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By Andrea Kostyal, READ MORE > 344 Reads
On Fri, 06/19/2020 - 01:20 PM

This is a mixed media oil painting on canvas inspired by the 2020 pandemic. This is fully affecting my artistic work - so did the 2008 recession and the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. I’m fortunate to spend this time capturing the moment through my paintings as my voice in the transition to a new normal, what is our present.

Carrying On

By Abigail Lenz Allen, READ MORE > 326 Reads
On Fri, 06/19/2020 - 12:10 PM

When I was about my daughter’s age, I remember asking my mother if I was going to make it to see adulthood.
I asked her that question because - at the time - the news was telling me I should be terrified of nuclear annihilation. Or maybe it was the Russians.
Or maybe it was both..

From Hattiesburg to Hollywood: Wesley Eure

By Joshua Wilson, READ MORE > 3,427 Reads
On Fri, 03/13/2020 - 02:40 PM

It was a bleak and damp Wednesday morning in early February when I connected by phone with Wesley Eure (pronounced “your,”) who grew up in Hattiesburg and went on to become an actor, singer and wearer of many other hats.

Food with Friends: STEAK ‘N SHAKE

By Jamie Massengale, READ MORE > 1,730 Reads
On Fri, 03/13/2020 - 12:48 PM

A FOOD WITH FRIENDS FIRST

Brittany wasn’t able to join us for our burger brunch, so we had Kyle Baughman join us again as our stand-in. Kyle is the man behind Hub City Stained Glass, and he also plays a mean mandolin.

Noteworthy: Time to bid farewell to that behemoth of a playlist

By Mik Davis, READ MORE > 1,562 Reads
On Fri, 03/13/2020 - 12:40 PM

I am a cherry picker, too. I can dust an album and cull all the best tracks in as little as two listens. However, this is a new decade and requires a new attitude toward the plethora of music that is waiting out there for each and every one of us.

Fashion: Making the old new once more

By Carly Gustafson, READ MORE > 950 Reads
On Fri, 03/13/2020 - 12:29 PM

Everyone loves a good comeback story. With that being said, I feel like it’s sufficient to say move over, florals and pastels. There are new spring trends in town. From the re-emergence of the disco collar, to neon suits, to crochet – and a couple more in-between – there’s a trend every fashionista can jump on board with this season.

Filmsnob: ‘EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY’

By Tim Bynum, READ MORE > 633 Reads
On Fri, 03/13/2020 - 12:06 PM

Why don’t you ditch the hero and get with a zero?

To describe “Earth Girls Are Easy” is difficult. In this out-of-this-world 80s musical comedy adventure that revels in its own 80s-era So-Cal chic, it’s part MTV generation 80s fluff piece, part romantic comedy, all parts pinks and light blues and yellows.

Sebastian & Pam Blanchard: A love story

By David Gustafson, READ MORE > 1,521 Reads
On Tue, 02/04/2020 - 01:26 PM

It’s the type of unlikely love story that Hollywood screenwriters spend their entire careers dreaming about..

After all, they were a beautiful young couple straight out of Central Casting.

Filmsnob: ‘Tammy & the t-rex’

By Tim Bynum, READ MORE > 449 Reads
On Wed, 01/29/2020 - 11:54 AM

Tammy and the T-Rex is one of those movies that you, a movie-renter in 1993, would see at your local Blockbuster, take one look at the box art, and immediately rent it because you knew it was going to be absolutely horrendous.

Noteworthy: finding THE ‘IN-BETWEEN’

By Mik Davis, READ MORE > 593 Reads
On Wed, 01/29/2020 - 11:45 AM

The Squid and The Whale is a Hattiesburg band like no other. None since. None before.

On their new album Advanced Directives, the band demonstrates maturity but not in that assured way. Instead, the seven songs pull the band in different directions, sometimes all at once.

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