Just a few weeks after releasing their latest album, “Hotel Parties”, Futurebirds is bringing their alt-country sound to Proud Larry’s tonight at 9. “Hotel Parties” follows the band’s 2013 “Baba Yaga” and does not disappoint. Their unique sound has only grown over the two-year gap between...
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Two weeks into their fall tour, the progressive psychedelic rock quintet Papadosio introduced their newest album “Extras in a Movie” to Oxford. Oxford citizens responded with their craziest dance moves and lots of support for the band. Papadosio is made up of Mike Healy on drums, Rob McConnell on bass and vocals, Anthony Thogmartin on guitar and vocals, Billy Brouse...
The Washington Post is calling “City of Fire” the “it” novel of the year. Garth Risk Hallberg’s 944-page debut novel will be appearing alongside the man himself at Square Books this Tuesday at 5 p.m. Being such a long book, “City of Fire” follows the stories and journeys of numerous characters in New York City, ending with the infamous blackout of...
Southside Art Gallery’s current exhibit features work that captures the beauty of change over time. “Full Circle: A Progression of Color through the Year” is a collection of the work of Carlyle Wolfe, a local artist with a passion for nature. Wolfe grew up in Canton and is now an adjunct assistant professor of art here at the University of Mississippi. After completing...
Twenty years ago, a snowstorm kept an indie rock band from performing in Oxford. This weekend, Five Eight, based out of Athens, Georgia, will be returning to make up their missed show on the famous Proud Larry’s stage. Since their formation in 1988, the band has produced six albums, toured across the country with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group R.E.M., and they have...
Every fall, crowds gather in couture capitals New York, London, Milan and Paris to discover what’s next for fashion. Editors of top fashion publications, models, rappers, actors and bloggers tour the globe to attend fashion shows and their notoriously star-studded after parties. The elite drape themselves in the latest haute couture in hopes of being captured by “street...
Rating: A- Andy Weir’s debut novel “The Martian” has crash-landed onto the big screen and is earning quite a reputation. It is the feel-good space movie that audiences who found “Gravity” too stressful and “Interstellar” too scientific will love. Yes, it is another space survival story, but this time we get to explore Mars, which, thanks to Dariusz Wolski’s...
