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brookstonalmanac · 3 months

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Beer Events 2.1

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Foster's beer 1st public tasting (Australia; 1889)

Cincinnati, Covington and Newport Brewers Exchange founded (Ohio, Kentucky; 1897)

Champion Brewing changed its name to Lone Star (1940)

H.L. Buffington patented Portable Cooler Cabinet Construction (1966)

William Hunt patented a Container for a Keg (1966)

Malley Brewery patented a Continuous Brewing Apparatus (1966)

Schaefer Brewing patented the Preservation of Beer (1966)

Mack Johnston patented a Single-Opening Beer Keg (1977)

Federal law H.R. 1337 went into effect. legalizing homebrewing in the U.S. (1979)

Sierra Nevada Bigfoot released (1983)

Rene Sauvage, et al., patented an Installation for Steeping Grains (1994)

Miller Brewing patented a Light Stable Hop Fraction and Method of Making the Same (2005)

Breweries Opened

Boston Beer Co. (South Boston, Mass.; 1828)

Berliner Kindl Brauerei (Germany; 1872)

Sierra Nevada Brewing (California; 1980)

Portland Brewery’s Flanders Street Pub founded (Oregon; 1986)

Catamount Brewing (Vermont; 1987)

Old Columbia Brewery (California; 1989)

New England Brewing (Connecticut; 1990)

Hale’s Ales (Wash.; 1992)

Old World Brewing (Arizona; 1992)

Tumbleweed Grille Brewery (NC; 1992)

Woodstock Brewing (New York; 1992)

Syracuse Suds Factory (New York; 1993)

Lagunitas Brewing (California; 1994)

Randy’s Fun Hunter Restaurant & Brewery (Wisconsin; 1994)

Bayhawk Ales (California; 1995)

Beau Ce Broue brewery (Quebec; 1995)

Browar Belgia (Poland; 1995)

Draught Horse Pub & Brewery (Texas; 1995)

Faultline Brewing (California; 1995)

Flagship Brewery (England; 1995)

Old Broadway brewery (North Dakota; 1995)

Trailhead Brewing (Missouri; 1995)

Triumph Brewing (New Jersey; 1995)

Bare Bones Grill & Brewery (Maryland; 1996)

Blue & Gold Brewing (Virginia; 1996)

Dunedin Brewery (Florida; 1996)

J.T. Garrison Brewing (California; 1996)

Main Street Brewing (Texas; 1996)

Siletz Brewing (Oregon; 1996)

Treasure Coast Brewing (Florida; 1996)

Wild Duck Brewery (Oregon; 1996)

Appalachian Brewing (Pennsylvania; 1997)

Beowulf Brewing (England; 1997)

Clocktower Brewing (Canada; 1997)

Forest City Brewing (Illinois; 1997)

Kelley Bros. Brewing (California; 1997)

Mystic River Brewing (Connecticut; 1997)

Nimbus Brewing (Arizona; 1997)

North Fork Brewers (Washington; 1997)

Rio Salado Brewing (Georgia; 1997)

Seidermann Brewing (Arizona; 1997)

Southeastern Brewing (South Carolina; 1997)

Strip Brewing (Pennsylvania; 1997)

Trout Brooks Brewing (Conneciticut; 1997)

USA Cafe (Texas; 1997)

Westwind Brewery (New Mexico; 1997)

Willoughby Brewing (Ohio; 1997)

Your Father’s Moustache (New York; 1997)

Yukon Brewing (Canada; 1997)

La Lambic du Nord (Canada; 1998)

Max Lager’s American Grill & Brewery (GA; 1998)

Silver Gulch Brewing & Bottling (Alaska; 1998)

Erie Brewing (Pennsylvania; 1999)

Lightning Boy Brewery (Montana; 1999)

5280 Roadhouse & Brewery (Colorado; 1999)

Mystic Brewpub & Restaurant (Penna.; 2000)

Spinning Dog Brewery (England; 2000)

#Events

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glasshouseimages · 8 months

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#deserted #green #green color #motel #Noll Images #orange #travel #western

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spiritawardsnominees · 3 years

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Janet McTeer as Mary Jo Walker in Tumbleweeds (1999) Independent Spirit Award Nominee for Best Female Lead

#janet mcteer #tumbleweeds #1999 #best female lead

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goreki-quadracorn · 4 years

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So I got nostalgic for a game that came out over twenty years ago. I’m impressed the servers are still up. Not the original ones, mind you, it got a reeboot in 2015.

