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Double Decker: Where and When Everything is Happening

The 25th annual Double Decker Festival is packed with music, special events, vendors and food. From Friday morning to Saturday night, here’s the schedule for one of Oxford’s biggest weekends of the

April 19, 2022

Arts & Culture

Opinion: Mass censorship shows our leaders’ cowardice

“America seems filled with violent people who like causing people pain but hate when those people tell them that pain hurts.” Kiese Laymon is perhaps the most prolific and controversial professor to

February 2, 2022

Opinion

Oxford Film Festival introduces hybrid format

This year’s installment of the Oxford Film Festival begins on Wednesday, introducing a new hybrid format and a festival movie pass that gives attendees more ways to watch than previous years. In-person

March 24, 2021

News

Anne Freeman, Kate Teague’s limited edition vinyl benefits Memory Makers

Local musicians Anne Freeman and Kate Teague are teaming up with The End of All Music to release a Record Store Day title that is limited to 300 copies. All proceeds from

April 12, 2019

Arts & Culture

Solange’s ‘When I Get Home’ an ‘enigmatic and hypnotic’ album

In homage to her hometown of Houston, Texas, Solange Knowles brings her fourth studio album, “When I Get Home.” It’s been almost three years since we’ve heard from the younger Knowles sister,

March 18, 2019

Arts & Culture

Ole Miss senior presents original dance piece this weekend at regional competition

Ole Miss will host the American College Dance Association South Conference this weekend. This year’s competition, themed “It’s Happening!,” will feature senior journalism major Tucker Robbins, who began dancing and choreographing only

March 8, 2019

Arts & Culture

William Boyle sees his latest crime novel in the ‘screwball’ tradition

Pornography may not be the first thing that comes to mind in a conversation about a book, but it came up as crime writers William Boyle and Ace Atkins discussed Boyle’s new

March 8, 2019

Arts & Culture

Regional women’s studies conference envisions a ‘Feminist and Queer South’

The Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies will host the annual Southeastern Women’s Studies Association’s conference from today through Saturday. The conference’s 50 sessions, two keynotes and several other events

March 7, 2019

Arts & Culture

Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit to headline Double Decker Festival

Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit will headline the 2019 Double Decker Festival on April 27, as announced by city officials, event planners and sponsors on Thursday morning. Isbell, who has won

February 28, 2019

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Book review: First novel from Andrew Ridker ‘tender and evocative’

Arthur Alter, patriarch of the Alter family, stopped to examine dandelions blooming through his driveway. It was his first trip home in weeks, and readers should forgive him, “considering the undisturbed calm

February 27, 2019

Arts & Culture