Southerners are never more distinctive—or expressive—than when we are burying our dead. From the clothes we wear to our driving etiquette en route to the cemetery to the covered dishes we prepare, ...

Southerners quickly switch into hosting gear at the first sign of a wedding or a baby shower, deploying casseroles, strategizing seating charts, and polishing silverware. Funerals are no exception. In ...

We Southerners are good at a lot of things. Putting people in their place while still sounding sweet (Bless your heart, darling.) Saying things are “just fine” when, in fact, they’re not at all.

In the South, grief comes with a casserole. Before the obituary hits the paper or the flowers are even ordered, someone’s already brought over deviled eggs. There’s a pound cake on the counter, a ...

At a springtime funeral in the rural south, the death of a loved one is as much a cause for celebration as for grieving. People don't want the funeral to go too fast... they need to sing, to hear the ...

US HERE ON THE LOCAL VIBE. WE ARE EXCITED TO WELCOME OUR FIRST LIVE GUEST OF THE SHOW. SO THIS WEEK, SOUTHERN FRIED FUNERAL IS HITTING THE STAGE AT THE WILLINGHAM THEATER IN YADKINVILLE. IT DEBUTS ...