Garden & Gun

2 days ago | gardenandgun.com | Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

Between the venue, the flowers, the dress, the guest list, and the countless other decisions that need to be made when planning a wedding, one of the most enjoyable selections is the music. Will you kick off your reception by slow dancing to that tune you’ve loved since you met your spouse in college? Will you walk down the aisle to a song whose lyrics somehow articulate the inarticulable aspects of love?

5 days ago | gardenandgun.com | Chris Kraft

When the white smoke furled from the Sistine Chapel, Catholics everywhere—alongside the rest of the curious world—waited with bated breath. Then Robert Prevost walked out on the balcony to give his blessing, and the flurry of news about the Chicago-born pontiff started swirling. Peruvians celebrated the man who had spent twenty years living among them. The United States proudly claimed its first-ever American pope. Students at Pennsylvania’s Villanova University, where Prevost studied, .

6 days ago | gardenandgun.com | Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

Food-focused travelers could easily spend a month in Charleston, South Carolina, and leave enough dishes untasted to warrant a return trip. On this jasmine-perfumed peninsula you’ll find fine-dining stalwarts, Lowcountry classics, and lately, a growing number of small, independent neighborhood eateries—a category that reflects diners’ appetite for community, chefs’ desire for creative control, and restaurateurs’ demand for flexible business models.

6 days ago | gardenandgun.com | Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

Every April, Griffin Bufkin starts keeping an eye on the road outside his barbecue restaurant on Georgia’s St. Simon’s Island. Sooner or later, he knows, a 1950 Chevy will pull up, and a farmer from Vidalia will get out and ask him how many five-gallon buckets of onions he wants this year. A few weeks later, that fresh-from-the-field bounty arrives as promised and Bufkin gets to work adding them to the menu.

6 days ago | gardenandgun.com | Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

When your mother is the beloved Charleston, South Carolina, interior designer Kathleen Rivers, it’s hard not to inherit the creative gene—though it took her daughter, Palmer Weiss, time to realize it. Rivers, whose work helped define classic Southern style for more than four decades, is still working at age eighty, with projects in the South and across the country.