We don't hide crazy on our podcasts either. And this episode is a PRIME example. In the middle of the episode, I have a spell of what I can only call Yogi Berra Syndrome (YBS) where I start to think we have already gone through all of my material in an earlier podcast.
Kelly can't figure out why I'm skipping through - and I'm looking at her trying to figure out why she doesn't realize that I've read this before. But I had not. It was just deja vu...all over again.
Mississippi
- Don't miss the inaugural meeting of the Podcast Brunch Club Jackson chapter on Saturday, July 29, at The Manship in Jackson.
- The new extension to the Mitchell Memorial Library at Mississippi State is about to be filled very quickly.
- On Sept. 14, The Doobie Brothers will perform in Jackson at Thalia Mara Hall to support Alzheimer’s disease research.
- So you’ve probably heard that Elvis was born and raised in Tupelo, but he’s not the only native son of note. Diplo, one of Electronic Dance Music’s most popular performers, is also from the city.
The South
- Olivia de Havilland, who played Melanie Wilkes in the beloved film Gone With the Wind, is turning 101 on Saturday, July 1. Acting alongside Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, Olivia is the last surviving principal cast member of the classic movie. June 30 marks 81 years since the classic book Gone with the Wind was published.
- Drew Brees never threw on pads to play tackle football until he entered high school at Westlake in Austin, Tex. He started learning the game by playing flag football and has been a vocal advocate for the game for many years. Brees wants to bring his love for flag football across the country. That's why he and his marketing guru, Chris Stuart, are opening up a co-ed flag football league called "Football 'N' America."
- Spencer Proffer, Steve Binder, and Joe Berlinger are developing a feature film about Elvis Presley’s manger Colonel Tom Parker. Production is slated for early 2018.
- Food & Wine, the glossy, chef-focused food magazine, is moving to Birmingham, Ala., joining a stable of other publications owned by Time Inc. that includes Cooking Light and Southern Living.
- Speaking of which, Food & Wine came up with their list of the best beach bars in the country, and the FloraBama made the list, of course. The Pink Pony Club in Gulf Shores also made the list.
- Country Living named the 20 most charming beach towns across the nation - and several Southern towns made the list. Congrats to Gulf Shores, Ala.; Tybee Island, Ga.; Beaufort, NC; Key West, FL; Galveston, TX; and Isle of Palms, SC.
- There is an ancient cypress forest found 60 feet underwater in the Gulf of Mexico, due south of Gulf Shores, Ala. It is about 60,000 years old. It is the only known site where a coastal ice age forest this old has been preserved in place, with thousands of trees still rooted in the dirt they were growing in millennia ago. The work of the team investigating the site is detailed in the new documentary, The Underwater Forest.
- Legend has it the cocktail was invented in New Orleans, but whether this is true or not, the city has given birth to some iconic drinks—the Sazerac, the Hurricane —and it has certainly perfected the art of boozing. Tales of the Cocktail is a weeklong carnival of mixology from July 19-23, including cocktail classes, tastings, special menus at restaurants across the city and, of course, lots and lots of drinking.
- The vacant 1960s-era World Trade Center office tower on the riverfront in New Orleans is close to rebirth. The building opened as the International Trade Mart and was later renamed to the World Trade Center in 1968. Carpenter & Co. of Cambridge, Mass. has teamed up with New Orleans firm Woodward Interests to redevelop the 33-story building into a Four Seasons hotel with nearly 400 rooms and about 80 hotel-serviced condos. The developers say construction will begin this fall, likely October or November.
Etc. Etc.
- In August, Sonic is offering a new blended burger on its menu at select locations. The Slinger is a beef burger that’s made partly with mushrooms.
- Sarah Jessica Parker has acquired her first title as the editorial director of SJP for Hogarth, her line of books with Penguin Random House’s Crown Publishing Group: Fatima Farheen Mirza’s debut novel, A Place for Us.
- A recent survey finds that 65% of U.S. podcast listeners are likely or very likely to further investigate a company they hear about on a podcast and 64% have bought a product or service they heard about through an audio show.
- According to a new report from the IAB in partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers US, podcast ad revenue has grown by 85 percent since last year and is on track to reach more than $220 million in 2017. Previously, ad revenues for podcasts jumped 73 percent from 2015 to 2016.
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