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Multiple cast iron cookware items from Cuisinart are currently up to 46 percent off, making the typically pricey goods so much more affordable than usual. The sale includes discounts on two different-sized cast iron lidded casserole dishes and a cast iron lidded frying pan. Both pieces are incredibly versatile, effortlessly transitioning from the stove top to the oven, and are surprisingly easy to clean (all you have to do is season them with vegetable oil, then wash with a scrub brush after each use)....

Gardeners want lots of show for not much dough. That’s why they should plant coleus. It costs little, grows quickly, and has the gaudiest foliage imaginable. It’s equally happy in the ground or in a pot. And from the time it’s planted until a hard freeze in fall, it supplies eye-popping color A tropical plant usually treated as an annual, coleus owes its appeal to phenomenal genetic variability. There is hardly a leaf color, shape, size, or growth habit that coleus hasn’t mastered....

Just last month we all got to share in the joy as Amy Earnhardt surprised her husband with the news that baby number two was on the way. In her sweet video from their kitchen, we see Dale Earnhardt Jr. react to what’s written on their daughter Isla’s shirt. “Super, amazing sister,” he said in a tone of disbelief, and asking his wife if it was a joke. It was not....

From a new, chart-topping holiday album to a $1 million donation to Vanderbilt Medical Center to help fight coronavirus that helped fund a promising vaccine from Moderna, we’re feeling particularly grateful for the Queen of Country Music right about now. We’ve also been listening to her music practically nonstop and watching just about every movie she’s played a part in that we can get our hands on (Christmas on the Square on Netflix, anyone?...

On a Friday morning in early June, not long after a wave of protests against racial injustice had swept the country, I saw a post on social media that made me smile. A group of more than 30 florists from my hometown of Birmingham had come together to decorate the entrance to the Rotary Trail, a beautifully landscaped walking and biking path in the heart of the city. They had covered the 46-foot-tall iron scaffolding with thousands of blooms as a symbol of unity and solidarity with the Black community, in remembrance of victims of racism, and as a way to share something that was positive when the whole country was grieving....

Snickers. Twix. Three Musketeers. Baby Ruth. America’s big name candy bars owe it all to the Goo Goo Cluster. The country’s original combination candy bar, the Goo Goo Cluster was invented in 1912 by Standard Candy Company in Nashville, Tennessee. Until Goo Goo, candy bars consisted mostly of straightforward single-ingredient bars made from chocolate, taffy, or caramel. More than a hundred years later, the humble palm-sized mound made up of layers of caramel, marshmallow nougat, and peanuts wrapped in a milk chocolate topcoat is as entrenched in Music City lore as hot chicken and the Grand Ole Opry....

Ask a Southerner to name her top 5 comfort foods and it is a safe bet that meatloaf will rank high on that list. Like other favorite homestyle meals, meatloaf is not a fancy dish and easily adapts to whatever ingredients you have on hand. You may use crumbled biscuits as a binder to make a meatloaf on one occasion, and oatmeal as a binder the next time. Sautéed carrots and onions are tasty stirred into the mix, but go ahead and toss in those leftover baby sweet peas for added color and nutrition....

Longhorns fans wouldn’t recognize the first Bevo mascot, who made his UT football debut 104 years ago this week. The original Bevo was introduced at halftime during a 1916 matchup between UT and Texas A&M. KVUE reports that the first longhorn was scrawny, hard to handle, and not all that popular with students. Plus, UT already had a mascot at the time, a tan and white dog named “Pig Bellmont.”...

Clutter comes in many forms. There’s the tiny, knickknack clutter your grandmother was famous for, there’s the sentimental clutter that you just can’t part with, and then there’s the I-don’t-know-where-to-put-this clutter that nearly all of us deal with on a daily basis. The greatest source for my clutter without a home all relates to either my dog or ugly cleaning towels and rags that I need nearby but cannot (and will not) keep in my pretty linen closet....

Congratulations are in order for the one and only Jon Batiste! The New Orleans-native won Album of the Year for his latest album, We Are, at last night’s Grammy Award ceremony. Batiste, who is also the bandleader and musical director of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, is the first Black artist to win the category in 14 years. Herbie Hancock won a Grammy for River: The Joni Letters in 2008....

