2025 July/August Feature

By JIM BEAUGEZ Will Griffith plows the fertile ground of a life on the road in The Great Dying      Roughly 252 million years ago, the world as it existed for prehistoric fauna abruptly ended.      Known as the Permian-Triassic extinction event and nicknamed the “great dying,” this cataclysmic reboot wiped out ninety […]

By JIM BEAUGEZ  •  Photos courtesy of SCALARIA Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience is taking the sound and musicians of the Mississippi Delta to concert halls around the world.      The steps leading into Clarksdale’s Ground Zero Blues Club, cheekily given the postal address “0 Blues Alley,” are the entryway to the living heartbeat of