The Beer Nut: Sam Adams rolls out new barrel-aged beers
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Turkish beer popular among Iraqis – Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review
The removal of a United Nations embargo on Iraq has revealed that Iraqis prefer to consume Turkish beer...
Coconut & Lime has been a partner with SpringPad, a free online notebook service, for a while now. You can "spring" my recipes (either manually or buy clicking on a "save this" button in a post) and create meal plans...
Ingredients: 12 oz fresh cranberries 1/2 cup pomegranate arils 1/2 cup light brown sugar 1 cup pomegranate juice1/4 cup water 3 tablespoons lemon juicezest of one lemonDirections: Place the cranberries, pomegranate arils, water, juices, sugar, and zest in a medium...
I’ve been sitting at my desk, staring at my monitor for the last half an hour, pondering things. There’s so much going on in my life right now that I’ve been having trouble getting my brain to function in its...
So, I had my surgery last week. For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you know already that I was stuck at home up until yesterday, recovering and being very bored. I'm now back to driving,...
Property address: 1236 W. Cross Street, Baltimore, MD 21230
Property owner: 119 Scott Street, LLC, 625 Washington Boulevard, #A, Baltimore, MD 21230
Registered agent for 119 Scott Street, LLC: Gerald M. Katz, 900 Dulaney Valley Road #400, Towson, MD 21204
City Council District...
Passed someone on the highway the other day who had at least a dozen anti-Obama bumper stickers on their car. And I'm sure I've seen cars with at least as many anti-Bush stickers in the past. But regardless of your...
This week I have a piece in the Baltimore City Paper about the Rapdragons, a new hip hop duo I saw at the All-Rap Round Robin, a few months ago, which was actually only their 3rd show ever. They're playing...
This week I have a piece in the Baltimore City Paper about the Rapdragons, a new hip hop duo I saw at the All-Rap Round Robin, a few months ago, which was actually only their 3rd show ever. They're playing...
Spider-Man, 11/20/09
It really shouldn’t come as surprise to anyone that the quality control over at the newspaper Spider-Man strip is less than stringent; but, as several faithful readers have written to me to point out, the feature appears to...
Ingredients:1 28 oz. can stewed tomatoes1 large shallot, diced1 cup rice1 tablespoon olive oil1 teaspoon thyme1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakesDirections:In a large pot, cook rice according to package instructions. In a medium sauce pan, sauté crushed red pepper flakes...
Black Guerrilla Family member Marlow Bates sentenced to 46 months in federal prison. If you may remember, his father, also named Marlow was a notorious Drug Kingpin in the 80's who is still serving out a life sentence in...
It's almost Thanksgiving and that means it's time to be on the lookout for the Elf on the Shelf. "The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition" is a storybook and doll set dreamed up by Carol Aebersold as the...
MP3: Nachtmystium – Cold Tormentor (I’ve Become) from Nachtmystium (2003)
To me, “black metal” means a style of music pioneered by Norwegian bands like Darkthrone and Mayhem in the early 1990s. The (again, for me) defining elements of the genre are...
Reviews
• The Twilight Saga: New Moon
• An Education
• The Blind Side
• Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Summit)
The Stab: A satisfying second chapter to the Twilight saga, improving on its predecessor in every way...
Or at least not try to manipulate the laws of the land to suit their own prejudices? Wait, I know. Because these anti-gay, anti-reason, anti-socialist, anti-progress people are mean, stupid, backward, take your pick.
Via The New York Times:
Citing...
Rest in peace, Daddy. I don't know why I do these things to myself but I've been reading Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, which chronicles the year after her husband died. But I found...
MP3: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones – Sunset Road, Live at Vicar Street (Dublin) on Nov 4 2009 (Live Music Archive)
Let me be plain: you have never seen anything like Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.
This latest string of US dates...
From the Boys & Girls Clubs of Harford County:
Baltimore Ravens Guard Ben Grubbs will host a Thanksgiving dinner distribution on Tuesday, November 24 for 100 single parent families in the metropolitan Baltimore Area. Included in this number are 2...
Virginia McGahee (or McGhee), 34, murdered at funeral for murdered boyfriendFuneral director: war at home has made us master embalmersPolice address sex assaults: "If you live in East Baltimore and you have to be out walking overnight, to a bus...
From the Harford County Sheriff’s Office:
(Abingdon, MD – November 19, 2009) On August 24, 2009, Harford County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a complaint for recovered stolen property discovered near Federal Lane, in the Abingdon area of Harford County.
A number...
This post is sponsored by Sportsbetting.com, our favorite online sportsbook.Back to a full slate of games this week after the bye weeks end. By this point in the season, we feel like we know just enough about all the...
Are the Metro Subway Train Operators just getting lazy, or is there seriously a problem with the metro cars? The last few times I have taken the metro subway, I've noticed a few things. First the train operators neglect to...
Not sure what year these are from, as that info is missing from the source. Almost certainly the fifties, and quite possibly 1955 — the year tragedy struck.
There’s no angle to take on Le Mans that doesn’t end up at...
WBAL.com reports on a Daily Record report
Reporters covering Mayor Sheila Dixon’s theft trial have been twittering away from the courtroom all week long.
But no more.
The Daily Record reports Judge Dennis Sweeney is threatening to eject any reporter who lets his...
Yesterday I hit the treadmill for 6 miles, 1 easy and 5 at tempo pace (8:20/mile). About 4 miles in my sore left hamstring made itself known, and that concerned me because it previously hadn't really bothered me in...
Twenty-five things for which I am thankful, in no particular order:- Coffee mugs from California.- My cellular telephone.- My laptop computer.- My favorite turquoise necklace.- My zombie messenger bag.- My imagination.- Science Fiction.- My ID badge that gets me into...
Well, who doesn’t love this time of year? Everything about it brings me that warm and fuzzy feeling. Home-cooked meals, holiday parties, and family time. This year, I finally have a space of my own that I am proud of....
Mochi and I had one of our amazing phone conversations yesterday (which felt all the more amazing because we just saw one another a few weeks ago in New York, and every time I see Mochi I feel thought waves...
Want to make a long-time Baltimoron mad? Choose up sides in the "Rheb's versus Wockenfuss" debate. I can think of no more hotly-contested issue regarding Baltimore's food scene, other than the proverbial "who makes the best crabcake" lightning rod. I believe...
After the British Army burned the Congressional Library in 1814, Thomas Jefferson donated his library — 6,700 volumes — to the U.S. government to start a new one. Not only is that an impressive number of books for one...
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