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Two new beers join the year-round line up from Hood River’s Full Sail Brewing Company. This month, the brewery will roll out Tropic Supreme IPA, a West Coast Style IPA with a touch of the tropics and Cosmic Gorge, a hazy pale ale with flavor that is out of this world. “At Full Sail, our mission […]
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Shawshank Redemption is a pretty shitty action flick. I mean, like, horrendous. On the 100-point “Action Film” scale, it comes very close to being “faulty”. HOWEVER, on the “Epic Drama” scale, it achieves a nigh-on perfect score. The film industry’s genre-specific awards prevent such critical conflation. After a particularly intense experiment involving five super-serious winos, […]
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At Aaron’s suggestion, I recently began listening to the Rise and Fall of Mars Hill podcast from Christianity Today. It’s a biased account, the whole game being to smear conservatives with Driscoll’s bad behavior. Nevertheless, it is well-produced and can spur useful reflection among those of us who remain committed to a Biblical understanding of […]
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Brooklyn Brewery co-founder Steve Hindy was awarded the Brewers Association Recognition Award at this week’s Craft Brewers Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The award is given to an individual or brand that has contributed to the craft brewing movement through inspiration, enthusiasm, and support. Hindy founded the brewery with friend Tom Potter and launched the brand […]
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I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes in a “mini-review” format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to read […]
Read moreJealousy is an incredibly powerful and raw human emotion, and most of the time, you don’t even know that it’s happening. It’s a very subconscious and primal thing. Today, I want to help you make your crush or ex incredibly jealous with some power moves specifically designed to make you feel amazing about yourself while […]
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(SAN DIEGO, CA) – California Wild Ales, San Diego’s Sour House, is celebrating the first anniversary of the brewery’s second tasting room in the laid-back San Diego neighborhood of Ocean Beach. As part of the festivities, the brewery is releasing several new beers including the brewery’s first canned lager, a double hazy IPA (IIPA) made […]
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I have not yet been to the cinema to see the latest despatch from that castellated stately home where half the inhabitants speak in a strange strangulated drawl and wear tiaras and penguin suits to dinner, while the other half toil cheerfully in Piranesian dungeons (I exaggerate slightly). Even the title Downton Abbey: A New […]
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It’s been a while since I’ve had time to just stroll around a cheese aisle. To nudge a triple creme to see if it’s ripe. To revel in the newest mixing of cow-sheep-goat-buffalo milk for cheese. School’s been heavy and taking most my time, so when a few days ago I had the chance to […]
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This video tutorial has three parts: easy tips to choose the best hairstyle for your face shape, product selection tips for your hairstyle, and an Alpha M. hairstyling tutorial. What face shape do you have? Take a selfie. Draw each (round, square, triangle, oval) over the top of your face. Which most closely represents you? […]
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