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Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue impressive at Botanic Garden

The headliner and his five-piece band wowed the audience with their brassy mix of about every musical form ever developed in the American South (blues, rock, soul, funk, you name it), all...

Rosanne Cash's new project takes her out of NYC

The 57-year-old singer is preparing a new album of songs about the American South, and did a lot of traveling with husband John Leventhal to get ideas.

Hunting, NYC style: Owners set dogs on alley rats

The lineups included two border terriers; a wire-haired dachshund; a Jack Russell terrier/Australian cattle dog mix; a Patterdale terrier, an intense, no-nonsense breed that's uncommon in this...

Irish official skips Savannah to miss all-men meal

One of Ireland's top government officials says he skipped a visit to Georgia for Savannah's St. Patrick's Day parade, the largest and oldest celebration in the American South, because he doesn't...

Top Shelf: Realignment fuels questions about NHL's future

The Jets want less trips to the American South, and the Carolina Hurricanes, Tampa Bay Lightning, Pittsburgh Panthers and Washington Capitals would appreciate fewer sojourns to Manitoba.

Atlanta bluesman Little G Weevil wins Memphis competition

With hands immersed in suds, his soul soaked up the greasy, funky vernacular music of the American South.

MLK and Obama: a day of similarities

"King's world was so shaped by religion and the American South versus Obama's world, which is shaped by fundamentally different things," Bunch said.

Branford Marsalis headlines Haiti jazz festival

That vibe comes alive this week as Marsalis joins two dozen jazz musicians from Germany, Cameroon, Haiti and elsewhere, in a series of distinct performances that show how far jazz has progressed...

Obama's and Martin Luther King's stories will merge Monday

"King's world was so shaped by religion and the American South versus Obama's world, which is shaped by fundamentally different things," Bunch said.

James Earl Jones to star in "Driving Miss Daisy"

The play follows the evolving friendship of Daisy and her chauffeur Hoke in the American South over 25 years.

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Cast out of Nevada, mentally ill man tells story of finding kindness in Sacramento

Brown, a native of the American South with a distinct accent and a healthy head of...

SAVANNAH, Ga.: Irish official skips Savannah to miss all-men meal

A top Irish government official visiting the U.S. during St. Patrick's Day celebrations said...