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Hollywood South
WHEN THE WALKING DEAD STARTED FILMING in Senoia, Ga., in 2011, six stores were open in the 4,000-person town. “It was dying,” says Lee Thomas, deputy commissioner of the Georgia film office. That’s exactly what AMC wanted. In fact, the creators of th
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Mediocre Spies, Unbeatable Friends
WITH BAD GUYS HOT ON THEIR HEELS, Jersey girls Audrey and Morgan take momentary cover in the bathroom of a Vienna train station. Audrey turns to leave—their lives depend on catching the next train to Prague—but Morgan has something urgent to say. Her
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My True South
WHEN I MOVED HOME IN 2010, I PACKED MY TWO-DOOR car nearly to the roof and drove for three days from California’s Bay Area to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. I took my preferred route, avoiding long, blistered I-10 through Phoenix and the very bottom of
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Change Agents
FROM EDUCATION CRUSADERS TO CULINARY INNOVATORS TO EVANGELICAL ACTIVISTS, MEET 31 PEOPLE WHO ARE RESHAPING THE SOUTH
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Place At The Table
THE SIGNS OF A NUEVO SOUTH ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO miss at Jose and Sons, a buzzy restaurant inside a former train depot in downtown Raleigh, N.C. On a window on the side of a door, HOLA Y’ALL flows in a jolly green script, while HECHO EN RALEIGH snakes ac
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The Tourism Trap
IN GIOVANNI BONAZZON’S PAINTINGS, Venice is a vision of serenity. Bridges arch gracefully over rippling canals, sunlight bounces off flower-filled balconies, and not a single human mars the tranquility. Bonazzon’s daily vista is not as tranquil, how
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The Holy Game
It has been said that college football is a religion, and Saturday is its High Holy Day. So I was not surprised when I found myself at synagogue in Knoxville in September on Kol Nidre, the Friday evening start of Yom Kippur—the most solemn day of the
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In Elvis We Trust
We need Elvis now more than ever. Growing up in Georgia and Alabama in the 1970s and ’80s, I always felt that the bad old days of Southern prejudice and ignorance had passed, that we were entering a new South built upon hard-won racial equality, cha
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Prairie Escape
Nearly every morning in Gainesville, Fla., I tie on my sneakers and go for a run through my quiet neighborhood to the Hawthorne bike trail, then into Paynes Prairie for a wake-up jolt of beauty. Early in the morning, the light catches the fog rising
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A Place for Us All
When I was growing up near Corbin, Ky., in the 1980s, the little town was still grappling with a shameful event that had happened decades earlier. In 1919, a mob of white men had driven nearly 200 black railroad workers out of town. The local paper v
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Baseball’s Long Game
Baseball is a booming business, one with record annual revenues of more than $10 billion—yes, billion. Still, it faces a big problem: baseball has the oldest fan base of any major sport, and there is a dissonance between the focus and attention it de
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Southern-minded
IT HAS DEFIED A THOUSAND OBITUARIES, THE region that winds from Virginia to Texas, through the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Smokies to the Delta, past the world’s largest peach, the Astroturf grave of Hank Williams and the gates of Graceland. The “No
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Truth In The Post-truth Era
PEOPLE WHO READ A LOT, OR EVEN JUST A LITTLE, OFTEN HAVE internal memory banks full of potentially useful facts and quotes, ready to be resurrected brilliantly at a moment’s notice—yet still, in the clutch, most of us are like amnesiac squirrels in w
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Deer Season
In South Carolina, season opens the first week of October. A few diehards at camp come at the start and stay till the end, but most of us filter in and out whenever time allows. We drive down, go home, work jobs and sneak back on weekends. For three
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What Are The Real Costs Of The Endangered Species Act?
