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Did Alabama’s Roscoe Hall make the first cut on ‘Top Chef’? Updated 8:25 PM; Facebook Share No one wants to be the first contestant eliminated on a reality TV show. But that’s exactly what happened to Alabama’s Roscoe Hall on the Season 18 premiere of “Top Chef.” Hall, a Birmingham resident and the culinary director for Post Office Pies, was one of 15 chefs featured on Thursday’s episode of the Bravo series. That makes him part of a prestigious crew, chosen to display his skills and talents for a national audience and the show’s three primary judges: Padma Lakshmi, Tom Col...

Recommendations from The Bookstore at the End of the World December 16, 2020 On a good year, everything about the publishing industry seems designed for anxiety: an author’s fear that they won’t be read or understood, a publisher’s hand-wringing about profits and losses; a publicist’s neurosis about shrinking review coverage; a reader’s sense of foreboding about the accumulating stacks on their tables and chairs and floors; a designer’s tension about kerning or whatever troubles designers anyway; and a bookseller’s limitless concern about all of the above, plus or minus the kern...