The Shoofly Magazine
  • Home
    • Big Buzz Blog
    • SHORE THING FISHING REPORT
  • Calendar
    • Upcoming Events
    • Calendar Users Guide
    • Calendar FAQs
  • Archives
  • Directory
    • EAT
    • SHOP
    • PLAY >
      • Community Calendar
    • STAY >
      • Camping & RV Parks
    • TOURS >
      • Instagram Tours >
        • Beach Blvd. Instagram Ops
        • Main Street Instagram Ops
        • Second Street Instagram Ops
        • Depot District Instagram Stars
        • Black History Instagram Tour - Part 1
    • PETS
    • WEDDINGS
    • SERVICES >
      • Automotive
      • Construction
      • Entertainment
      • Financial Services
      • Food & Beverage
      • Health
      • Home & Garden
      • Legal Services
      • Marine & Boating
      • Marketing
      • Media
      • Office
      • Personal Care
      • Pets
      • Real Estate
      • Recreation
      • Transportation
      • Travel/Hospitality
      • Utilities
    • ORGANIZATIONS >
      • Churches
      • Government
      • Education >
        • Art Teachers
      • Hurricane Prep Guide
      • Wildlife Rescue in South Mississippi
  • Partners
    • Readers' Circle
    • About

Coast Lines - May 2016

5/1/2016

 

Way Back When

Most people know Nan Parati as one of the creative forces of Jazz Fest and owner of Elmer's, an iconic New England restaurant.  Here's the little-known backstory of her first creative enterprise.
- by Ellis Anderson
Tweet
Shoofly Magazine Home
Picture
Nan Parati at the Jazz Fest Sign Barn - photo by Ellis Anderson
In the 1980s, my friend Nan Parati worked for Jimmy Buffet as a set designer.  Her pièce de résistance creation was a huge fake volcano.  At concerts, when tens of thousands of people started singing along with Jimmy, “I don’t know where I’m a gonna go when the volcano blows,” actual fireworks would shoot out of the top of that landmass-sized prop.  The volcano caught on fire once, but no one was seriously hurt and the crowd thought it was all part of the show.  That’s another story.  
 
The point is that’s the kind of mind Nan has.  Need a great show finale?  How about a volcanic eruption?  Impossible?  Hardly.  Where there’s Nan’s will, there’s a way.

Click here and scroll down for archived 
Coast Lines columns


Read More

Coast Lines - April 2016

4/1/2016

 

The Socializing Drive

Driving in Bay St. Louis - like most things - is a little different than in most places.  And better.
- story by Ellis Anderson
Tweet
More Current Stories!
Picture

Read More

Coast Lines - March 2016

3/1/2016

 

Senior Class

Going back to college as an older adult can be challenging and rewarding.  Here are seven tips to help you make the grade.
- story by Ellis Anderson
Tweet
More Current Stories!
Picture
Since I’m 59 years old, most of my college classmates could technically be my grandchildren. Yet, apparently I’ve got lots of company.  According the American Council on Education, adult learners now make up an astonishing 40 percent of people attending college nationwide. 
 
Older adults enrolled in college are usually called “non-traditional” students and we attend for a variety of reasons.  While most are seeking career advancement or new job skills, some are embracing continuing education as a way to stimulate their minds.  Others are pursuing passions that jobs or parenthood pushed to the back burner.  A few, like me, want the satisfaction of getting a degree they wanted to pursue earlier in life.

Coast Lines
is sponsored by

Picture

Click here and scroll down for archived 
Coast Lines columns


Read More

Coast Lines - February 2016

1/31/2016

 

The Last Straw

How a group of BSL residents are teaming up to just "say no" to drinking straws.  Why does it matter?  You might be surprised!
- story by Ellis Anderson
Tweet
More Current Stories!
Picture
Sometimes ideas in Bay St. Louis hitch a ride on the submerged collective consciousness, and start popping up all over town. 

The Last Straw concept, for instance.  One day when my husband and I were ordering lunch at a local restaurant, Larry told the server that he didn't want a straw with his tea.  The waitress looked at him in surprise and I did too.  When she left the table, I asked why. 

“I was just doodling around with some numbers after our last lunch out,” he said.  “I figured out that if only a third of Americans use one straw a day, and you lined them all up, in 19 days you could reach the moon.”

