February 21 & 22 at The Claude Gentry Theatre in Baldwyn
Another musical MUST-SEE — Love or Something Like It — a musical revue of love (and a few anti-love) songs, performed by Big Tony & The Gentrys (Anthony Hopper, Clark Richey, Amye Gousset, Leah Petty, Barney Davis, Amy Davis, Paul Langley), along with special guest artists, Jim Bishop, Phyllis Robinson, Marty Hurt and Tupelo’s own Toni Johnson.
Performances are set for February 21 & 22, beginning each night at 7 pm.
Admission is $15.
A guest reception will follow the event at The Alley Cat Gallery in Baldwyn.
*The graphic used in promotion of the show is a reproduction of “Small Worlds,” a painting by the extraordinary artist Sylvain Chamberlain. Many of his original works are on display, and available, at The Claude Gentry Theatre’s sister business The Alley Cat Gallery (including “Small Worlds”).
Friends, it is COLD this morning! How many of y’all grew up in a house with just a couple of heaters?
We did! I can’t take the cold like I used to. Maybe that’s why? We had one gas heater in the living room, after we quit using the fireplace. And one in the big ole kitchen. The rest of the house went unheated! You slept in the cold!
We would stand by the heater getting our nerve up, and tear out down the hall and jump under the covers! We had hump-teen quilts — so many you couldn’t roll over!
Maw Nell had a big old feather bed! Loved those in the winter! You just fell in and the bed sorta fluffed up around you! Then on a cold morning like today, you piled out, grabbed your clothes and dressed in front of the heater! Man that was fun!
More than one person I know got branded by them old heaters! If you bent over too close you got grill marks on your buttocks! Gosh that hurt!
A friend of mine got scarred for life on his butt! And years later if anybody saw it, and asked, he told them he got hurt in the War! Ha! Well he said that was partly true cause he was fighting one of his brothers for a warm spot!
Local Con events are a celebration of the imagination in all of us. When growing up, we all believe anything is possible, and seek out media and movies that promote that childlike wonder.
Tupelo⚡️Con 2020 is coming March 7th – 8th! WE ALL GOTTA EAT, whether you’re a Storm Trooper, Jedi, or a Local Food Blogger!
There will be fun for the entire family! You can cosplay your favorite characters, meet celebrity guests, find and play your favorite games, enjoy special entertainment, and so much MORE!
Tupelo Con is taking place at the Tupelo Furniture Market, located at 1879 Coley Road, and the hours will be Saturday, March 7, from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m., and then on Sunday, March 8, from noon until 6 p.m.
To see Tupelo Con’s growing list of guests, vendors, and fun and exciting activities, visit them on Facebook HERE and their website HERE.
Somewhere between adolescence and adulthood, some may lose their interest in the magical and impossible, while others embrace it.
At the upcoming event, you’ll find fans and curiosity seekers of all ages looking for relics and reminders of favorite Comic books characters, TV show personalities, video, and board games.
I’m proud to say, you can count me in, among the young at heart!
Tupelo — Pandemonium ensued this Friday when a slow driver made the unprecedented decision to switch to the right lane, marking the first time a Tupelo driver had ever used the right lane to cruise.
“I was crossing Green Street when I looked up from my phone and saw a line of traffic backed up behind me all the way to Pizza Vs Tacos,” remembers Scotty Whitlock. “I didn’t need to be anywhere, so I just got over and let them pass.”
No one expected this maneuver. Upon witnessing Whitlock’s actions, other drivers were stunned.
“Everyone who passed me just stared at me with a look of shock and wonder. I saw someone get rear-ended.”
A few travelers even pulled into St. James Catholic Church to pray.
“It was madness,” says traumatized motorist Cindy Byrd. “We are not used to that kind of behavior around here. We only ever use the right lane to pass, and when things happen that you don’t understand, it’s best to lean on a higher power.”
Even bystanders were surprised by what they saw.
“I was in Planet Fitness doing sit-ups as quietly as possible so that the others in the gym wouldn’t think I was judging them and start crying,” says Brittney Ingram of Saltillo. “I looked out the window and saw some slow poke merge into the right lane and I gasped so hard I set off the Lunk Alarm.”
When asked how this will affect his driving in the future, Whitlock has at least one idea.
“Well, I didn’t use my blinker when I moved over. In hindsight I’m glad I didn’t because no one in Tupelo has ever seen one before; so that on top of my changing lanes might have been too much for them. It could have cost lives. Hopefully the example I set will catch on, and then eventually I can expose the town to turn signals.”
