First, my beer of choice as I write this is Brooklyn Winter Ale. My music of choice is the new Sinead O’Connor, How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? Now…because there aren’t enough reality television shows, two new ones have popped up. Swamp People and Doomsday Preppers. It used to be where the only reality show I knew of was the one that’s still on about assholes on some island. Now they’re scouring the four corners of the globe to film real folks in unscripted dramatics and funnyisms. It’s time for one of these shows to hit Northwest Indiana and/or Chicago. I have some ideas. Hoosier Brew Breweries are popping up all over the country. There are several in Northwest Indiana alone:…
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The Chicago Tribune had a story the other day about the last remaining row houses in what was the notorious public housing project Cabrini-Green. They posted a timeline about the high-rises including events in its nearly 70-year history that brought nationwide attention to this part of Chicago. I believe they left something out. Something that might have brought the most attention, whether it be negative or not, to the projects than anything else. 1992 – Candyman. Here’s the Trib timeline: Good Times, seriously? But no Candyman? A critically acclaimed film and the only of its kind to use those shithole projects as its setting? Good Times was SET at Cabrini-Green. Candyman was set and filmed there. Maybe the Trib was afraid to say or…
Ask Liffey, part 1. What kind of beer do you like? First, let me say I’m not a beer expert and despise beer snobbery. I drink what I’m in the mood for. Sometimes it’s a can of MGD at a summer barbecue. Sometimes I like Harp. I had one recently at a fake Irish bar in the area and rather enjoyed it. The most recent six-pack I purchased was Robert The Bruce by Three Floyds in Munster. Sometimes I like dark beer, sometimes I like light. If it’s a party I’ll pretty much drink anything offered except maybe for Meister Brau. And even then you never know. What kind of gal do you fancy? I’m partial to brunettes but it’s like my beer –…
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