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Movies, Music, Sun, and Sand Festival

Movies, Music, Sun, and Sand Festival

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Movies, Music, Sun, and Sand Festival, Mississippi Gulf Coast, MS

Upcoming film festival along the Gulf Coast

by Christopher Eger | January 22, 2012

Announced in the spring of 2011, the inaugural Movies, Music, Sun, and Sand Festival is a five-day mega-event planned for November 2012. Set at numerous venues across the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the festival is sure to be an experience.

Numerous new feature-length major motion picture showings, including full red carpet premier events with receptions, are planned prior to each premier. Feature-length films and a variety of short independent films will be shown daily at …


The Friendship Oak

The Friendship Oak

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Friendship Oak, Long Beach, MS

A 500 year-old legacy of the Gulf Coast

by Christopher Eger | January 17, 2012

Just past Gulfport along Beach Boulevard (MS HWY 90), you come into the quiet seaside community of Long Beach. Just inside Long Beach is the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Park Campus. Established by John C. Hardy in 1912 as the Gulf Park School for Girls, Hardy kept intact an immense live oak that stretched for more than a hundred feet in every direction. He simply decided to build the schools buildings around the oak.

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The Balmoral Inn Biloxi, MS

The Balmoral Inn Biloxi, MS

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The Balmoral Inn, Biloxi, MS

A quiet, romantic getaway for Valentine's Day

by Christopher Eger | January 15, 2012

When you think of a romantic getaway for Valentine’s Day, there are always the standard suites at the Beau Rivage, the IP, the Hard Rock, and others, but none has the good old charm of the Balmoral Inn.

The pet-friendly Balmoral Inn, located just off the beach in a quiet old Biloxi neighborhood, is right out of the 1950s. With the old Southern courtyard filled with large oak trees, a screened gazebo, swing, and …


Confederate re-inactors at Beauvoir during their annual Fall Muster

Confederate re-inactors at Beauvoir during their annual Fall Muster

Photo by Christopher Eger

Beauvoir, Biloxi, MS

Famous last home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis

by Christopher Eger | January 10, 2012

The United States of America has had 44 Presidents. The 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1861 formed a short-lived country known as the Confederate States of America. This country was so short lived that only one man held the Confederate Presidency, Jefferson Davis. A man who had spent most of his life in Mississippi and had led the Mississippi Rifles during the War with Mexico in 1845, Davis retired to the …


Lazy Magnolia will be one of 150 signature beers on tap at the Tops Festival

Lazy Magnolia will be one of 150 signature beers on tap at the Tops Festival

Photo by Christopher Eger

Tops of the Hops Beer Festival, Biloxi, MS

For the inner beer fan in all of us

by Christopher Eger | January 08, 2012

In the spirit of a town that is preparing for Mardi Gras, one of the best winter festivals in Biloxi is a crowd pleasure for many. The 2nd Annual Tops of the Hops Beer Festival packs out the Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum Saturday night, January 28, 2012, from 5-9pm.

The Tops of the Hops showcases specialty craft beer collected from around the country and is seen as something of the Beer Olympics nationwide. All …


Peanut Butter and Banana sandwiches were Elvis's favorite

Peanut Butter and Banana sandwiches were Elvis's favorite

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3rd Annual Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich Eating Contest, Biloxi, MS

Elvis, Biloxi, and eating all in one

by Christopher Eger | January 03, 2012

Ever seen one of those crazy food-eating contests on the flat-screen and thought, “Gee, I’d really like to see one of those in person and mark that off my bucket list.”  Well here is your chance as Biloxi is home to the one of a kind professional eating contest that is unique to the coastal camp capital.

Elvis Presley, (the Elvis, AKA, the King), was an often-seen celebrity on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in …


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Meet the Biloxi & Gulfport, MS Insider

Christopher Eger

Christopher Eger is a lifelong Gulf Coast resident and local author. He has written for… more





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