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Books: “Bowling for Communism” in Leipzig
Leipzig was among the East German cities to be visited in 1989 during my August working holiday in the GDR, but the group excursion...
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Donald Niebyl tells the amazing story of Yugoslavia’s pavilion at Expo...
In 1987 for the first and only time, my European tour itinerary included Yugoslavia. It was fascinating for all the usual reasons, and at...
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Let’s just round off at $15 million for the Reisz Mahal, and call it...
There'll be an open house next week to "celebrate" one of the most wasteful expenditures in recent civic memory, New Albany's shiny new city...
“Arthur Frommer’s Europe on $25 a Day” absolutely changed my life
At 91, Arthur Frommer still preaches the budget travel gospel, just as he did when I was converted 35 years ago. As it was...
Classist versus classicist, beer or elsewhere
A "Shane's Excellent New Words" column from December, 2019, revised and updated.
What about classism versus classicism? The words have very different meanings.
classism
noun
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“Trieste,” a novel by Daša Drndić
It can be daunting, perhaps even crippling, to consider the immensity of what remains unknown about the wider world. What we as individuals know...
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There’s plenty of good food to eat without red meat and fowl
In a rare display of resolve, I've been meatless (red meat and fowl) for the first two months of 2021; might as well go...
The wild, wild Right Bank of the Ohio
Not so long ago, one of the downtown bars within extended staggering distance of our place of residence posted a social media notice in...
On Memorial Day, I’d prefer DRINKING beer
A few year ago at a bar I frequented, one of the younger 30-something employees was pushing hard for a Memorial Day promotion to...
The Weekly Wad lives on in the minds of malcontents everywhere
I've expended quite a few words to explain why I try to keep high school memories at arm’s length. At the same time, formative...
Diary for 9 July 2021: Origin Park is the green space equivalent of Jeff...
Diary for 9 July 2021
Earlier in the week I mentioned to a few friends that a new ON THE AVENUES column was forthcoming. However,...
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Beercycling by numbers, in Belgium
My band of beercyclists rode their bikes in and around the Westhoek region in Flanders five times in nine years (2000-2008), and I still...
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Think beer globally, drink beer locally, pair beer with food thoughtfully
Every major industrialized nation has A BEER (you can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear...
Menu Items: All the food was Greek to me, and gratefully so
Originally published at Food & Dining Magazine on 7 November 2021.
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“Edibles & Potables” is Food & Dining Magazine’s Sunday morning slot for a merry...
REWIND: “This week in solipsistic beer narcissism” (2014)
Lightly edited to remove a couple of obscure topical references.
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