BABY STEPS By KIMBERLY ANDERSON Assistant Editor Kimberly's blog focuses on a single objective each month intended to help her and her readers take baby steps toward better living in the [More...]

Register now for the Sierra Club's 11th Annual Healthy Foods, Local Farms Conference, which will be held Sept. 24-25 at Spalding University in Louisville. This year's theme is "A [More...]

The 2010 New Southerner Literary Contest is open to previously unpublished poetry, fiction and nonfiction from April 1 through October 1. Although the contest theme is open, we are especially [More...]

The Sierra Club's 11th Annual Healthy Foods, Local Farms Conference will be held Sept. 24-25 in Louisville. There are three main events, and participants must register separately for each. A free [More...]

By BOBBI BUCHANAN Louisville.VisitSouth.com Louisville’s independent retailers will join Kentuckians for the Commonwealth to host a special street party and concert on Bardstown Road at Longest Avenue. The second annual Louisville [More...]

By CHARLIE WHITE The Courier-Journal Ramsey Middle School on Gellhaus Lane off Billtown Road has been saving the school district more than $1,000 a month on natural gas and electricity [More...]

By BOBBI BUCHANAN Louisville.VisitSouth.com For a taste of Kentucky’s varied and distinct music, mark your calendar for Friday, Feb. 26, when critically acclaimed natives Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore will take [More...]

By TOM EBLEN Lexington Herald-Leader Richard Levine has heard all of the arguments about why solar energy won't work in Kentucky. And he has been defying them for three decades. Levine, a University [More...]

BOOK REVIEW By KAY HUBBARD Joan Donaldson's On Viney's Mountain offers a compelling perspective on Tennessee mountain life in the late 19th century. The title is apt, because it is a story [More...]

Congratulations to New Southerner's Pushcart Prize nominees: "Honesty" by Kate Buckley (poetry) "The Gold Star" by G.C. Compton (fiction) "Chilaquiles" by Michele Niesen (nonfiction)

Register now for the Sierra Club's 10th Annual Healthy Foods, Local Farms Conference, which will be held Nov. 7 at the University of Louisville. This year's theme is "Growing Community [More...]

The Apalachicola Riverkeeper invites you to recruit family, friends, and colleagues to sponsor RiverTrek paddling miles and, in turn, help raise resources and awareness for the Apalachicola Riverkeeper’s initiatives to [More...]

By ELLEN BIRKETT MORRIS Certain foods provide instant comfort. When I’ve had a hard day, I hanker for the butter and sugar sandwiches on white bread my mom used to serve [More...]

BOOK REVIEW By MARY POPHAM Nearly 30 years in the writing, Richard Taylor’s important historic work, Sue Mundy: A Novel of the Civil War, is poetry. Meticulous research and love of his [More...]

New Southerner is pleased to announce the James Baker Hall Memorial Prize in Poetry, an annual award to be offered along with the magazine’s literary prizes in fiction and nonfiction [More...]

By JOHN CHEVES Lexington Herald-Leader James Baker Hall's loved ones said he probably would have laughed through the memorial service held for him Saturday. Hundreds of people packed the Carnegie Center in Lexington's [More...]

By ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. The Washington Post Mountaintop removal coal mining is the worst environmental tragedy in American history. When will the Obama administration finally stop this Appalachian apocalypse? If ever an [More...]

By MARY EVELYN TUCKER YES Magazine A journey of nearly four decades with Thomas Berry has been one of the greatest gifts of my life, as it has been for countless others. What [More...]

Beloved writer, teacher and photographer James Baker Hall died June 25 at his home near Sadieville, Kentucky. Hall, 74, was prolific as both a writer and a visual artist, publishing [More...]

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF The New York Times Growing up on a farm near Yamhill, Ore., I quickly learned to appreciate the difference between fresh, home-grown foods and the commercial versions in [More...]