Good morning Tupelo! Today is Saturday, January 25, 2020. It is the 25th day of the year. There are 341 days left in the year and 60 days left of winter! Valentine’s Day is in 20 days, and Spring starts in 54 days.
If you’d like to become a sponsor of our daily Rundown, please contact joshua.ballard@ourtupelo.com or call 662-260-1498
HAPPENING TODAY
Today in Tupelo, here are the things going on around town:
If you have little ones, don’t miss StoryTime with Barnes & Noble at Barnes Crossing today (and every Saturday) at 11 a.m. and then again at 3 p.m.
Tupelo Community Theatre will present John Steinbeck’s classic Of Mice and Men at the historic Lyric Theatre in downtown Tupelo. Showtimes today are at 2 p.m. and at 7:30 each evening. Audiences should be warned that the play contains harsh language, including heavy profanity and offensive racial slurs commonly used by laborers in the 1930’s. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students. For more information contact the TCT box office at 844-1935 Monday through Friday Noon – 4 p.m..
The Tombigbee Pioneer Group will demonstrate pioneer era crafts and skills at the Parkway Visitor Center, from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm. The demonstrations will show the challenges faced and creative solutions developed by those pioneers who lived in the area from the 1700s to around 1840. The public is invited to participate in pioneer lifestyle activities that often include crafting baskets, spinning, weaving, leather working, making corn-husk dolls, and other traditional craft demonstrations. Mountain dulcimer demonstrations are usually offered throughout the day. Children are invited to dress up in pioneer clothes and participate in craft activities. This program is free to the public. The visitor center is located at milepost 266 on the Natchez Trace Parkway, near Tupelo, Mississippi. For additional information, please call (800) 305-7417.
West of Shake Rag presents “Hitchcock and Cocktails” tonight at The Link Centre at 7:30 p.m.. You are invited for a night of drinking games and thrilling comedy! West of Shake Rag brings the famous auteur’s mysterious world to life. Adult Content!
The Golden Halo Benefit for Crossroad Ranch is tonight! The Crossroads Ranch is a privately funded, non-profit residential community for high functioning special needs adults, and is sorely needed in our area. The Golden Halo event will be hosted by Brian Dozier, and will include an auction, silent auction, dinner, and entertainment including live music, as well as celebrity appearances. It will begin tonight at 6 p.m. in the Tupelo Furniture Market Building V.
Gypsy Roadside Mobile will be at Queen’s Reward Meadery tonight at 5 p.m. for dinner curbside!
In neighboring communities, you might be interested in these events:
The Historic Elkin Theatre in Aberdeen invites you to this weekend’s show! Regular admission is $5 each, and all concessions are $1 each. Doors open at 6:30 pm, and the movie starts at 7 pm. Admissions and concessions are cash only. Showing this weekend: Knives Out (PG-13)
Oxford Food Tours are excited to offer 6 unique tours during the 3rd annual Pop Up Oxford, a week long celebration of Oxford’s rich cultural scene! Join in as we eat and drink our way around the Historic Oxford Square. For more information regarding our tour offerings and a calendar of events please visit www.OxfordFoodTours.com
MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT
In Tupelo —
Steele’s Dive will have Josie Beth Jones at 9 p.m.
Romie’s Grocery will have Mississippi Queen at 7:30 p.m.
The Stables will have Hannah + Karly at 9 p.m.
The Thirsty Devil will have Left Lane Cruiser at 9 p.m.
Nautical Whimsey will have Eric Stogner
Old Venice will have Karaoke with DJ Dayton at 7 p.m.
Woody’s will have Karaoke with DJ E at 8 p.m.
In Fulton —
Legends Sports Grill will have Kevin Thornton at 7 p.m.
In Aberdeen —
The VFW #4490 will have Jumping The Gun at 8 p.m.
In Starkville —
Rick’s Cafe will have Jon Wolfe at 7 p.m.
Dave’s Dark Horse Tavern will have Rev 662 at 9:30 p.m.
Paxton Peay w/ Blacktop Ridge at Hobie’s On Main
Shameless at Cowbells
In Columbus —
Karaoke w/ Amber Valentine Richmond at Sey’s
R Way Karaoke at Louie’s
Karaoke at Sabrina Cochran’s HWY 50 Lounge
Cheeze Burger at the American Legion
Caitlin Rose Mclaughlin at Johnny Kelly’s Lounge
The Bonfire Boys at Zachary’s
Room Service at Double D’s
In West Point —
Joey Morgan presents the Bank Entertainment at the Hill.
