*Editor’s Note: Dr. David Sansing will read and sign copies of “The Other Mississippi” on Tuesday, September 4, 2018, at 5 p.m., at Off-Square Books. “Mississippi...
Bill Ferris, who ran the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, is profiled in a Washington Post multi-media feature, “Stories of the Segregated South: A...
By Anna Grace Usery Editor-in-Chief anna.grace.usery@hottytoddy.com Though the official end of the southeastern music festival season came to an end with Sloss Music Festival in Birmingham...
By Talbert Toole Lifestyles Editor talbert.toole@hottytoddy.com Growing up in Poplarville, Mississippi, Jamie Aelavanthara did not realize her surroundings of wildlife would lead her down a path...
*A previous version of this review was published in the Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter. On official maps, the mountains and poverty of Appalachia stretch from...
As of noon this past Friday, Tunica casinos officially launched their Sportsbook addition, eliminating the Vegas “chokehold” over sports bettors in the US. This “monopoly” has...
By Talbert Toole Lifestyles Editor talbert.toole@hottytoddy.com The Gertrude C. Ford Center begins its 2018-2019 season with the show Robert Frost: This Verse Business on Thursday, Aug. 30,...
By Alyssa Schnugg Staff writer alyssa.schnugg@hottytoddy.com Sculptor George Tobolowsky has had his metal sculptures displayed at dozens of museums around the world and a part of...
When two geezers get together on the porch for a chat, you never know what might come up. The Oxford Geezers—Tiger Woody and Radar—first debuted on HottyToddy.com in...
By Alyssa Schnugg Staff writer alyssa.schnugg@hottytoddy.com Identical twins and local authors Katherine and Margaret King are inviting all of Oxford to be extras in a new...