Holiday Dinner Party Menu
Tangy Pecan-Crusted Pork TenderloinPotatoes Au GratinBrown Sugar Glazed Carrots with PecansSpinach Salad with Blue Cheese and Balsamic VinaigretteCoconut Cool Whip CakeOld Fashioned Boiled Custard This crowd-pleasing menu is one you’ll find yourself turning to again and again throughout the holiday season. Centered around a tender, pecan-crusted pork loin and paired with brown sugar–glazed […]
Open Doors, Open Hearts
By TERRI GLAZER • Photography by BRANDALL LAUGHLIN Oxford’s Holiday House Tour blends seasonal splendor with a powerful purpose—supporting Doors of Hope Transition Ministries Last December, six Oxford homeowners opened their doors to help Lafayette County families at risk of and experiencing homelessness. The annual Holiday House Tour is the primary fundraising event […]
From the Delta to the Stars
By BARBARA TRAVIS The Literary Journey of Amy Vincent Mississippi loves its writers and vows there’s “something in the water” that inspires them. That may very well be true, especially in the Delta, where storytellers reign supreme. And now a fresh spotlight is shining on Mississippi writers and the stories they tell. One […]
The Wild One
By JIM BEAUGEZ Webb Wilder celebrates the music of his native Mississippi from behind the mic—on stage, in the recording studio, and over the airwaves Sonic chameleon that he is, a guy like Webb Wilder doesn’t overthink where his pioneering Americana sound comes from. To him, the source is obvious: It’s Mississippi. […]
Merriment in Merigold
By TERRI GLAZER • Photography ANNA CATHERINE BOOTH Celebrated Southern design duo of Parker Kennedy Living team up with Jenny Smith of Merigold to host a festive workshop full of laughter, style, and seasonal sparkle “It really is an amazing kind of experience creating these little environments where everybody’s happy. You look around—everybody’s […]
Chill with Chili
By CINDY COOPWOOD ‘Twas the night before Thanksgiving… Kick off the holiday with a cozy, low-stress tradition: A DIY Chili Bar! Perfect for feeding a hungry crowd as friends and family arrive, a chili bar offers warm comfort food without the fuss. Serve up a big pot (or two!) of chili and lay out toppings […]
Blending Nature and Nostalgia—The Art of Adam Trest
By CAYMAN CLEVENGER Take one step inside the historic heart of downtown Laurel, Mississippi, and Adam Trest’s studio feels instantly alive—a living aviary stitched together in paint. A flash of a fishing net cuts through the air, a great blue heron rises from a painted marsh with slow, deliberate grace, and a scarlet […]
Q & A with Kristy Bridgers
For Kristy Bridgers, life looked picture-perfect from the outside. She was healthy, active, well-connected in her community, and living in one of the South’s most vibrant college towns. But beneath the surface, she knew something was off. Social gatherings, weekends, and celebrations all seemed to revolve around alcohol—and she began to question the role it […]
Chef Kelly English
By TERRI GLAZER • Photography by ROSS GROUP CREATIVE How this Memphis chef followed a path up Highway 61 from New Orleans to Tunica to the Bluff City, and shaped a cuisine steeped in family heritage and Southern flavor.
Cowbells & Communion
By MORGAN MCHANEY • Photos courtesy of VISIT STARKVILLE Fall weekends in Starkville, where tradition finds its second wind