JOIN US FOR A LITERARY FÊTE THE UNFATHOMABLE IMAGINATION OF DAME DARCY OUR PICKS FOR THE BEST OF SUMMER BOOKS & MUSIC
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Table of contents 6 Letter from the Co-editors
8 Behind the Scenes
Summer Picks
10 Our picks for the best of summer reading & listening
Dr. Gonzo’s Wild Turkey Mezcal Margarita A literary cocktail inspired by Hunter S. Thompson page 3
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Homemade Journal D.I.Y. This easy and customizable craft makes a perfect gift for yourself or others
A Brief History of Bottle Trees Learn about this Lowcountry phenomenon rooted in African tradition
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A Literary Fete
32 How to style a literary-themed dinner party
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The Unfathomable Imagination of Dame Darcy We interview the illustrator behind Meat Cake
To 48 How Summer makeup with a natural twist
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Letter from the co-editors
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t’s July and summer in the South is starting to sizzle! This is the perfect time of year to relax by the ocean
with a good book and plenty of SPF—and a Wild Turkey Mezcal Margarita! This month we interview illustrator and artist Dame Darcy, style a literary-themed dinner party, explore the fascinating history of the Lowcountry phenomenon of the bottle tree, do a D.I.Y. on how to make a homemade journal, and share our picks for the best literary and musical picks of the summer. In addition, to help you combat the summer heat, we share a tutorial on how to do makeup that stays put even in the hottest month of the year. Stay cool, friends.
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THE TEAM BEVIN VALENTINE CO-EDITOR SIOBHAN EGAN CO-EDITOR KRYSTAL PITTMAN BAKER ADVERTISING CONTRIBUTORS
ELENA FODERA
SARAH MCCAMMON
GENELLE B. WILLIAMS
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Behind the scenes in July
Sharing sneak peeks at our Literary Fete photo shoot
Behindthe-scenes interviewing Dame Darcy on Tybee
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Our furriest employee helps prep our homemade journal D.I.Y.
Shooting our summer makeup tutorial
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Summer reading
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In summer I love diving into a good escapist book and being immersed in the author’s world. I also love to mix intense drama--Pat Conroy, anyone?--with lighter reads, like The Heiresses, the first adult novel from the author of Pretty Little Liars. This year I’m combining some new releases with old favorites, such as the richly evocative My Brother Michael that so perfectly captures the scorching heat of Greek summer, for my summer reading. page 11
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I’m always interested in relationships. Whether they are romantic, friendships, or family I’m drawn to stories about the intricacies of people relating to each other and the potential chaos that may ensue. Several of these books examine complicated relationships, some are just fun. Crime and the supernatural are old standbys. And Harry Potter because it’s Harry Potter!
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Summer listening
Elena, Guest Editor The bluegrass boys offer a remedy to today’s pop country music, tipping their hats to the late greats of Americana. An album that blends tradition and ingenuity, Remedy sounds authentic and gritty, and ready to reel in a whole lot of country converts.
The talented Savannah singersongwriters debut their first studio EP. Harmonious vocals and energetic pop-punk shows off how far the now 5-person band has come from their acoustic beginnings. Featuring new material alongside older favorites like “Siren’s Song,” the record is sassy, grungy and, well, lovely. www.paprikasouthern.com
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After their worrisomely poppy last album, die-hard Black Keys fans can rejoice at Turn Blue. Produced in conjunction with long-time collaborator Danger Mouse, the new record is heavy, electronic and, with song lengths that clock in longer than previous albums, feels more psychedelic than any before. The jam band legends do it again with their twelfth studio album. Managing a modern sound, high production quality and arguably the best vocals of any Phish record, the album also harkens back to their experimental roots and lays the groundwork for live versions that are sure to be on fire. Folk duo and Swedish sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg prove with their third album that they’re capable of more than melancholy folk— it’s at once dreamy, danceable and mature. Their signature harmonies and twangy guitars evoke a Western landscape, and intricate melodies keep it interesting while you sing along. page 15
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DR. GONZO’S WILD TURKEY MEZCAL MARGARITA
a literary cocktail WORDS & IMAGE BY ELENA FODERA RECIPE COURTESY OF FINCH & FIFTH
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"Pouring out liquor is like burning books." -William Faulkner
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wild, wordy name for a wild, wordy guy—you can call it “the Gonzo” for short. This drink pays homage to the unforgettable father of gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson. It features his whiskey of choice, Wild Turkey 101, and a hint of mezcal, a cousin of tequila and a nod to some of Thompson’s other questionable habits. Brett Gorrell, resident mixologist at restaurant and bar Finch & Fifth (inspired by the character Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird) in Augusta, Georgia, shows us his how to make this spicy original invention.
