Award-winning bartender Joseph “Joe” Stinchcomb stirs up the small town of Oxford, Mississippi when he launches a craft cocktail menu honoring Black History Month.
Joseph Stinchcomb began his hospitality career working at Proud Larry’s. In 2016, he was named beverage director for Saint Leo. Saint Leo was nominated for best new restaurant in 2017 as well as outstanding beverage program in 2019 by the James Beard Foundation. By 2020, Stinchcomb was named a Sam Beall Fellow through Blackberry Farm and a Smith Fellow through the Southern Foodways Alliance. Stinchcomb’s bar and restaurant experience includes working at Blackberry Farm, Post Ranch Inn, French Laundry, and Hotel Jerome. In October 2021, Stinchcomb and business partner Ross Hester opened Bar Muse, an intimate craft cocktail bar located inside the Lyric Theatre.
Antonio Tarrell, hailing from Bruce, Mississippi, is a highly skilled and versatile filmmaker. With expertise in producing, directing, and cinematography, he has contributed his talents to a wide range of projects including feature films, commercials, and documentaries. Tarrell’s unwavering objective as a filmmaker is to create visually captivating images that not only advance the narrative but also have a profound emotional impact on the audience. Antonio Tarrell Films’ accomplishments include contributions to (I’m Not) Your Negroni (2024), 5th Step (2023), Robert Johnson: I Believe I’ll Go Back Home (2023), NHK (Japanese Broadcast: Mississippi Revealed (Mississippi Delta), 2022, Fox Business: Earth with John Holden (Arkansas), 2022, Mississippi Public Broadcast: Mississippi Roads (2022), Sites of Resistance and Healing (2022), David Sheffield: The Heartbreak Henry for Theater Oxford (2021), Discovery Channel: Earth hosted by John Holden (2021), PBS: Make America Black hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr (2021), CONDÉ NAST ENTERTAINMENT featuring Joseph Stinchcomb (2021), Black Privilege. White Power. (2020), Walk Against Fear: James Meredith for Smithsonian TV (2019), Restaurant Impossible: Revisited – Season 2 for Food Network (2019), Pilot Episode: Bluff City Law for NBC (2019), and many more.
