Mississippi ExPats
Ogden director celebrates shared arts culture between Mississippi and New Orleans
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Mississippi ExPat William Andrews celebrates Southern culture and community while navigating the New Orleans art scene as director of the Ogden.
Mississippi Culture
Noah Saterstrom celebrates Mississippi Storytellers with narrative portraits
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Saterstrom’ new portrait series is now showcased in the “Storytellers: A Mississippi Narrative” exhibition at Fischer Galleries in Jackson
Mississippi Culture
‘Pushing Forward’: Mississippi’s youngest Freedom Rider is finally telling his story
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Almost 55 years since accidentally becoming the youngest Freedom Rider, Hezekiah Watkins finds chemistry with an unlikely writer to share what “was a hell of an experience.”
Mississippi Culture
‘This is going to be fun’: Double Decker Arts Festival official artist finds support in Oxford, beauty in Mississippi
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Ole Miss grad whose artwork appears on festival posters and T-shirts is inspired by the state’s culture and beautiful landscape.
Crossroads Film Festival celebrates diversity in 20th year: ‘We’ve been doing this the whole time’
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The festival begins Thursday and features four days of movie screenings – some followed by discussion panels – and workshops that have matured into “master classes.”
Education
‘They’re giving us options’: Belhaven U. offers ‘safe haven’ for students caught up in Argosy’s abrupt closure
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Jackson-based university offers to help 16,000 Argosy students with tuition discounts to complete their degrees online or guidance in locating other schools.
Mississippi Culture
Natasha Trethewey to deliver fifth annual Bettye Jolly Lecture at Welty House and Garden
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and two-term U.S. Poet Laureate is expected to reflect her forward in the new edition of “Eudora Welty: Photographs”
Mississippi Culture
Ole Miss pianist ‘honored’ to share internationally acclaimed talents with Mississippi, aid local artists
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Greenville-born Bruce Levingston is one of the country’s leading figures in contemporary music.
PHOTOS: Jackson Indie Music Week shatters expectations in fourth year
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Jackson Indie Music Week brings Mississippi artists and fans to the capital city’s most well-known venues and hot spots
Deuce McAllister’s Ole Saint Kitchen & Tap comes to Biloxi
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Biloxi’s Boomtown Casino welcomes a second location of Deuce McAllister’s Ole Saint Kitchen & Tap
Mississippi Culture
Imagination Unlimited: Jim Henson exhibition comes to The MAX in Meridian
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Inside the mind that gave us Kermit the Frog, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster and Big Bird
Jeffrey Gibson threads his Native American heritage with contemporary art in ‘Like A Hammer’ exhibit
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These pieces reflect the artist’s process of self-discovery and his acceptance of cultural and societal experiences that shaped him
‘We have to care more’: Mississippi Vegan returns to roots for debut cookbook
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Timothy Pakron, a Mississippi native and author with a growing following, urges us to think more about where our food comes from
Mississippi Culture
‘Even I have my fears’: How Angie Thomas and ‘The Hate U Give’ went from Belhaven U. to the big screen
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Through poverty, Twitter trolls and death threats, the bestselling Jackson-born author embodied the true spirit of T-H-U-G L-I-F-E