Irritable Bao serves Auburn in more ways than one

The Irritable Bao is a Chinese restaurant in downtown Auburn that has quickly (in almost three years) outgrown its first two forms– it started as a food truck and has moved on from its first brick-and-mortar location.  Whitley Dykes and his wife, Kunyu Li, own and operate the restaurant. Dykes went to high school in …

Ready to Rock? Ready to Roll?

Fan of The Beatles? Meet Ernie Rains, whose vintage The Beatles pinball machine prompted him to open a pinball arcade in Opelika.  Rock ‘N Roll Pinball is one of a kind for the area, an arcade full of both vintage and modern pinball machines for the amateur or the professional. His First Machine: Rains did …