Poke Salad

Poke Salad Podcast: Episode 47 (October 26, 2016)

Mississippi

• Halloween on the Mississippi Gulf Coast: On Friday, Hard Rock Live on the Coast will have a free showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. On Saturday, the Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum is throwing a Halloween party. Margaritaville Resort is having a Spooky Island Tiki Luau with fun for the whole family. Biloxi Little Theatre will have a showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show on Halloween night and they will sell prop kits as a fundraiser.

• Congrats to Tato-Nut Donut Shop in Ocean Springs. They were named by Southern Living as one of the best donut shops in the South. Of course, every location of Krispy Kreme with a Hot Now sign was included.

• Palace Casino Resort Chef Dean Kronauer thinks he has the recipe for the best sandwich in the world, and he plans to put it to the test at the World Food Championships.

• Mississippi Today had a neat story about Chris Sartin of Soulshine Pizza.

• Costco is one step closer to coming to Ridgeland.

• Madison Countians Allied Against Poverty (MadCAAP) is seeking donations to help provide Thanksgiving for over 700 families in Madison County. To help fill food boxes to distribute for the Thanksgiving holiday, they need cans of green beans, sweet potatoes and corn and boxes of mac and cheese, stuffing mix, and instant potatoes. They are also collecting frozen turkeys and packages of rolls. The deadline for donations is November 16. For more information, contact Judy at madcaapcenter@hotmail.com.

• Kemper county’s board of supervisors passed an ordinance banning clown costumes, but the law will expire the day after Halloween. Anyone caught in clown costumes or clown masks can face a fine of up to $150.

• They say you can’t go home again, but playwright Jerre Dye came back to Mississippi for his play “Cicada,” which Tupelo Community Theatre will present in January at the Lyric Theatre. Theatre executive director Tom Booth will direct the show, which is set in 1970’s rural Mississippi.

• The legacy of Chucky Mullins still impacts Ole Miss today - and that legacy will be explored in the upcoming movie It’s Time. The movie will focus on Mullins’ friendship with Brad Gaines, the player he tackled when he became paralyzed.

• Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) by Jeff Pearlman will be out this fall in time for Christmas.

• One of the best rocking chair makers in the country, Greg Harkins, lives in Mississippi.

The South

• The National Geographic Society recently rolled out their new Mississippi River tourism website. The website — www.mississippiriver.natgeotourism.com — is a digital travel guide, highlighting the entire Mississippi River from Minnesota to Louisiana, and points of interest in adjoining communities. 

Etc. Etc.

• “Mansplaining” has already been acknowledged by the Oxford English online dictionary ― and it’s now also been acknowledged by Jeopardy too. The term was featured during the October 19 episode  as the answer to the “That Explains It” category for $600.

• What is the equivalent of mansplaining for younger folks trying to explain certain technology to older folks? Techsplaining?

Poke Salad Podcast: Episode 46 (October 19, 2016)

Mississippi

• Fair officials announced a record attendance of 733,151 visitors for the recently completed 2016 Mississippi State Fair.

• Congratulations to Dak Prescott - who made the cover of Sports Illustrated again. This time as a pro football player!

• October 16 was World Food Day - and during the celebration Wallet Hub named Jackson, MS, as one of the WORST foodie cities. (With that news, you might think it’s better just to make dinner at home. It’ll taste better. And you’d be right.)

• On the positive side, Ocean Springs was named one of the 9 Best Small Towns for Food in the U.S. by Tasting Table.

• The Alluvian Hotel was recently named the Best Hotel in Mississippi according to Business Insider.

• Gulfport was named the best city to live in Mississippi according to Money magazine.

• New data from Kiplinger ranks Mississippi as the fourth most tax-friendly state for retirees in the United States.

• The University of Mississippi and Oxford often rank at the top of annual lists of beautiful campuses and best college towns, and this fall has brought a new set of national accolades upon the area.

• Chef Derek Emerson of Walker's Drive-In and Meredith Pittman of CAET Wine Bar will both participate in the Emeril Lagasse Foundation's sixth annual Boudin, Bourbon & Beer event at Champions Square in New Orleans on Friday, Nov. 4.

• The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, in conjunction with major beverage companies, announced in Clarksdale recently they will make a four-county area of Northwest Mississippi the newest target of the Balance Calories Community Initiative to reduce the amount of calories and sugar people get from beverages.

The South

• Charlie Daniels will celebrate his 80th birthday on Oct. 28th.

• "The Price is Right Live" added a second show to its March 14 tour stop in New Orleans, according to a press release.

• Tim McGraw is coming home to New Orleans in 2017, joining his wife, Faith Hill, to launch their co-headlining tour at the Smoothie King Center on April 7.

• The Foo Foo Art Festival runs from November 3 to November 14 in Pensacola.

Etc. Etc.

• Guess who won the Nobel Prize for Literature?

• Speaking of musical poets, Miami officially claimed October 13 Sean Diddy Combs Day during the kick off of the third annual Revolt Music Conference.

• Your favorite vase lies broken on the floor, and your nephew blames your cat. Is he telling the truth? Do you think you could tell?

• Another thing kids lie about? “I ate my vegetables” when half the time the dog ate them. But now they’ve decided it’s OK to pay your kids to eat fruits and vegetables. 

• Our favorite luxuries (and Greg Norman's jet).

• Reporters balked recently when Netflix announced its goal was to create enough original content to fill half of its library, but, if reports from the Exstreamist blog are true, that might not be quite as monumental a feat as we thought.