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Country music trio Chapel Hart has the full support of their hometown as they head into the season finale of America’s Got Talent this week. Sisters Danica and Devynn Hart, along with their cousin Trea Swindle, make up the fan-favorite group. All three women hail from the tiny town of Poplarville, Mississippi. Poplarville, the county seat of Pearl River County, has the nickname “Blueberry Capital of Mississippi” and boasts a population of 3,000....

If you have a shelf of Julia Child cookbooks in your kitchen, you need a row of ‘Julia Child’ roses in your garden. They’re floribunda roses that repeat bloom in big, free-flowering clusters all season, and they’re a perfect match for the celebrated chef who lent her name to the shrub. ‘Julia Child’ is a lovely rose cultivar that produces vibrant, butter-yellow roses (after all, butter is an essential ingredient in French cooking)....

Is there any couple that makes our heart sing quite like Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban? Their sweet love story has stolen our hearts since 2005, and their relationship only seems to get more perfect with time. (Did we mention that they both have hair that makes us oh-so-jealous, too?) Now, we’re gushing over the words Urban had to share about his beloved wife in a new interview. As Billboard originally reported, the country singer caught up with Zane Lowe on Apple Music in a conversation earlier this week for the “At Home with Apple Music” series....

In the movie Mean Girls, Lacey Chabert as Gretchen Wieners and her friends believed that “on Wednesdays we wear pink.” Now, in real life, the Mississippi native wants women to wear clothes that are comfortable and still stylish. Chabert just launched her first apparel line in partnership with HSN that she described as “a dream come true,” in a recent conversation with Southern Living. “I’ve always wanted to have a clothing line....

Maybe your spring cleaning amidst coronavirus quarantining has reached a whole new level of spick and span. Maybe you’ve been so focused on disinfecting kitchen surfaces and keeping your doorknobs clean that you haven’t had much time to focus on home organization. Regardless of where you fall on the spring cleaning spectrum, it’s safe to say—especially as many of us spend more time than ever remaining safely at home—we all could use a little inspiration from decluttering wizard Marie Kondo....

Learn the difference between mincing, chopping, dicing, and more with this all-inclusive guide to knife skills. Read on so you you’ll know exactly what type of cuts to make when preparing ingredients for recipes. Coarsely chopped: Cut ingredients into large and often irregular pieces that range from 3/4 inch to 1 inch, but not perfectly squared. Chopped:Cut ingredients into more uniform pieces that range from 5/8 inch to 1/2 inch, but not all exactly the same size or shape....

A panda at Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., may be about to give birth! Veterinarians reportedly detected fetal tissue during giant panda Mei Xiang’s ultrasound on Friday morning, though it is “too early to determine if the tissue is a completely viable developing fetus,” zoo officials note, adding that there is the potential that the fetus could be resorbed. If the fetal tissue continues to develop (fingers crossed!), veterinarians estimate that 22-year-old Mei Xiang (pronounced: may-SHONG) could give birth within the next few days....

If you’re looking to make the ever-annoying process of shaving a bit more effective (with longer-lasting, smooth legs), you might want to consider exfoliation. But should we be exfoliating before or after we shave for best results? Below, we’ve asked a professional to explain which method is ideal and why. Should you exfoliate before or after shaving? According to Sarah Allen, MD, a board-certified Internal Medicine physician and co-founder of The SkinClique, it’s best to exfoliate before shaving....

The word bisque is often used to describe any smooth and creamy soup, but true bisque is a thing of shellfish beauty, capturing and concentrating the flavor of the main ingredient. Lobster bisque has always been a fancy dish, so rich and exquisite that a small portion feels sumptuous. When served in a place where fresh lobsters are rare, the indulgence redoubles. The secret to perfect lobster bisque lies in making stock from the shells, which are more sturdy and flavorful than the tender meat....

When it comes to Fourth of July festivities, it doesn’t get much more patriotic than celebrating in the nation’s capital on the big day. (I mean, you can visit and see—in person—the very document that started it all.) Streets buzz with history coming to life, quaint row homes get decked out in red and blue, and seriously impressive fireworks light up the sky at night. Plus, the District is home to so many great restaurants, gorgeous homes, and endless entertainment that it’s perfect for a little summer getaway....

