The 2011 fall issue of the Auburn University alumni magazine featured a stunning photo of Octavia Spencer on the cover, not as Minny, read more...
Jerri Chaplin is a read more...
Happy Holidays From Swampland "Never be impatient with the ones who love you, It might be read more...
Twenty years ago a friend of mine died of AIDS. He was the first person I ever knew personally to die of this disease. He was read more...
The Wounded Warriors Charity Compilation Athens musicians such as R.E.M.,
Chuck Leavell's Mother Nature Network Rolling Stone keyboardist and tree farmer
A Southern Literary Note on Hemingway's Birthday Today is the birthday of Ernest Hemingway. A southern read more...
Happy Mother's Day 2011 Happy Mother's Day to Everyone! Since it's Mother's Day weekend, I thought I write a read more...
New Orleans Tennessee Williams Festival “New Orleans is where Tom became ‘Tennessee’ and read more...
John Bell's Upcoming Hannah's Buddies 'Classic & Concert' Yesterday I conducted Part Two of my recent interview series read more...
I met Jerri Chaplin read more...
(University Press of Mississippi) When he was alive, Mississippi painter Walter Anderson lived as a recluse in his Ocean read more...
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Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings University Press of read more...
Take Me To The Water: Immersion Baptism In Vintage Music Dust To Digital Dust To Digital Recordings
$5 Cover: Memphis Craig Brewer MTV Networks By James Calemine The director of Hustle And read more...
“Something’s gonna happen like…Just spark the whole world,” exclaims Darius, the star of the read more...
Whatever Remembers Us: An Anthology of Alabama Poetry edited by Sue Brannan Walker and J. read more...
Visitors to New Orleans who think the city is defined by the French Quarter and the Garden District are in for a delightful surprise when they wander past Esplanade and across Elysian Fields into the fabulous Faubourg Marigny. Popularly known as the location read more...
NOTES ON THE STATE OF POETRY, Part One by Diann Blakely Charlottesville, VA While Thomas Jefferson may never have predicted the emergence of musical groups like the Dave Matthews Band, Pavement, and the Silver Jews from the Palladian halls and arches of the University of Virginia, he regarded its read more...
Soulful Sounds From A Delta Lady The Shannon McNally Interview by James Calemine Born in New York,
This amazing 350 page volume, Alabama's Civil Rights Trail: An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom, is every person's guide to the last 150 years of the civil rights
Jim Dickinson--The High Priest of Memphis Mojo--shines like a beacon of light in the music world. Dickinson’s indelible contribution and influence on music will endure because he served as a vital link between the famous read more...
Mystery And Manners' November 2009 Chuck Leavell Interview This
Wilmot Greene Interview 2009 Around 7 am on June 19, 2009, the venerable Athens, Georgia, music hall—The Georgia Theatre—burned down. Theatre owner, Wilmot Greene finds himself in the difficult position of building back the classic music hall. The wrecked lot carries a lot of history. In 1889, the YMCA constructed a building on the read more...
The Chuck Leavell Interview Fall 08 (Part One) "The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man." -J. Sterling Morton This lost interview with Rolling Stones read more...
Organizers of the Southern Shorts Film Festival, the first of its kind in Athens, Ala, will be screening three feature-length films and a special presentation of the
by Penne J. Laubenthal The New Yorker magazine, renowned for its esoteric analyses as well as its eclectic literary pieces recently published a provocative article entitled "The Courthouse Ring: Atticus read more...