Arts & Culture

Baking secrets, okra wars, and meat-and-threes

How the late Charleston artist Alice Ravenel Huger Smith’s works helped set the scene in the new film

The interior designer made his buoyant mark in spaces across the South, from the Greenbrier resort to presidential homes

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.

Foraged blackberries and other wild things shine in this how-to from Atlanta floral designer Shean Strong

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

How the Texas-born actor shaped a career that reached a crescendo this year with one of the world’s highest international film honors

Shorty Koger honors a lost art at her Oklahoma City hattery

Knocking the rust off salvaged cast-iron

How one of most prolific American painters got his start in Charlottesville, Virginia

Remembering a “Southern” original

The Charleston designer’s new women’s wear line embraces effortless cool

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

How a Mississippi photographer plans to resurrect the famed Mississippi folk art site

Tiny Southern towns host travel-worthy festivals and support growing arts communities

Nothing frenzies and frazzles like going on vacation

The author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe found her voice thanks to one little Birmingham theater

Bladesmith Quintin Middleton’s chef’s knife pays tribute to his ancestral history

Back on tour, a Nashville author discovers that bookshops around the South are writing intriguing new chapters