Outside of Mac’s Bar-B-Que it’s all blue skies, white clouds, and people getting ready for the Fourth of July. You see none of that once inside. After passing through the door, you see folding tables, plastic chairs, a bar-like counter, and white cinder block walls covered with decorations that range from happy snowmen to pigs cavorting at a luau.
August 7th, 2016 - 9:41 am § in American Barbecue
Watching COPS and Talking 9/11 at Mac’s Bar-B-Que (Jackson, TN)
Memphis Punk Rock Fest 2016: No Sponsors, All Risk
Night 2 of Memphis Punk Rock Fest 4 featured ten bands, one smoker, and a community coming together, not once, but twice to support its own.
May 27th, 2016 - 12:59 am § in Kentucky BBQ
Ghost Pit Tour: Mr. BBQ & More (Grand Rivers, KY)
We didn’t make it to Cy Quarles’ Mr. BBQ & More before it closed for good, but we did find the chance to practice some barbecue anthropology.
April 30th, 2016 - 2:29 pm § in Memphis, Photo Essays
Our “Memphis” Portfolio, Spring 2016 Edition
"Memphis" is an evolving portrait of an American city’s people, places, creative energy, and how each shapes the others over time.
March 19th, 2016 - 3:09 pm § in New Brunswick
Burger as Memory: Grease-Fueled Recollections of Murray Beach, N.B.
I often read that food is love, but it’s also memory. Such is the case with the burger shack of Murray Beach, New Brunswick, in the Canadian Maritimes.
December 15th, 2015 - 5:35 pm § in Music
Live at The Worthen House (Lowell, MA), 12/05/15
Photos from Night Two of Noise Floor Weekend at the Worthen House, featuring Garbage Point, The Natural Disasters, Mickey Rickshaw, and more.