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.

Star Package Sell Spirits, Celebrates Spirited History

Star Package houses more than just bottled spirits. The history of this particular liquor store’s location holds the rough-and-tumble spirit of Oxford's past within...

African American Males' Perspective on Acts of Vandalism

Early Sunday morning, two suspects came onto the University of Mississippi campus and hung a noose and an old Georgia state flag around the...

Be Kind: Positive Changes Happening at Lafayette Middle School

Lafayette County Middle School recently started the “Be Kind” program in hopes of encouraging students to be kinder to each other. The school has...

Eat Your Way to Lower Blood Pressure

If left untreated, chronic high blood pressure can have deadly consequences – including heart attack and stroke. Hypertension can be treated with medications, but you can do...

Sometimes you just have to see the front page of a physical newspaper

By: Tom Freeland, HottyToddy.com, Blogger This picture, which looks prtty much like my idea of Armagedon, is above the fold on the front page of...

Raising Rebels on Grits and Grace

By Lori Weatherly, HottyToddy.com blogger I am as southern as the day is long…and when I am out of my surroundings or atmosphere, it is...

Lovepacks Thanks the Community for Oxford Restaurant Week

Dear Oxford Community, The week of January 26-February 1 brought a collaboration of 26 local Oxford eateries and restaurant goers to participate in the inaugural...

MSU Fan Reflects on Race Relations at Ole Miss

HottyToddy.com received an email last night from Fran Troxler, who is a Mississippi State graduate and lives in Wears Valley, Tenn., but often plays...

FBI Clarifies Role in Meredith Statue Investigation

HottyToddy.com received the following statement from the FBI this morning regarding the Meredith statue vandalism case: Daniel McMullen, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI...

Oxford High School Cafeteria Wing Evacuated Because of Fire

Oxford School District officials report that the Oxford High School cafeteria wing was evacuated this afternoon as part of school emergency procedures because of...