Arts & Entertainment

Music
Add These Southern Music Festivals to Your Bucket List
Whether you’re welcoming spring with jazz in New Orleans or sweating out summer on a farm in Tennessee, these music events are worth putting on your dream calendar

Arts & Culture
The Stickman’s Last Bough
The North Carolina artist Patrick Dougherty is saying goodbye to making larger-than-life stick sculptures across the globe

Arts & Culture
Southern Streaming: What to Watch in February
Southern-accented series, films, and documentaries to tune into this February

Arts & Culture
A Mississippi Artist’s Blanket Statements
Animal fur, lampshades, rubbish: They all find a home in Coulter Fussell’s ingenious quilts

Arts & Culture
Southern Streaming: Great Stories to Dive Into This Month
Cozy up with these Southern-inflected films, series, and podcasts

Arts & Culture
Saving Cajun Music
The documentary Roots of Fire
follows a new generation of Louisiana musicians dedicated to preserving language and culture

Interview
Kicking Back with Norman Reedus
The actor reflects on his starring role in one of the past decade’s most iconic TV series

Arts & Culture
Outer Banks Co-Creator Josh Pate Shares the Stories Behind the Netflix Hit
The Carolina-raised writer and producer on creating and filming the series

Arts
Get to Know Jockey Director—and Florida Native—Clint Bentley
With his directorial debut set for wide release and earning a bevy of praise, this filmmaking son of an actual jockey is on the verge of stardom. But he’d rather just tell a great story

Arts & Entertainment
Reese Witherspoon’s Best Southern Roles
From “Felony Melanie” to June Carter Cash, the Oscar winner’s performances endure with humor, heart, and a heap of natural Nashville-nurtured talent

Arts & Entertainment
Alabama or Georgia? Who Southerners Are Cheering for Tonight
A survey of opinions ahead of the national championship game

Arts & Entertainment
How Uga the Georgia Bulldog Preps for Game Day
Champions never miss a pre-game nap and post-game little snack

Arts & Entertainment
For the Love of the Dawgs
A lifelong Georgia football fan on heartbreak and hope

Arts
A New TV Series Tells the Powerful Story of Emmett Till’s Murder
Women of the Movement, starring the Virginia native and Tony winner Adrienne Warren, premieres this week

Interview
Meet the Virginia Reporter Who Helped Hulu’s “Dopesick” Get the Details Right
Beth Macy on the power of dinner around the table, handmade quilts, and rooting for Southern underdogs

Good Hunting
Heart of the Platter
The Black food experience shapes a New Orleans artist’s new ceramic collection

Arts
Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Photographing the South

Arts & Culture
A Grand Ole Milestone
Why the Opry’s 5,000th broadcast this Saturday means more than ever

THE 2021 WORLD SERIES
Root for Houston? You Bet Your Astros
A Space City writer on the trials, tribulations, and joys of being an Astros fan

Interview
J. Smith-Cameron on Success and Succession
The HBO show’s scene-stealer makes all the right moves