Tennessee

Travel

Live music and Nashville vibes pull this small Tennessee city into the spotlight

Leanne Morgan

Arts & Culture

The Tennessee comedian is everyone’s darling

A portrait of Nate Bargartze in a ball pit

Arts & Culture

The hottest comic on earth is building more than just a Nashville hub of humor—he’s pulling a parade’s worth of funny people behind him

Inside a bookshop

2026 Bucket List

It’s going to be a busy year at Ann Patchett’s Parnassus

A rendering of a hotel guest room

2026 Bucket List

Forty years of Dollywood, a Broadway show, and a hotel later, Parton is going strong at eighty

A man in a studio

Music

Six years after his death, a new biography examines the talent, charm, and heartbreak of the man behind the music

Inside a lobby

Travel

New Orleans’s buzziest hotelier puts down roots in Music City

Outside a honky tonk with a neon sign

Travel

Nashville’s greatest new honky-tonk is a seventy-five-year-old downtown landmark

Food & Drink

The Michelin Guide canvassed six new states across the region for its selections, including a two-star designation for Emeril’s in New Orleans

Diego Pavia

Arts & Culture

As the Commodores ride high, a long-suffering supporter dares to dream

A portrait of a woman against a gallery wall

Food & Drink

Redemption Bar on Lower Broadway welcomes all with NA drinks and singer-songwriter performances. Plus: Get a recipe for McBryde’s alcohol-free Earl Grey Old-Fashioned.

a farmhouse

home & garden

How one family and a design team poured their hearts into preserving this 1800s home

A man sits on a chair by a wall of records

Music

Through his vast vinyl collection, the singer-songwriter celebrates an inherited love of music

Fall leaves at the campus of Sewanee

Arts & Culture

The Princeton Review made it official, but staff, students, and alumni already knew that the 13,000-acre Domain is a treasure trove of natural and architectural beauty

A group of people sit under string lights in a backyard

Arts & Culture

Notable talks from voices within and beyond the South

A colorful, lit up carousel

Travel

The first hand-carved carousel produced by one person in over one hundred years is now spinning in Franklin

Plates of aguachile and chips

Anatomy of a Classic

Lime-steeped shrimp come together with cucumbers, onions, and a drizzle of jalapeño vinegar sauce

A can of soda and a piece of chocolate candy

Food & Drink

It’s the candy’s first flavor variation in more than thirty years

A man with a guitar

Music

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

Dolly Parton poses next to a dollywood sign

Arts & Culture

Four decades later, Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain wonderland still sparkles