Dress the glass with a turn of MEZCAL and fill with ice, if desired. In a shaker, add 2 OZ. WILD TURKEY 101 and a SLICE OF JALAPEÑO. Let it marinate in the whiskey for a minute or two before adding 1 ½ OZ. PINEAPPLE JUICE and 3 OZ. TRES AGAVES ORGANIC SOUR MIX.
Shake well and strain into the dressed glass, top with a SPLASH OF SODA, and garnish the margarita with a Using a lime, salt the rim of an 8-oz. jalapeño round and a slice of lime. glass. page 17
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HAND-MADE JOURNAL D.I.Y. craft by Bevin Valentine images by Siobhan Egan
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A handmade journal
makes a wonderful craft project for any time of year. Customize your journal with size, paper choice, or embellishments for yourself or as a gift. Here, we show you the basics, using decorative paper for the cover and simple printer paper for the interior pages. Make the journal your own by working with handmade paper or a leather cover. Consider adding stamps, stencils, or even sealing wax to the cover to personalize your creation. The possibilities are endless!
MATERIALS • DECORATIVE PAPER/CARDSTOCK/ETC. FOR COVER • PLAIN/COLORED/HANDMADE PAPER FOR INTERIOR PAPER • PAPER CUTTER OR EXACTO BLADE • TWINE, BOOKBINDING, OR HEMP CORD • BOOKBINDING NEEDLE • BONE FOLDER • AWL • SCISSORS • PENCIL • OPTIONAL: SELF-HEALING MAT, RULER OR STRAIGHT EDGE FOR FOLDING page 19
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step one
DECIDE WHAT SIZE YOUR JOURNAL WILL BE. FOR A POCKET-SIZED JOURNAL (ABOUT 4 1/2” WIDE BY 5 3/4” TALL), CUT LETTER SIZE PAPER IN HALF CROSSWISE, FOR PIECES THAT ARE 8 1/2” WIDE BY 5 1/2” TALL. FOUR LETTER SIZE SHEETS OF PAPER WILL YIELD AN EIGHT PAGE JOURNAL AT THIS SIZE.
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TO CUT OUT YOUR COVER, TRACE AND CUT YOUR COVER PAPER, LEAVING 1/4” EXCESS ON EACH SIDE. THIS WILL ALLOW YOUR COVER TO BE SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN THE INTERIOR PAGES.
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FOLD INTERIOR PAGES IN HALF, USING A STRAIGHT EDGE IF NECESSARY. SCORE YOUR FOLD WITH A BONE FOLDER TO ACHIVE A CRISP EDGE. REPEAT PROCESS WITH COVER, FOLDING AND SCORING, AND THEN INSERT INTERIOR PAGES INTO COVER.
USING AN AWL, CAREFULLY MAKE TWO HOLES IN THE SPINE OF THE JOURNAL.
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THREAD YOUR CORD (12” - 18”) THROUGH A BOOKBINDING NEEDLE, PULLING SO THE THREAD IS DOUBLED AND THE NEEDLE IS IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR PIECE OF CORD.
