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.

Wedding Season: Gift Registry Alternatives for Those Who Have Enough

The wedding season is in full swing, and stores' wedding registries are full to brim with homemaking must-haves. I'm less than a month away from...

OPD’s Citizen Police Academy Builds Trust with Oxford Citizens

There are rising tensions in cities between citizens and police officers, even in Oxford at times if one judges the sour comments on DUI...

Patricia Neely-Dorsey: The Art of the Deal in Yard Sales

If you are thinking about getting into the game, it would be good to know one of the major rules of engagement. In the yard...

Local Receives MBA from Cornell, Accepts Major Position with Nike on Road to Success

Jeffrey Phillips, a senior at Lafayette High School, was helping his dad with back-breaking work felling large oak trees and hauling of logs on...

Heaton: Southerners Lose the Art of Storytelling in Poker Game

Gotcha. Storytelling prowess is perhaps the most important trait of a Southerner. Confidentially, I am a storytelling work in progress, but I have friends who...

Southern Chef Admires Moroccan Street Markets, Fresh Produce Abounds

Americans visiting Morocco for the first time are in for a happy surprise. I certainly was. The land, the cuisine, and the visual aesthetics...

NoCanDo: Oxford’s Metal Misfits

No Can Do from Bridget Runge on Vimeo.  If a death metal band performs in Oxford, Miss. do they make a sound? The band members of...

Ole Miss Student Applauds Oxford Community for Progressive Attitude about Homosexuality

Some say the South holds on to lifestyle ideals and traditions that are out of date, and that living an alternative lifestyle in the...

Anchuca Mansion: The Grande Dame of Vicksburg’s Old Springfield

At 185 years old, she has never looked better. One of the few Vicksburg properties to fully withstand the Civil War's infamous siege in 1863,...

10 Square Video: Why Guelel Kumba Loves Oxford

The latest 10 Square video by Derek Brown features musician Guelel Kumba, who came to Oxford on accident and chose to never leave. Derek Brown...