Author Archives: Charles McCrory

Yeong-hye, the woman at the center of Han Kang’s bewitching novel “The Vegetarian,” remains an enigma throughout. In the book’s first sentence,...

Last Friday I drove to Birmingham, Alabama, to see one of my favorite bands play at the Desert Island Supply Company, a nonprofit creative writing program...

Supergroup Prophets of Rage, consisting of members from Rage Against the Machine, Cypress Hill and Public Enemy, have been teasing their rock ‘n’...

Kate Teague leads the Oxford-based band Reels Sunday night. Photo by Timothy Steenwyck. This week, Oxford restaurant Proud Larry’s offers three concerts...

The 127th year of the Neshoba County Fair, lovingly referred to as Mississippi’s Giant House Party, kicks off this Friday, and for an Ole Miss student,...

Courtesy of www.eatdrinkmississippi.com/ The Magnolia State is famous for many things — music, culture and, most importantly, food. Mississippi’s culinary...

Courtesy of garrardconley.com/boy-erased “When did you realize you were gay?” It’s a common question, and often well-meaning, but anyone who has...

Courtesy of Facebook There are bands who simply satisfy your expectations for music, and then there are bands who take your expectations and blow them...

Schoolboy Q nearly quit music after he made this album a year ago. Let’s all be glad he didn’t, because “Blank Face LP” is what we need out of...

courtesy of nickjonas.com When I was younger, I hung up a poster of The Jonas Brothers, clad in their tight skinny jeans, in my grandmother’s house. If...