Coast Lines 
is sponsored by

Picture

Click here and scroll down for archived 
Coast Lines columns

Read More

Coast Lines - January 2016

1/1/2016

 

A Keeper Kind of Resolution

 Letters of gratitude can work magic, even if they're never even mailed.  It's a scientific fact.
- by Ellis Anderson
Tweet
Free Cleaver Subscription
Picture
Like most folks, I march into the beginning of each new-numbered year with a list of resolutions.  Each year, it gets shorter — or at least modified.

For instance, I know I’m not going to lose enough weight to fit into that fabulous size six dress I’ve been hanging onto for the past decade.

Instead, most of my resolutions have been whittled down to ambiguous assignments “eat healthier,” “exercise more” and “sing often.”  That way, there’s less guilt involved when I inevitably don’t live up to my self-imposed expectations.

Coast Lines
is sponsored by

Picture

Click here and scroll down for archived 
Coast Lines columns


Read More

Coast Lines - November 2015

11/1/2015

 

A Very Special Anniversary

The "hyper-local webzine" with the goofy name is celebrating its first year as a full-scale publication - with some pretty surprising, and far-flung, fans.  It's been a fantastic year, Thanks Y'all! 
-story and photos by Ellis Anderson
Tweet
Free Cleaver Subscription!
Picture
The Pumfords - Cleaver fans who live in England - who would have guessed?

Read More

Coast Lines - October 2015

10/1/2015

 

The Flawed, But Perfect Dog

The white dog named after a general didn't meet many of the criteria that would make up the idea of a perfect dog.  It turns out heart trumps lists in the story of foster failure. 
​- story and photos by Ellis Anderson 
Tweet
Free Cleaver Subscription
Picture
Buster on the left and Sherman on the right, during his first week of being fostered.

Read More

Coast Lines - July 2015

7/1/2015

 
Tweet
Free Cleaver Subscription
A too-late trip to Graceland Too in Holly Springs still proves memorable.
 - story and photos by Ellis Anderson

Graceland Too

Picture

Read More

Coast Lines - June 2015

6/1/2015

 

The Mother Lode of Moxie

A palm reading gone wrong imparts a lifelong appreciation of aging and kicks off a hunt for feisty role models.  Bay St. Louis turns out to have more than its fair share. 
- by Ellis Anderson
Subscribe to the Cleaver
Tweet
Picture
Celestine Labat, after her 100th birthday. Photo by Sarah Foster

Read More

Coast Lines - May 2015

5/1/2015

 

Ask What You Will!

by Ellis Anderson -
This month, the Serve Hancock website revs up for the on-line candidates' forum, but we need reader input.  Submit your questions for candidates at the end of this column!
Tweet
Subscribe to the Cleaver!
Picture

Read More

Coast Lines - April 2015

4/1/2015

 

Serve Hancock!

by Ellis Anderson
- Announcing a new online voters' information website/candidates' forum for Hancock County.  The goal?  Reviving voters' feelings of empowerment - and excitement!
Tweet
Subscribe to the Cleaver!
Picture

Read More

Coast Lines - March 2015

3/1/2015

 
Tweet
Subscribe to the Cleaver!

Blue Ridge Portrait in the Bay

by Ellis Anderson
- This month -
American-Gothic-Goes-Appalachia in a stark portrait of life in the Blue Ridge.
Picture
Shatley Springs, NC, close to the Barker family farm - by Ellis Anderson

Read More

Coast Lines - February 2015

2/1/2015

 
by Ellis Anderson
This month, a look at romance later in life, when it comes from "Out of the Blue."  

Out of the Blue

The subject line of the email is “Out of the Blue.”  Even with hundreds of junk mails heaped above and below it, the title stands out like it’s blinking in neon. 

I’d changed email addresses months before, so rarely checked the old in-box.  This particular letter is the only potentially legitimate one in the lot.

