PICK: Muscle Shoals

Take you there: Founded in 1969 by four Alabama session musicians, the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio became legendary for soul music after producing hits for Wilson Pickett (“Mustang Sally”), Aretha Franklin (“I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)”), and the Staple Singers (“I’ll Take You There”), among others. The magical environment and […]

ARTS Pick: Pursuit of the Black Panther

Ghost hunt: Melanistic leopards are so rare they are known as the ghosts of forest. Photographer Shannon Wild spent almost two years in southeastern India, battling weather, terrain, and injuries, to capture images of these elusive cats. At National Geographic Live’s Pursuit of the Black Panther, Wild shares the experiences that fill her three books […]