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Coast Guard secures leaking well near Mississippi Delta after week-long spill. Cleanup underway
According to the Coast Guard, while the wellhead is now secure, it is not shut in.
‘Sinners’ Is Set in Clarksdale, Where There’s No Theater. Locals Are Asking for a Screening.
Tyler Yarbrough didn’t see Sinners once, but twice. The film, which has made $161 million at the box office, is authentically ...
A ‘Sinners’ movie syllabus and a petition to get a screening in a Mississippi Delta town without a movie theater are circulating online
A “Sinners” movie syllabus has been released online while an online petition seeks to enrich moviegoers’ experiences. On the ...
A massive coastal restoration project is in peril amid claims Louisiana concealed a critical report
An ambitious project to restore a rapidly vanishing stretch of Louisiana coast devastated by the 2010 Gulf oil spill has been ...
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Erosion and Sediment Flow Impacting the Gulf Coast
NEW ORLEANS - Louisiana’s coastal wetlands make up about 40% of all coastal marshes in the United States but according to ...
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Mississippi city where 'Sinners' is set has no movie theater, calls on cast to visit
which the 26-year-old credited for capturing the essence of the Mississippi Delta. The movie theaters in his hometown, which has population of about 14,000 people as of 2023, have either closed or ...
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In 'Sinners,' the blues is a portal between this world and the next
There's a song written by the jazz singer Billy Eckstine with Sid Kuller called "Blues, the Mother of Sin" that has always ...
The radically divine message of "Sinners"
"Sinners" may have people talking for weeks about what it's supposed to mean, and what it means to them. Its runaway success ...