It’s Thursday night. Loud bluegrass fills the air, liquor is flowing, and people are crammed in, hugging those with familiar faces, laughing, and dancing in between the tables. This is The Whiskey Jar, and it’s Charlottesville, Virginia’s newest addition to the local food scene. I sat down with Will Richey, one of the owners, to [...]
Thoughts on the Civil War Sesquicentennial
A lot of us don’t like to talk about it. Some of us are obsessed with it, so obsessed that we don period-appropriate garb and re-stage the battles year in and year out. Meanwhile, when told some years ago that my father was going to be serving barbecue at a re-enactment, I responded, “Well, [...]
Haywood Patterson Is Dead and Gone
It was raining and fog rolled up from the river. Under awnings and concrete eaves on 11th Street people hid away in pairs, alone sometimes, and watched the rain fall down on the empty downtown streets. They talked quietly and smoked cigarettes. Some of them drank from brown paper bags and looked up at the [...]
From the Editor: April 2012
Dear Readers,Thanks for joining us for the April reboot of Drawl. We are so excited for spring we can hardly stand it.I always thought that I looked forward to spring after a really rough winter, but after the completely mild winter we had, it seems like a lot of us are itching for spring worse [...]
Palm Sunday
The only thing staining my palms is Sharpie ink. A hypocrite who loves liturgy and science isn’t likely to bleed for her faith, though I watched that movie last night on cable, the one with Gabriel Byrne as the sexy priest and Patricia Arquette as the unduly afflicted, and I stare at my palms all [...]
Music Review: Emotional Traffic
Ten albums and tens of millions of record sales in, and suddenly Tim McGraw is going to court. Flashback to early 2011: Curb Records, the label that released every one of McGraw’s albums for the last two decades, claims McGraw’s breaching his contract and trying to skip out early. The album’s coming [...]
Waiting for Summer
I crave sexand fried chickenand the taste of a beer-covered tongue in my mouth when I’ve beendrinking wine. I crave mudand bare feetand watermelon juice dripping down my chin drying sticky on mybare chest. I crave heatand strong thighsand Texas thunderstorms in late July that make grasshoppersbe still. I crave choresand clean sheetsand my dinner [...]
Highland Maple Festival
Yes, it’s been a mild winter, and there’s not been much temptation to head to the mountains to freeze without the justification of snow. But the small communities in Highland County, Virginia can supply you with more than just a reason to see the mountains this early spring – maple syrup. [...]
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