CJ Lotz Diego

CJ Lotz Diego is a Garden & Gun deputy editor. A staffer since 2013, she wrote G&G’s bestselling Bless Your Heart trivia game, edits the Due South travel section, and covers gardens, books, and art. Originally from Eureka, Missouri, she graduated from Indiana University and now lives in Charleston, South Carolina, where she tends a downtown pocket garden with her florist husband, Max.

Sporting Scene

The Chesapeake’s riches inspire a young Virginia carver

Food & Drink

A new book puts tasty spins on the classic Bluegrass State snack

Books

Dozens of books cross Garden & Gun editors’ desks each week. Here are a handful of out-in-January titles that we can’t wait to take home and read

The Southern Agenda

In honor of Old Yeller’s sixtieth anniversary, we asked G&G contributors to share the films that leave them reaching for the tissues

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Arts & Culture

With stunning photography, a new book gives an up-close look at some of Georgia’s most majestic residents

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Arts & Culture

A look at some of last year’s winners at the annual competition in Asheville, North Carolina.

Gardens

A new documentary tells the story of John Coykendall

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Arts & Culture

Twenty years ago the film adaptation of John Berendt’s best seller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil hit the big screen. Here are the locations in Savannah where the true story—and filming—unfolded.

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Travel

Twenty-three of the South’s most picturesque covered bridges

Arts & Culture

Fire, Flour & Fork is a four-day gathering for the food—and drink—curious

Books

This book documents the Crescent City’s surprising role in shaping the entertainment empire

Arts & Culture

Join big names in bourbon in sampling “dusties” at Taste of the Decades

Arts & Culture

An annual gathering highlights the South’s storied spot for conversation

Arts & Culture

There’s nothing quite like a good dog story

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Arts & Culture

Goings-on in the South and beyond

Arts & Culture

Brad Thomas Parsons’s book shows how working cats earn their keep at Southern distilleries and breweries

Hurricane Harvey

Bryan and Jennifer Caswell organize a network of volunteers to feed the flooded city—and they could use your help

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Arts & Culture

Baseball mascots are delightfully colorful tributes to their Southern hometowns

Arts & Culture

More than 150 pieces from the collection of Donal C. O’Brien, Jr., cross the auction block for the first time

Food & Drink

Where to find the finest franks in the Mountain State