fall on deaf ears.

Instead, my plea is simple: please do not trivialize our history. By taking the events in surrounding Ole Miss’ integration—events which shook an entire nation, horrified everyday citizens of all races, and have left lingering effects on not only Ole Miss, but  on all of the South—and using them as fodder in some bogus online contest of “whose football team sucks less,” you leech them of their significance. Thinking that such important events are worthy of being reduced to talking points in the Egg Bowl rivalry is both insulting and offensive.

In recruiting and in online slap fights, leave race and religion out of it. In not doing so, we only serve to make ourselves look ignorant and foolish.

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Day 102: Everybody’s Working For The Weaklings (White Collar Criminal)

Creative Writing White Collar Criminal
on February 20th, 2012 by - No Comments

One of the finest examples of tipping too gratuitously is when the waitress offers to drive you home. I’d sucked down four Bloody Marys at “dunch” and spoken ill of every ESPN commentator that crossed the screen on an otherwise slow sports day.

It was a slow workday and my supervisor requested I take the afternoon off. My car couldn’t reach the restaurant quickly enough. Part-patron, part-rapscallion, I huddled in the corner of the lounge, awaiting the arrival of my waitress.

This red-headed monster approached me from the rear of the bar, wearing a mustard-stained jean jacket and flexing a dingy menu. Dave was on point. He knew what I needed. Two bacon burgers, please, on the rocks.

I asked where Kathy was; my sometimes nemesis, sometimes crush. She wore her heart on her sleeve tattoos and rarely gave me a free shot at the end of lunch hour. I thought being a “regular” counted towards something these days, especially since I normally brought in work-bros on Friday afternoons for a quick drink before we drove our separate ways to enjoy a meaningless weekend.

The economy still appears to be dumpy. So take my 21% and consider it a favor, Kathy. Maybe I love you, Kathy. Maybe I can look past the freakish inkblots scaling your arm. Mother would never approve, but I’m sure yours did eventually.

“She comes in at two, man,” Dave muttered.

Perfecto. I’d wait till the clock struck “Kathy,” order another round and blast-off into oblivion.

The Oblivians were playing over the loudspeakers and Kathy arrived ten minutes late, sporting a cigarette butt and a smile, turned upside down. I wanted to brag, “I love the Memphis sound,” but I could tell she wasn’t happy to see me. Big shocker. It was Tuesday, I was minus my buds from work and nobody else was around to divert her attention away my flaccid attempts to flirt.

Pastel ties draped around your expanding neck scream, “SQUARE!” They’re nooses with a 401(k). I mean, look at us. We appear sexless and forlorn, maxed out from 70-hour work sessions preparing irrelevant documents that regulators will never inspect. Our eyeballs scrape the bottom of our jaws and we pant at the mere mention of 2-for-1. Years are fumbled, marriages are personal fouls. Lives dribble out-of-bounds and every sport on TV looks too violent. Girls don’t appear the same; they’re predisposed tarts, hell-bent on tackling every blood vessel in your groin for when you stumble back into your hotel room to dream of sorority swaps and Spring Break ’98.

Kathy sees this. She knows this. She’ll pour another cocktail and stare absently at former athletes hyperventilating in HD. Her hand will creep along the mahogany surface and slide the red-headed concoction into view. My mind will be on her but she’ll be thinking about 1,000 other things, the last of which is me or my tipping abilities. Eventually, she’ll take off her work apron and escape. But I’ll be back in the office by 8:00 on Wednesday, craving dog hair and another chance for Kathy to completely ignore me.

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Ward 6 Election Headed For Runoff

Government
on February 20th, 2012 by - No Comments

By: Carver Rayburn

The hotly contested Special Election for Ward 6 Alderman race came down to two votes. If those votes had gone Katie Morrison’s way, there would not be a need for a runoff election. Instead, Morrison’s 299 votes gave her 49.75 percent of the total, just shy of the 50 percent plus one vote needed for a win.

Morrison will face Oxford native Jason Bailey in a special runoff election on Tuesday, February 28, 2012. Bailey claimed 290 votes, or 48.25 percent. Liz Barrett received 11 votes and there was one write-in vote cast.

The special election is being held to fill the seat vacated by former Alderman Brad Mayo. Mayo was elected to state congress in 2011.

