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Times change, but Ernest Hemingway was an inspiration to this youthful...
Originally published as "(Ernest) Hemingway in a time of mercifully silent thunder" on April 23, 2020. A Ken Burns documentary about Hemingway is coming...
Archipelago Travels
Technically Challenged
Learn more about Käthe Kollwitz and her powerful visual legacy
Käthe Kollwitz is an artist we should know and celebrate. Controversy is the least of the reasons why, although it's something I appreciate.
Why Käthe...
Miscellany
Our weekly editorial meme: “To the dimmer go the spoils”
Well, you KNOW the way they've always been. Vultures hunt by instinct, not college degrees.
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A pint of bitter, please, because it’s The Dubliners at the The Wheeltappers and...
In which three fascinating Anglo-Irish topics collide amid my frequent references to the adjective "elegiac."
It's the mid-1970s lineup of the Irish folk band The...
“When the Doves Disappeared,” a novel by Sofi Oksanen
The novel is called When the Doves Disappeared, written by the Finnish/Estonian author Sofi Oksanen. The English translation was released in 2015. The publisher...
Trust me, salads ARE a vegetable
Last Thanksgiving my wife's employer gifted the department with $25 coupons to be applied against purchases of turkey, ham and vegetables. Trust me when...
An Afternoon with Santa Claus: Zürich’s Hürlimann Brewery, 1994
Exuberant excess in beer has been redefined so many times recently that I wouldn't know where to begin a survey of the territory, but...
Diary
The house painting job
My dentist practices in a rural community a good forty-minute drive from where I live near Louisville. The route passes through the town where...
Diary for 21 July 2021: The artist’s name comes first
Can you name the Pope who commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel?
Didn't think so. I had to look it up: Julius II.
While I'm...
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...
Diary for 15 July 2021: Once there was a bridge
Roger, describe your relationship with City Hall in one photo or less. pic.twitter.com/7OZNAjBVAw
— Roger A. Baylor (@newalbanian) March 11, 2021
Twitter games amuse me at...
Shane’s Excellent New Words: NIMBY versus YIMBY, though not to neglect BANANA
Now I'm hiding in Honduras
I'm a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns and money
The shit has hit the fan
-- Warren Zevon
"Shane's Excellent New Words" was a...
Recipes for Chaos
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,...
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ON THE AVENUES: Daze of future passed (1998 – 2021)
Pints&union began operations three years ago yesterday (and today, and this week). The following column first appeared at the NA Confidential blog in 2018,...
Moody Tongue Beer Dinner at The Exchange in New Albany, 28 July 2021
At Moody Tongue, our goal is to create thoughtful, exciting beers that blend familiar flavors with quality ingredients through our philosophy of culinary brewing:...
Diary for 28 July 2021: “Craft” is especially nonsensical when tacked to “hard” seltzer
The point of these “diary” entries is to write as the mood strikes me, in the moment.
I'd suggest we piss on hard seltzer, but...
