Arts & Entertainment

  • Arts & Culture

    An Arkansas pottery studio returns bright historic pieces to tables

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    Arts & Culture

    Halfway through 2019, we’re looking back at the delightful novels, biographies, memoirs, story collections, and other works that have already made this a stellar year in Southern literature


A girl sits on the floor in an art studio with paintings around her. She wears a blue, red, and white patterned skirt and a white blouse.

Editor's Letter

Southern creativity takes center stage in our first-ever arts issue

A collage of two images: A man baptizes a woman with water on his hand; a stone fountain.

Arts & Culture

You don’t have to live in the Lone Star State to become an honorary citizen, as I learned firsthand

A vintage photo of two women; the one on the left wears a light teal sweater, the one on the right wears a pink dress.

Arts & Culture

Decades later, those dainty florals still hold a powerful grip on the South

A vintage photo of an American fighter pilot from WWII

Arts & Culture

On the occasion of his milestone birthday this month, a North Carolina World War II vet reflects on a hundred years of living

The interior of Duke's Indoor Stadium with two teams huddled up with their coaches on the sidelines.

Travel

The biggest college basketball gym in the region at the time it was built, Duke’s revered arena stands the test of time

A woman with sunglasses smiles and sits by a pool

Arts & Culture

March’s standout series and movies with Southern ties

A painting of a pointer dog with a brown head and white body with brown speckles.

The Wild South

Bird dogs and wildlife mingle with fragments of history and more in the Georgia artist’s striking creations

Books

Percival Everett’s marvelous James shakes up the American canon

Arts & Culture

Dramatic installations, handmade treasures, live performances, and sidewalk chalk paint the South

The exterior of CoolToday Park, the spring training home of the Atlanta Braves.

Arts & Culture

Baseball is (almost) back

A portrait of a man wearing a black shirt.

Arts & Culture

Deep-sea explorer Tony Romeo made waves last month when the South Carolina resident shared a sonar image of what resembles a sunken plane. Not everyone is convinced it’s Earhart’s, but he’s got a strong case—and plans to make it stronger

A group of teens look up at the sky

Arts & Culture

Visitors still travel to the little West Virginia town that inspired the film and the book, Rocket Boys

Two men set up a huge mask sculpture outside a house; a man in a black costume and face masks stands on the left

Arts & Culture

Basqo Bim’s carnival creations dazzle at the Chloe Hotel in New Orleans

Actors as Priscilla and Elvis Presley by a wedding cake

Arts & Culture

February’s standout series and movies with Southern ties

Two men dressed up for Mardi Gras stand in front of poles by a building with gold and white balloons

Arts & Culture

The bawdy, hilarious French Quarter contest started out as a public safety measure

An illustration of a man and a woman touching cufflinks and earrings on themselves

Southern Conundrum

One Southerner reconsiders how inherited pieces can escape the dust and shine with new life

Mathis’s 150-vessel-strong Ozark Roadside Tourist Pottery collection in his Oklahoma City living room. The vessels have swirling, colorful patterns.

Arts & Culture

How the vibrant roadside vessels inspired an obsession

A painting of a man wearing black standing on a cliff looking out over a foggy, grey city.

Country Accents

Gut feelings versus map apps: an unplanned showdown

An illustration of a man playing paintball with a blue, pink, and yellow splatter

Arts & Culture

From the woods of New Hampshire to the Black Belt of Alabama to 112 countries across the globe, Charles Gaines recounts the evolution of the survival-inspired “little game” that spawned an industry

Dolly Parton in front of a black background, wearing a silver sequin jumpsuit.

Arts & Culture

Looking back at a life in rhinestones