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Rick's Cafe regularly hosts indoor concerts with bands from a variety of music backgrounds from metal bands like Eyehategod to country bands like Muscadine Bloodline featured in this photo.

New Orleanian metal band EHG takes the stage at Rick’s Cafe

Sydnie Orgeron, Contributing Writer November 5, 2025

On Sunday Oct. 26, during the brisk 62 degree weather, a crowd gathered inside Starkville’s own Rick’s Cafe for the final show of New Orleans’ sludge metal scene founders Eyehategod’s (EHG's) Fall...

NPHC Homecoming Step Show shakes stage at Humphrey Coliseum

NPHC Homecoming Step Show shakes stage at Humphrey Coliseum

Lauren Rounds, Contributing Writer November 5, 2025

On the evening of Oct. 24, Humphrey Coliseum buzzed with excitement as the lights dimmed for the 2025 National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) Homecoming Step Show. With half the arena closed off, the focus...

Hold on tight, spider monkeys: 'Twilight' returns to theaters

Hold on tight, spider monkeys: ‘Twilight’ returns to theaters

Maddie Barker, Staff Writer October 26, 2025

It begins to feel like fall when the leaves turn their orange hue, the chilly weather nips at your nose and when fall movies like "Twilight" somehow creep their way onto your movie night watchlist. "Twilight"...

Residence Hall Association turns Hull Hall into house of horrors

Residence Hall Association turns Hull Hall into house of horrors

Evelyn Concannon, Staff Writer October 22, 2025

Update: A previous version of this article said that James Walker is the director of the RHA. He is the director of programming. Late on Oct. 18, the Resident Hall Association hosted its 15th annual...

'A perfect beginning to the fall season': Jack Van Cleaf headlines Starkville’s Harvest Jam

‘A perfect beginning to the fall season’: Jack Van Cleaf headlines Starkville’s Harvest Jam

Maddie Hall, Contributing Writer October 22, 2025

As the sun sank low over Fire Station Park on Saturday, a crisp autumn breeze carried the smell of buttery popcorn and the mellow sounds of indie-folk music across the town of Starkville. Families...

Secular student group to host ex-pastor for discussion

Secular student group to host ex-pastor for discussion

Lauren McKay, Graphic Design Editor October 15, 2025

The secular student organization Freethinkers, Atheists and Agnostics of Mississippi State University (FAAMSU) will host guest speaker Darante’ LaMar on Oct. 16 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in McCool Hall’s...

'Panthers, puppets, bears, oh my!': Theatre MSU performs 'The Jungle Book'

‘Panthers, puppets, bears, oh my!’: Theatre MSU performs ‘The Jungle Book’

Evelyn Concannon, Contributing Writer October 1, 2025

Theatre MSU puts on shows every semester that feature talented student actors, and this year, students performed "The Jungle Book" as part of the Lyceum Series on Sept. 26. in McComas Hall. Right off...

Shaking things up for Bulldog Bash 2025: Shaggy announced as co-headliner

Shaking things up for Bulldog Bash 2025: Shaggy announced as co-headliner

Rowan Feasel, Life&Entertainment Editor September 24, 2025

On Sept. 19, Mississippi State University’s Bulldog Bash Instagram posted a cryptic announcement about releasing big news the next day at noon. People thought the suspense was over on Aug. 27 when the...

Honors College students collaborate to perform the Roman tragedy 'Thyestes'

Honors College students collaborate to perform the Roman tragedy ‘Thyestes’

Rowan Feasel, Life&Entertainment Editor September 17, 2025

Many strips of blue tape marked the floor in the Griffis Hall forum room on Sept. 7, representing the points where the spotlights of Lee Hall's Bettersworth Auditorium will illuminate student-actors as...

Bulldogs boogie at Residence Hall Association event

Bulldogs boogie at Residence Hall Association event

Savannah Hill, Contributing Writer September 17, 2025

On Thursday night, the Resident Hall Association brought the Mississippi State University Drill Field to life with dancing, music, a bounce house, axe throwing and more during their Boot Scootin' Bulldogs...

Bulldog Bash 2025 headliner Natasha Bedingfield will take the stage at Humphrey Coliseum

Bulldog Bash 2025 headliner Natasha Bedingfield will take the stage at Humphrey Coliseum

Zayla Matthews, Contributing Writer August 27, 2025

At 12 p.m. in the YMCA Plaza, students gathered to witness the unveiling of the Bulldog Bash 2025 headlining artist, Natasha Beddingfield, the first female headliner the bash has had in 20 years. Bedingfield,...

MSU Space Cowboys soar at the International Rocket Engineering Competition despite weather setbacks

MSU Space Cowboys soar at the International Rocket Engineering Competition despite weather setbacks

Zayla Matthews, Contributing Writer July 21, 2025
Despite numerous weather incidents, Mississippi State University’s Space Cowboys Rocketry Team was able to defeat the odds and place first in their category in the International Rocket Engineering Competition, one of the world’s biggest rocketry competitions, this summer. Space Cowboys has been MSU’s nationally competitive high-powered rocketry team under the Department of Aerospace Engineering since...
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