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CJ Lotz Diego

CJ Lotz Diego is Garden & Gun’s senior 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.

Arts & Culture

The actress’s new book shares her black and white photos of Highway 61

Goings-On

Goings-on in the South and beyond

Gardens

A Western North Carolina hideaway where mysterious moss enchants everything it touches

Food & Drink

The chef is back with a new cookbook, plus a vision to de-stress his kitchens, put his phone away, and deliver some “big, big, big” plans for getting Southerners to eat more kudzu

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Books

Five can’t-miss books out this month—two powerful novels, rediscovered short stories, a football-fan delight, and scenes of bygone Charleston

Arts & Culture

In his delightful new memoir, the piano player and singer-songwriter shares stories of growing up in North Carolina, plus advice on creativity

Food & Drink

This simple recipe preserves the taste of summer at its peak

Food & Drink

After nearly eight years, the Food Network mega-star is bringing his Georgia-made cooking show, Good Eats, back to television

Home & Garden

Along Bayou Chenal, in a corner of a parish near Baton Rouge, Jack and Pat Holden tend to an unrivaled tribute to the Acadian and Creole ways of life

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Arts & Culture

Powerful short story collections, music memoirs, photos of enviable cabins, and probing insights into a true Southern character—the mosquito.

Travel

A dozen fresh reasons to visit Georgia’s charming river city

Music

Now on their farewell tour, Lynyrd Skynyrd band members reflect on Southern rock’s most requested song

Arts & Culture

BreyerFest at Lexington, Kentucky’s Horse Park celebrates the famous model horses—and the real ones that inspire them

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Arts & Culture

Summer must-reads include charming novels, zippy thrillers, and a fascinating collection of love letters between the Fitzgeralds

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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

Arts & Culture

The Hall of Fame quarterback shares stories about playing for Bear Bryant, discovering Florida flowers, and his first taste of sweet potato pie

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Arts & Culture

Great summer reads for Southerners—bold novels to take to the beach, a peachy keen cookbook, and one powerful ode to grace

The Southern Agenda

Goings-on in the South and beyond

Gardens

Cahaba or “shoal” lilies appear from Mother’s Day to Father’s Day in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina

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Arts & Culture

May brings the year’s first crop of beach reads, a slew of almost-summertime cookbooks, and powerful odes to Southern history