“Northernmost” is book three in the exhilarating Eide (pronounced ‘80’) Family Saga by Peter Geye, a series spanning the 19th century to the present in both northern Minnesota and northernmost Norway.
You never know what you’ll find out at Oxfordfest. And, you never know what will appear on artist Jerry Marks’ next canvas.
Deja Mitchell couldn’t take being cooped up anymore.
HEFLIN — Despite COVID-19 and a closed bridge the 23rd Annual Highway 46 Yard Sale will be held next weekend, Sept. 25-27.
“Logic will get you from point A to point B, but imagination will get you everywhere.” — Albert Einstein
Watching strangers compete to find love on national television is both compelling and addictive. Contestants set themselves apart from the pack and emerge as favorites or, in some cases, play the villain. Now there’s another reason to watch the CBS reality TV show “Love Island.” Oxford nativ…
Three young Southern women dominate the three stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald that are gathered together for the first time as “All of the Belles.” Each of the stories begins in the same small Southern town, a place with remarkable similarities to Montgomery, Ala., home of the actual young be…
Now that we think about famous composers’ lives, we realize that their experiences rival the most compelling episodes of “Downton Abbey.”
Get your lawn chairs ready to settle in for a night of music and laughter, because the Community Actors Studio Theater is hosting its first show after a months-long hiatus.
The title of “Hamnet,” Maggie O’Farrell’s affecting and brilliant new novel, immediately calls to mind one of literature’s great masters and perhaps his greatest play. Yet neither is at the book’s true center.
Friday marked a week since the AmStar movie theater at the Quintard Mall in Oxford reopened to the public.
Jacob Soboroff’s “Separated: Inside an American Tragedy” pulls no punches. It is about what has been called “the defining moral crisis of the Trump years.”
There’s a slight touch of irony to be found in the title of “Exciting Times,” the perceptive, invigorating debut novel from 24-year-old Dubliner Naoise Dolan.
Julia Heaberlin’s new thriller “We Are All the Same in the Dark” is another of her looks at small-town Texas, and it begins with a wallop.
A concert, a musical fairy tale and a college-bound actor from Anniston are all positive signs this fall for arts entertainment staying alive during the pandemic. The CAST Kidz musical “Shrek” will be presented Saturday at an outdoor amphitheater. Etowah Youth Orchestras’ Fall Formal concert…
A trailer for “The Devil All the Time,” a Netflix production partially filmed in Anniston and Jacksonville last year, was released today ahead of the film’s debut next month.
Entertainment comes in a variety of packages. Reading an interesting historical novel is one package to unwrap in order to enter a different world far away, while the plant sale during August at the Anniston Museums’ Botanical Gardens can offer the fun of selecting lively colors and shapes f…
There’s every good chance that, when they reach its final page, every reader of “Before You Go,” the bittersweet debut novel of Tommy Butler, will sit back, smile knowingly and realize they have completed one of the most satisfying novels of the year.
Local art leaders are making sure that we keep getting at least a taste of entertainment during COVID-19.
Two epigraphs at the beginning of “Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir” provide moving signposts through this heartfelt and heartbreaking homage to her mother by poet Natasha Trethewey.
We first took a look at “The Ickabog,” J. K. Rowling’s new work for young readers, after 19 weekday chapters had been published online. Since the book was being published in “installments,” it was decided that this column should review the book in “installments,” too, joking, “New ways of pu…
Last week, Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners announced that it will develop “Miss Macy,” a film that follows two Anniston women through a real-life 1971 trip to New York City that landed the younger of the two a modeling career.
To think of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe is to experience at least one incontrovertible shudder. How can an early story like “The Masque of the Red Death” so ably reference our current pandemic? How can a late story like “The Cask of Amontillado” make us laugh so willingly at another perso…
Parris is a Jacksonville-based band that is anything but local. Led by singer Megan Parris, the group plays popular tunes in a familiar way. Every song gets virtuoso treatment from each member, and audiences are left satisfied until the last note rings out.
Both “The Minister’s Black Veil” and “The Birth-mark,” two of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic short stories, reflect the author’s concern with what are often identified as the opposing forces of religion and science. They are both forces in which Hawthorne finds potential danger and potential …
