Story and photos by Sarah McCullen. Video by Olivia Schnetzler, Savannah Woods, and Sarah McCullen. Inside Meek Hall, Ole Miss’s art department and oldest building without a renovation, fifth year student Bella Gonzalez bops around to 80’s tunes that ooze from the stereo and ride on the buzz from the air conditioners outside the long…
The man behind the voice
We’ve all seen those commercials where a hot, steamy pizza with lakes of bubbling mozzarella flashes across our TV screen as an invisible voice narrates the when, where, why, and how to find one for yourself. Something about that voice is so convincing, so engaging, and if the slow-mo picture of hot, melty goodness weren’t…
Exercising healing
A noisy cafeteria, a sweat-inducing heated studio, a 24-hour gym, and a room where silks made to suspend bending yogis hang from the ceiling– Daniella Howard doesn’t discriminate against spaces when she has the opportunity to unroll her purple Lululemon yoga mat and teach others her passion. Howard, 28, works full-time as both a business…
It’s ok to be broken.
The world would be a much easier place to live if we all just admitted that we’re all just as broken as the next person, don’t you think? It’s tempting, and frankly easier, to do the opposite. Instead, we often work to paint an image of ourselves that will make people think, “Wow, they’ve really…
Did someone say food?
Imagine how dull the world we dwell in would be if we didn’t have taste buds. The taste of my Granny’s creamy sweet potato pie whisks me back with nostalgia to Christmases past in the same way hearing Randy Travis’s twangy “Old Toy Trains” does. A dozen raw oysters slick with brine on a crunchy…
Razor Burned
Al Morse, a 27-year-old Oxford resident and Off Square Books employee, sipped her steaming coffee in her majestically purple and cerulean astrology-printed, sleeveless dress, giving everyone in Cups a sneaking glance at her underarm hair that she hasn’t touched with a razor since she was 17. A high-school aged Morse stopped shaving any part of…
Healthy ice cream a gift from heaven
You know how friends label each other? So-and-so is the “clean freak,” and so-and-so is the “pretty one.” My friends labeled me the “health nut.” I’m the one who once made avocado brownies and shattered so much trust when I tried to convince my roommates, “desserts can be healthy!” That was a bad move on…
Honestly, I was clue-less.
“You’re going to LOVE it… It’s so good; it may be one of the best musicals Oxford has done… The cast couldn’t be anymore perfect,” I heard bubbling from a gaggle of teenage girls in line in front of me as we waited to exchange our $5 bills for a construction paper “admit one.” The…
Soul searching with an opera singer
Cody Arthur’s bulky bones seem meticulously constructed to allow his lungs to inflate like a multi-colored hot air balloon, just to burst with operatic perfection as they deflate to send tunes soaring into the rafters of churches and auditoriums where he is often found. An award-winning senior in the Ole Miss Opera program, Arthur has…
I’m a Beats Pill addict
In middle school, I jammed my sleek purple iPod Nano onto my iHome and annoyed my parents with early Kanye and Avril Lavigne while the volume wheel clicked as I pushed the music louder. In high school, I squeezed my car’s sparkly pink auxiliary cord through my bulky waterproof phone case and annoyed my family…
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