DECIDE IF YOU WANT THE EXCESS OF YOUR CORD ON THE INSIDE OR OUTSIDE OF YOUR BOOK. IF YOU BEGIN ON THE INTERIOR, AS WE DID, YOU WILL END INSIDE, AND VICE VERSA.
USING THE NEEDLE AS A GUIDE, PULL THREAD THROUGH THE FIRST HOLE, THEN THROUGH THE SECOND. TIE YOUR CORD IN A BOW IF YOU WISH, CUTTING OFF THE EXCESS.
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step eight THE BASE OF YOUR JOURNAL IS FINISHED! APPLY ANY EMBELLISHMENTS, SUCH AS STENCILS, STAMPS, EPHEMERA, ETC. AND ENJOY!
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a brief history of the bottle tree words by Sarah McCammon image by Siobhan Egan
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ou’ve probably seen them in gardens and outside homes across the South: translucent, indigo blue bottles arranged on the ends of tree branches, or over narrow wooden pegs tacked to a post.
believed that was the moans and the groans of the spirit in the bottle.”
“It’s a beautiful color.”
Dr. Deborah Mack is the Associate Director for Community and Constituent Services at the Smithsonian’s And if you pause to look and listen, National African American Museum you’ll notice how they catch the light, of History and Culture. and the sounds of the wind. Mack says bottle trees are a unique“As the sunlight comes up in the ly African-American phenomenon— morning and shines onto the bottle, though they’re derived from African it has this blue glow,” says Dr. Felicia traditions, she’s never seen one in AfBell, a history professor at Savannah State University in Savannah, GA. rica. “You don’t see bottle trees per se, but Bottle trees are more than just deco- you see things that are very similar: rative: they trace their roots to Afri- doing things with glass, doing things ca, to cultural and spiritual traditions with reflective materials,” Mack says. brought to the United States by enslaved people. Bell says it’s likely the She says many enslaved Africans came bottle tree shares an overlapping his- from cultures that believed in the imtory with “haint blue”—the practice portance of the color blue and emphaof painting ceilings the color of the sized shininess and translucence in sky to confuse and drive away evil art. Even today, Mack says dark, indigo blue is spiritually and aesthetically spirits. significant in much of Africa; and it’s associated with good luck and health “The spirit would think that they’re throughout the Middle East. going into the sky and not go into the cabin,” Bell says. Historically, Mack says bottle trees were most common in eastern Texas, Trees adorned with blue blown-glass Mississippi, and Alabama. bottles were thought to work in much the same way—only, Bell says, the In the Lowcountry, African slaves spirits would fly into the bottles and forced to work on rice plantations also developed traditions around the become trapped. color. Felicia Bell says many white “Then when the wind hits the bottle, landowners stayed inland, away you can hear sounds,” she says. “They from the humid air and the threat of malaria, leaving an enslaved “driver” page 29
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in charge. “It was a miserable environment. It was humid; you have these mosquitoes around,” she says. Because of that isolation, Bell says Africans living on coastal and island plantations preserved aspects of their language, culture, and religion—including traditions like bottle trees. Bell says some of those include beliefs in evil spirits. “Some of them talked about a spirit riding them in the night—a bad dream or the feeling that something is getting you down or pressing you in the bed,” Bell says. “No one wants an evil spirit in their house. [A bottle tree] is to keep you so you can rest calmly and peacefully through the night, so you have a peaceful household.” Some variations include other colors, like bright yellows, reds, or greens.
Mack says African-American art is often about working in and with existing environments and resources.
