Seven Years of Cocktails
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A longtime fixture behind Atlanta bars, Kellie Thorn is thriving amid the classic-cocktail revival. And her heart is fully behind the South’s ambitious bartenders.
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How Mentors Season Our Lives
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Mentorship is a good thing, but mentorship at the table is better. New Orleans-based Southern Food columnist L. Kasimu Harris recounts two experiences about mentors and meals — his own with musician Delfeayo Marsalis, and about historian John Hope Franklin’s mentorship of NASA rocket scientist (and barbecue pitmaster) Howard Conyers.
Read MoreFour Reasons Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
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Trap music — the subgenre that currently dominates Southern rap — is misogynistic, but that doesn’t mean it can’t inspire women to go get theirs.
Read MoreThe Politics of Memory and Marble
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Nothing in our poor power — not even decades-old, marble statues — can add or detract from truths about the American South.
Read MoreLife and Death and Burial Beer
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A brewery with a most unlikely name is resurrecting historic buildings and experimenting with novel beer styles in Asheville, North Carolina.
Read MoreGetting Off the L.A. Freeway
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A company called Alternative proves the fashion industry wrong when they say it can’t be done in the South.
Read MoreA Gate-Cut From Us All
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The Bitter Southerner’s new Southern Politics column will explore the duality of the Southern thing not through shrill partisanship, but by passing along knowledge about how state legislatures in our region work and by putting their actions in historical perspective. Because, you know, we gotta get under all this yelling.
Read MoreBlack Genius
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Schools typically labeled as “failing” are most often found in communities of color and in communities with lower household incomes. An organization called Village of Wisdom has risen in Durham, North Carolina, to stand up for families of color in the schools.
Read MoreS-Town, Alabama
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By now, it seems like every Southerner we know has listened to “S-Town,” the seven-part podcast series that took the world inside tiny Woodstock, Alabama. Today, Martha Polk interviews “S-Town” creator Brian Reed about what he learned about the South.
Read More"Gregg Allman's Over There"
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Muscle Shoals songwriter John Paul White, Atlanta rapper Killer Mike and our editor, Chuck Reece, remember a legend of Southern music.
Read MoreYour Imaginary Bartender
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Picture, if you will, the stereotypical craft-cocktail bartender. Your bartender is probably wearing suspenders, possibly arm garters, and a well-pressed shirt. He also probably sports a well-coiffed mustache. He is also, dollars to doughnuts, white.
Read MoreThe Fried Green Tomatoes
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Our newest food columnist, New Orleans's L. Kasimu Harris, debuts with a story about how he learned — the hard way — that we should make a point to get in the kitchen with our moms.
Read MoreFor the Love of Lil Yachty
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When New York rapper Joe Budden went off on Atlanta’s Lil Yachty, was he lecturing a new generation, or was it 20 years of resentment toward rap from the South?
Read MoreSouthern Artists Embrace Alternate Realities
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With companies in the South pioneering virtual and augmented reality technologies, artists are using VR and AR to tell stories — and provide help to the suffering.
Read MoreNo Malt, No Beer
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Riverbend Malt House in North Carolina is putting Southern “terroir” into beers across the nation, with its old-school approach to getting grains like barley and rye ready for the brew kettle.
Read MoreFloating Eastwardly: Col. Bruce Hampton
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When Colonel Bruce Hampton collapsed onstage at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre Monday night, the very model of Southern musical freedom left this world.
Read MoreLet’s Stop Failing Schools
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Today, our Southern Schooling columnists argue that all the talk about “failing” schools draws too much attention away from the folks working to make our public schools — particularly in urban and rural areas — into great learning environments. They’re tired of it, and offer suggestions about how to move beyond the poisoned rhetoric.
Read MoreA Cup of Lovejoy in Florence
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Florence, Alabama, is a town rich with musical heritage and a thriving global fashion business, but until Brian Lovejoy came back home, the place never had a great Southern cocktail bar. Now, it does, and Florence is drinking up.
Read MoreCooking With Cane Syrup
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Our Southern Food columnist, Nicole Taylor, visits the Purple Ribbon sugarcane fields of Georgia’s Sapelo Island and ponders the beauty of a too often neglected ingredient — cane syrup.
Read MoreOutkast’d and Claimin’ True
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Outkast's Big Boi dropped into a class our Southern Music columnist Dr. Joycelyn Wilson was teaching. These are the lessons he taught.
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