“Experience is the best teacher.” “Move in the direction of your dreams.” These fortunes weren’t the kind third- and fourth-year W culinary students found when they cracked open […]

In the middle of a rush at the bar at State Theatre, Kristen Garrard works from pure muscle memory. Garrard has been a bartender for the past three […]

Just outside of Starkville, artist and entomologist Joe MacGown creates brightly colored and heavily detailed surrealist paintings focused  on what he calls “subconscious meanderings.” When he creates art, […]

When Chris Pollan started Mississippi Decorative Concrete in 2014 to complement his promotional company, Pollan Promos, he wasn’t sure which concrete statue would sell the most. But he […]

Dr. Stanley Ellis was hired as the superintendent of Columbus Municipal School District in May and started work in mid-June. Ellis sat down with Peter Imes for an […]