Arts & Entertainment

Join big names in bourbon in sampling “dusties” at Taste of the Decades

An annual gathering highlights the South’s storied spot for conversation

Season 2, Episode 1: The Whole Hog returns with a dispatch from WNCW in Spindale, North Carolina

As a student, author Wiley Cash discovered the work of the incomparable Louisiana writer Ernest J. Gaines. It was the start of a literary bond that has lasted two decades—and an education in the power of the place you call home

Making a fuss about Faulkner and college football

Thoughts on ingredient battles, Southern credentials, and dressing for a blessing

Make plans now to see one of the biggest exhibits ever mounted of the storied lensman’s photographs

The South Carolina native portrays yet another groundbreaking figure in Marshall—the latest triumph in a career set to sky-high

The Southern roots of the beloved 1970s television show

Baseball mascots are delightfully colorful tributes to their Southern hometowns

How a lovable raccoon stole the hearts of a million followers on Instagram

A closer look at the raccoon who thinks she’s a dog

Catching up with Seth Avett about the new film May It Last

Your last chance to discover a lesser-known side of the famous author at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh

Plus three Southern spots where you can make like Baby and Johnny and have the time of your life

An extremely brief retrospective, with comments by the artist

Roy Blount, Jr. on tussling with a nasty vine… and losing

A Virginia painter elevates the profile of the lowly moth

At Memphis’ Lansky Brothers, the clothes are truly fit for The King