Southern Experience

Theatre Oxford to Perform Their First Musical

Theatre Oxford’s musical comedy explores love and relationships from first dates to funerals in I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.

Bozarts Sits on Great Holiday Gifts

Early Monday morning, Facebook exploded with an all-call from Bozarts (art) Gallery on Water Valley’s Main Street calling attention to a “sitting” that was...

Mississippi Humanities Council Honors Oxford Author Alysia Burton Steele

Destiny Docu-Series: Alysia Burton Steele from Redd Pen Media on Vimeo. As reported by HottyToddy.com on Monday, Mississippi Humanities Council recently announced the recipients...

Oxford Stories: UM Football Player Balances Sports and Academia

Derrick Jones, a junior wide receiver from Eupora, is a tall, fast, and energetic wide out who signed to play football at Ole Miss...

OLHS and Lafayette County & Oxford Public Library Team to Fight Illiteracy

The Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library along with OLHS join forces once a month to instill in the local children the respect that...

Wounded Warriors of MS Donates Hams to Veterans for Christmas

Wounded Warriors of Mississippi, a nonprofit organization, donated 26 hams to veterans at their Christmas party this year. Founded and directed by Cheryl Bruce, WW...

Mitchell: Being America Is Hard, And Not Getting Any Easier

Hillary Clinton doesn’t have to wait for Christmas to get her gift. Donald Trump has been her Santa. He’s outrageous, so he commands all...

Heaton: 12 Southern Expressions for Feeling Blue

The source of the word “blue” for sadness is unknown, but it is a figure of speech common in cultures around the world. Southern Sayings...

Vassallo: What Christmas Means to Me

I recently asked two of my closest friends, Hoppy Langley and Jim Carroll, this question with their well-thought out answers below. Before we...

Neely-Dorsey: A Simply Southern Holiday Season

The holiday season is upon us and the celebrations have begun! Though many people still have large family gatherings for the holidays, they are...

8 Top Google Searches Made by Mississippians in 2015

Estately.com, a real-estate website, discovered the top google searches of all 50 U.S. states in 2015. From scandals to music, celebrity deaths  to politics,...