The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
...of the case and how local groups and United States Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-Illinois) have rallied around Gabino Sanchez, a 27-year-old construction and landscape worker from rural Ridgeland, South Carolina....
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...Street Shooting Leaves 10 Wounded, 2 Critically, Tourism Image Scarred," NOLA.com, June 30, 2014, http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/06/bourbon_street_gunfight_leaves.html; Helen Freund, "Bourbon Street Shooting Victim, 21, Dies," NOLA.com, July 2, 2014, http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/07/bourbon_street_shooting_victim.html. For many,...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...is another Mississippi Delta native. Today he works as a lawyer in Atlanta. Caffery, educated at the San Francisco Art Institute, is from southwest Louisiana’s Bayou country and returned home...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
Review Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism opens with an arresting photographic image: nineteenth-century local colorist Mary Noailles Murfree, author of In the Tennessee Mountains, a collection of purportedly "authentic" sketches, sits...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...TV. "How can I miss you when you won't go away?" sings native Arkansan Dan Hicks in his tongue-in-cheek classic. As someone continually and deeply interested in individual stories, personal...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...time. She kicks off her sandals and enters, the water so much colder than she imagined, and quickly deeper, up to her kneecaps, surging under the smooth surface. She shivers....
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...and Gus Van Sant befriended him and invited him to take photographs on their movie sets. More recently, Eggleston has had major exhibitions at galleries and museums around the world...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...based on the seedy potboiler Sanctuary, to 1959's The Sound and the Fury (starring Yul Brynner, of all people, as the sadistic Jason Compson), big screen adaptations of Faulkner's modernist...
Theories of Time and Space
...of shrimp boats are loose stitches in a sky threatening rain. Cross over the man-made beach, 26 miles of sand dumped on the mangrove swamp—buried terrain of the past. Bring...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...a film show and a pre-recorded soundtrack. Before Michael took the stage, his sister Lynda Stipe, who wrote the songs, played bass while Michael and Lynda’s friend Linda Hopper sang....