J.B. Spins

Hollywood and indie filmmakers alike just aren’t sure what to make of the South. Culturally, it is a whole different world, but the re...

The Ozarks have not had much luck in film and television. Generally, the mountainous plateau is portrayed as a place that combines the w...

It is a really bad idea to run up gambling debts with a gangster simply known as “The Man.” It is a particularly bad idea to do so in Lou...

Ralph Carr was not FDR’s favorite governor. The Colorado chief executive was adamantly opposed to the New Deal. He was also the only poli...

It is only due to the influence of his father that Asher Rawlings is the man he is today: a psychosomatically deaf-mute introvert. Howeve...

Floyd McKissick endorsed Nixon in 1972 and was appointed to the bench by Republican Governor James G. Martin in 1990. That made him quite...

A triple homicide has so profoundly shocked a small Mississippi town, they almost consider canceling the big high school football game—al...