Category: Voices

Do Ole Miss grads love Oxford more than others love their college towns?

Jun 9, 2017 | Columns, Travel & Culture, Voices | 0

Joe Rogers weighs in on Ole Miss graduates and their abiding affection for Oxford, Mississippi.

Dees: Mississippi’s Moon over June

Jun 9, 2017 | Columns, Jim Dees, Voices | 0

Contributing Editor Jim Dees reflects on Mississippi’s mysterious month of June.

A Trip to Marseilles

May 15, 2017 | Featured, Travel & Culture, Voices | 0 |

This is the one city in France people tell you to avoid. Too much crime, they say, too many Arabs, too many Africans, a Mafia stronghold that was knows as the “French Chicago” back in the 1930s, a time when British writer Basil Woon labeled it “the world’s wickedest port.”

Oxford: The Bermuda Diamond of Culture

May 15, 2017 | Featured, Jim Dees, Voices | 0 |

The attributes and amenities of Oxford are well known: our civic charm, temperate weather and ravenous parking meters. But another plus of living here is how easy it is to get somewhere else.

Letter from the Editor: Oxford Magazine’s hit the six-month mark and we’ve got a long, long way to go

May 15, 2017 | Columns, Voices | 0 |

I often compare launching a magazine to when I brought my son home from the hospital and spent the following six weeks sleep-deprived, confused and crying approximately 24 times a day.

Ole Miss baseball was the first team to win the SEC tournament and I watched the whole thing

May 15, 2017 | Columns, Voices | 0 |

Forty years is a long time, but some things you never forget. Like seeing an Ole Miss team win a rare SEC championship in the most dramatic, heroic fashion.

Shrimp and Beer: The Best Ole Miss Party (Ever)

Apr 18, 2017 | Columns, Voices | 0 |

It was Shrimp and Beer, the annual April event at Sardis Lake that culminated Dixie Week activities for a handful of years before the too-good-to-be-true one-day festival was halted on a high note, before it got out of hand.

April is the best time of year in Oxford. Yeah, I said it.

Apr 1, 2017 | Columns, Voices | 0 |

“April was always my favorite month in Oxford as a college student, and not only because it signaled the end of another semester (though that was nice).”

From the Editor

Mar 1, 2017 | Columns, Voices | 0 |

“Part of our mission at Oxford Magazine is not only to tell stories about the city and its residents, but to appeal to what I jokingly call “the global Oxford,” an ever-growing community of ex-Oxonians and Ole Miss alums who remain invested in this town and interested in its growth and evolution.”