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The Rebel Yell brand was originally created in the late 1940’s for the world-renowned Stitzel-Weller Distilling Co. to celebrate the

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David Byrne (of Talking Heads fame, but he is also founder of the site) writes in Reasons to Be Cheerful:

Zero Motorcycles: Say Hello To The 2022 Zero FXE

With countries like America and Canada promising net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, it’s no wonder that more and more motorcycle

Sharon Fagan McDermott: On Memory and Writing

In one of my favorite memories, I am peeking through my fingers, shivering, as New York Harbor, the heliport, the

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Like so many paintings by Edward Hopper, “Sunday,” completed in 1926, is shrouded in mystery. Who is this lone man

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Taking a puff or two of his fancy cigar, he said, “Well kid, when you see death,  just tell him,

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If you could only find a way in, you could turn your life around. Find the words you have needed

#Bookreview – Where Angels & Devils Tread by Joy Lennick and Jean Wilson

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Six on Saturday – Interloper

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Wrapping a gift is the best part of giving a gift…. at least it is to me. As a kid,

Creative Writing: The ash tray

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Dark Was the Night: Blind Willie Johnson’s Journey to the Stars

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For years I’ve been smoking a cigar in the garage at night.  Sometimes I stay for an hour – or

A Summer Splashdown

LA never wowed me the way it wows some folks. Instead, it hooked me with a thousand little revelations. A

La Gloria Cubana Spirit of the Lady | Cigar Reviews by the Katman

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dVerse — Poetics — Ode to Charles Fletcher Lummis

Charles Fletcher Lummis 1897 Are orphans worthy? If so, how much? To what purpose? Who is asking, and who is

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Tank Garage Wine Dinner-Opening Courses

Courtesy of Tank Garage Winery, we had a dinner focused on four of their wines, I found myself surrounded by

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A report by Andrea Rodríguez for The Associated Press. Thousands of Cubans marched on Havana’s Malecon promenade and elsewhere on

Music Docs Dominate Emmys’ Documentary Category; ‘Bee Gees’ Film Lands Six Nods

Emmy voters had a song in their hearts when they went to vote in the 2021 documentary categories. Of the

Now They Hate the Statue of Liberty

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Lynn Hershman Leeson: Twisted at New Museum, June 30 – October 3, 2021

“For over fifty years, Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941, Cleveland, OH) has created an innovative and prescient body of work

Tune of the Day for Wednesday 14 July 2021: Tite Rope by Harold Alexander — Feline Basslines

Life can feel that you are walking a tightrope at times. When things get a little crazy around you that

Friends Raise Funds for Guatemalan Street Vendor Killed by DUI Driver in Ontario, Had Only Been in U.S. for One Year

Ontario’s street vendor community gathered over the weekend to raise funds for two fruit vendors who were struck last Monday