Voters of Ward 6 can cast their vote at the Oxford Activity Center a the corner of Price Street and Molly Barr Road. Polls will be open from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm.
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Know Your Local Cook: Drew Bear

Cooks Local Food
on February 20th, 2012 by - No Comments

Name: Drew Bear
Position & Restaurant: Cook at Proud Larry’s; waiter at Bottletree Bakery
Hometown: Huntington, West Va.
Who is your favorite cook/chef? Pablo the Potter
What kitchen tool/utensil could you not live without? Cast iron skillet
What is the best thing about your job? I get paid to make food and flirt with pretty girls.
What is your favorite flavor combo? Ham and pineapple or chocolate covered pretzels.
Name three items in your fridge? Apple wine, Hummus, and Venison
Where do you get your best recipe ideas? Necessity and available resources.
What is the best meal you’ve ever eaten? Any good crawfish boil, cold beer, sunshine.
Personal specialties? Deer Stew.
Favorite midnight snack?  Cookies and milk.
Favorite kitchen music? Modest Mouse, Tom Waits, and pre-Nebraska Springsteen.
Who would you most like to cook for, and what would you prepare?  Jesus; cherry cheesecake. I doubt he got to eat any his first go-round. I bet he’d like it.
What herbs do you grow in your own garden? Oregano, Basil, Peppermint, Snap Peas. Nothing notable.
Where do you like to dine in Oxford? El Mundo Taqueria.
Favorite restaurant in the world? Rocco’s Ristorante, Ceredo, West Va.
Aspirations: Farmer / Life changer.
Fried catfish: eat the tail or no? Depends on the company. But usually, why the hell not?

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Movies AND Music? (Notes From the Visiting Yankee)

Notes From the Visiting Yankee
on February 20th, 2012 by - No Comments

Lights, camera, action! Followed by lights, music, and dancing? Just one day of film festival programming followed by music festival jamming left me exhausted from all the flimflamming. Don’t read me wrong, I love the artsy vibe in Oxford. It’s wonderful to live somewhere cultured enough to showcase local and otherwise films across such a span of genres—animated, documentary, narrative short, music video, feature length, and even experimental. Likewise, one of the many things that called me back to Oxford is its incredible music scene, also flush across genres—bluegrass, funk, country, rock ’n roll, electronic, blues, hip hop, and even experimental. So much was offered at the film festival I wanted to devote all my time and energy to it and its makers this weekend. And yet I could not forsake the talented local musicians that keep the Square pulsing each and every weekend with their motley beats and rhythms by denying them my time and energy.

This weekend I was torn between two artistic mediums—film and music. I respect each and tried to do both, for both and each deserve acclaim, yours and mine, our energy, our time, and let’s not forget our dime. I gave to each and now I’m beat. And neither got their full due for I was split between the two. Twice as much fun today leaves you with twice as less energy tomorrow. And that translates to twice as less attendance at both the music and film festivals. I sure couldn’t make it out to a second day of film and music. But what I did experience of each was great. Please, next year can we take them both by each, one weekend to celebrate the local film greats and another to celebrate the local music greats? I love them both and want each to reach their time to shine in the Oxford sun and fun.

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Q&A With Bobby Wahl

Sports
on February 20th, 2012 by - No Comments

By: Carver Rayburn

Sophomore pitcher Bobby Wahl is expected to contribute as a starter on the mound for the 2012 Ole Miss Baseball Team. With a fastball recorded traveling in the high 90s, Wahl should prove to be a workhorse for the pitching staff this year. TLV sat down with the Springfield, Virginia native for a little Q&A recently.

TLV: Ok, first the cheesy get to know you questions. You Ready?
BW: Yeeeeuuuup.

Favorite Restaurant? Bouré. Can’t go wrong with the Bouré Burger or Jambalaya Pasta.

iPhone, Android or Blackberry? iPhone. Gotta have it. I’ve had the 4 a little over a year now and I love it.

Mac or PC? Mac. I’m an Apple Guy.

Favorite Major League Team? The Baltimore Orioles. I grew up right outside of Washington, D.C. The Nationals were not around when I was growing up.

Give us an update on what your role will be this year. Last year, you were a closer and a starter. Where will you fit in 2012? Right now, I have been working on being a starter for this team. In the offseason, that is what I worked towards. But, if the season gets going and Coach Bianco needs me to step up and fill another role, I will.

How would you rate this year’s pitching staff compared to 2011? I think we have a great pitching staff from top to bottom this year. We have a lot of young guys and some juco transfers that have come in. Then, obviously there are guys like Brett Huber coming back. Overall, I think being a little younger has made us hungry and we want it a little bit more, if that’s possible. Everyone is really anxious and excited.

