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DaVante Williams was one of hundreds of motorists stranded for hours by snowy weather on I-95 in northern Virginia earlier this month. The part-time Uber driver told CNN he didn’t realize the storm had created an unprecedented backup when he agreed to a pickup from Union Station in Washington, DC, early Tuesday morning. Williams’ passenger, a teenage girl, found herself alone in the city when her train home to Williamsburg, Virginia, was canceled due to the weather....

In the makeup realm, foundation is secretly the trickiest product to master. To be fair, it’s all hard enough as it is. (Anyone else deal with the dreaded late-afternoon mascara raccoon eyes? Just me?) For some, applying eye makeup proves most problematic; for others, it’s finding a long-wear lip color that won’t bleed or melt all over by lunch. But foundation—oh, it’s the real silent swindler, especially as we get older....

Not to be alarmist, but have you checked on your lawn lately? If it’s summer in the South, that means that patch of grass might be in jeopardy of being invaded by army worms. Armyworms are a summertime and fall scourge of lawn lovers, unfortunately, as the summer heats up and the plants dry up. According to local news channel WTVM 13, the rain in summer kills off the insects that can keep an armyworm invasion at bay—an insect situation that creates “the perfect environment” for armyworms....

Ladies and gentlemen, we are back with more breaking Masters news. Hold onto your pimento cheese sandwich T-shirts, y’all. There’s a new concession item at Augusta National this year, and it’s here to give your favorite mayo-based mainstays a run for their money. This week, the famous Georgia golf club revealed that food selections at the 85th Masters Tournament would include chicken salad on a brioche bun. A new Masters sandwich?...

It’s easy to see why Tim McGraw’s 2007 “If You’re Reading This,” is a fan-favorite. Between the touching lyrics told from the perspective of a war hero who doesn’t make it back home and McGraw’s stirring vocals, it’s hard not to feel moved every time you hear him sing the first verse: “If you’re reading this / My Momma’s sittin’ there /Looks like I only got a one way ticket over here / Sure wish I / Could give you one more kiss / And war was just a game we played when we were kids....

Kate Stewart learned at a young age that the best gifts really do come in small packages. Each Christmas, the Atlanta native watched as her father tucked a special gift into a teeny needlepoint stocking (made by her mother) that hung on the family’s tree. They called it the “bauble stocking,” and every year, after all of the other presents had been unwrapped on Christmas Day, her father would take the little stocking off the tree and give it to her mother....

If you’re busy planning holiday meal prep and thinking of all the recipes in which you’ll use the juicy, pearl-like pomegranate fruit, you may wonder if your dog can eat a pomegranate seed or two. But hold those jewel-tone seeds! The relationship between dogs and pomegranate is complicated. Raw pomegranate isn’t toxic to dogs, but it can make them sick. “Eating more than a few of the seeds or any of the peel can cause digestive issues like vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain,” says Dr....

In our opinion, there’s no occasion that can’t be made better with deviled eggs—including Thanksgiving. While you may think of this classic Southern recipe as a summer dish, we’re here to prove they’re suitable to be served year-round. Plus, Southern-style deviled eggs come together easily with just four ingredients. Deviled eggs are the dish that I bring to every gathering throughout the year, and Thanksgiving is no exception. My family loves the classic, no-frills recipe that uses just mayonnaise, mustard, and relish for the filling....

If you haven’t checked your calendar lately, we’re here to announce that Easter is in April this year. And, in the South, planning for this glorious occasion begins weeks in advance. Matching pastel-colored outfits need to be chosen, Resurrection Day decorations need to be hung, and a plethora of delicious food needs to be cooked. Of course, the meaning of Easter centers on the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which means we pull out all the stops when it comes to this highly anticipated holiday....

Auditions for The Voice always have their fair share of country standouts. From yodeler Casi Joy taking on “Blue” by Bill Mack (most notably covered by LeAnn Rimes) to Sundance Head, the show’s 11th season winner, performing Maren Morris’ “My Church,” it’d be a while if we were to tick off every country music performance that we’ve loved on the hit NBC series. So instead, we’ll just sit right here and be in awe of the round, rich timbre of 17-year-old Tennessean, Ethan Lively, auditioning recently with George Strait’s 1983 single, “You Look So Good In Love....

