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Roger’s year in music, 2021
Music does something to me, and I’ve never been able to explain exactly why. It just happens. Sometimes when I walk into a supermarket,...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
Menu Items: “Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants...
Originally published at the Food & Dining Magazine web site on 13 September 2020.
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Nothing could be more common than the salt and pepper on...
Miscellany
Texas is the new Taliban, which of course is so very...
I support safe, legal abortion access. Women should retain control over their own bodies and be trusted to make the right choice for themselves.
Allow...
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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 57: Beer writer Michael Jackson’s reaction to...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 56: Michael Jackson’s 1994 visit to Louisville — BBC, the Silo, Rich O’s.
“When one thirsts for a...
EXILE ON SPRING STREET: In defense of godlessness in everyday life
After much thought, I've decided to retire the "On the Avenues" identifier after all. As we enter 2022, OTA becomes "Exile on Spring Street."
Until...
Roger Baylor’s Career in Beer — The Résumé / CV
ROGER A. BAYLOR
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Any licensed establishment can list its beers, but not every establishment organizes its beer offerings...
40 Years in Beer, Part Four: Those Scoreboard daze of old (first movement)
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Three: Did I really look like a guy with a plan?
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When I first began working at Scoreboard Liquors in...
Diary
Out and about, in America, in Europe — and in my cups
This one was written in 2009 and revised in 2014. It hasn't appeared anywhere since, which makes it ripe for a rerun. The biggest...
Them ominous vultures
Last week we went for a walk to the pharmacy on a day with clear skies and warmth in the air, too early for...
Justin Brown is my preferred candidate for Floyd Circuit Court Judge
“All politics is local.”
So the legendary Boston ward heeler Tip O’Neill said, and in the main, he was right.
However, in recent years those big,...
Welcome to Nawbany, Episode 1: Let’s all fight for something, anything, whatever
The New Albany City Council's current president is at-large councilman Jason Applegate, who on March 7 asked that "everyone keep the people of Ukraine...
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...
Recipes for Chaos
UNESCO is right; of course Belgium’s beer culture is a treasure...
And who am I to argue with UNESCO? Here’s the link from National Public Radio.
Citing Belgian beer's integral role in social and culinary life,...
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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 61: The Silo Microbrewery’s fatal travails, 1994...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 60: Those glorious Belgian beer cafes (Euro Beer Travel 1995, Part III)
Beer writer Michael Jackson’s visit to...
Diary: 17 years ago, the New Albany Historic Home Tour and the Schwartzel family
It so happens that today was the New Albany Historic Home Tour, which appears to have debuted in 2006. My opinion about this event...
40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 60: Those glorious Belgian beer cafes (Euro...
Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 59: Czech and Slovak beer & Hungarian Bull’s Blood wine (Euro Beer Travel 1995, Part II).
Contrary...
