Life + Culture

From Father to Son to Son

Three generations built Selwood Farm on tradition, family, and the great outdoors Article by Blair Moore | Photography by Mary Fehr Some of the best stories are generations in the making. Such is the case at Selwood Farm, where a piece of farmland has become a living family legacy rooted in tradition and values. The property came to the Hill family in 1946, when O.V. Hill purchased it from the family who had settled there in 1834. A county extension agent and natural builder, O.V...

Life + Culture

I Thought I Was Fine

Reflecting on a year that changed everything Article by Jake Callahan | Photography by Mary Fehr It has been one year since I woke up from what I thought would be a routine procedure—only to learn that my reality had changed in an instant. What was expected to be a simple surgery turned into something far more serious: a diagnosis of colorectal cancer. That moment didn’t just alter my health. It reframed my life. Looking back, the signs were there. For nearly two years, I had been dealing...

Health + Wellness

The Physics of Feel

Thomas Twitty answers the one question every golfer is really asking Article by Kali McNutt | Photography by Clay Morrison The lab work wrapped up yesterday. Sensors, movement screens, and two hours of Thomas Twitty watching data tell the truth about golf motion. Today, the setting shifts from lab to fairway. Finn Burkholder, a college-bound senior from Houston, is walking the course with Twitty, putting yesterday’s findings into action. His father follows a few steps behind. Joining them is...

Food + Beverage

The Umami Hour

At Current Charcoal Grill, Kendall Salgado reinvents a classic where sesame is the star Article by Kendall Salgado | Photography by Caleb Chancey The Shiro Goma Old Fashioned Ingredients: 2 oz Roasted Sesame-Washed Bourbon .25 oz Clarified White Miso Caramel Syrup 3 dashes Fee Brothers Black Walnut Bitters 4 drops of 10% Saline Solution Garnish: House-prepared Premium Nori Snack Method: 1. Add the sesame-washed bourbon, miso caramel, black walnut bitters, and saline droplets to...

Life + Culture

Soul Man

Twenty years after winning American Idol, Taylor Hicks plays on Article by Kali McNutt | Photography by Mary Fehr From the Saw's Juke Joint parking lot, you can smell smoke, char, and something sweet. It's 10 a.m. on a Monday, and inside the restaurant, deliveries are unloaded and staff prep tables. Taylor Hicks, unhurried and genuinely warm, greets me like an old friend. For the photo shoot, he didn’t bring a guitar. He brought a harmonica — the same instrument that first made people stop...

Shopping

Celebrating 25 Years of GLS Supply in Alabama

Where It All BeganIn the early 1970s, two young men from modest beginnings crossed paths while working at a plumbing supply company. Neither had money, but both shared a strong work ethic and a willingness to learn the business from the ground up.George Sudderth and Mark Summerville spent years working side by side, learning every aspect of the plumbing supply industry while building a friendship and partnership that would eventually shape their future.After roughly a decade, they moved to Gayle...

Home + Design

At Home on Honeysuckle

A serendipitous redesign brings fresh color, layered character, and livable elegance to a Crestline cottage Article by Alice Welsh Doyle | Photography by Laurey Glenn Call it serendipity, good fortune, or sheer luck, but when Birmingham decorator Zoë Gowen received a phone call from a young couple asking for help, it was a full-circle moment. “When I was a homes editor at Southern Living, I scouted this house in Crestline and did a curb appeal makeover story, but we never photographed the...

Fitness

Tumbling Into Joy

Where a group of Birmingham women come to tumble, laugh, and cheer each other on Article by Blair Moore | Photography by Dr. Joseph Wu On Friday mornings at Magic City Cheer in Hoover, the bass carries out into the parking lot. Inside, cheers erupt — not for a kid or teenager, but for a mom in her 40s who just landed a roundoff back tuck, met with high fives and whoops from women who were strangers just months ago. It all started with a playful dare from Coach Tression “Tre” Nash to a...

Arts + Culture

Soaring

Three Birmingham women helping the next generation rise higher Article by Blair Moore | Photography by Mary Fehr Pamela Reed Phipps Executive Director of Grace House Ministries There she stood—an 8-year-old girl holding an unusually large purse. Curious, Pamela Reed Phipps asked why she carried such a big bag. “I never know when I’m going to need to stuff things in it and leave,” the girl told her. Phipps devotes her life to helping foster girls like these at Grace House Ministries, a...

Life + Culture

She's Good at Getting Dressed

Courtenay Bullock brings instinct, restraint, and confidence to Le Weekend Article by Kali McNutt | Photography by Gracie Eddins There’s a clarity to the way Courtenay Bullock approaches style—and it starts with knowing what not to bring home. “Good taste is knowing who you are and staying in your lane,” she says. At her English Village boutique, Le Weekend, the racks aren’t crowded. They’re considered. Edited. Intentional. It’s not about offering more. It’s about offering the right things. ...