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New restaurants and an expansion reshape dining at Ridgeland’s Township

RIDGELAND — A wood-fired American restaurant is set to open Nov. 17 at The Township at Colony Park, where a new Thai restaurant has opened and Lou’s Full-Serv has added space for private events and drinks. The changes come as the Ridgeland development refreshes its branding. The Township...

Ridgeland, MS · 16h
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A 70-year-old Mississippi institution and two other favorites that are now gone forever

Mississippi lost three very different gathering places in 2026: a polished Mexican kitchen, a Gulf Coast hangout and a Jackson steak-and-seafood institution. Unlike the weather-related shutdown in an earlier Mississippi…

Ocean Springs, MS · 2d

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Mississippians warned to be cautious of black bear encounters

With deer season underway... The Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks are warning people to also be aware of black bear encounters. Twin States News learned what you can do to protect yourself... From a bear run-in.

Mississippi · 2d
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This Mississippi Butcher Shop Cuts Steaks To Order And Stocks Deer Sausage From Mild To Jalapeno Jack

We only stopped because the kids were hungry and the cooler at home was nearly empty. A small butcher shop in south Mississippi turned that quick errand into the best grocery run of the trip. The steaks were cut right in front of us, and the deer sausage case had...

Picayune, MS · 6d
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These 7 Mississippi Breakfast Spots Serve Biscuits So Big Your Kids Will Need Both Hands

A wrong turn on a Mississippi back road once led to a breakfast plate with a biscuit so tall it leaned. Our youngest set her hand next to it, and the biscuit won by a mile. That moment started a hungry hunt across the state for more of these giant, fluffy treasures. Here are seven family-friendly kitchens where the biscuits are big enough to share, and the mornings are made for memories.

Mississippi · 2d

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We Ranked The 8 Best Pizza Places In Mississippi, And Here Is Who Made The Cut

A road trip across Mississippi taught us that great pizza often hides in plain buildings on quiet streets. We went looking for the pies worth planning a family stop around, from Delta wood-fired ovens to Gulf Coast slice shops. Each spot below earned its place with real flavor, a welcoming...

Mississippi · 4d

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The 9 Mississippi Butcher Shops, Farmer’s Markets And Bulk Stores Where Meat Costs Less Than The Supermarket Price

A grocery receipt in Mississippi can sting when half the total comes from one pack of ground beef and a few chicken thighs. Plenty of families across the state have quietly switched to small butcher counters, wholesale freezers, and farm processors where the same money stretches much further. Many of...

Laurel, MS · 1d

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The 6 Mississippi Used Bookstores Where $20 Fills A Bag With Books For Winter

Twenty dollars does not buy much these days, but in Mississippi it can still fill a tote bag with books. We handed each kid a single bill, set them loose in six used bookstores across the state, and watched the piles grow taller than we expected. The math surprised everyone,...

Mississippi · 1d

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Mississippi Diners Keep Coming Back For This Riverfront Fish House And Its Huge Portions

Redfish topped with crawfish cream sauce is one of the signature plates here, and that alone deserves a pause. Then you learn the dessert case holds slices big enough to split with a friend. The menu leans hard into seafood, steaks, and Southern comfort food with a Cajun accent. There’s...

Vicksburg, MS · 6d

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6 Mississippi Seafood Buffets Keep Bringing Out Crab Legs Until You Wave Them Off

A road trip across Mississippi once taught me that the best crab legs can show up in the least fancy places, like a dining room or a roadside spot with farm tools on the walls. The trays keep coming, the butter stays warm, and nobody rushes you out the door.

Mississippi · 2d

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‘Smooth and Steady’: Poppy Pies Earns Michelin Recognition After Nearly 5 Years of Operation in Jackson

Gray Welch looked inside the refrigerator of his Hinds County home in 2021, scouring over what ingredients he had available to him to make some sample pizzas for his friends to try later that day. As the cool air hit his glasses, he took inventory, seeing pepperoni, shredded cheese, cream cheese, bacon, green onions and Ritz crackers. He’d already recently made a dip using these same ingredients for his friend’s wedding.

Jackson, MS · 2d

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10 Mississippi Restaurants Serving Amazing Portions For Thanksgiving So You Can Skip The Cooking

Last November, a wrong turn in Mississippi led me to a plain brick building with a full parking lot and the smell of cornbread drifting out the door. Two hours later, I was stuffed, happy, and wondering why I had ever spent a holiday scrubbing roasting pans. Thanksgiving is about...

