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What could beat a Pub Sub? A Pub Sub that only requires traveling from your couch to your door to pick up. Well, unbeknownst to us, this Pub Sub on-demand dream is a reality, thanks to the same-day grocery delivery service Instacart. To see if you can order from a Publix in your area, simply visit delivery.publix.com and type in your ZIP Code. If the service is available where you live, once you’re registered and have selected your items for purchase, you can select a day and time for your groceries to be delivered....

These past six months many of us have been safely homebound. Some have been finding home-centric activities to keep themselves both happy and content like renewing a commitment to family dinners, doubling up on library checkouts, and cleaning into oblivion. We’ve seen a number of trends come and go throughout this time, banana clips, curtain bangs, and homemade crunchwraps among them, but a new hair accessory is taking the younger-set by storm and I can’t help but think that moms are wearing it with quite a different effect right about now....

Finding affordable stocking stuffers can be difficult, which is why Cyber Monday is the ideal time to find all the gifts you’re looking for. We rounded up deals on presents for everyone on your list and on a variety of types of products, from hats to jade rollers. Find even more Cyber Monday deals on stocking stuffers below. Best Cyber Monday Stocking Stuffer Deals: Lululemon Uplifting Scrunchie Bow Three Pack, $19 (orig....

Coming face-to-face with either a crocodile or an alligator is undoubtedly a frightening situation. After all, they both have mouths that are packed with some seriously oversized sharp teeth, green scaly bodies, and the strength to pull their prey underwater in a mere moment. But, it’s important to give respect where respect is due in the animal kingdom, because crocs and gators couldn’t be more different. Where They Live Crocodiles, Owlcation explained, can be found across the world, while their alligator friends are only found in parts of the United States and China....

Never tamper with perfection when you can simply copy it. As a recent article on al.com reported, conversations across the USA are now getting peppered with that most perfect of all Southernisms: “y’all.” The site quoted retired Auburn University linguistics professor Thomas Nunnally, who spoke at Birmingham’s Samford University in February 2019. Nunnally is editor of the essay collection Speaking of Alabama: The History, Diversity, Function and Change of Language (University of Alabama Press, 2018)....

This graduation season has gone straight to the dogs. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office has just announced is first graduating class of pups from its K9 academy. To make sure everyone stayed safe at the World Games, which are coming to Birmingham, Alabama in July, the police decided to call in a few new recruits. Specifically, a team of well-trained pups who can help solve crime. “We have added a few new faces to our K-9 Team and everyone needed to have recertifications in advance of the World Games coming to Birmingham,” Sgt....

Friday the 13th gets a bad rap. Despite what the 12 (!!) slasher films in the horror movie franchise might have you believe, it’s really just a combination of a date and a day of the week that occasionally appears on the calendar. So unless you suffer from triskaidekaphobia, (that’s a fear of the number 13) you may want to head to your local Wendy’s this Friday the 13th, because the restaurant is making it your lucky day....

Similar to the iconic pound cake, the 1-2-3-4 cake derives its name from the proportions of its ingredients: one cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, and four eggs. Perhaps it should be called the 1-2-3-4-1 cake, because you do need to incorporate one cup of milk into the cake batter. Nevertheless, the recipe is so straightforward, you may not need to write the recipe down. All you do need to do is remember which number matches up with which ingredient....

The first time I cried on Christmas morning was a couple of years after I got married. My newish husband and I were spending the holiday with his parents in Connecticut, and though I was a 30-year-old woman, I was not yet a mother, which meant I was still in that pre-parenthood phase of life and believed that Christmas morning was for me. My generous mother-in-law must have, on some level, understood this, which is why she bought me an expensive vacuum cleaner that year....

The boom in gardening that started during the pandemic doesn’t show any signs of letting up. But after the initial excitement of planning and planting, many of us stare at our not-so-robust plants and realize the reality of gardening doesn’t match those dreamy social media photos. Most gardening lessons are learned by trial and error, but picking up tips from experienced growers is a big help. For example, did you know that it’s best to plant flowers amongst your veggies?...

Who among us could begin to name everything the South has produced: blues and jazz, Koolickles, the SEC, the funeral procession pull-over, Elvis, Dolly, gas station fried chicken . . . and passive aggressive insults, otherwise known as backhanded compliments. We didn’t adopt this behavior intentionally or even consciously. It’s just that we have an aversion to aggression in everyday discourse. (In a football stadium, we have no problem with it whatsoever....

