Our Favorite Westerns
Here’s a trio of our favorite westerns, plus a television show, and why we like them. One-eyed Jacks has been rediscovered by audiences in recent years. This author saw it in a movie house when it came out in the Spring of 1961. It is the only movie Marlon Brando ever directed — fabulous cast, great cinematography, lots of action, and the best writing you’ll find in a western. When I came out of the theater, I called...
Dinah Washington — September in the Rain
The most popular black female recording artist of the 1950s, “The Queen of the Blues”, died young at 39 in the arms of her seventh husband. Although she is most associated with the Chicago music scene, she was born Ruth Lee Jones in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She changed her name just before joining Lionel Hampton’s band in 1943. She had a string of top 10 R&B hits from 1948 through 1961. September in the Rain is...
Olga Valles Jambrina — Red Setter Woman
Olga Valles Jambrina is a Southerner. She lives in Southwestern Europe in Torrejón de Ardoz, near Madrid, and owns Chuchilandia, a five-star kennel where she raises champion Irish Setters who compete in show, as well as, hunting exhibitions. Our Southern Living salutes this elegant promoter of the noble red...
Jane Metz
Jane Metz is a painter with several magazine covers to her credit and exhibitions in some of the finest sporting art galleries in the country. ...
The Sportsman’s Gallery, Ltd.
One of the truly great sporting art galleries in the South. ...