If you're a true southerner, then you know what time of year it is. It's Football Season! For the next few months, parties and weddings will be planned around football schedules.

I always gain weight in the summer. It has happened every single summer for as long as I can remember. It's so hard to be active in 95 degree weather when you're a non-athlete, like me.

The Burger Beat at Rosie O'Grady's

Story & photos by Mark Shaffer

Long ago in a misty age known as “The 80s” a visionary reporter named Jim Atkinson set out on a quest to document the great American institution of the Dive Bar, or in Atkinson’s terminology the “bar bar.” It was a risky and often thankless task, but Atkinson stuck to it and eventually published a book of his findings in 1987.