Category: The South
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GRITS: Sutton Foster
This article is part of our series “GRITS: Girls Raised in the South,” in which we profile some of our favorite Dixie ladies and the things that make them awesome. Got an idea for a fabulous femme we should feature? Shoot us an email at zeldaandscout@gmail.com! (Alliteration optional.) Name: Sutton Foster Born: March 18th, 1975,…
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Required Reading: Volume One
Today we introduce a new series, Required Reading, in which we share some of our favorite tales and tomes of New York and the South — classic and contemporary, fiction and nonfiction, short form and long. These are the stories that open our eyes to other walks of life, that shape who we are, and…
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Let It Snow
This week started off with the promise of a bang. Unless you were living under a rock in the desert, you heard the proclamations of doom, destruction, and Snowmaggedon that, as of Monday, were supposedly bearing down on New York and its Northeast environs with all the force of Westeros (Note: Ask Scout if that’s…
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A Cow on the Roof of a Cottonhouse, or How I Learned to Love Bluegrass
Lawd, lawd, bring him dead or alive Open on a chain gang. Low warbling voices begin to rise over the sound of pick-axes and splitting rocks. With this sequence of sounds, I’m back, twelve years old in my den watching the sepia-toned Mississippi fields of the Coen Brothers’ finest film (in my personal opinion, anyway…though…
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GRITS: Leslie Jones
This article is part of our series “GRITS: Girls Raised in the South,” in which we profile some of our favorite Dixie ladies and the things that make them awesome. Got an idea for a fabulous femme we should feature? Shoot us an email at zeldaandscout@gmail.com! (Alliteration optional.) Name: Leslie Jones Born: September 7, 1967,…
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State of the Heart
My mom’s family always called me a city girl. Louisville, despite what many of my East Coast counterparts may think, is a city: the largest metropolis in the Commonwealth. As Louisville’s cool factor rises, there’s a tendency among its residents to separate the city from the state, to say “Oh, we’re not like the rest…
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These Are a Few of Our Favorite Folks!
Nobody exists in a vacuum, least of all people who call these crazy internets home. As bloggers, we’re constantly being inspired by the brilliance around us, especially the nuggets of beautiful wisdom that float up to our Brooklyn laptops from below the Mason-Dixon line. So today we thought we’d share with you a few of…
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GRITS: Rosemary Clooney
This article is part of a series titled “GRITS: Girls Raised in the South,” in which we profile some of our favorite Dixie ladies and the things that make them awesome. Got an idea for a fabulous femme we should feature? Shoot us an email at zeldaandscout@gmail.com! (Alliteration optional.) Name: Rosemary Clooney Born: May 23,…
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Zelda & Scout Holiday Gift Guide: The South
It’s December, and while holiday decorations exploded all over every retail establishment somewhere around Halloween, now is when the pressure really sets in. ‘Tis the season of gifting, of wish lists and dwindling bank accounts. Everyone takes to this process differently. Zelda is a compulsive gifter: Nothing makes her happier than browsing the boutiques (or,…
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A Dirty Mind Is A Terrible Thing to Waste: 9 Life Lessons We Learned From Steel Magnolias
While Nora Ephron shaped our cinematic visions of New York, the single biggest cinematic influence on our views on life in the South was Steel Magnolias. From the big hair to the epic levels of snark and sass, we identify with these ladies big time: An alternative name for this blog could have been Clairee…
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