How big of a challenge will it be to open at No. 9 TCU? TCU is a great program and they have a great coach, but we have that too. We are really excited that we will be able to test ourselves as team so early in the season against a highly ranked opponent. I’m just ready to play someone other than ourselves. I hate pitching against our offense, because they are really good.

Which series are you looking forward to the most this year? I am just ready to play. The Mississippi State series is always big one.

Biggest Rival? Mississippi State.

What is your best pitch? Fastball. I’ve gotten it up to 98.

Will we see that this year? Hopefully. Hopefully.

Predictions on the season? Obviously, our goal is to win the SEC, Regional, Super Regional and get to Omaha. With the talent we have on this team and the chemistry we have there is no reason why that can’t happen this year. We have worked really hard this fall and we are hungry. After not making the postseason last year, we have a bad taste in our mouth. Win the day.

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Please, Please, Please Make It To Omaha

Sports
on February 20th, 2012 by - No Comments

By: Carver Rayburn

The expectations are the same for the Diamond Rebels this year. Omaha or bust. The latter has been the norm for Ole Miss when it comes to reaching the College World Series.

Will 2012 be any different? Can the Rebels, who return seven defensive starters and field a slew of new faces, get over the hump? Head Coach Mike Bianco believes they can.

“I certainly think that that this team is a little different,” Bianco said. “They’re unique. They’re a team that you hear a lot about in athletics. The team chemistry, the camaraderie, how the players get along and how they associate with one another; this is one of those special teams.”

The Rebels, ranked No. 22 by Baseball America will have no warm up games this year.

Your 2012 version of the Ole Miss Baseball Squad will take the field this weekend for a three game series against No. 10 Texas Christian in Fort Worth, Texas.

The non-conference schedule is not one to be taken lightly. The Rebels enter the season with a strength of schedule ranking of 12, making the Road to Omaha even more challenging. Bianco says the non-conference schedule may be the most difficult the Rebels have faced in his tenure.

“The truth of the matter is, scheduling-wise, I don’t like to play on the road the first weekend—especially against the 10th-ranked team in the country, but it just kind of worked out that way,” Bianco said. “We also have Houston, UNC-Wilmington, Louisville, the two mid-week games down in Pearl against Southern Miss and Mississippi State. This will probably be as big a challenge for us and maybe as difficult a non-conference schedule as we’ve had.”

Ole Miss is coming off a less than stellar year in 2011 that saw the team post a record of 30-25 and miss the postseason for just the second time since 2000. Not the norm for this program. Since Bianco took over the team in 2000, the Rebels have nine post-season appearances including four Super Regionals.

The weekend pitching rotation includes Friday night starter Bobby Wahl (see TLV interview–also on our site), Saturday starter R.J. Hively and Sunday starter Mike Mayers. Returning for closing duties will be Brett Huber.

“Bobby is kind of the total package in a sense that he’s a fastball, slider, change guy,” Bianco said. “His fastball can be super electric. You’ll see up on the scoreboard where he can throw in the mid 90s. He also has very good command. He can work his fast ball on both sides of the plate. Rarely do you see that at this level.”

As for the position players, Ole Miss returns some familiar faces to the lineup. Matt Snyder, Alex Yarbrough, Preston Overby, and Tanner Mathis are all recognizable names for fans and the media alike.

“I think the returners have done a great job as far as welcoming the guys and mentoring the guys on what it takes to be an Ole Miss baseball player and what’s expected out of the program,” Bianco said. “We’re excited that the season is finally here. You’re chomping at the bit at this point. Coach Godwin made the comment last week that they’re tired of practice and it’s time to play somebody else. We’re excited about Friday.”

Can’t make the away games? Head up to The Library Sports Bar and catch at least six road games on the Big Screen. Thursday night games include Georgia (ESPNU) and Vanderbilt (ESPNU); All four contests against TSBU will be televised, including three in Starkville and one in Jackson.

Averaging over 8,100 fans a game in 2011 (Ranks Second Nationally), Ole Miss Baseball has become a must see for the Rebel Fan. Ole Miss will play 12 straight home games after its trip to TCU. Be there for opening day at home on Tuesday, February 21 at 3:00 p.m. when the Rebels take on Arkansas State.

Check out the 2012
Ole Miss Baseball Schedule
by Clicking Here.

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