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A Progressive Songwriters in the Round
30A Welcomes Music Makers By Paige Daugherty Each year, the gorgeous South Walton paradise hosts a rising music festival, one that replaces conformity with creativity and exchanges massive crowds for...
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The Road Less Traveled
Final Destination: Paradise By Lisa Burwell | Photography by Jack Gardner and Troy Ruprecht On a balmy evening last September, we drove toward the eastern end of Walton County on Florida’s sparsely...
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Art Walk in Downtown Los Angeles
Story and Photography by Troy Ruprecht The lobby of L’Ermitage Beverly Hills was humming with excitement on the Thursday evening during my visit to Los Angeles in January. It was a beautiful, clear...
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Navigating the Sea Change in Vacation Rental Management
Steam Ahead with Homerun Advantage By Darby Kellum A start-up company is a challenge, even in a robust economy. So, how does one go about launching such a venture in a difficult economic climate,...
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Doing Right
Loving Thy Neighbor By Ainsley Rogers Life happens fast these days. So fast, in fact, that noticing something seems only to happen if we’re paying really close attention. Our modern conveniences,...
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A SHINING HOPE FOR NATURE
By Anne W. Schultz | Photography by Michael Granberry Could I be looking at the next Rachel Carson, E.O. Wilson, or any of the other naturalists whose pictures hang on the classroom walls indoors? I...
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A Chef Inspired
By Liesel Schmidt With the barrage of cooking shows on television in the last five or six years, the considerable interest generated has resulted in food as its own culture––even in the realm of the...
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Star Power
Giving and Receiving By Lisa M. Burwell Lights! Camera! Action! At the start of each new year, Hollywood acknowledges the best of the best with a series of award ceremonies. The Golden Globes is the...
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Helping Haiti
Story and Photography By Dale Foster In November 2011, I joined a mission team to visit Jacmel, Haiti, with the intention of helping build housing for earthquake victims. Little did I know what a...
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EARTHING
Are you grounded? By Clark Peters A new theory about health emerged recently that I believe may be of significance for those interested in health and longevity. There is a major caveat here: the...
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Saving the Planet, One Red-Carpet Gown at a Time
By Tori Phelps | Photography by Jayophoto.com The Golden Globe Awards ceremony is known for high style, high-voltage celebrities and, occasionally, lowbrow humor. But lately it’s also known as the...
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In Loving Memory
Ruth Grimaldi Burwell (1929 – 2011) Dedication by Gerald Burwell Northwest Florida was not my mother’s birthplace, but like so many of us who have been fortunate enough to call it home, she fell in...
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Falling Headfirst
Jillian Edwards at the 30A Songwriters Festival By Ainsley Rogers | Photography by Shaun Menary There aren’t many things better for bringing people together than good music. That’s just what...
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VIE’s Favorite Things: March/April 2012
By Ainsley Rogers Sunny days have arrived, and we’ve gathered a myriad of products that have caught our eye and tickled our fancy for the upcoming season. Each one of these products is sure to be a...
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Bathing Beauties
Donning Leona Spring 2012 Swimwear By A. Edmonson | Photography by Jack Gardner and Troy Ruprecht Drive along Walton County, Florida’s Scenic Highway 30A and you’ll stumble right into Alys Beach, an...
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Battle in the Gulf
By Bill Weckel When we think of the front lines of the war with Nazi Germany, places like Normandy, Anzio, and Tobruk quickly come to mind. The beautiful emerald waters of the Gulf of Mexico don’t...
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A Cultivated Eye for Design
By Darby Kellum | Photography by Quinn Ballard As a small-town boy with big dreams, Roger Higgins grew up knowing he would not be the fourth generation to carry on in the funeral home business, which...
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A Writing Conference to Ruin the Rest
The Oxford American Summit for Ambitious Writers at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute was a summer camp for writers. Real writers. Not those annoying “where do you get your ideas from” people. And...
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The True Melody of Music City
By Mary Catherine Kinney | Photography by Rick Bennett Once known for a booming honky-tonk, rhinestone-cowboy-boot, and Wrangler-Jean culture, the true Nashville is hitting mainstream and...
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Emerald Coast Gold
By Kyle Petit Tucked away on the south side of Highway 98 in the heart of Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, is a small neighborhood built on the banks of three small lakes. The neighborhood is called...
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Seems It Does Rain in Southern California
Publisher’s Note: The Entertainment Issue 2012 (With Apologies to Albert Hammond) Members of the VIE team got on board a westbound 767 on January 11, 2012, and headed to Los Angeles to represent...
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