IN THE 45 YEARS SINCE PRESIDENT RICHARD Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) into law, conservationists have used the landmark legislation to protect millions of acres of land and bring animals—including the grizzly bear and the American all
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Drawlin’ for Votes
THERE IS NO ACCENT QUITE LIKE THE SOUTHERN accent, and there is no Southern accent quite like the Southern politician’s. Spend any time in the South—especially in the rapidly growing suburban and exurban South—and you’ll hear the drawl. The men sound
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War Of Words
As America’s long-running regional contest with Iran heats up, Trump and Tehran are fueling the fire with rhetoric, money and guns
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Can We Hack Our Aversion To Exercise?
IT’S 2050 AND YOU NEVER THINK about going to the gym. While your neighbor gets in a high-intensity interval-training workout in her self-driving car on the way to the office, you unlock a public bike and pedal along miles of a safe, traffic-free path
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Shinobu Hashimoto
I FIRST SAW SEVEN SAMURAI AT some small theater in downtown Pittsburgh, and it took me to another place. The writing by Shinobu Hashimoto, who died on July 19 at 100, working with Akira Kurosawa and Hideo Oguni, was so beautiful and poetic and powerf
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On the Bayou
In this floating city, water soaks every aspect of daily life—from our car-insurance premiums to our music to our fears of the future—but you can go weeks without seeing it. The Mississippi River slouches behind the wharves that line most of New Orle
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Israel’s Netanyahu Takes A Page From The Authoritarian Playbook
PRIME MINISTER of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu hasn’t had an easy time of it lately. Israeli police have recommended bribery charges against him in two cases. In one, he’s accused of accepting cigars and champagne in exchange for political favors. In an
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The Many Souths
THE DINNER HAD BEEN PLEASANT, THE CONVERSATION congenial. On a spring evening in 2016, in a private room in the capital of a Southern state, the governor—a Republican, a native and a longtime vote-getter—was asked what, exactly, was happening to his
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What To Stream Now
Orange Is the New Black has a flair for reinvention. It premiered on Netflix, five summers ago, as a fish-out-of-water dramedy about a spoiled white woman acclimating to life at a minimum-security prison. But Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) was soon
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Shaped By Water
WHEN I WAS IN MY LATE TEENS, I WORKED some summers and weekends as a longshoreman on the docks and derrick barges of the New Orleans riverfront. The pay was great, and the work, though hot, was not as hard as people thought. From that experience, I
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The Bloody Brilliance Of Megan Abbott
MEGAN ABBOTT ISN’T AFRAID OF a little blood. Her new thriller, Give Me Your Hand, is soaked in it. The women wear red stockings and “placenta red” lipstick. Mostly, Abbott writes about period blood, a topic that would strike fear in the hearts of mos
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Jonathan Gold
“IT IS THE COLDEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR,” BEGAN ONE OF Jonathan Gold’s 2006 reviews, “and I am driving along Olympic Boulevard in East Los Angeles, ravenously hungry, looking for one of the itinerant flame-throwing taco carts that sprout in that neighbo
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Destruction after Laos dam fails At least 26 people died in southeastern Laos after a billion-dollar hydropower dam collapsed while under construction on July 23, flooding seven villages. Environmental groups have warned about the rapid pace of dam
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Never Meet a Stranger
Doe’s Eat Place, the restaurant founded in 1941 in my hometown of Greenville, Miss., has reached legendary status among foodies the world over for its superlative steaks cooked on a mammoth open broiler, its hot tamales (which bear little resemblance
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Cruise Dives And Dashes Through A Fabulous Fallout
BEFORE INTERNET CAT VIDEOS, before flip phones, before Beyoncé could talk—let alone sing—there was Tom Cruise. A nuclear blast might kill him, but don’t be so sure. He’s as enduring as the pyramids, and just as impressive. Yet even people who don’t c
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Coming For Georgia
PEOPLE TEND TO REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME THEY heard Stacey Abrams speak, and it’s easy to see why. On a Friday afternoon in May, the Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia is at a union hall in Augusta, telling a story about her father, a college-e

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