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  • #ICYMI: Southern Movies

    Over more than a century, mainstream movies have offered portrayals of the American South that range from the darkness of 1918’s Birth of a Nation to…

  • Southern Movie 38: “French Quarter” (1978)

    Let’s just start by being clear that 1978’s French Quarter is a weird, half-baked frame narrative whose dual-world, time-warp fantasy underpinning doesn’t make a lot…

  • #ICYMI: Southern Movies

    Over more than a century, mainstream movies have offered portrayals of the American South that range from the darkness of 1918’s Birth of a Nation to…

  • #throwbackthursday: Big Ol’ Birds’ Nests at the Museum, 2009

    Back in 2009, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts had this installation by artist Patrick Dougherty. When my kids were small, I used to take…