I shall refrain from recounting all the things that have made 2020 a year to forget. I’ll...
the view from the balcony
I fell asleep again on The Balcony at City Grocery last Saturday. You’d think by now I’d...
When this issue of The Local Voice hits the streets, we’ll be two days away from Halloween,...
We don’t need Halloween as a fear factor this year. There’s plenty of scary stuff out there...
The SEC opening last weekend was glorious for some and disastrous for others. But isn’t that how...
It’s been too long since I’ve written about my family on The Balcony. They told me so...
I had a unique opportunity last week to set up a meeting between Dr. Anthony Fauci and...
In the comic strip, Kudzu, the late Doug Marlette’s preacher character, Rev. Will B. Dunn, was asked...
(from the pen of the Sundown Cowboy, self-proclaimed Poet Lariat of The Balcony) I felt you on...
Wednesday night I found myself restless—unable to sleep—my head swirling with thoughts about all that was going...
by Randy Weeks By the time you read this we’ll have had a few days to venture...
I am blessed. I know it in my head; I know it in my heart. I don’t...
I drove around Oxford a bit last weekend. The weather was amazing and I have a convertible...
By the time this issue of The Local Voice hits the streets, no one may have a...
My good friend, Leon, a very inciteful man, doesn’t exactly cotton to holidays. When Leon was a...
We have met the enemy and he is us. –Pogo A certain preacher always prays long and...
Dear Governor Reeves: Congratulations on being elected as Mississippi’s next Governor. In full disclosure, I did not...
It was around 5 pm on Sunday, January 5, 2020, the twelfth day of Christmas. The sun...
The night of the Tacky Townie party at Proud Larry’s, the upstairs bar at City Grocery was...
On Monday, November 18 at 6:20 a.m., my phone rang. There was nothing all that unusual about...