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7 Funny Things Southerners Say About Cold Weather

Judging the weather based on numerical temperatures is boring. Besides, if it’s 35 or 40 degrees, who can tell the difference? Southerners love a...

Even GOP Master Strategist Karl Rove Can’t Predict Clear, Easy Future

During a quiet dinner here at a usually packed downtown restaurant rendered nearly vacant by spring break, I had an opportunity to break bread...

Oxford Conference Center for the Book Brings Lecture for the Kids

Oxford and Lafayette County schools' first graders filled the Gertrude C. Ford Center Thursday morning to kick off the second day of the 25th...

Mississippi Quote Of The Day

March 22, 2018 “The Delta was the soul and the heart. Mother blues. Sacred, fertile ground.” - Ace Atkins, Crossroad Blues "The Mississippi Book of Quotations"...

Sigma Phi Lambda to Host Community Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday

Celebrating 10 years at the University of Mississippi, the Alpha Alpha chapter of Sigma Phi Lambda is hosting Easter events in March, bringing the...

Author Picks Oxford as a Writing Haven for His Newest Works

Hailing from a "sweat-and-sawdust" religious background, Jonathan Martin grew up in a tent-revival, Pentecostal family where both his father and grandfather served as ministers....

Davis Adds Case and Hamilton to Men’s Hoops Staff

Ole Miss head men’s basketball coach Kermit Davis announced the additions of Win Case and Ronnie Hamilton to his staff. Working with Davis at...

UM's Mississippi: The Dance Company Presents 'Crossing Borders'

The University of Mississippi's modern dance company will perform eight original works, including a piece choreographed for Mississippi: The Dance Company by Cuban choreographer...

Leading Criminologist to Serve as Visiting Research Scholar for UM School of Applied Sciences

Alex Piquero, the world's No. 1-ranked criminologist since 1996 in terms of scholarly publications in elite criminology and criminal justice journals, will serve as...

No Time 2 Cook Recipe of the Week: Crock Pot Lasagna

Amanda’s Crock Pot Lasagna When I think about making lasagna from scratch, I think of too much prep time and too many pots to clean...

John Cofield's Oxford and Ole Miss: Welty, Faulkner and the Real Gold

Eudora Welty presented William Faulkner with the Gold Medal for Fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters on May 24, 1962 in...