In the past year Julian Rankin has 1) moved to Ocean Springs, MS, 2) been named Executive Director of the Walter Anderson Museum of Art, 3) taken a six-day canoe trip to Anderson’s favorite barrier island, Horn Island, and 4) won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for ‘Best Non-Fiction Book of the…
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by Jim Dees – This Saturday, onstage, in front of a roomful of sweaty but cheerful book folk – and probably several dozen children – I’ll be obliged to talk sex with Candace Bushnell (pictured) the woman who literally wrote the book on the subject. Bushnell is the author of Sex and the City, the…
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Author Paige Williams grew up in Tupelo and recently told an interviewer her interest in reading and writing was sparked in that All-American City by the “sweet smell of the Lee County Library.” Williams will return to her hometown this Saturday, August 3 at 7:30 pm at Tupelo’s Link Centre as the literary guest on…
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The word “legend” gets tossed around rather loosely (ditto, “iconic”) but if ever those words apply it would be to Dorothy Moore, a Mississippi rhythm and blues master of 50 years and counting. This Saturday in Clinton, MS, you can see -and hear- for yourself. The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour will play host to Moore…
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The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour has announced its 2019 summer schedule and the slate includes a series of live performances across Mississippi as well as archival Saturday broadcasts. At the same time, Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) will introduce its re-shuffled Saturday line-up this Saturday, June 1. The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour’s summer season of live…
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This Saturday, May 11 – Pulitzer prize-winning author Rick Bragg reads from his evocative southern food memoir, The Best Cook in the World – Tales from My Mama’s Table on The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour at 7 pm on Mississippi Public Broadcasting http://www.mpbonline.org/ and at 9 pm on Alabama Public Radio https://www.apr.org/. Musical guests include…
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Bestselling author Rick Bragg will appear in Mobile, AL on Saturday, May 4 at 7 pm as part of The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, an award-winning, Mississippi-based music and literature show. Bragg’s latest book, The Best Cook in the World – Tales from My Mama’s Table, has just been released in paperback. The “food memoir”…
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The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour returns to the Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale, MS Friday, April 12 at 6 pm at the New Roxy Theatre, located at 363 Issaquena Ave. Admission is free. The New Roxy is a unique venue: there is no roof so it is basically an outdoor venue. Lawn chairs and weather…
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by Jim Dees – “I had never had a gun pulled on me,” author Lovejoy Boteler writes in “Crooked Snake – The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard,” a harrowing account of his own kidnapping. In the book, from University Press of Mississippi, Boteler describes his kidnapping in 1968 at age 18 at the hands…
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There’s a party in the Delta and you’re invited! The Delta Music Institute (DMI) entertainment industry program at Delta State University will once again host the award-winning Thacker Mountain Radio Hour Saturday, March 2 at 3 p.m. The show will take place in Studio A of the Whitfield Building on the campus of Delta State…
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