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I feel somewhat strange admitting it, but I have fallen head over heels for this town. I have lived in a lot of places and met a lot of people, thanks to my overly enthusiastic mother who makes friends with every thing that has the ability to breathe, her classic victim being the woman standing behind her in the grocery store. Just ask artist, Zach Tutor, but had she not stormed into Square Books and antagonized the poor guy, I never would have known about Supersonic Electronic, or the amazing art it held. 

The 5th annual One Night Stand: Motel Art Show returns to Oxford tomorrow, Oct. 29, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

One Night Stand differs from other art shows in Oxford because it takes place in the most unlikely of places, a motel.  

Erin Kirkpatrick, owner of Amelia’s on the Square and creator of the event, said she developed the idea in 2006 when she was photographing old motels. 

On Sept. 24, the master of fine arts poetry program at the University of Mississippi chalked up sidewalks, handed out poems, put broadsides in windows and even hijacked classrooms, all in the name of promoting social, environmental and political change.

The event 100,000 Poets for Change was started by Michael Rothenberg, a Berkeley professor of poetry, ass a project to get his poetry students involved in the outside world. Poets for Change now boasts 700 events spread over 550 cities in 95 countries. Oxford can now be counted among those cities.

VOX, a non-profit organization that began in December 2009, is starting to use its voice to help encourage students to get involved in literary service. 

A new season boasting four recent Broadway sensations opens in a month at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts, and with the new season comes a few changes.

The most notable change: After much deliberation, the shows’ curtain time will be bumped up an hour to 7 p.m.

On Saturday, Justin Moore will return to the stage at the Lyric for another show in Oxford. 

This time, his performance will include songs from his new album “Outlaws Like Me,” which released June 21. 

If you ran into Bryan Fikes on his way to an accounting class at Ole Miss dressed in a Polo shirt and Ole Miss cap, you might think he was another typical frat boy cramming in a test before that night’s party.

But behind this preppy exterior lies a talented rap artist pursuing his dream to bring something new to hip-hop and to show the world that no one should judge a book by its cover.

“Places We Dream Of...,” a new exhibit at The University Museum, hopes to shed some light on the permanent pieces of work in both the UM Museum and the Department of Art that demonstrate an artistic view of the places that exist in our mind’s eye.

The pieces are works on paper, a variety of artwork that does not exhibit very often.

“It’s a different type of show,” collections manager William Griffiths said. “It’s a very thoughtful exhibit.”

From small-time cartoonist to big-time artist, Ford Smith is one more alumnus of whom the University of Mississippi can be proud.

Smith attended Ole Miss as a math major in 1968 and almost immediately began working for the Daily Mississippian.
“I worked for the DM all of the years that I was in college,” Smith said. “I needed the money. I was a poor college kid.”

With an Oxford store and two other locations, Amy Head Cosmetics is a business that has worked its way up to become a successful beauty store.  

Originally from Macon, owner Amy Head said she has always enjoyed art and grew up painting.

“My mother would set up still-lifes, and my sister and I would paint,” she said. “I guess I should say I’ve always been visually analytical naturally.”

About 55,000 residents throughout the South will find themselves in Oxford on April 29 and 30 for the 16th Annual Double Decker Art Festival.

The event is hosted by the Oxford Convention and Visitors Bureau and will be stretched over two days and feature a headlining musical guest.  

Musical guests will appear Friday night on the south stage with an admission fee. The price has yet to be determined.

Randy Houser was raised a storyteller.

Even before he could pen a lyric or shape a chord, the Lake native was being molded through song — his father’s song.

“When I was a small child I saw him singing on stage, and I realized then that that’s what I want to do,” Houser said. “I was maybe 4 or 5 years old. I think it’s one of those desires that’s in your heart. I think that you’re born with the desire to want to do this.”