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Screening of “Native Son” adaptation to be held at The MAX

The Mississippi’s Arts + Entertainment Experience will screen an HBO adaptation of “Native Son,” a novel by Misssissippi…

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Freedom Project: Play highlights civil rights perspective of black women

Five young people with the Sunflower County Freedom Project put on a play Saturday afternoon at the Meridian Arts + Entertainment Experience to highlight…

Lifestyles

Blues historian Gayle Dean Wardlow returns to Meridian to speak at the Max Saturday

Music historian, educator and “blues detective” Gayle Dean Wardlow is returning to Meridian this week to talk about how his…

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Upgrades planned at The Max in Meridian

The Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience is planning several upgrades to its property, Meridian leaders announced at a city…

Lifestyles

Exhibit showcases schizophrenic artist in “Heal the knife that cuts the wound”

“One day, before I was on medication, there was a lady in my house cooking pizzas and there…

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Brown Bag Lunch at the MAX in Meridian

Bill Graham / The Meridian Star Clay McRee, Rusty Brewer and Adam McRee of the trio Southern Drive…

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‘Through the Looking Glass’ opens at The Max in Meridian

A crowd gathered on Saturday at the Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience in Meridian to hear photojournalist  Alysia Burton Steele…

Lifestyles

‘Through the Looking Glass’ exhibit opens Aug. 31 ‘Life in Mississippi’ is a collection of photographs by Alysia Burton Steele and Betty Press

A new exhibit opens later this month at Mississippi’s Arts + Entertainment Experience (The MAX) that offers a unique…

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Recording studio opens at The MAX in Meridian

A new state-of-the-art recording studio has opened at The Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience in Meridian.  Named the…

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Steve Azar’s Meridian-recorded ‘One Mississippi’ released

A song recorded by Steve Azar in the studio at the Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience in Meridian in April is…