Gwynnie Bee and Le Tote. Cork Dork. Missing Richard Simmons. Hidden Brain (and sleep secrets). The Girls (and judging books by their cover). Podcast surveys. ClickList at Kroger.
Your Weekend Planner:
- Seussical the Musical at Northwest Rankin High School
- Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale
- Boston at the Saenger Theatre in Mobile
- Earth Day Mobile Bay in Fairhope
- 8th annual Bald Eagle Bash'
- St. Elias Lebanese Food & Cultural Festival
- Josh Blue is at the Comedy Club Stardome
- First City Improv is taking over Sunday afternoons in Pensacola
- Taste of Perdido
Mississippi
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A Year in Mississippi is the fifth book of Mississippi stories from editors Judy Tucker and Charline McCord from the University Press of Mississippi, and it’s available now. It features 40 non-fiction stories with four seasonal sections.
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A record-size Louisiana black bear was killed when it was hit by a sport utility vehicle in southwestern Mississippi. In Wilkinson County, not Bear Town.
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Louisiana artist Robert Warrens uses life experiences to tell stories in his artwork, often using dark humor to tell those stories. “Monsters, Creatures, Apparitions and Other Beasts” is now showcasing his works at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi through May 27.
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Men’s Health magazine recently did a feature on Robert Browne, Harrison Central’s assistant football coach and powerlifting coach, highlighting his victory over weight gains and how he’s inspiring his students by documenting his progress.
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Jackson has decided to officially pursue the NBA D-league affiliate for the New Orleans Pelicans.
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Who are you going to call for new SWAT gear? Dan Aykroyd.
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Marty Stuart will headline the Governor’s Concert at the Mississippi Bicentennial Celebration North, set for June 24 in Oxford.
The South
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Nola native and Emmy award-winning singer Harry Connick Jr. will sing the national anthem at the Kentucky Derby in May.
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We have the dates now for this year’s Boudin, Bourbon & Beer. The fundraiser for the Emeril Lagasse Foundation returns Nov. 3 to Champions Square.
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JD Vance is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Hillbilly Elegy. That memoir is now being turned into a major motion picture.
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If you like bourbon more than you like people, then you'll love Kentucky. The state produces 95% of the world’s bourbon - and it has more barrels of bourbon than people.
Etc. Etc.
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Have you heard about Starbucks new Unicorn Frappuccino?
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Did you know that Paisley Park - Prince’s compound - is now run by Graceland Holdings LLC, the same company that manages Elvis Presley’s Graceland?
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Vinyl LP sales have reached an all-time high. According to Nielsen's Year-End Report, sales reached $13 million in 2016—the highest since the firm began keeping track in 1991—and MusicWatch reports that half of vinyl record purchasers are under 25-years-old.
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I thought things had gotten weird in politics - but now it seems pygmy goat yoga is a thing and my head is going to explode.
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Speaking of weird, I Love Dick’s first season will premiere on May 12. If Kevin Bacon holding a lamb doesn’t ignite something strange and creative inside you, I don’t know what will.
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The new expression? Podcast and chill.