I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve heat styled my hair over the past five weeks. Working from home with a three-year-old and a one-year-old just doesn’t allow for the type of me time that includes anything more than the bare necessities (no masking, manicures, or bread baking for me). I am grateful for the companionship, though, even if it often includes an angry baby standing outside of the shower curtain screaming while I haphazardly try to rinse conditioner out of my hair....

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold, we’ve all had to adjust to the difficult realities it has created. For the teachers among us, that means scrambling to create an online curriculum for our students. For the parents of school children among us, it means adapting to have our kids at home 24/7. For some, we’ve mourned the loss of daily rituals like visiting the library or a yoga studio. For all of us, we’ve mourned the loss of plans to look forward to—whether that was a summer vacation, walking the stage at graduation, or attending a wedding....

Ed Orgeron wasn’t always a hero, and he certainly wasn’t always a role model. In fact, long before he was LSU’s beloved head football coach, he nearly got kicked off his college football team and threw away his future in the process. Bébé, as he’s also known, quit LSU as a freshman and eventually ended up at Northwestern State (NWS) in Natchitoches. By his junior year in 1982, USA Today reports that he had “earned a reputation as a hell-raising, curfew-busting barroom brawler....

It’s here. This is that point in the summer where you might find yourself in the Zucchini Zone, thanks to an over-productive backyard garden (or a neighbor’s over-productive garden). When you’re absolutely drowning in zucchini, you’re in the Zone. Which means it’s time for zucchini bread. This classic summertime quick bread is easy to whip up and it freezes well, which means you can stash a few extra loaves in the freezer to enjoy later on....

It’s just bread, cheese, and butter, right? Wrong! There’s an art to making a perfect grilled cheese sandwich. Here’s how: 1. Start with a Nonstick Skillet Obviously, a skillet is your go-to pan when making a grilled cheese sandwich. A nonstick skillet or well-seasoned cast iron skillet is the best pan to use because it will brown the bread nicely, and allow you to flip the sandwich with ease. (Speaking of which, grab a wide spatula....

You’ve mastered the right way to freeze bananas and are a certified Banna Pudding Master, but what are cooks to do when they need their bananas to ripen fast for banana bread? The oven method to the rescue. As Food 52, recently explained, putting your bananas in the oven is an easy way to ripen your bananas on the fly. As writer Ella Quittner shares, you’ll want to put your bananas on a lined, rimming baking sheet and set your oven to 300°F....

You’ve set your Thanksgiving table like Joanna Gaines. Now what? Make the Empress of Waco’s Thanksgiving stuffing recipe, of course. Thankfully, she was kind enough to share her signature homemade stuffing recipe in a recent post in her Magnolia at Home blog. “One dish you can always count on to complement your Thanksgiving meal is stuffing. This recipe takes a little bit more time from start to finish, but trust us, it’s worth the wait!...

After a 16-year career with the New Orleans Saints that included nine playoff runs, seven NFC South titles, and a Super Bowl win, Sean Payton is stepping down as head coach. In an emotional press conference on Tuesday, the beloved coach announced that he would not be returning to the Saints or to coaching for the 2022 season. Payton left the door open to return to football, saying he honestly didn’t know what would come next for him but was excited by the idea of something new....

Mary Badham, the actress who played Scout in the original 1962 movie adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, is taking on a role in Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. According to The New York Times, Badham is currently rehearsing to play Mrs. Dubose, Scout’s mean morphine-addicted neighbor, for the production’s upcoming national tour. “I’m going full circle,” Badham told the newspaper. “This is something I never contemplated....

After bonding over their “hook ’em” camaraderie for their shared alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin, Jenna Bush Hager and Matthew McConaughey jumped into a captivating conversation for bookworms in Bush Hager’s “Open Book” segment on TODAY. In true Lone Star fashion, Bush Hager kicked things off by praising some of the state’s finest scribes: “Okay, so Texas literature Cormac McCarthy, Larry McMurtry, Katherine Anne Porter Did you grow up reading?...