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Louisville beer, now and then (or, my 2014 review of Kevin...
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Louisville Beer, Now and Then
“Anyone who has groped among the dark beer dungeons which lie for a number...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
“Howard Zinn’s July 4 Wisdom Stands the Test of Time,” followed...
Howard Zinn, Mark Twain, Edwin Moses and me, but first, Frederick Douglass. Dave Zirin, one of a select group of sportswriters who really matter,...
Miscellany
OTA Archive from June, 2020: “There, there. People are dying, so...
In New Albany, Harvest Homecoming is once again under way after a year's layoff owing to COVID safety protocols. This column originally appeared at...
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An absolute fascination with “The 15 Tallest Skyscrapers of Yugoslavia”
If Donald Niebyl created a calendar with these images I'd snatch one up.
My only visit to Yugoslavia when constituted as such came in 1987,...
Vote Ed Clere for Mayor of New Albany
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As I’ve explained at intervals in the past, my political orientation is not represented by the two party system in America. My...
40 Years in Beer, Part Two: Brontosaurus Stomp, or the time before time began
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part One: Fun in Hi Skule.
(A version of Part 2 appeared in The Aggregate's January 2022 issue.)
I turned 21 in...
European Grand Tour 1985, Part 1: Three months that shook my world
1984 gets all the ink, but it was 1985 that changed me forever. There was no keeping me down on the farm after I'd...
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...
ON THE AVENUES: Welcome to “Pagan Life,” a weekly column devoted to heathens, infidels,...
ON THE AVENUES is the name of my longtime column at the former NA Confidential. It makes the passage to Exile on Spring Street....
MLK Day, 2026
I was not quite eight years old when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in April of 1968, and consequently, my memories of...
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...
Diary: “The moral and aesthetic nightmare of Christmas,” by the late, great Christopher Hitchens
In 2021, I pleased the local powers-that-be by allowing the NA Confidential blog to run its course, and by doing so, liberated myself from...
Recipes for Chaos
Diary: The story of the Sladek (brewer/maltster) stone at Fairview Cemetery
We bought our house in downtown New Albany in 2003, and by the following spring casual neighborhood walks had become a regular weekend feature...
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Just when I conclude that things can't get more surreal, along comes 2026. It has been draining, but we squeezed in an excursion to...
Diary: Talking ‘bout my generation (subtitle: OK Boomer)
Recently a post by Chris Arnade (ar-NAHD-i) at X caught my eye.
I've written for the last decade about the educational divide in the US,...
Diary: Is it the end? A new beginning? Anyone? Bueller?
During the next few days, I’ll be concluding the online publication of Food & Dining Magazine’s “lost” Spring 2026 print edition (Vol. 89).
The Spring...