If you haven’t had the chance to pick up Lauren Akins’ recently released memoir, Live in Love: Growing Together Through Life’s Changes, we promise it’s the uplifting read we all need right now. When we caught up with the mother of three and wife to Thomas Rhett Akins just before the book debuted on August 18, she shared a bit more with us on why she decided to share her story in writing....

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has unleashed its design for this year’s Love stamps, and boy are they cute! A nod to Americans’ adoration for their furry friends, the new stamps feature playful illustrations of everyone’s favorite pets—a kitten and puppy—each perched on a heart. Perfect timing for Valentine’s Day! “The kitten and puppy each rest their front paws on a big red heart, which captures perfectly the love we have for these special creatures—and their love for us in return,” Judy de Torok, the Postal Service’s vice president of Corporate Relations, said in a news release....

Last year, 11-year-old Audrey Soape unexpectedly lost both her father and grandfather. It’s been a hard time for the Texas middle schooler, to say the least. So, with her school’s “Daddy-Daughter Dance” on the horizon, her mother Holly decided to do something special. She reached out to Audrey’s favorite football player, Eagles safety Anthony Harris, on social media. “It’s kind of far-fetched…it’s a big ask,” Holly told ABC News. “I just asked if he would come—if he’d be willing to come....

Laken Read was just four years old when she got her first cat, a small tabby named Muffin. She told The State that she was devastated when Muffin ran away from her family’s North Carolina home in 2016. The Read family looked high and low for Muffin. They knocked on doors and hung fliers, but the 16-year-old cat was nowhere to be found. Their search was complicated by the arrival of Hurricane Matthew....

A group of five female firefighters from Florida are making history. Earlier this month, Palm Beach Gardens Fire Rescue welcomed the first all-women crew in its 57-year history. “We’re breaking barriers. It’s the first time we had in our department a female as a captain, a driver, a firefighter, rescue lieutenant, and a medic,” Krystyna Heiser Krakowski, Rescue Lieutenant at Palm Beach Gardens Fire Rescue, told WPBF. “Women can do it, too....

Separated by the St. Andrews Bay along Florida’s Gulf coast is a pair of cities, both with nearly identical names save for one word. (But don’t be mistaken—both do have beaches.) It’s cause for confusion in many a conversation, but Panama City and Panama City Beach are actually two completely different places with markedly different histories. Read on to learn what makes these two special destinations in the Florida Panhandle unique....

Reba McEntire treated guests at her son’s wedding with a surprise performance of her most well-known hit, “Fancy.” The country legend’s son, Shelby Blackstock, married Marissa Branch at Walt Disney World in Orlando on February 12. According to a People exclusive, the celebration began with a cocktail hour and dinner at Rotunda Bistro at Epcot before moving to the Magic Kingdom for a moon-lit ceremony after the park closed. “Epcot was the first place Shelby said ‘I love you’ and where he would later propose,” Branch, a self-proclaimed Disney princess, told People....

Last August Southern Living reported on how NEEDTOBREATHE released their first studio album in four years, Out of Body. The Southern rockers finished recording the album just days before the initial shutdowns took place in March 2020. With the pandemic shutting down tours for over a year and keeping most of us at home, no one could have expected they would have another batch of new tunes was on the way....

Have you heard? Biscuitville is the place to eat. If you’re not lucky enough to live near a Biscuitville (aka, you’re not one of the deliciously enlightened), let us explain. Biscuitville is a family owned and operated, old-fashioned, Southern-style food chain serving up delicious, hand-kneaded, scratch-made biscuits from 54 locations in North Carolina and Virginia. (Say that five times fast.) Their headquarters is located in Greensboro, North Carolina, and rumor has it that there’s a Biscuitville food truck in the works, which promises to bring their fan-favorite biscuits to even more locations....

The South is known for doling out traditional formal names, and then promptly ignoring them in favor of creative nicknames that range from Beau to Boo to Tre to Shug. Southerners are also known for the delightfully quirky titles we bestow upon our beloved grandparents like Moo, PaPaw, and Bunny. Often there’s a story behind the terms of endearment, but sometimes names just evolve and then stick, and we sometimes forget how they came about....