Navigate the South
Ode to the gloriously outrageous place names of the South
The highways and byways of the Southern states are filled with road signs announcing towns and cities with often unusual, sometimes baffling, and on occasion gloriously outrageous names. On family road trips and vacations headed to the beach or to see some relative twice removed, my mother and I have made it a game to…
Read MoreState of the Art/Art of the State: Breaking Down Art World Elitism
We hear about art world elitism over and over again. Sometimes it seems like a constant critical mantra or self-congratulatory boast depending on where you position yourself on this appraisal. I myself sit somewhere in the middle of this debate fully understanding the often stifling effect elitism has on art, not to mention the very…
Read MoreSmorgasburg via Williamsburg Bridge
Macon Women in the City
In September, my soul mates and I hit the Big Apple for our 10 year anniversary of meeting each other. This may sound a little odd, but when four friends meet each other as first-years in college and make it through the roller coaster that is collegiate education and then remain close afterwards it is…
Read MoreA Farm with a View
“…when she reached her own room she opened the window and breathed the clean night air, thinking of the kind old man who had enabled her to see the lights dancing in the Arno and the cypresses of San Miniato, and the foot-hills of the Apennines, black against the rising moon.” ~ A Room with…
Read MoreDowntown Shopping, Asheville
While strolling the streets of downtown Asheville, there are plenty of sights to see from street performers to 1920’s architecture and public artworks to views of the Blue Ridge Mountains, but even with these delights the shops will soon beckon you inside. Asheville is full of a variety of stores offering unique wares with often…
Read MoreStreet Views, Asheville
The River Arts District, Asheville
Even on a sweltering hot afternoon, a kinetic, creative energy permeates the air in Asheville’s River Arts District. Artists are busy at work in their studios with fans buzzing and music playing, while tourists and locals alike are sauntering the streets, turning here and there to enter different industrial brick buildings. They are on a…
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