Southern Experience

Double Decker 2025: A Celebration of Music, Art, and Community in the Heart of Oxford

Oxford’s Double Decker Festival brings two days of live music, art vendors, Southern food, and family fun to the Square.

‘Living Out Loud with Alley and Amanda’ Podcast: Special Guest Kathy Brummett

Today's special podcast features Kathy Brummett of Oxford. Hear how God has called her to help with Human Trafficking as she approaches retirement. She wears...

‘Honest Work’ by Shane Brown

I pull off Hernando's square in the suburban I drove up in this morning and hang a right down Highway 51 South. I've already...

Cleveland Clinic: Avoid These Eye Infections From Bad Contact Lens Habits

The content and information below is republished with permission from the Cleveland Clinic. If you’ve ever slept in your contact lenses, worn disposable lenses past...

Local Artist To Give Away Signed Copies Of Jake Gibbs Poster

Rosie Vassallo, a local graphic designer and artist, will be giving away 250 Jake Gibbs posters at the Allen Samuels Tent in the Grove...

Peggie Gillom-Granderson—Journey of a Champion

Win-some: adjective attractive or charming in an open and delightful way. Yes. That is the word I was looking for. And that would be Peggie...

Oxford Stories: Is The Great Pumpkin at St. Peter’s in Oxford?

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church holds an annual pumpkin patch sale that gives Oxford residents a unique opportunity to give back to the community. For the...

Vassallo: Preferred Candidate for Chancellorship

The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning has selected Dr. Jeffrey S. Vitter as the preferred candidate for the chancellorship of...

Mitchell: Rich People Are the Smaugs of America, Aren’t They?

Please find a rich person — which isn’t easy in Mississippi — and offer him or her a hug today. The “one-percenters” among us need...

Skyelor Anderson Set to Release Second EP, ‘Somewhere’

As if it has not been said before, here it is again: do not judge a book by its cover. People often assume Skyelor...

UM Graduate Wins Prestigious Portz Scholarship

Most students graduate from college when they are 21 or 22. For Amir Aziz, that’s when he began college as a member of the University...