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Good morning Tupelo! Today is Friday, January 24, 2020. It is the 24th day of the year. There are 342 days left in the year and 61 days left of winter! Valentine’s Day is in 21 days, and Spring starts in 55 days.
If you’d like to become a sponsor of our daily Rundown, please contact joshua.ballard@ourtupelo.com or call 662-260-1498
HAPPENING TODAY
Today in Tupelo, here are the things going on around town:
If you have little ones, don’t miss Storytime at Reed’s Gumtree Bookstore at 10:30 a.m.
Tupelo Community Theatre will present John Steinbeck’s classic Of Mice and Men January 24th, and 25th, at the historic Lyric Theatre in downtown Tupelo. Productions are at 7:30 each evening, with a matinee at 2 p.m. on January 25th. Audiences should be warned that the play contains harsh language, including heavy profanity and offensive racial slurs commonly used by laborers in the 1930’s. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students. For more information contact the TCT box office at 844-1935 Monday through Friday Noon – 4 p.m..
Cooking as a First Language will be presenting a class on South African Cooking this evening at 5:30 p.m.. Craig Horrocks will be teaching us how to make some traditional South African dishes! Appetizer – Biltong; Main Course – Traditional Bunny Chow; and for Dessert – Peppermint Tart.
Kid’s World is having a BFF VALENTINE PAINT PARTY tonight at 7 p.m.. The cost is $40 per person, and all items will be supplied, such as paint, brushes, wood hearts, wire, ribbon and etc.
In neighboring communities, you might be interested in these events:
Columbus Arts Council invites you to the Rosenzweig Arts Center for an evening with Adam Hood tonight at 6:30 p.m..
The Historic Elkin Theatre in Aberdeen invites you to this weekend’s show! Regular admission is $5 each, and all concessions are $1 each. Doors open at 6:30 pm, and the movie starts at 7 pm. Admissions and concessions are cash only. Showing this weekend: Knives Out (PG-13)
Oxford Food Tours are excited to offer 6 unique tours during the 3rd annual Pop Up Oxford, a week long celebration of Oxford’s rich cultural scene! Join in as we eat and drink our way around the Historic Oxford Square. For more information regarding our tour offerings and a calendar of events please visit www.OxfordFoodTours.com
MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT
In Tupelo —
Steele’s Dive will have Tatum Shappley at 9 p.m.
Blue Canoe will have Pond Diver at 9:30 p.m.
Romie’s Grocery will have Blacktop Ridge at 8:30 p.m.
Old Venice will have Misbehavin’ at 8 p.m.
The Stables will have Ben Cesare at 9 p.m.
Nautical Whimsey will have Wes Sheffield at 6:30 p.m.
Club Heat – Bottom Line will have Chino Kelly and the George Jetson Video Release Party at 9 p.m.
The Shade Tree Lounge will have Big Daddy Karaoke at 8 p.m.
In Fulton —
Legends Sports Grill will have Karaoke with Shona at 7:30 p.m.
In Pontotoc —
Lep’s BBQ will have Blues Child at 7:30 p.m.
Montgomery’s On Main will have Unpredictable at 9 p.m.
In Columbus —
Louie’s will have R Way Karaoke at 8 p.m.
Carl and the Road Dawgs will be at Sabrina’s at 8 p.m.
Robbie Ross will be at Muddy Waters Sports Bar at 8:30 p.m.
In Oxford —
Proud Larry’s will have Christone “Kingfish” Ingram with Garry Burnside at 9 p.m.
In Corinth —
DÆPÆ will be at V Taco at 8 p.m.
FOOD TRUCKS
Tupelo’s Food Trucks can be found today at the following locations:
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Yall. Listen. I love my husband to BITS, but sometimes he just does stuff that drives me bananas. And I don’t mean normal stuff, like the fact that he’s 42 and still has to tear the house apart every single morning to find his keys and wallet, even though I bought a little rack specifically for that more than fifteen years ago.
I swear this is not that complicated to use…
No, I mean stuff that makes you wonder where his head is at, like putting salt in his coffee instead of sugar, or picking up the ketchup bottle for a drink instead of the tea glass sitting next to it. It’s just a weird level of auto-functioning while being checked out on the details. I don’t quite get it, but I’ve learned to live with it.
But also, I’m sort of the same way when it comes to hearing what people say. Like, I hear you… but I don’t hear you. I can audibly hear the sound of your voice, but it just sounds like Charlie Brown’s teacher off in the background, no distinguishable words.
So, when you put us together, that leads to crazy frustration on some days, but no end of hilarity on others.