Staff at True Rescue in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, have handled their fair share of kittens over the years. So all it took was one look at the head and paws of a kitten that was rushed to the animal shelter last week to tell that they were dealing with a case of mistaken identity. The seemingly distressed kitten found on the back deck of a Middle Tennessee couple’s home was actually a baby bobcat....

Online research and advice from friends and family about the best pans will likely introduce you to two popular styles of cookware: nonstick and stainless steel. And if you’re torn between these options—the former offering an ideal canvas for cooking delicate foods with the promise of an easy cleanup, the latter offering powerful, even heat for a covetable sear on heartier ingredients—fear not. You can have the best of both worlds thanks to Hexclad’s hybrid pan....

We’re all shook up after seeing actor Austin Butler as Elvis Presley in the first trailer for the forthcoming Bahz Luhrrman biopic Elvis. The 30-year-old actor, best known for TV roles in The Carrie Diaries and Switched at Birth, takes on his biggest role yet as the King of Rock ’n’ Roll, and the resemblance is uncanny. The new trailer reveals an action-packed, music-filled drama that gives glimpses into Presley’s upbringing in Tennessee but focuses primarily on his meteoric rise to fame from the 1950s through the 1970s....

New York City is no longer home to America’s tallest Christmas tree. In 2021, that honor started to belong to Enid, Oklahoma, which is actually the world’s tallest Christmas tree. At 140 feet, Enid’s towering Christmas tree in 2021 stood 75 percent taller than the world-famous Rockefeller Center tree. The gigantic fir traveled 2,000 miles from just outside California’s Shasta-Trinity National Forest, chosen from trees marked for harvest. Heralded as the world’s tallest Christmas tree in 2021, the “Christ Tree” was decorated with 20,000 multi-colored LED lights, 10,000 ornaments, and ringed by a forest of 12 smaller trees....

Imagine a venue with “duck fat fried everything,” Texas barbecue, a Japanese grill, a gourmet grilled cheese shop, a tacos eatery, and more delectable grub. We are getting hungry just typing about this, dear readers. Welcome to Main Streat by H-E-B, a food hall located inside the H-E-B Mueller in Austin, which opened yesterday, Tuesday, August 25. The new space will feature several dining options including Roots Chicken Shak by Chef Tiffany Derry, of Top Chef fame, which will serve up hits like duck fat fried chicken wings and strips, chicken sandwiches, duck fat fries with house-made “clucking sauces,” banana pudding, sweet tea, Caesar salads, and more....

Cool, sweet hydration. That is what we long for during the dog days of a hot summer. Thankfully, our gardens, U-Pick Farms, and markets are filled with produce, both fruits and vegetables, that are bursting with mouthwatering juices that keep us satisfied. While a delicious peach or berry is easy to work with, preparing a melon, such as cantaloupe, for a fresh fruit salad requires a little more work, which is why we are often tempted to purchase one pre-cut at the grocery store....

Planting and PropagatingPlant container-grown bamboos any time of year. The more crowded a bamboo is in the container, the faster it will grow when planted out. Do not cut or spread the rootball; this may kill some canes. Best time to propagate from existing clumps is just before growth begins in spring; divide hardy kinds in March or early April, tropical ones in May or early June. (Transplanting at other times is possible, but risk of losing divisions is high in summer heat or winter chill and wet soil....

With the world wide death toll from the novel coronavirus topping 3,000 and more U.S. states reporting new cases by the hour, Americans are anxious to know what precautions they can take against the deadly virus. Currently, there is no vaccine to prevent the COVID-19 infection caused by the virus, and no medication to treat it. In the meantime, the CDC is recommending everyday preventive actions to help prevent it from spreading....

While Father’s Day is usually a joyous occasion to celebrate dear old dad, it can be a bittersweet holiday for folks who have lost their fathers. Jennifer Nettles used the holiday weekend to share the sad news that her father died in May. In a post shared to her official Instagram account, the Sugarland singer and Righteous Gemstones actress revealed that her father, Johnnie “Beamon” Nettles died on May 14, 2022 at Colquitt Regional Medical Center in Ashburn, Georgia....