February/March 2012: Best Southern Bars

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Food

Old or new, grungy or grand, the South’s choicest places to order up a round and unwind

Food

Five bars around the country 
that do Dixie right

Food
Pableaux Johnson

Get your shaking arm ready to make this classic libation

Food
Pableaux Johnson

A straightforward whiskey drink flavored with a hint of bitters, a little sugar, and a whiff of absinthe

Food
Francine Maroukian

A slightly Tex-Mex take on cornbread

Food
Chris Dixon

Georgia farmers produce the South’s newest cash crop

Food
Allison Glock

Nobody hates the Clermont Lounge.

Food
Daniel Wallace

A good bar feels like a secret only you know.

Food
Marshall Chapman

A Nashville, Tennessee institution

Food
Guy Martin

And why the South has so many of them

Food
Pableaux Johnson

A distinctly British drink with a historic New Orleans address

Food
Pableaux Johnson

Mix some history with these Crescent City classics

Music
Matt Hendrickson

Lyle Lovett on his new album, good Mexican food, and why he still lives on the family farm

Home & Garden
John Kessler

For thirty years one couple has poured labor and love into the restoration of four antebellum dwellings near Madison, Georgia

Sporting Life
Allison Glock

A newbie goes into the spring woods after a turkey and finds out what it means to take a bird

Arts & Culture
Bob Guccione Jr.

Morgan Freeman has spent a lifetime becoming one of Hollywood’s A-listers, but there’s nowhere he’d rather be than his Mississippi home

Arts & Culture
Dean King

Photographer Shelby Lee Adams illuminates one of the South’s least-traveled corners

Travel
Julia Reed

Through busts or booms, Houston has always looked forward.  And today, from food to fine art, the biggest city in Texas is humming

Travel
Julia Reed

Power Players: Four Houstonians who continue to prove that the city has a very big heart

Travel
Julia Reed

Big-time destinations in the Lone Star State's metropolis

Travel
Julia Reed

Discover Houston's Hot Spots