Last Friday, Netflix released the much-anticipated follow-up season to last summer’s hit show, “Stranger Things.” The first season of...

Last month marked the 30th anniversary of the beloved Cosby Show spinoff “A Different World.” “A Different World” premiered on NBC...

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“Riverdale” looks good on the surface, but in practice is everything that is wrong with teen TV. The CW has tainted a classic set of characters...

If you haven’t seen it yet, you’ve probably heard about it. The night “The Young Pope” premiered on HBO, the internet exploded with tweets,...

It’s hard to avoid the gun debate. Whether you turn on the TV or your computer or revert to the dark ages and open up an actual newspaper, it’s there. What has grabbed my attention is not the debate itself but the way it’s being delivered. The two sides could not be more different, both in the statistics and sources they use. The words and phrases used in the...

Registration for the Oxford Park Commission’s annual summer day camp programs begins May 6 at 8 a.m. Every year, the Oxford Park Commission puts on summer day camps for children ages 5-13. Campers stay busy participating in baseball, dodgeball, kickball, flag football and swimming three days a week. Arts and crafts are also offered daily alongside many field trips...

Valentine’s Day is approaching. You can’t go to Walmart or turn on the TV without being bombarded by messages of love. But what is it? How do we attain it? Love is a verb. God is love. All you need is love. We talk about love a lot; we’re constantly seeking it. It’s what every musician is singing about, what every writer is writing about. It is so often what motivates...

By Clancy Smith and Mary Adele Smith The number of voters in the Lafayette County area is expected to be larger than usual, according to Election Commissioner Mary K. Hemphill. “This election is going to be so different from most elections that we have; the presidential election always is because more people come out than they would for a regular county or municipal...

  After Saturday’s game against Arkansas, the Georgia-Florida football game was playing on the TV in the bus on the way back to Oxford.    It’s safe to say that Ole Miss co-offensive coordinator Dave Werner didn’t like what he saw.    “Let me put it to you this way: After about 15 minutes of watching it, I pulled out the...