Coast Lines
is sponsored by

Picture
Amy Wood Properties
Picture

Read More

Coast Lines - November 2014

11/1/2014

 
An encounter with St. Joseph inspires a renewed appreciation of our community
Picture

Coast Lines is sponsored by

Picture

Read More
Forward>>

    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture

    RSS Feed

    Categories

    All
    15 Minutes
    Across The Bridge
    Aloha Diamondhead
    Amtrak
    Antiques
    Architecture
    Art
    Arts Alive
    Arts Locale
    At Home In The Bay
    Bay Bride
    Bay Business
    Bay Reads
    Bay St. Louis
    Beach To Bayou
    Beach-to-bayou
    Beautiful Things
    Benefit
    Big Buzz
    Boats
    Body+Mind+Spirit
    Books
    BSL Council Updates
    BSL P&Z
    Business
    Business Buzz
    Casting My Net
    Civics
    Coast Cuisine
    Coast Lines Column
    Day Tripping
    Design
    Diamondhead
    DIY
    Editors Notes
    Education
    Environment
    Events
    Fashion
    Food
    Friends Of The Animal Shelter
    Good Neighbor
    Grape Minds
    Growing Up Downtown
    Harbor Highlights
    Health
    History
    Honor Roll
    House And Garden
    Legends And Legacies
    Local Focal
    Lodging
    Mardi Gras
    Mind+Body+Spirit
    Mother Of Pearl
    Murphy's Musical Notes
    Music
    Nature
    Nature Notes
    New Orleans
    News
    Noteworthy Women
    Old Town Merchants
    On The Shoofly
    Parenting
    Partner Spotlight
    Pass Christian
    Public Safety
    Puppy-dog-tales
    Rheta-grimsley-johnson
    Science
    Second Saturday
    Shared History
    Shared-history
    Shelter-stars
    Shoofly
    Shore Thing Fishing Report
    Sponsor Spotlight
    Station-house-bsl
    Talk Of The Town
    The Eyes Have It
    Tourism
    Town Green
    Town-green
    Travel
    Tying-the-knot
    Video
    Vintage-vignette
    Vintage-vignette
    Waveland
    Weddings
    Wellness
    Window-shopping
    Wines-and-dining

    Archives

    July 2025
    June 2025
    May 2025
    April 2025
    March 2025
    February 2025
    January 2025
    December 2024
    November 2024
    October 2024
    September 2024
    August 2024
    July 2024
    June 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    June 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    August 2014
    January 2014
    November 2013
    August 2013
    June 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    December 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    May 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011

Shoofly Magazine Partners

​Our Shoofly Partners are local businesses and organizations who share our mission to enrich community life in Bay St. Louis, Waveland, Diamondhead and Pass Christian. These are limited in number to maximize visibility. Email us now to become a Shoofly Partner!
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

Alice Moseley Folk Art Museum

Bay Town Inn

Bay-tique Boutique

The Bay Bum

The Shops of Century Hall

Chiniche Engineering

Creole Creamery

The Cultured Oak

The French Potager

Hancock County Historical Society

HL Raymond Properties

Kenny Dental

Lagarde's Fine Wine & Spirits

The Loft
The Mane Salon

Magnolia Antiques

Ms. Mary's Old Town Snoballs

Mystic Ghost Tours

PJ's Coffee

Salty Soul Outfitters

Theatre in the Pass

VSPA at Hancock Women's Center

The Wedding Collection ​

John & Ning Wiebmer


The Shoofly Magazine is published by MAC Media, LLC. Unless otherwise attributed, all written content and photography copyright MAC Media, LLC

Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
  • Home
    • Big Buzz Blog
    • SHORE THING FISHING REPORT
  • Calendar
    • Upcoming Events
    • Calendar Users Guide
    • Calendar FAQs
  • Archives
  • Directory
    • EAT
    • SHOP
    • PLAY >
      • Community Calendar
    • STAY >
      • Camping & RV Parks
    • TOURS >
      • Instagram Tours >
        • Beach Blvd. Instagram Ops
        • Main Street Instagram Ops
        • Second Street Instagram Ops
        • Depot District Instagram Stars
        • Black History Instagram Tour - Part 1
    • PETS
    • WEDDINGS
    • SERVICES >
      • Automotive
      • Construction
      • Entertainment
      • Financial Services
      • Food & Beverage
      • Health
      • Home & Garden
      • Legal Services
      • Marine & Boating
      • Marketing
      • Media
      • Office
      • Personal Care
      • Pets
      • Real Estate
      • Recreation
      • Transportation
      • Travel/Hospitality
      • Utilities
    • ORGANIZATIONS >
      • Churches
      • Government
      • Education >
        • Art Teachers
      • Hurricane Prep Guide
      • Wildlife Rescue in South Mississippi
  • Partners
    • Readers' Circle
    • About