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Just a bit of Germany in Jeffersonville; that’s plenty enough
Here's the link at Louisville Business First.
Pints & Union owner to open German beer hall near the Big Four Bridge
The first year I hit...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 76: A boy can...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 75: My shoes are filled with Volga mud (1999).
This installment was terribly hard to write. Kindly...
Miscellany
Our forthcoming war of the non-motorized watercraft launch areas
Local Democratic Party stalwarts continue to express puzzlement. Why do "their" city officials oppose the removal of an outmoded low-head dam on Silver Creek,...
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40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 43): Facing the music at Rich O’s...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 42): Barr built the bar, and the Guinness began pouring.
Music?
That's right, music.
After all, this series is...
Does New Albany even have an intellectual history?
Originally written and published at NA Confidential on October 30, 2014.
ON THE AVENUES: Does New Albany even have an intellectual history?
The last time I...
Louisville beer, now and then (or, my 2014 review of Kevin Gibson’s “Louisville Beer”...
Because, I really nailed this one.
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Louisville Beer, Now and Then
“Anyone who has groped among the dark beer dungeons which lie for a number...
C’mon, do you really believe Robert Maxwell accidentally fell off that yacht?
At this point in the nation's haphazard experience, most Americans know far too much about Ghislaine Maxwell owing to her connections with the conveniently...
Diary
Diary for 24 July 2021: Oversight of government entities? By the News and Tribune?
Let's begin by defining our terms for those just tuning in.
The News and Tribune (N&T) is a six-day (Monday through Saturday) daily newspaper serving...
Diary: Looking for a good biography of Eugene V. Debs? This isn’t it
This being an election year — and accordingly, utterly infuriating on a daily basis for the MAGA stupidity it embodies — I thought it...
Diary: For 11 years, NABC’s Fringe Fest added conceptual depth to Harvest Homecoming
Charles Dickens anticipated the record of my working career as it pertains to the late NABC Bank Street Brewhouse (415 Bank Street in New...
Make your own fun, but I will not carry a gun
I will not carry a gun, Frank. When I got thrown into this war I had a clear understanding with the Pentagon: no guns....
Diary for 19 September 2021: Your shrinking attention spans annoy me
If there is any one common denominator to help explain the ever bottoming nadir of daily life in the industrialized (and desperately sick) world,...
Recipes for Chaos
Pints&union schedule for Harvest Homecoming (with food vending collaborator Leaven Bakery)
When the no parking signs go up for the Harvest Homecoming parade, so does the ambient weirdness in New Albany. It peaks on the...
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I’ve been to California only twice, in 1978 and 2006, for no more than a few days each time.
Often it occurs to me that...
From 2015: “Budweiser explains the Doctrine of Trojan Geese Island Transubstantiation”
Photo credit: The Guardian.
From the moment in March of 2011 that the papers were signed formalizing the purchase of Goose Island Beer Co. in...
Unleash your inner pagan at Saturnalia MMVI, a winter solstice draft fest (2006)
Damn, I was good in my prime. The following dates to 2006 (cover art credit: Anthony Beard) and is self-explanatory. Shortly thereafter, we got...
