In 1948, Mary Holmes saw a need and decided she and her husband Carey Holmes would fill it. Black workers at the cotton gin in the heart of Bentonia, a town that sits on a stretch of U.S. 49 in Yazoo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The historic Blue Front Café in Bentonia will celebrate its 75th anniversary this weekend with a line up of live blues performers ...

The family-run breakfast spot had been open since 1961, and under current ownership for three decades. The future of one of Haight-Ashbury district's longest-running restaurants, Blue Front Cafe, is ...

A long-running Mediterranean restaurant in the famous Haight-Ashbury corridor closed permanently late last year. According to reports from multiple outlets, Blue Front Cafe, located at 1430 Haight ...

Blue Front Cafe, a 62-year-old restaurant in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, is closing its doors for good. The closure was confirmed in an email sent to SFGATE by Hani Khoury, who ...

BENTONIA, Miss. — With callused hands, Jimmy "Duck" Holmes plucks an old acoustic guitar at the juke joint his parents started more than 70 years ago. He checks the cafe's inventory: jars of pickled ...

The Blue Front Café is a historic old juke joint made of cinder block in Bentonia, Mississippi on Highway 49, approximately 30 miles northwest of Jackson, which played an important role in the ...

Jimmy Charles Holmes was born in Bentonia, MS in 1947. His father was a farmer and his mother ran a juke joint called the Blue Front Cafe. Jimmy took it over in 1970, and it was at the Blue Front ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Click here to read the full article on SPIN. The Black Keys are back. The blues-rock band has a new video for “Crawling Kingsnake, ...