The invasion of the Sweet Potato Queens is underway in Jackson this weekend.The SPQs come from all around the country to act crazy in Fondren during the annual Zippity Doo Dah Weekend.It all began 33 ...

It's Zippity Doo Dah Weekend in Fondren and organizers said there's a big change to this year's event."We are so ready for this weekend," said Jill Conner Browne, the original Sweet Potato Queen. "The ...

With the sheer number of events set for Fondren's Zippity Doo Dah Weekend, which takes place Friday, April 1, and Saturday, April 2, this year, it's tough to commit it all to memory. Here's a forecast ...

The sixth annual Fondren's Zippity Doo Dah Weekend will anchor a calendar spot the first weekend of April and see a return of the famed Budweiser Clydesdales and more as it honors area first ...

Since the Sweet Potato Queens broke away from Jackson's St. Paddy's Day Parade in 2010, the weekend festival centered around the Zippity Doo Dah parade has raised over $500,000 for Batson Children's ...

When the annual Zippity Doo Dah Parade comes to Jackson on Saturday, April 2, it will coincide with the opening of a new business in Fondren. Amanda's Pet Salon (419 Mitchell Ave.) will host a ...

I stand for a moment collecting myself. It’s dark and cool and I’m 70 feet up on rocky terrain. I eye as best I can in the darkness the wide expanse I must traverse to continue on my course. It ...

I am going to Tamarack today for the weekend with the Z's and Lars. We are going to do the Zipline. Panic set in when I actually looked on their website to see what the zipline is and watched the ...

All too many Brown students will never venture into the space between campus and the metropolises of Boston and New York during their years here. The problem is not entirely our inflated workloads and ...

A newly discovered earth-like planet a mere 21 light years away zips around it’s orange dwarf sun in a mere three days. Kepler 452b remains the exoplanet discovered to date that is most earth-like to ...

A funny thing happened on my test drive of the redesigned Passat: people noticed. In the supermarket parking lot, a couple asked me about the car and nodded approvingly. And a friend commented on the ...