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“The Help” Leads Box Office

Stephen McDill — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 05:32:28 +0000

Brandon Gray of Box Office Mojo: “On the bright side, The Help climbed to the top spot… while Rise of the Planet of the Apes took second. The Help eased 21 percent to an estimated $20.5 million, lifting its total to $71.8 million in 12 days. It marked the first time since early January that [...]

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Best Steakhouses in Mississippi: COMO STEAKHOUSE

Becky Gillette — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:00:25 +0000

Come into The Como Steakhouse for not just an exceptional meal, but a trip down history lane. The restaurant known for not just great steaks, but salmon, shrimp, catfish and chicken prepared on open charcoal pits, is located in a 135-year-old former mercantile store on land purchased for 50 cents an acre from local Native [...]

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Best Steakhouses in Mississippi: TICO’S STEAKHOUSE

Becky Gillette — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:30:36 +0000

In the past 20 years that Tico’s Steak House has been around, there has been a trend towards eating less red meat. But people still get that craving for a good steak, and Tico’s Steak House in Jackson serves them up with style and elegance. Tico Hoffman, owner of Tico’s Steak House, said a memorable [...]

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Best Steakhouses in Mississippi: CRAWDAD’s

Clay Chandler — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:00:51 +0000

Start a conversation about good places to eat in the Mississippi Delta, and you’re eventually going to mention Crawdad’s. The landmark in Merigold opened in the early 1980s as a takeout crawfish place. “That place has morphed into one of the finest eating establishments in the Delta,” said Rep. David Norquist, D-Cleveland, who said he’s [...]

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Best Steakhouses in Mississippi: DOE’S EAT PLACE

Becky Gillette — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:00:37 +0000

One of the measures of success is if people copy what you do. By that standard—and many more—Doe’s Eat Place has it made. It has been replicated 14 times now, with the family business owned by the Signa family since 1941 now having 13 franchises in the Southeast and a second family-owned Doe’s in Paducah, [...]

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Best Steakhouses in Mississippi: SHAPLEY’S

Susan Marquez — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:00:54 +0000

For a quarter of a century, Shapley’s Restaurant in Ridgeland has been serving up steaks that keeps customers coming back time and again. “The reason for our longevity in the restaurant arena is the quality of the product we serve to choose,” said Scott Koestler, the owner of the restaurant since 1998. Koestler started working [...]

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Beer party!

Lynn Lofton — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:00:46 +0000

Dinners pairing beer with food are a growing trend in Jackson and the rest of the country Move over wine snobs; beer drinkers are going upscale with a burgeoning number of craft breweries offering more variety. Dinners pairing beer with food dishes are showcasing the versatility and compatibility of beer. In Jackson, these dinners began [...]

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Excitement builds

Lynn Lofton — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:00:13 +0000

Five buildings expected to open in November Five of the buildings on the new campus of the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art on Highway 90 in Biloxi are becoming a reality and will open to the public Nov. 8. Dedicated to George Ohr, the self-proclaimed “Mad Potter,” it will be America’s first museum devoted to a [...]

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Schimmel’s restaurant has closed

Amy McCullough — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:47:45 +0000

Schimmel’s, a fine dining restaurant at 2615 North State Street in Jackson’s Fondren district, has closed.The restaurant filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 2009, and continued to operate as it looked for a buyer. It was converted to Chapter for liquidation on Friday. Court records show the restaurant had between $1,000,000 and $10,000,000 in [...]

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‘Small’ museums offer big treasures

Wally Northway — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:01:56 +0000

Mississippi is home to some large, impressive museums. Facilities such as Beauvoir in Biloxi, the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in Jackson and the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale are just a few of the museums that are known throughout Mississippi and beyond. But, there are scores of smaller museums scattered across [...]

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