As always, all images unless otherwise noted copyright Deep Fried Kudzu. Like to use one elsewhere? Kindly contact me here.
Affiliate links are sometimes used. That means that if you purchase something via one of the links, it costs you nothing extra, but may generate a commission, offsetting the cost of DFK… e.g. as an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Also: remember that Bookshop is fab because they’re giving orders to indie booksellers. Grateful for your support. xoxo!
from a visit in 2012
Popes Museum Preservation, the nonprofit for Pope’s Museum, received a Vibrant Communities Grant from the Georgia Council for the Arts for FY 2025.
from a 2017 visit
The Tennessee Williams home in Columbus, Mississippi reopened last month after $300k+ in renovations/updates.
The “Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South” at the Mississippi Museum of Art is on through April 13, 2025.
At The New Yorker’s 2024 Best Movies piece, they mention:
RaMell Ross’s exquisite 2018 documentary, “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” took in only $112,282 at the box office, but it got him the chance to direct his first dramatic feature, “Nickel Boys,” with a budget of more than twenty million dollars.
They put Nickel Boys at #1 on the list for this year.
Hosted a fab Friendsgiving last month with 24 friends!
Thanks in part to a $1M USDA grant, Auburn’s Rural Studio Front Porch Initiative and University Outreach is working with the City of Selma to bring more affordable housing options there.
Apple stack cake, an Appalachian specialty, at an Alabama grocery store — this is the new Food City in Owens Cross Roads (Huntsville area) that also has a bar inside.
Definitely approving of the cheeseballs
and more cheeseballs
and a bar
Walter Burley Griffin’s Cooley House in Monroe, Louisiana is the only Prairie style architecture in the state on the National Register’s list.
from a visit in 2011
I missed this but Graceland Too is open again.
If you miss V. Richard’s in Forest Park, the recipe for their Savannah shrimp salad is here and the chicken salad recipe (the one with apples) is here. The pimento cheese with peppers and pecans? Here.
Really want to see Jonah Freeman + Justin Lowe: Sunset Corridor at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth before it closes January 5.
From the Modern:
Crossing the threshold into Sunset Corridor, one is transported into a slightly nostalgic yet alien parallel realm, where simultaneous feelings of displacement and familiarity invite exploration. The path through the exhibition is linear, yet the unfolding narratives ebb and flow. Stories of technological innovation, rebellious acts, adaptation, and resiliency emerge. By blurring the lines between fact and fiction, past and present, consciousness and mind-altered states, in Sunset Corridor Freeman and Lowe provide a new lens through which to examine humanity’s ever-changing relationship to itself, its innovations, and its surroundings.
Closer: Erin Dailey’s Abstractions at Play exhibit at the Frank Lloyd Wright Rosenbaum House in Florence AL is up through December 28 this year.
Artnet asks readers what work gives them chills — thrilled to see that someone answered with Ragnar Kjartansson’s The Visitors, which I saw at The Frist in 2016 (still one of my favorites) — and another reader mentions Ceal Floyer’s ’Til I Get It Right (2005) which repeats the mantra we all need, I’ll just keep on/’til I get it right, from Tammy Wynett’s ‘Til I Get it Right.
You must be logged in to post a comment.