Arts & Culture

Ask G&G
Ask G&G: Pound Cake Advice and the Okra Test
Baking secrets, okra wars, and meat-and-threes

Arts & Culture
Painterly Inspiration for Where the Crawdads Sing
How the late Charleston artist Alice Ravenel Huger Smith’s works helped set the scene in the new film

In Memoriam
Remembering Carleton Varney, a Stylish American Original
The interior designer made his buoyant mark in spaces across the South, from the Greenbrier resort to presidential homes

SEVERE WEATHER
Pulled from the Flood
After devastating waters wrecked novelist Silas House’s Eastern Kentucky homeland last week, he worked alongside the helpers—those who refuse to let the voices of Appalachia go under.

Arts & Culture
Create a Beautiful Flower Arrangement, from Your Own Backyard
Foraged blackberries and other wild things shine in this how-to from Atlanta floral designer Shean Strong

Arts & Culture
A Legendary Bladesmith and the Story Behind His Knives
Jerry Fisk has made just about every type of knife imaginable. Now, along with passing down the skills that have made him a living legend, he’s determined to uncover the true story behind the South’s most famous blade

Arts & Culture
In Praise of Forest Whitaker
How the Texas-born actor shaped a career that reached a crescendo this year with one of the world’s highest international film honors

Style
Custom Hats Created the Bygone Cowboy Way
Shorty Koger honors a lost art at her Oklahoma City hattery

Editor's Letter
Restoring an Heirloom Dutch Oven
Knocking the rust off salvaged cast-iron

Style & Fashion
A Southern Back-to School Style Guide
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Arts & Culture
Steve Keene’s Art for All
How one of most prolific American painters got his start in Charlottesville, Virginia

End of the Line
When Life Hands Roy Blount Jr. Abe Lemons
Remembering a “Southern” original

Style
E.M. Reitz’s Soulful New Line
The Charleston designer’s new women’s wear line embraces effortless cool

Arts & Culture
How the Summer Camp Doctor Earned His Stripe
A pediatric neurosurgeon might have been a tad out of his element treating bugbites and wrapping sprained ankles. Turns out, summer camp duty was just the salve he needed

Arts & Culture
The Fight to Save Margaret’s Grocery
How a Mississippi photographer plans to resurrect the famed Mississippi folk art site

Arts & Culture
Small Towns with Big Art Scenes in the South
Tiny Southern towns host travel-worthy festivals and support growing arts communities

Country Accent
Vivian Howard’s Travel Advisory
Nothing frenzies and frazzles like going on vacation

Our Kind of Place
Fannie Flagg Sets the Stage
The author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe found her voice thanks to one little Birmingham theater

Arts & Culture
A One-of-a-Kind Knife That Tells a Family Story
Bladesmith Quintin Middleton’s chef’s knife pays tribute to his ancestral history

Shops
A New Chapter for Southern Bookshops
Back on tour, a Nashville author discovers that bookshops around the South are writing intriguing new chapters