Arts & Entertainment

Gulf Coast Jam Gives Post Malone Fans a New 2026 Date to Circle

Last week it was announced Grammy award-winning artist Post Malone cancelled the Oxford stop that was part of his Big Ass Stadium Tour Part...

UM Faculty Team Reimagines Arts Elective Intro to Music

When Michael Rowlett put together a team of music faculty members at the University of Mississippi to rethink the basic arts elective MUS 103:...

Culture at Crosstown: UM Graduate Helps Lead New Memphis Radio Station WYXR

By Margaret DentJournalism studenthottytoddynews@gmail.com Looking out into the central atrium of the massive Crosstown Concourse building in Memphis, new community radio station WYXR has a...

Fiber Arts Festival Begins Friday

The Yokna International Folk Festival presents the 11th Annual Oxford Fiber Arts Festival Jan. 15-23.

Visitors and Locals Alike Embrace Crosstown Concourse in Memphis

By Morgan O'Neal Journalism studenthottytoddynews@gmail.com When Todd Richardson, a University of Mississippi Class of 1995 alum from Tupelo, MS, co-founded Crosstown Arts in Memphis in 2010, the goal...

Culture at Crosstown: Global Café speaks to Memphis through the language of food

By Anna Caroline BarkerJournalism studenthottytoddynews@gmail.com Crosstown Concourse, near Cleveland Street in Memphis, is a hub for just about everyone. Whether you’re an art fanatic, a...

UM Pianist Maeve Brophy highlights work of little known Black and female classical composers

By Xander NorrisJournalism studenthottytoddynews@gmail.com MEMPHIS, Tenn. –  Maeve Brophy,  a UM collaborative pianist and performer, spent eight years at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music at...

Bonnie Brown: Q&A with David Wells

The latest interview in the Ole Miss Retirees features David Wells. The organization’s mission is to enable all of the university’s faculty and staff retirees to...

Allen Boyer: “Knit Club,” by Carolyn Drake

Carolyn Drake, a noted photographer who has made a connection with Water Valley, has published “Knit Club,” a collection of photos featuring images from...

Pandemic Provides Possibilities for Mentorship in the Arts

Amid shifting plans resulting from the ongoing global pandemic, professors in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Mississippi found new...

Allen Boyer: ‘The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America,’ by Nicholas Buccola

Nicholas Buccola has written a marvelous, intense dual biography of two American writers who engaged forcefully during the racial turbulence of the 1960s.