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 →
Published on June 5th, 2018 | by TLV News
Screenvision Media, Universal Pictures, and Tribeca Film Festival Announce Theater Event for 35th Anniversary of Scarface with Special Screening of Tribeca Film Festival Talk Featuring Brian Depalma, Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Steven Bauer To Follow the Screening ... Read More →
Published on June 4th, 2018 | by TLV News
We have been here before. In this timely and revealing book, The Soul of America, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking ... Read More →
Published on May 31st, 2018 | by Nature Humphries
Local wine lovers are in for a treat this summer, as Stella gears up for a nine-week wine-tasting course, Understanding Wine 101. Created and taught by the restaurant’s co-owner Cindy Kirk, the course will begin on ... Read More →
Published on May 30th, 2018 | by TLV News
In this thrilling new high-fantasy trilogy, a magic-wielding queen and a ruthless bounty hunter are separated by centuries but connected by a prophecy. When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one ... Read More →
Published on May 30th, 2018 | by TLV News
For the eighth time in program history, Swayze Field will play host to an NCAA Regional as Ole Miss baseball was announced Monday as the No. 4 national seed in the 2018 NCAA Baseball Championship. The ... Read More →
Published on May 30th, 2018 | by TLV News
Oxford Ob/Gyn Associates is excited to announce the addition of Meredith Griffin, M.D. to their highly skilled team to serve patients on a part-time basis. Dr. Griffin will be available by appointment starting June 5. She joins the ... Read More →
Published on May 30th, 2018 | by TLV News
Crespino will read and sign at Off Square Books Thursday, June 7 at 5 pm It has been nearly three years since the publication of Harper Lee’s once long-dormant first novel, Go Set a Watchman, and its ... Read More →
Published on May 30th, 2018 | by TLV News
On Saturday, May 26, 2018, an officer with the Oxford Police Department made contact with Shanicwa Coleman (26 of Oxford, Mississippi) at a driver’s license checkpoint. After a DUI investigation she was arrested and transported to ... Read More →
Published on May 29th, 2018 | by TLV News
Graduate Hotels is incentivizing everyone to make the most out of the quintessential college summer road trip with the debut of its portfolio-wide Graduate Hotels Visitcation promotion. Whether you are scouting prospective universities, taking a post-graduation road trip ... Read More →
Published on May 23rd, 2018 | by Nature Humphries
From “one of the most interesting and exciting new novelists in years” (Electric Literature), a story of imagination and survival in the tradition of Carson McCullers and Denis Johnson. Trouble follows Alvis Maloney wherever he goes. After an ... Read More →
Published on May 23rd, 2018 | by TLV News
Unit MS-932 at Lafayette High School in Oxford, Mississippi has been selected as one of 276 units to receive the 2017-2018 Air Force JROTC Distinguished Unit Award. This award recognizes Air Force JROTC units that have performed ... Read More →
Published on May 23rd, 2018 | by TLV News
The World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest & Festival returns to Oxford, Mississippi May 24-27, 2018 for its 44th season. After 41 years in Illinois, this contest and festival moved to its new home at The University ... Read More →
Published on May 23rd, 2018 | by Newt Rayburn
On May 21, 2018 officers responded to the subdivision of Cotton Creek on Old Sardis Road in Oxford, Mississippi for a suspicious person reportedly walking around shining a flashlight into cars and houses. The responding officers ... Read More →
Published on May 23rd, 2018 | by Jaime Adams
This Memorial Day weekend Oxford will be treated to the third annual Destination Oxford Car Show and Parade. The event kicks of Friday, May 25 with a Cruise-In and opening night registration at the Oxford Conference ... Read More →
Published on May 23rd, 2018 | by Newt Rayburn
The Gallery in the Green Room is proud to present the work of New Orleans photographer, Kichea Burt. Burt has been interested in photography since childhood-even working with pinhole photography at a young age. Kichea is ... Read More →
Published on May 23rd, 2018 | by TLV News
The Lafayette Oxford Foundation for Tomorrow (LOFT) Board of Directors is pleased to announce that applications for its annual grant awards are currently being accepted. Submissions must be postmarked on or before Friday, June 29th, 2018. ... Read More →