“It’s making do. It’s using found objects, found materials and sometimes recombining them or adding to them or embellishing,” Mack says. “It’s a way of adding beauty with what they have around them—and that’s just a universal, human kind of thing.” page 31
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A Literary Fête IMA GES BY SIOBHAN EGAN STYLING BY BEVIN VAL ENTINE
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"I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally." -Zelda Fitzgerald
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"A gentleman can live through anything." -William Faulkner
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Unfathomable Imagination of*Dame Darcy
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WORDS BY BEVIN VALENTINE IMAGE BY SIOBHAN EGAN
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irates, faeries, mermaids, and princesses populate the fantastical worlds illustrated by Dame Darcy. A passionate artist, environmentalist, and feminist—themes which are evident in her oeuvre as well as in conversation with her—Dame Darcy creates books and e-books that represent a truly unique voice in both art and literature. With the comic book series Meat Cake, an illustrated version of Jane Eyre, the Handbook for Hot Witches, and much more to her name, the Savannah-based illustrator sat down with us to chat. Dame Darcy traces her move to Savannah three years ago to a day in 2008 in which she was in her tiny apartment in Manhattan and had a vision: “I saw in my head very clearly [a place] that had big Victorian houses with columns and looked very antebellum, but had palm trees and was tropical at the same time it was Victorian and gothic looking.”
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Dame Darcy’s illustration style is a blend of darkness and light. Her comics tell tales that are eccentric, capricious, and unearthly. She describes Savannah as a “tropi-goth fantasy land,” a phrase which perfectly captures her aesthetic. “I feel like I’m living in my own comic book,” she says.
Growing up, Dame Darcy spent much of her childhood in Idaho as a sign-painter’s apprentice to her father, also an artist. She learned the fundamentals of art: composition, perspective, how to use color, how to mix paint. From there, she went on to attend the San Francisco Art Institute where she got started as a cartoonist self-publishing in the She was immediately intrigued, and early 1990s and traveling with pernot only drew a comic based on the formance art bands. vision—Spidersilk Tropics—but also began trying to find this location in The comic is unique in art in that the real world. Initially she thought it combines illustration with stoit might be a colonized place—India, ry-telling in a sequential format. In perhaps—or somewhere in South Dame Darcy’s case, she creates both America. Eventually the vision led the illustrations and the words that Dame Darcy to Savannah, Georgia. flesh out her stories. She is currently working on a new series titled Meat page 45
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Cake Presents The Voyage of Tempt- vannah looking for Confederate gold ress. stolen and hidden by pirates on an island. This new series, utilizing characters from the Meat Cake series, represents To research the new series, Dame a new direction for Dame Darcy. The Darcy has spent time the past three characters sail the waterways off Sa- years learning sailing and navigation from seasoned sailors. She sails the same intercoastal waterways as her characters, burying clues to go along with the books. She is also producing a series of videos to accompany the comics—live action combined with animated elements— that will allow the reader a more interactive experience with the comics. Dame Darcy identifies the 1980 film Popeye, Adam Ant videos—particularly “Stand and Deliver”—Treasure Island, and Pippi in the South Seas as major influences from a young age. “I never stopped playing An illustration from The Voyage of Temptress / Image cour- out those themes my tesy of Dame Darcy
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At the age of 18, Dame Darcy “knighted” herself when she chose her pseudonym. On the advice of her father, rather than legally changing her name, she chose to add a title to her existing first name. In addition to its alliterative properties, she chose “dame,” the name for the female equivalent of a knight, because knights were “free-lancers”—they sold their services—just as, an illustrator, author, and artist, her career was freelance. page 47
“It’s a title, but clearly I’m a cartoonist,” Dame Darcy says, acknowledging, the slightly tongue-in-cheek nature of her pen name. It is that blend of drama with playfulness, of tales that have the ability to go dark but maintain a sense of ethereal whimsy, which characterizes Dame Darcy’s work. Tales swathed in fantastical trappings, clues buried on desert islands, the Utopian vision of a life spent at sea, and an unfathomable imagination mesh together to create a beautiful cacophony with no end yet on the horizon. www.paprikasouthern.com
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HOW TO: SUMMER MAKEUP WITH A NATURAL TWIST tutorial, Genelle B. Williams images, Siobhan Egan model, Hannah Lancaster
When it comes to summertime, your beauty routine should echo the same strategy as your vacation plans: natural and fun. Instead of the regular brown shadows and black eyeliner, trade in your regular look for your new summer routine with purple shadows, orange blushes and big lashes! Read on to recreate this natural summer look at home!
