Sazerac: Your Cocktail Hour Digest

Winner! Winner! It’s OK to spoil your dinner By Billy Eye Perhaps you’ve seen Veneé Pawlowski of Black Magnolia Southern Patisserie on a local news program or read about her in the News [...]

My Rubber Soul By Jim Dodson It was a moment that would change America forever. A cute girl named Trudy McGivern in Miss Esther Christianson’s Sunday School class leaned over, bit her lower lip [...]

Baskin’ in the Past By Billy Eye   Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal. —Voltaire You may know by now that the Baskin-Robbins on Battleground has closed for good. It [...]

The Heart’s Memory By Jim Dodson As a surprise New Year’s gift — or an  early February birthday gift — my wife Wendy gave us both  Fitbit activity trackers.  These are nifty digital fitness [...]

For the Time Being By Jim Dodson My office over the garage, which I fondly call the “Tree House,” is a place where time stands still, in a manner of speaking. It’s also something of a museum for [...]

Waiting Beneath a Clock By Jim Dodson And so the waiting continues, or maybe it’s just beginning.  We’re waiting for the old year to run out — or down — like a dear old mantle clock whose springs [...]

The Great New Year’s Dirt Clod War By Jim Dodson This was the year my father’s cousins, a horde of aunts and uncles plus a Bible-quoting grandmother and three girl cousins from the heart of [...]

By Billy Eye The limited ability to enjoy eating out at my favorite restaurants with family and friends has me nostalgic for those grand supper clubs of old that, for several decades, flourished [...]

Bridging the Gap By Billy Eye The downtown underpass at Spring Garden and Edgeworth is getting a colorful makeover following the yearlong, painstaking refurbishing of its rusting bridges. A [...]

Saving George An anchor of enchantment in the front yard    By Jim Dodson His name is George. That’s what we’ve taken to calling him, at any rate. He’s old and bent with age, probably close [...]