TUPELO • All government facilities and buildings maintained by Lee County and the city of Tupelo will be closed tomorrow because of severe winter weather.
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Only a few area residents braved the icy roads at crosstown in Tupelo, Monday morning. Most of Northeast Mississippi awoke Monday morning to find roads covered in a sheet of ice, making driving conditions treacherous. By Monday at noon, emergency officials across the region were concerned continued sleeting might cause power outages.
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Shante Evans, of Tupelo, checks her phone as she walks home to her apartment on West Main Street after going to the store for a snack on Monday morning in Tupelo. Evans decided the roads were too bad to drive on and didn t take any changes getting behind the wheel.
Tribute to New York Dolls’ guitarist Sylvain Sylvain tops this week’s online concerts
Updated Feb 10, 2021;
Posted Feb 10, 2021
Friends and admirers are gathering for a virtual celebration late New York Dolls’ guitarist Sylvain Sylvain on Sunday, Feb. 14 – on what would have been his 70th birthday. (Photo: Courtesy Rolling Live Studios)
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Just over a month since the New York Dolls’ Sylvain Sylvain passed away at the age of 69, the guitarist’s friends and admirers are gathering for a virtual celebration at 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 14 what would have been his 70th birthday. Dolls bandmate David Johansen, Debbie Harry and Clem Burke from Blondie, the Patti Smith Group’s Lenny Kaye, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Chuck Prophet, Jesse Malin and more will perform and share stories. Tickets are $15 via rollingslivestudios.com.
Navy veteran’s bet led to living in Japan, show business and now a food channel on YouTube
This vegetable pancake created with wheat-based flour, is a savory Japanese dish, which takes about 12 minutes to prepare. Cydonie Brown of Taftville said this dish can be topped with pickled red ginger or shredded carrots, as well as fish flakes, dry seaweed strips and either teriyaki or okonomiyaki sauce. (photo submitted)
Cydonie Brown of Taftville tries on a kimono on Sept. 1, 1999 in Japan. After taking a class on how to wear a kimono in Japan, Brown who is a biracial black/Native American woman, said she was interviewed on a television show, because she didn’t fit the traditional stereotype of a Japanese woman. (photo courtesy of Takashi Fukami)
The Annapolis City Council on Monday will seek public input on four bills, including one to establish a 12th city holiday recognizing Maryland’s new constitution that abolished slavery and another to condemn a former U.S. President for his role in an attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol two weeks ago.