Patrick Donohue is the proudest Indiana native you're likely to find. Seriously. No one is prouder to be from a state that so many people know relatively so little about than he is. Patrick is a native of Terre Haute and a graduate of the Ernie Pyle School of Journalism at Indiana University. Knowing this, you might think he’d be a huge John "Cougar" Mellencamp fan, a man considered by some to be the Hoosier State's poet laureate. But you'd be wrong. In a major way. | • The lineup for the Savannah Stopover Festival in March has been announced. Of Montreal and The Whigs top the bill.
• Charleston Chefs are banding together for a Sandy relief dinner. Kevin Johnson of The Grocery is joining forces w with Joshua Keeler of Two Boroughs Larder, Robert Stehling of Hominy Grill, Mike Lata of FIG and The Ordinary, John Ondo of Lana and Kevin Vedrinski of Trattoria Lucca for the dinner Dec. 3.
• Is the world ready for stout-flavored potato chips?
• Richard Blais tries to talk Dr. Oz off the germophobic ledge.
• MOJO and Paste have released their lists of this year's 20 best albums.
• The New York Times Public Editor is defending Pete Wells' scathing review of Guy Fieri's new Time Square restaurant.
• A Civil War scholar is telling fellow historians to lay off Steven Spielberg and Lincoln.