Mississippi · 2d

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This country artist wrote a clever song about Blue Mississippi years ago

For four years, Mary Kutter's song "Mississippi Votes Blue" existed in the realm of the impossible. The Kentucky-born singer-songwriter and her co-writer, Matthew Osborn, created the tune in 2022 as a playful exercise in imagining things that would never happen in America. Kentucky would stop racing horses. Texas would quit selling barbecue. Georgia would stop playing football. Nevada would abandon blackjack. And Mississippi, as the joke and the lyrics went, would vote blue . Then this year's U.S. Senate election happened. As vote totals continued to trickle in from around Mississippi, showing Democratic candidate Scott Colom with a razor-thin edge over Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, Kutter suddenly found herself at the center of a social-media storm she never expected. "I opened up my Instagram and all these DMs," Kutter told the Clarion Ledger. "Now TikTok , too. People are saying, 'You're gonna have to change the lyrics to your song.'" For a songwriter whose song was built around absurdity, reality was beginning to sound awfully familiar. A breakup song disguised as a 50-state joke At first glance, "Mississippi Votes Blue" sounds like a political novelty song. It isn't. The track is actually a clever breakup song. Kutter spends four verses

Mississippi · 1d

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Pull Over For Lunch At These 8 Mississippi Fish Markets Where Catfish Hits The Fryer While You Wait

A hand-painted sign on a Mississippi highway promised fresh fish, and our hungry crew pulled over without much hope. Ten minutes later, the kids were pressed against a counter, watching cornmeal-dusted fillets hiss in the fryer. That stop taught us that the best family meals sometimes come from humble seafood...

Port Gibson, MS · 3d

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7 Mississippi Cafeterias Where You Can Fill A Tray With Fried Chicken And Three Sides For $12

A plastic tray, a long steam table, and a pile of golden fried chicken can turn a road trip stop into the best meal of the week. Across Mississippi, cafeteria lines and country buffets still let families eat well without blowing the travel budget. Kids get to point at what...

Mississippi · 13h

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Good News is brewing in Ridgeland

RIDGELAND — A brand-new brewery across the street from Cock of the Walk here is pairing cold beer with wood-fired pizzas and a view of the Reservoir. Owners Bryan and Julie Roach are bringing the Good News Brewing Company to the old Reservoir Pointe building at 140 Madison Landing Circle.

Ridgeland, MS · 1d

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At 100, Copeland has the recipe for life

With her 100th birthday approaching on Nov. 25, Jacquita Copeland carries a lifetime of memories in the kitchen. She learned to cook out of necessity after marrying her husband, the now-late Henry Copeland, in 1945. They had four children: the now-late Brenda Butler, Jo Thomas, Kathy Moore, and Randall Copeland.

Mississippi · 1d

The Clarion Ledger

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New book looks at Delta Debutante Club of the Civil Rights era in MS

Beauvais S. McCaddon didn’t waste any time getting to real issues surrounding the spectacle of debutante socialization. Early on in her memoir, “Invitation Only: A Delta Debutante Meets the Second Reconstruction,” McCaddon asks: “How could I and other debs while living in the red-hot center of civil rights activity in the Mississippi Delta be totally clueless to the earthquake? What and who was a Delta Debutante? What was the purpose of the organization, the Delta Debutante Club? How did I fit into the role and where did it lead me?” Those questions have long been asked by people living across the vast demesne of the Mississippi Delta, an 18-county area of Northwest Mississippi, some 200 miles long and nearly 100 miles wide that’s considered one of the nation’s premier agricultural locales. To fully grasp the process of presenting elite Delta girls to “society” through the Delta Debutante Club, founded in 1943, it’s almost necessary to have a family member involved in what McCaddon describes as “the pure fantasy of being a debutante.” Then again, who’s elite? Why wasn’t civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer considered elite? She was courageous, smart and worked hard, virtues admired in Mississippi. “Invitation Only” offers

Mississippi · 1d

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This Small Mississippi Town’s Food Tour Walks Families From Bakery To Bakery Down One Historic Street

We only meant to stretch our legs on a river town street in Mississippi, but the smell of warm butter had other plans. One bakery led to a soda fountain, which led to cupcakes, which led to a very happy and very sticky backseat. The best part was how easy...

Vicksburg, MS · 20h

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Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, Alpha Delta Zeta Chapter celebrates 88 years of legacy, service, and sisterhood

JANS – With the theme “Celebrating and Embracing an Extraordinary Legacy,” Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, Alpha Delta Zeta Chapter, celebrated 88 years of chartered history, service, and sisterhood on October 10, 2026, at the Jackson Convention Center. The Charter Day celebration brought sorority and community members together to honor the chapter’s founding members, reflect on its enduring legacy, and strengthen the bonds of sisterhood that continue to unite generations of women.

Jackson, MS · 3d