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Alabama

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Music

Elvis, Ray Charles, Tina Turner, and more make our list of some of the most famous—and infamous—performances in music history

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Recipe

Bill Briand shares a family recipe from the menu of Little Bird, his forthcoming restaurant in Fairhope, Alabama

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Fork in the Road

A young Alabama chef brings community and flawless croissants to a funky strip

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Seven Southern

These top-notch bakeshops let flour-free customers have their cake—and pies, cookies, donuts, croquetas, and biscuits—and eat them too

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This Land

An Alabama odyssey helps fill in the blank spaces

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Food & Drink

From inventive ice cream to old-school cakes, these victors will satisfy your sweet tooth

A wall-shaped monument, inscribed with approximately 122,000 names

2025 Bucket List

A new sculpture park completes a stunning trifecta

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2025 BUCKET LIST

The springtime star of Alabama

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2025 BUCKET LIST

A historic arts enclave lets it all hang out

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Food & Drink

Chef Rob McDaniel’s new raw bar delivers ice-cold martinis, innovative seafood, and plenty of oysters

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Arts & Culture

And other wacky stories from the South’s NCAA men’s hoops hopefuls

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Travel

Plan a road trip for leaded glass, beams, flooring, and oddities of Southern history

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Arts & Culture

The painter emerged from a hardscrabble youth to become one of the most quietly successful Southern painters of his generation, embracing the trials and triumphs of his career by keeping his heart—and his art—grounded in his home state

Civil rights activists march and carry American flags

Arts & Culture

On the sixtieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday, locals and visitors will retrace one of America’s most famous marches

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Travel

How the “Land of 1,000 Waterfalls” transforms into a winter emerald oasis

Rows of pieced together colorful quilts hang above seated people

Arts & Culture

A dazzling collaboration between quilters and fiber artist Rachel Hayes honors the beauty of sisterhood, the wisdom of mothers, and colorful laundry lines

Folk Singer Abe Partridge poses with his guitar.

Music

Singer-songwriter and artist Abe Partridge’s star just keeps on rising

A neighborhood street with large trees

Land & Conservation

How a group effort that includes, surprisingly, the power company conspires to protect the tree canopy

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Home & Garden

Tips from the Birmingham design maven behind the home setup of top chefs

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Champions of Conservation

Native plants and grasses go viral in the hands of a social-media-savvy forester