Arts & Entertainment

The High & the Low
Crazy for Catfish
A love letter to a bewhiskered Southern favorite

Southern Focus
Close-Up of a Would-Be King
The art of being Elvis

G&G Interview
Craig Melvin’s Carolina Roots
How the Today show news anchor wears his Southern pride on his sleeve

Arts & Culture
How Emily Morgan Brown Puts the Past in Bloom
A Birmingham artist’s botanical tapestries update a centuries-old technique

The High & the Low
The Politics of a Summer Escape
Julia Reed on the joy of being set free in D.C.—and how her summer trips have evolved since

Arts & Culture
Twenty-Five Years of Forrest Gump
Author Winston Groom looks back at the Oscar-winning film adaptation’s debut—and the journey that led him there

Travel
A Fantastical Festival in Florida
Artists light up Alys Beach with extravagant digital displays

End of the Line
How Does One Correctly Use the Term “Y’all?”
A few thoughts on a Southern debate for the books

Ask G&G
Kentucky Trifecta
Bourbon wars, Derby nerves,
and Bluegrass shade

The High & the Low
All Praise Willie Nelson
A dispatch from a music-filled night in Nashville with Mama

Arts & Culture
The Colorful, Far-Out Vision of James Michalopoulos
The most recognizable painter in New Orleans is on a mission: to make sure the City doesn’t forget the artists who keep it funky

Arts & Culture
Amy Sedaris on Humor, Hospitality, and Greased Watermelons
The North Carolina–raised comedian entertains us all on her TV series At Home with Amy Sedaris

Arts & Culture
A Look at Silhouettes, Then and Now
The National Portrait Gallery’s silhouette exhibit shines a light on history

End of the Line
When the Precious Acorn Becomes a Projectile
Roy Blount, Jr. goes a little nuts

Arts
The Wild Instincts of Kate Griswold
A Lowcountry fine-art photographer captures the spirit of creatures great and small

Southern Focus
A Dazzling Mardi Gras Spectacle
A New Orleans tradition—Mardi Gras Indians

Ask G&G
Herd Mentality
Hip livestock, crape MURDER, and NOLA outlaws

Arts & Culture
Poet Maurice Manning: A Voice in the Wilderness
Part Appalachian storyteller. Part modern-day Thoreau, Manning has carved out his own spot in the pantheon of American poets from a twenty-acre swath of Kentucky woods

Arts & Culture
Miles and Miles of Texas
Austin, Texas, photographer and entrepreneur Jay B. Sauceda shares glimpses of his home state

Arts & Culture
The Enduring Charm of Possum Living
In the 1970s, Dolly Freed quit the rat race, wrote a back-to-the-land classic, made moonshine, ate rabbits, and now shares an update from her true home in the South