Jackson (Hinds, Mississippi)

Jackson residents reflect on relations beyond 'The Help' lens

2011-08-27 00:00:00

On a recent steamy Saturday evening, 11 members of Deborah Rae Wright's book club — black, white, Indian and Jewish women — gathered in her meticulously restored Craftsman home on the rundown west side of the Mississippi capital. The topic was...

PASSINGS: Donald L. Taffner, Wardell Quezergue, Eve Brent

2011-09-09 00:00:00

Donald L. Taffner Distributor brought British TV shows to U.S. Donald L. Taffner, 80, an independent television distributor and producer who adapted and delivered "The Benny Hill Show" and other British comedy programs for U.S. broadcasts, died...

Ed Harris, Amy Madigan to star in Geffen Playhouse's 'Jacksonian'

2011-06-23 16:33:21

Movie Projector: 'Apes' likely to swing higher than 'The Help'

2011-08-11 16:33:29

Is 'The Help' Hollywood's latest liberal civil rights fantasy?

2011-08-19 16:32:45

Remembering the Freedom Rides 50 years later

2011-04-24 00:00:00

As the bus leaves Atlanta, Dennis Climpson is eager for conversation. He wants to talk about college football this Sunday morning, but I have a question for him. "Have you ever heard of the Freedom Rides?" I ask. Fifty years ago next month, a group of 15...

Oxford, Miss.: The center of William Faulkner's cosmos

2011-05-01 00:00:00

"The past is never dead. It's not even past," William Faulkner wrote in 1951, two years after winning the Nobel Prize for literature. It's one of his best-known lines, but I don't think I ever truly understood it until I came to Oxford. For more than...

Milton Babbitt dies at 94; composer developed first electronic synthesizer

2011-02-02 00:00:00

Composer Milton Babbitt, who was known for his complex orchestral compositions and credited with developing the first electronic synthesizer in the 1950s, has died. He was 94. Babbitt died Saturday of natural causes at University Medical Center at...

State tourism offices

2011-02-27 00:00:00

States and many U.S. territories have tourism offices to help visitors. When requesting travel literature, be as specific as possible. Alabama: Alabama Tourism Department, 401 Adams Ave., Suite 126, P.O. Box 4927, Montgomery, AL 36103; (800) 252-2262...

Coldplay releases the synthy new single 'Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall'

2011-06-03 16:35:57

Illinois angler catches, releases 105-pound blue catfish

2010-11-01 16:34:10

Ohio: brutal winters and political ads clogging TV airwaves

2010-11-05 16:33:11

REFLECTION: Emma Stone, left, Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis star in "The Help," which has prompted residents of Jackson , Miss., to reexamine relations.

2011-08-26 17:36:07

magazine, anyway. Seattle, San Francisco and Oakland earn more palatable honors as the most active cities on the list.

2011-07-01 13:39:21

Release Date: August 12 Why we're buying a ticket: Emma Stone has stepped nicely into the place vacated by Lindsay Lohan just after "Mean Girls," and we have a feeling her career is going to continue its upward trend as opposed to ... well.

2011-05-01 17:25:02