Cadence Bank Arena — Attraction in Tupelo

By the end of the second song of Brantley Gilbet's set on Saturday, a group of trashed girls was knocking into us, and my BF asked them to please back up. They continued knocking into us, and eventually spilled an entire beer down both of our backs. At this point, he asked less nicely (read: he was pissed off) for them to back up again. So naturally, they poured a beer down his back. He called them a name, which they apparently didn't appreciate. So they called security on us, and said that I threw beer at them. When the security guy came up, he approached my BF and asked, "Did she throw a beer?" To which my boyfriend responded, "yeah man, I'm soaked all down my back." This, unbeknownst to us at the time, became confirmation that I'd thrown a beer AT SOMEONE ELSE. He asked us to leave, and I said, "I think there's been a misunderstanding. Can we talk about this?" He said once we were outside we could. So we got outside the pit, and outside the concourse, and each time I tried to have this conversation. Each time, he repeated, "Once we get outside." I'm pretty new to this whole, "being ejected from events" thing, so it didn't occur to me to call a manager. I kept thinking, "we'll talk about this, clear it up, and go back inside!" Instead, the security guard was antagonistic to both of us, but especially my boyfriend.

He asked at least 25 times once we were outside, "So you're a liar?" "You lie to your woman a lot?" Over. And Over. Each time, he got a, "I think you're not understanding what happened in there." After about the tenth time I tried to reason with him, and he interrupted to egg my boyfriend on with another, "So he's lying then?!" It finally occurred to me that we weren't getting back inside the arena. I said, "At this point, I presume we're not going back into the concert?" and was told, "that's correct." Before being asked AGAIN what happened. I told him I couldn't see how that was relevant at this point, and we left. That security guy (the-50-year-old-used-to-do-meth-but-now-its-just-roids-creatine-and-a-sweet-tribal-arm-band-tattoo) was out of line, and actively trying to start a fight between me and my boyfriend, or him and boyfriend when that failed. I imagine best case would've been both.

I absolutely dropped the ball in not contacting his manager at the show, but I legitimately thought we'd be going back inside. This morning, I reached out to the arena, who told me that no "ejection reports" had been filed.

Later on, another manager, apparently the head of security, called me back after to "speaking to his team" who told me there were "conflicting reports." I was told AGAIN that my boyfriend "confirmed" I'd thrown beer on someone (still not what happened). He also said that this would've been resolved Saturday if I'd contacted a manager. By the time that I realized we'd need one, we were outside the doors, and "Bancorp's finest" were unwilling to budge on their BS version of events, and unwilling to let us back inside. They also claimed at this point that I cussed them out (also untrue – I was frustrated but calm outside).

Why should I have to put up this much a fight to clear a misunderstanding, to see a show I've already paid for?

I was offered free concert tickets by the arena this afternoon, which I appreciate, but I don't think I'll be visiting again. The show Saturday was my boyfriend's Christmas present, and he'd been looking forward to it since I bought them in November. I don't really care about going to see a random show we SORTA care about. I care about the time and money lost driving to Tupelo, to see a show we were excited about, that we didn't get to see.

Plus, the acoustics really are...

There’s ice skating in northeast MS! And it could be so much better... It’s over-priced. Most nice skating rinks are in the $11-$13 range. This is not a nice skating rink. At $15 the ice should be excellent, and there should be plenty of extra seating. The ice however was terrible. It was hard but it was extremely rough. Our group was first on the ice so it should have been pristine. Nope, it was like skating on a gravel road. Either their zamboni needs repair or they need someone experienced to operate it. I considered asking for a refund because of how bad the ice was. I was concerned it would damage my kids’ skates. I get it, most folks in MS don’t ice skate and don’t know what good ice is, well that’s one reason for this review. It should be smooth! There should also be twice the amount of seating/viewing. Since this is seasonal, it should be comfortable for whole families to enjoy which means several folks will not skate. But they’ll want to watch and laugh at the terrible skaters. There’s an entire empty arena! How can there be so little seating? And it’s so tight spacing you have clumsy kids with blades on their feet tripping all over each other. Just offer a viewing area and that will at least get several observers out of the way. Bottom line: This has potential to be a fun family outing. And these are two things they ought to be able to fix - give the customers good ice and plenty of seating. Then there might be some...

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