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| Beer Taps News Archive 07-Dec-2007 |
Detroit Casino Boasts Icy Bar, Puck's Room Service (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Detroit is raising the ante on gambling. The MGM Grand Detroit is ushering in a new era as the first to open among three casinos undergoing makeovers. By adding lodging, they aim to extend the market for Detroit's casinos by several hundred miles.
Biofuels tap home of Oktoberfest (Chicago Tribune)Germany's quest for non-gas fuels spurs barley farmers to switch crops; beer lovers pay the price Beer and oil may not mix, but in Germany there's a direct link between hefty increases in the cost of a barrel of each.
A Festival's Worth Of Scare Tactics (The New York Sun)Nick Damici was 8 years old when he confronted one of his greatest fears. Rats. Dead, smelly rats. His father tended bar in Hell's Kitchen, near the corner of 44th Street and Eleventh Avenue. It was the late 1960s, and at night the pavement was so crowded with hookers that traffic stalled. It's the kind of New York people don't see anymore. But then, as now, there was a constant: Gotham's vermin ...
'Sin City' Evanston irresistible to some Utahns (Deseret Morning News)It's 11:45 a.m. and the temperature is already climbing into the 90s. A stiff wind whips the line of flags atop the huge building that is Porter's Fireworks and Liquor. Porter's is one of a few huge liquor stores and fireworks vendors here at the first Wyoming exit off Interstate 80, only a few miles from the Utah state line.
Thankful for a recent trip to Brooklyn (The Florida Times-Union)After nearly three decades of Thanksgivings spent in my mother's dining room, I was tempted by the bird of another. I spent the holiday on the 11th floor of a Brooklyn high-rise - stayed there for a whole week, in fact, with the occasional run into Manhattan for food and culture. Travel tales are served:
Hectic Melodrama Holidays (Arroyo Grande Times Press Recorder)Anyone in need of a good dose of Christmas cheer only needs to attend the Holiday Extravaganza staged annually by the Great American Melodrama & Vaudeville in Oceano.
A field of dreams -- for stuff (The Star-Ledger)NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The distinctive charred, greasy smell of ballpark hot dogs sizzles through the air. The honking sound of a man dressed in a suit covered in various types of horns assaults your ears. You turn and find yourself face-to-face with a 7-foot yellow bird.
It'll be brewskies and breakaways at this year's Silver Stick tourney (Stratford City Gazette)Slap shots, big goals and hard checks won't be the only thing served up during the annual Silver Stick Tournament, taking place at the Stratford Rotary Complex later this month.
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