Southern Experience

Heaton: 10 Essential Tips for Moving to the South

Embrace Southern hospitality with these essential tips on traditions, food, and customs to help you settle into your new home.

Hotty Toddy News Services - February 19, 2025

Miss-I-Sippin’ Doesn’t Disappoint Over the Weekend

Yoknapatawpha Arts Council (YAC) hosted its wildly successful craft beer festival – Miss-I-Sippin’ – over the weekend, re-establishing it as one of Oxford's favorite...

Update: Curtains Rise on Sam Shepard’s ‘True West’ at the Powerhouse April 15

This spring, Theatre Oxford will present its final main-stage production of the 2015-2016 season featuring Sam Shepard’s classic family drama, True West. This production, directed...

Neely-Dorsey: Remembering Dr. King and Maya Angelou

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated at The Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. April 4, 1928, poet and novelist Maya Angelou,...

Ole Miss Student Creates New Workout Program

Picture this: a workout program that consists of eating anything and barely any exercise, and promises weight loss in less than five days. This...

Matthews to Direct Law School’s Development Efforts

Suzette Matthews has a passion for education, and since Feb. 1, 2016, the former Teach for America staffer has turned her talents in fundraising...

Panel to Discuss Journalism and Social Change

On Friday, April 8, Fred Anklam, Hank Klibanoff and Leslie McLemore will participate in the panel discussion “Journalism and Social Change,” moderated by Charles...

Mugg Cakes Serves Beer-Battered Cupcakes at Miss-I-Sippin’

Karrian Brown wanted to provide Oxford with something that would last long after she was gone… something that wouldn’t be here only for today,...

UM’s Granger Wins SEC Faculty Achievement Award

Dr. Joey Granger, Billy S. Guyton Distinguished Professor of physiology and biophysics, is the 2016 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award winner for the University of...

Memory Serves Alex Mullen, New World Mental Athlete Champion

Alex Mullen, a second-year medical student at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and son of Dr. Chris Mullen, civil engineering professor, became the...

Rose Selected for Silver Em Honor

Bill Rose, who for six years has led student reporting ventures for the Meek School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi, has...