No matter how many fancy restaurants you go to or how many complicated recipes you master, nothing will ever compare to what your Southern grandmother cooked for you growing up. It wasn’t necessarily anything fancy, but I’d refuse to believe that any other person could cook so well. Those are the recipes that Southerners like to pass down—the ones that don’t require being written down, only a memory of how our mothers and grandmothers used to do it....

For designer Rachel Halvorson, this project was personal. After all, she has spent her whole life visiting this close-knit North Carolina community in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains with her family. When a Nashville couple was searching for a trusted guide to give a dose of rustic charm to their new build in the High Country, they were certain that Halvorson was the right person to bring their vision to life....

While the craze around the ceramic Christmas trees that once graced your grandmother’s countertop—twinkling in dozens of charming colored lights—has never truly died out, people are always looking for new vintage-inspired buys that bring similar holiday joy to the home. No matter if you’re a fiend for retro Christmas decorations or prefer a more modern commemoration of your childhood memories, a ceramic Christmas cactus might be the cutest thing to add to your Christmas decór closet this year—before they make like the ceramic Christmas trees and sell out....

Work hard; play hard! It’s a phrase North Carolina residents Megan and Matt Lineberger have adopted as a way of life. It took on new meaning when they decided to put down roots with a vacation home on South Carolina’s idyllic Kiawah Island. “We fell in love with the quiet beauty and knew it was just the place to escape on weekends and spend quality time with our four kids for years to come,” says Megan....

Legendary country folk singer-songwriter John Prine had a lot of fans. Bill Murray, Eric Church, Sturgill Simpson, and everyone who wrote him the postcards that were used in his final video, “I Remember Everything”, for starters. Another to count among Prine’s legions of fans is country star Toby Keith. After Prine succumbed to complications from coronavirus in April 2020, Keith knew that he wanted to pay tribute to his songwriting hero....

The Corolla Wild Horse Fund (CWHF) thanked a pair of local tour guides after they freed a wild horse from a dangerous predicament Monday. Craig Young and Paul Swisher were in the Swan Beach area near Corolla when they noticed a young horse stuck on a wooden fence. Witnesses told McClatchy News that the horse, a one-year-old female named Amelia, might have been trapped like that for hours. “She was there long enough for her (family) to give up waiting and wander away,” Young told the news service....

It all started with a mention on Facebook in 2016. The New York Times reported that food writer Kathleen Purvis, who happens to be one of our friends from the South, wrote, “Peaches should never be eaten before the Fourth of July. From there, one has six weeks to fill up.” Upon first glance, this may not seem like an inflammatory remark—but in the South, we have strong feelings about our produce....

Want to really make a statement in your yard? Plant a Chinese snowball viburnum, or, wait, is it a snowball hydrangea? You know, the one with big white blooms, vibrant green leaves, and curb appeal to spare? Head to any garden center in the South and you might find yourself doing a similar jig as the garden pro tries to nail down exactly which stunner you’re after. The ‘Annabelle’ hydrangea (sometimes referred to as a snowball hydrangea) and the Chinese snowball viburnum (also known as the Chinese snowball bush) both check all the boxes, but they do have a number of factors that will differentiate one from the other....

Have you felt it? There’s been a shift in the tectonic plates of Christmas card etiquette. We’ve noticed that Christmas card letters have all but disappeared from our holiday mailboxes. Where there once was prose, there is now photography. Where we once shared stories, we now share images. Where there once were letters, there now are not. Where have all the letters gone? It’s not hard to guess, as we find ourselves firmly in the era of the photo card....

Do you remember when you bought that bag of all-purpose flour in your kitchen cupboard? Probably not. Unlike other pantry staples such as spices and oil, maybe you’ve never even considered that white flour can expire. Surprise, it can! But don’t worry, you’re probably using it up well before you should. According to the USDA, all-purpose flour (both regular, enriched, bleached, and non-bleached) is best used within a year of the purchase date....