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WHAT YOU NEED: • CREAM FOUNDATION (I USED MAYBELLINE FIT ME IN IVORY) • CONCEALER (MAYBELLINE FIT ME IN LIGHT) • POWDER (MAYBELLINE FIT ME IN CLASSIC IVORY) • GOLD, PLUM, AND CREAM EYESHADOWS (SEPHORA SET) • BROWN GEL LINER (SEPHORA) • MASCARA (RIMMEL LONDON GLAM’EYES IN EXTREME BLACK) • BRONZER (MAC BRONZING POWDER IN REFINED GOLDEN) • ORANGE BLUSH (MAC BLUSH IN MODERN MANDARIN) • LIP GLOSS (MAC LUSTREGLASS IN ENSIGN) page 49
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FACE Cream foundation is a great option in hot weather because it’s a bit thicker than powder and liquid foundations, giving longer staying power. Apply the cream foundation to the face and blend into the skin with a cosmetic sponge or foundation brush. For a less dewy, more matte look, add a mineralized powder on top with a fluffy powder brush. Add concealer under the eyes and anywhere else you have discoloration.
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EYES Prime the eyes with an eyeshadow primer to prevent eye makeup from sweating off in the heat. Add gold eyeshadow to the lid, a rich plum eyeshadow in the crease, and creamcolored eyeshadow under the brow bone. Blend the colors at the crease in a circular motion horizontally with a fluffy crease brush. USING AN EYESHADOW PRIMER OR POWDER ON THE EYELIDS IN SUMMER IS A GREAT WAY TO KEEP YOUR EYE MAKEUP FRESH ALL DAY LONG
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LASHES For a more natural look, add brown gel liner across the top and bottom lash lines and go over it with a dark brown eyeshadow. Finish the eyes with a coat or two of black mascara.
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CHEEKS While pink blushes are generally universally flattering, peach-colored blushes are all the rage this summer. Lightly blend an orange-hued blush from the apples of the cheek toward the ear. For more definition, lightly sweep bronzer under the cheek bones, across the temples and forehead, and under the jaw bones. Blend evenly.
LIPS Now is the time to play with pink, glossy lips. Swipe lip liner, a light pink lipstick, and a matching lipgloss to finish your look. For a more subtle look, skip the liner and lipstick, and go straight for the gloss. evenly. www.paprikasouthern.com
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THE END! GO OUT AND ENJOY YOUR NEW SUMMER LOOK!
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P.S. Paprika Southern recommends
JACKSONVILLE The Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, FL presents The New York Times Magazine Photographs, a curated selection of images that have appeared in the magazine. The show includes photography powerhouses Gregory Crewdson, Ryan McGinley, Rineke Dijkstra, and more. Show runs through August 24
AUSTIN Currently showing at the Blanton Museum of Art, In the Company of Cats and Dogs. This exhibition takes a look at how artists throughout the centuries have incorporated domesticated pets into art. The show includes Albrecht D端rer, Henri CartierBresson, Pablo Picasso, and many more. Show runs through September 21
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SAVANNAH SCAD Museum of Art presents Jack Leigh: Full Circle, Low Country Photographs, 1972-2004. This show represents the first museum exhibition of photographer Jack Leigh’s work. July 15 - October 2
WASHINGTON, D.C. Currently on view at the National Gallery of Art is Andrew Wyeth: SCADOut, Museum of In. ArtThis presents Looking Looking show Jack Leigh: Full Circle, Low Country gathers a collection of the iconic Photographs, 1972-2004. This show American artist’s paintings of represents the first museum windows, a subject he addressed exhibition of photographer Jack continuously throughout his career. Leigh’s work. Show runs through November 30 July 15 - October 2
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