Cultured

Art, music, and culture for the wannabe connoisseur

Stretching Self for Art and Others

Stretching Self for Art and Others

Florida choreographer Christopher Dean Anderson shares his insights on the importance of being a strong role model and teaching younger generations lessons that will carry them across the stage and through life.

Stop and Smell the Chalk

Stop and Smell the Chalk

The art that Bonnie Dickerson of Jackson, Mississippi, creates is original and timeless and could blow away in a heavy wind. But the fleeting life of chalk is what draws Bonnie to the medium.

Showdown at the Cliché Corral

Showdown at the Cliché Corral

Fiction writer Kenneth Mark Hoover discusses his love for the true Old American West in literature, not the one born of Hollywood clichés, but the historically rich and fascinating one that is so often forgotten.

Your Character Counts!

Your Character Counts!

Adam Wear of Krum, Texas, shudders at the crude, unevolved communication platforms of texting and e-mail; but an even greater offense to this grammar guru is how text lingo is replacing intelligent conversation.

Time Machine Repairman

Time Machine Repairman

At 34 years old, Alan Burrow of Jackson, MS, is an unlikely student of horology, the study of mechanical timepiece repair and creation. He shares how these pieces of micro-engineering connect us to the past and explains what to look for when purchasing your own mechanical timepiece.