Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope the day is meeting your expectations. Earth and Stone cofounder and chef Stan Stinson is playing with lamb belly bacon. Doesn’t that sound amazing? We enjoyed our initial AAF games. Neither was competitive, but the talent and general polish of the experience are both there. We’ll watch again this weekend. … Read more
Thanks to a mounting pile of high-profile mistakes, it is now obvious and indisputable that Kiss has a lot of prerecorded help on the End of the Road tour. (They’re lip-syncing.) It’s far beyond backing rhythm tracks, or synth, or anything of the sort. They’re flat-out faking it. There are huge swaths of current Kiss … Read more
These are my mother’s parents, enjoying each other in downtown Birmingham. The photo is not dated, but Papaw is home from the war, and Granny is not yet visibly pregnant with my mother. So this is 1946, or possibly late 1945.