Top 50 Albums of 2013: Who Missed the Cut?
My top 50 albums of 2013 list is finalized! That post is coming this weekend (once I complete short write-ups on each), but to get the process started, here are […]
My top 50 albums of 2013 list is finalized! That post is coming this weekend (once I complete short write-ups on each), but to get the process started, here are […]
Tom Acitelli’s The Audacity of Hops is, forgive me, a truly audacious book. To capture the whole history of the American craft beer movement, with its dizzying array of names, […]
I’m trying to get my blog going again – and, by popular request, I’m returning with a new edition of my iPod obsessions, the songs that are burning up my […]
Denver Beer Company Our first brewpub in Denver encompassed what I came to think of as the classic Colorado beer experience: an inviting patio that, with its communal tables, felt […]
I’m just back from 10 days of crawling through brewpubs enjoying the natural wonders of Colorado. Seriously, every day we did a combination of hiking, biking, walking, running, and/or swimming […]
The media used to gather, assess, verify and report news. One thing that’s increasingly obvious from this week’s madness (the Boston Marathon bombing): they’ve almost completely abandoned the “assess and […]
What am I going to do differently after today’s terrorist attack in Boston? Not a damn thing. Not that I’m particularly (read: “at all”) brave. I’m pretty much […]
By this point in musical history, you’d think artists would have squeezed absolutely every drop of possibility from heartbreak. But you’d be wrong: there’s still gold in them thar broken […]
Better late than never, here are my top 50 albums for 2012, in reverse order. A great year for music, I found myself listening to a wider variety of sounds […]
I liked this movie. Perhaps not as much as everyone else in the theater, the vast majority of whom sniffled, gulped, and blew their noses throughout (especially each time a […]