Oxford (Mississippi)

Hurricane Wine

Tonight: Heartless Bastards at Last Concert Cafe

A Short History of Shrimp Grits

Shrimp grits started out as a seasonal fisherman’s dish of shrimp cooked in bacon grease served over creamy grits in the Low Country where they were also known as “breakfast shrimp.” The simple seafood breakfast became an iconic Southern dish after Craig Claiborne wrote about it in the New Yor ... More >>

Hot Squash Soup

On cold mornings, I like to turn on the oven to warm up the kitchen. I know you're not supposed to heat your house with the oven. That's why I try to stick something in there so I can claim I'm actually cooking. Roasting a couple of heads of garlic is a good idea--you can always use roasted garlic ... More >>

Unpolished Gem

On cold mornings, I like to turn on the oven to warm up the kitchen. I know you're not supposed to heat your house with the oven. That's why I try to stick something in there so I can claim I'm actually cooking. Roasting a couple of heads of garlic is a good idea--you can always use roasted garlic ... More >>

Night & Day

June 11 - 17, 1998

Black Blues, White Label

June 11 - 17, 1998

Dax Riggs

June 11 - 17, 1998

Blue Mountain

June 11 - 17, 1998

Haute Dogs and Hotties

Don't worry about matching foods and wines at Max's — just make sure you don't have chili on your chin

Playbill

Don't worry about matching foods and wines at Max's — just make sure you don't have chili on your chin

The Real Deal

Who is the more "authentic" bluesman -- Bobby Bland or T-Model Ford?

Roll Over, Eric Clapton. And Tell Stevie Ray the News.

The blues is back -- rawer and louder (and punker) than ever

Oxford Punks

Out of Mississippi comes the rowdy Neckbones

Almeda's New Playhouse

Bar-B-Que Blues on Almeda is bringing back a combination that Houston made famous.

Goodbye Gourmet

​Gourmet, a magazine of "almost biblical status" in the food world, went under this morning after 68 years in print. My editor there, Jane Daniels Lear, brought the magazine most of its Southern writers. I met her at a Southern Foodways Alliance symposium in Oxford, Mississippi. She encouraged ... More >>

Longhorns Still Reeling In Party-School Rankings

UT disappoints again​First they get dropped from the top spot by Playboy. Now the Princeton Review barely keeps them in the top 10. How is the University of Texas going to keep being known as a top Party School if it can't get no respect? The Princeton Review's various surveys of colleges ca ... More >>

Last Night: Arctic Monkeys At House Of Blues

Photos by Marc Brubaker​Arctic Monkeys, Young Buffalo House of Blues August 3, 2011 See the Arctic Monkeys' chav-y chic in our slideshow. Five years since their first stateside splash in February 2006 with their debut Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, we've watched the Arctic Mo ... More >>