For more than a decade, the Oxford Film Festival has supported and celebrated the art of independent cinema. The 13th Annual Oxford Film Festival will begin Wednesday night at the Powerhouse with events at multiple venues in town, finishing Sunday evening. Within the next five days, filmmakers and film lovers from all over the country will be traveling to Oxford to participate...
Author Archives: Dawn Boddie
WARNING: SPOILER ALERTS- If you haven’t watched AMC’s “The Walking Dead” mid-season premiere yet, do not read further. You have been warned. When “The Walking Dead” midseason premiere came on at 8 p.m. as I lazily ate my reheated dinner on the sofa, I hardly looked up. I had just finished watching the midseason finale, which aired the hour before, and I was...
Friday morning I read the terrible news that Ty Laporte was killed in a car crash. I was almost brought to tears, and I didn’t understand why. I never knew Ty and she never knew me. I put my phone down in my lap and thought about how many classmates have died during my time here as a student. The number of funerals, memorials and vigils I have attended is heartbreaking....
Kentucky – Things are beginning to click in Lexington for Calipari’s bunch. They’ve won their last three contests by an average of 26.7 points and have scored 251 points in those three games. Tyler Ulis might be the most underrated player in college basketball and Kentucky is peaking at the right time. LSU – If someone could screw this roster up, it’s...
DM Editors, The premise of your “The dangerous appeal of Bernie Sanders” column misunderstands that a taxpayer with a $250,000 yearly income does not constitute “the wealthy” that “Bernie and his ilk” demand pay their fair share of taxes. The truly wealthy citizens and corporations, also known as “the 1 percent,” do not include the vast majority of these...
