Wonderful Southern recipes such as chicken and cream gravy and fried green tomatoes can be found in the recently published “Old Friendship Baptist Church Cookbook.”
Vicksburg marks anniversary of Civil War siege Even 150 years later, Vicksburg is still overshadowed by Gettysburg — so much so, that the Mississippi city is having its Civil War commemoration a few weeks early rather than compete with Pennsylv...
Film on Georgia graveyard wins film festival award A film that documented the recovery of an unmarked graveyard in Middle Georgia has won two awards in an international film festival focused on human culture.
Learn how to clean, maintain your grill Whether you’ve just bought a shiny new grill or pulled your old one out of winter hibernation, step No. 1 before embracing grilling season is to clean and season it.
Grills are like cast-iron skill...
Wine aged in Charleston Harbor recovered A California winery on Tuesday recovered four cases of Cabernet Sauvignon that were submerged in Charleston Harbor three months ago in the first phase of an experiment to determine the effect of oc...
Restaurant learns online reviews can make or break An Arizona restaurateur, fed up after years of negative online reviews and an embarrassing appearance on a reality television show, posted a social media rant laced with salty language and angry, u...
Da Boys of Campbell High School ’Da Boys of Campbell High School is a group of roughly 60 men who graduated from Campbell High School in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The group meets monthly at Howard’s to reminisce, form new f...
Submerged structure stumps Israeli archaeologists The monumental structure, made of boulders and stones with a diameter of 70 meters (230 feet), emerged from a routine sonar scan in 2003. Now archaeologists are trying to raise money to allow them ...
Darius Rucker rides 'Wagon Wheel' to top of charts So far, Rucker's version of "Wagon Wheel" is the most successful song of his country career. The cut from his third Nashville-recorded album, "True Believers," out this week, has sold nearly 1.2 mi...
Mothers and Magnolias Tea relives memories of old Rich’s May 11 was a return to the good ol’ days when ladies wore dresses and hats to lunch. The Mothers and Magnolias Tea brought mothers, daughters, old friends and new to the Marietta Museum of History ...
Microsoft touts Xbox One as all-in-1 entertainment Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One, an entertainment console that promises to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies and other entertainment. It will go on sale later thi...
The pope and the devil: Is Francis an exorcist? The question has been swirling ever since Pope Francis laid his hands Sunday on the head of a young man after celebrating Mass in St. Peter's Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times,...
Stars shine on Cannes carpet They don’t make movies like they used to — which is why James Caan was happy to go back to the 1970s in Guillaume Canet’s “Blood Ties.”
Lauretta Hannon: On college kids and how to say no Q: An old acquaintance from high school will be moving to my neck of the woods soon and has asked to stay with me for a few days, along with her two dogs, while she looks for a place to live. Bas...
Measles surges in UK years after flawed research More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of now discredited research that linked the vaccine to autism. Now, health officials are...
Darien to mark date it was burned in Civil War As the 150th anniversary of the burning of Darien approaches, historian Buddy Sullivan wants to clear up what he considers a misconception about the south Georgia town's Civil War history.