First Practice For The 49ers
While there were no helmets or pads, there was a lot of running.About 85 football players, all decked out in their squeaky clean t-shirts, shorts, and cleats ran full field sprints. For the next three...
View ArticleFirebird Patrol
One of the most popular Uptown photo ops during the DNC will be the Firebird, the tall, mirrored glass sculpture standing outside the Bechtler Museum. That kind of publicity is priceless, but the...
View ArticleDispatches From The Public Radio Paparazzo
The celebrity spottings have started. WFAE's Tanner Latham has been playing the public radio paparazzo. He's been lurking all over uptown, the EpiCentre, and Amos' South End. So far he hasn't seen...
View ArticleThe Famous And Not-So-Famous Doing The Work Of The Candidates
Presidential candidates cannot be everywhere at once, so they have an arsenal of surrogates, people who speak on their behalf and hammer home the campaigns’ message points. For the most part, they...
View ArticleBehind The Scenes At The Daily Show
Fans showed up outside Imaginon as early as 8 o’clock Wednesday morning to get a front row seat at that evening’s taping. The people we caught up with in line later in the day could very quickly...
View ArticleWith Mo On Radio Row
While thousands of people filed into Time Warner Cable Arena Thursday afternoon, Mo Rocca, one of the regular panelists of Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me sat down with WFAE’s Tanner Latham to discuss a new...
View ArticleMore Bust Than Boom For Strip Clubs
In advance of the Republican and Democratic national conventions, strip clubs in both cities invested in upgrades. WFAE’s Tanner Latham checked whether the investments paid off in this report.
View ArticleWhat Is Southern?
I believe that okra symbolizes the ever-evolving definition of the South. It is Southern to the core, but as a non-native plant, okra had to become Southern. In my search for an answer to the question,...
View ArticleAuthentic South: Happy Hollow Happiness
Barbara Nottingham has been running the Happy Hollow Gift Shop in Medicine Park, Oklahoma, for almost 40 years. Its live rattlesnakes and an abundance of tchotchkes draw most of the visitors who have...
View ArticleTo Teach To Learn To Eat
In our food-obsessed culture, we likely never think about what's on the menu at an eating disorder clinic. A couple of chefs bring their inventive cuisine and gregarious personalities to Magnolia...
View ArticleSouthern Storytellers - Les Thomas
Les Thomas wrote his way across the South. His travel writing, for Texas newspapers, Southern Living magazine and beyond, has spanned over 45 years. He's a giant of a man with an innate curiosity....
View ArticleIndian Pass Raw Bar
The Indian Pass Raw Bar is the anchor of the community in the Florida panhandle. It sits on County Road 30A, just southeast of Port St. Joe and west of Apalachicola. It’s an institution in this part of...
View ArticleSinger-Songwriter Josh Vasa
Birmingham, Alabama, singer-songwriter Josh Vasa of the band Sanyasi talks about his Indian heritage, writing, and the value of cheesy lyrics.
View ArticleMiss Biscuit
One of the highlights of Knoxville’s International Biscuit Festival is the Mr. & Miss Biscuit Pageant. This episode profiles Liz Barr, the reigning Miss Biscuit 2013. Her win was surely secured...
View ArticleFolklorist Bill Ferris
Preeminent Southern folklorist Bill Ferris has spent the last 40 years documenting the South in print, photography and film. His latest book, The Storied South, is a collection of interviews with some...
View ArticleAuthentic South: Novelist Cassandra King
Bestselling novelist Cassandra King talks about her new book Moonrise as well as her writing relationship with her husband, famous author Pat Conroy. "Being married to another writer was just like...
View ArticleRemembering Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty was one of the South’s most beloved writers, and her fiction is still a study in detail and dialogue and wit. Her settings were often Southern, but her themes were universal. Eudora won...
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