One day, we were driving down the road, headed to run some errands. He was going on about a particular model of guitar he had on his wish list. I don’t remember what it was, but it was crazy expensive. Anyway, I had long since zoned out as he waxed poetic about pickups and pots and caps and whatnot. And then he said, “I’m GETTING that guitar. I don’t care if I have to sell a kidney.”
But what I HEARD was, “I don’t care if I have to sell a KID.” Which, you know, I thought was a little extreme, but we do have a lot of kids, so I was willing to roll with it for the sake of in-the-moment humor. So I leaned into this thought experiment with interest, “Which one?”
“Hell, I don’t care. Both of them, if I have to.”
“Both? We have FIVE.”
He looked at me, completely incredulous, “Who the hell has five kidneys?”
“What?”
“What?”
“What are you talking about?”
“What are YOU talking about?”
A lot of our conversations end up like that. Another day, I woke up to the sound of retching coming from the bathroom. He has a very sensitive gag-reflex, so I’m used to hearing a little bit of gagging every morning when he brushes his teeth, but this particular morning, it was on another level. It really sounded like he was getting ready to call some dinosaurs.
I yelled down the hall, “Babe, you alright in there?”
And I swear to my time, I heard him say, “I thought Alex got me another toothbrush.”
But what he actually said was, “I accidentally put Icy Hot on my toothbrush.”
I mean…
By the time we unraveled the situation, I thought I was going to have to call Poison Control.
In his defense, the tube wasn’t face up and it does sort of resemble a toothpaste tube.
But I did give serious thought to putting a child lock on the medicine cabinet.
Growing old (and senile) together is going to be so much fun, I can tell already.
Friends, this memory thing ain’t funny! Most of y’all know what I’m talking about! It used to be funny but the fun done went out of it!
And it must be old age! It makes you tell stories! Don’t it? Well it does! You tell stories all the time!
You tell yourself, “Oh I can remember that phone number!” Yeah right! I can look one up and forget it while I’m dialing it! And I know, we don’t dial phones now! Humor me please? I’m old and forgetful!
You talk to yourself now! You remember old people doing that when you were younger? You would hear an old person just a mumbling! Now you know why! They were just trying to repeat something till they could write it down!
And stuff just goes missing! Like ink pens! Can’t find one when you need it! And if you did find it, you couldn’t find nothing to write on!
I was in my old truck the other day and needed to make a call! Called someone to get the number, couldn’t find a pen! Looked high and low in my old truck! Found my lost pocket knife, nineteen empty water bottles, and one left handed glove! But no pen! So I just wrote the number on the dash! Just used my finger to write it in the dust! Now it will be there if I need it again!
Now what did I do with that pocket knife? Dang kids! Keep getting my stuff!
Friends, I went down the hill the other day to check on John Barry! He was outside, and he said, “I got that chicken hawk that has been getting my chickens! He got tangled up in that netting that he had stretched over the chicken pen!”
He asked, “Will you help me skin and dress it?”
I said yes, and we proceeded to pluck the chicken hawk!
Now, I stood it as long as I could stand it, but I had to ask, “What the heck you gonna do with this hawk after we dress it?”
He said, “I’m going to cook it! And give it to Jeff! He has been sorta sickly lately, thought some chicken soup might help him to feel better!”
“But,” I said, “John Barry, this ain’t a chicken? It’s a chicken hawk!”
He said, “Okay, but what do they eat?”
Of course I said, “Mostly chicken!”
He said, “Yes and a lot of mine lately!”
He put that chicken hawk in the crock pot and was adding all kinds of stuff.
I just had to ask, “Can Jeff not tell that this ain’t chicken?”
He laughed and said, “Well he didn’t say nothing last week when he ate that Hoot Owl!”
Y’all know what I miss? I miss porches! No, not these modern style porches! The old ones! They weren’t just there for decoration! They were put to use!
They were always a good shady place to play! Rocking chairs and all. Even had a couple of straight chairs or an old bench to sit on!
I always loved those old dogtrot houses with the big porches. You could follow the shade all the way round the house!
And they used them! We shelled peas on em, dried apples on em. We made the kids stay outside and play on em — or under them too! We always had two or three old dogs sleeping under there! The cats could come up on the porch, but the dogs had to stay off!
Oh, every once in a while, one would try to sneak up the steps and somebody would holler, “Get on out from here!” That usually worked pretty good!
Most of the old men shaved out on the porch! I guess the light was better, so they wouldn’t make a mess! Always had an old mirror hanging on the wall!
And don’t you miss porch swings! Spend a lot of time swinging on them!
Just seemed like simpler times then, maybe that’s what I miss!
