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Recently I found myself alone on The Balcony fairly late at night. I decided to take advantage...
Animals are People Too Happy the elephant is at the Bronx Zoo. Animal rights activists sued the...
Deer Creek Drive by Beverly LoweyKnopf ($29) Available at Square BooksAuthor will appear at Off Square Books...
Last Thursday I walked up to the upstairs bar at City Grocery, as is my custom. Before...
(Self-proclaimed Poet Lariat of The Balcony) I Needed to See You I needed to see you,but you...
The following is an account of three Mississippi young women in Boston for a wedding, conversing stall-to-stall...
The fifth installment of stuff I store in my phone It’s a mood ring situation. Horribly mediocre....
You could not pay me enough to get into a public debate over abortion. Well, you could,...
“Equality,” I spoke the wordAs if a wedding vow…Ah, but I was so much older then,I’m younger...
Sleepoversby Ashleigh Bryant PhillipsHub City Press ($16.95)Available at Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi The stories in Sleepovers...
What does it take for an independent, stand-alone restaurant the caliber of City Grocery to last and...
The Texas School Shooting What an unspeakable tragedy. A few thoughts. Anyone who publicly responded with anything...
If you had been healthy and were to live to be ninety, what would you like to...
Florida Rejects Math Books Florida’s education department rejected proposed math textbooks on the grounds that the books...
We will soon know the final ruling from the Supreme Court on Mississippi’s ban on abortion and...
The Local Lawyer: Barstool Briefs Part 14: “Short Stories on Legal Affairs” by Mitchell Driskell
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It was a dark and stormy night when three men met on The Balcony after closing time,...
The Cost of Woke An Ohio appellate court recently ruled that Oberlin College must pay $33 million...
For those who’ve been living under a rock, Dolly Parton, The Patron Saint of the Smoky Mountains,...