March 2026
Features
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In his memoir, Tom Junod excavates the family secrets that made him who he is today
Writer Tom Junod grew up in the long shadow of Big Lou—a dazzling, ruthless womanizer—and spent a decade excavating the myth of his father’s life. His new memoir is a reckoning with sex, power, and the inheritance every son must confront.
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The Bite
Piccadilly To Go on Candler Road is the future of meat-and-threes
The recently opened Piccadilly To Go on Candler Road in Decatur is a quick-serve model featuring the company’s first drive-through window. Part of the chaotic jumble of fast-food spots, gas stations, discount stores, and other gritty staples of city life, Piccadilly To Go caters to the workaday crowd. It’s walk in, walk out (or drive through), not a lot of chitchat.
The Goods
Behind the scenes of the Alliance Theatre’s world premiere of Fires, Ohio
When Beth Hyland first shopped around the script for her play Fires, Ohio, multiple theater companies told her it was unproducible. There wasn’t a problem with the dialogue or the plot; the script, humorous and gripping, had already won both the Kennedy Center’s Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting and the Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting. The setting itself was the issue: a two-story house in an Ohio town, surrounded by a raging wildfire.