#sissyfight #nostalgia #tumbleweeds #1999

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dizzyhslightlyvoided · 2 years

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The best moment in cinematic history is definitely in The Matrix (1999) when Keanu Reeves and Hugo Weaving face off like cowboys in a subway station, and a discarded newspaper drifts by like a tumbleweed in the breeze despite the fact that they're underground

and they then proceed to leap at each other in bullet-time, shooting their guns, and they both completely miss every single shot.

#shenanigans #the matrix #neo #agent smith #keanu reeves #hugo weaving #cowboy #bullet time #violence mention

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crowdvscritic · 3 years

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round up // AUGUST 21

Happy 2nd birthday to these Round Ups! For two years I’ve been making monthly pop culture picks, and they’ve included:

More than 200 movies

32 TV shows and specials, plus 8 different Saturday Night Live Round Ups

27 albums, singles, playlists, and more music picks

13 podcasts

12 books

2 concerts

There have also been articles, events, museums, social media bits, trailers, and a service that helps you find movies across streaming platforms. (Find all of them here.) This month I’m adding a few more, like:

2 podcasts

2 albums

5 vampire movies

A conversation between two GOATs

A very funny dead guy

A terrifying Robert Mitchum performance

Another Dumb Rom-Com I Nevertheless Enjoyed

Here’s to another year!

August Crowd-Pleasers

1. Jungle Cruise (2021)

Indiana Jones meets Pirates of the Caribbean with a dash of The African Queen. I like all those movies, so sue me, I had a nice time! Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 7/10

2. Deep Blue Sea (1999)

Genetically-enhanced sharks try to break free of their cages in an ocean research facility, chaos ensues for the characters, and it’s a delight for us. For no intelligent reason, I love movies that make me guess who’s going to get killed off next, so a big dumb shark movie starring L.L. Cool J and Samuel L. Jackson? It’s a particular brand of joy. Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 5.5/10

3. Double Feature — Adam Sandler Comedies: 50 First Dates (2004) + Murder Mystery (2019)

Adam Sandler movies are little like IcyHot for the brain—that is, they’re the relaxing kind of mind-numbing. Thanks to a stressful month at work, I watched six Sandler flicks in August—which I don’t necessarily recommend but also don’t regret—and the Netflix original Murder Mystery (Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 7/10) was one of the the best of the bunch. It’s a silly spoof of Agatha Christie’s work, and it’s a scenic two-hour European vacay. I also gave 50 First Dates (Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 7/10) another try and was pleasantly surprised. Once you get past some of the gross-out humor at the beginning, you’ll find a sweet story all about how we need to keep showing up for the people we love.

4. Double Feature — SNL Comedies: Wayne’s World (1992) + Hot Rod (2007)

My love for Saturday Night Live is more than well-documented, so exactly zero mes were surprised that I loved these flicks from its alums. Wayne’s World (Crowd: 9/10 // Critic: 7/10) follows up with Wayne and Garth in the basement we first saw on late night. Now they have the opportunity to make it big on TV thanks to a sleazy exec (Rob Lowe). Brian Doyle-Murray and Chris Farley show up, and so do Laverne and Shirley? Hot Rod (Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 6.5/10) follows Rod (Andy Samberg) as he tries to make it big as a stuntman and impress his stepdad (Ian McShane). Will Arnett, Bill Hader, and Chris Parnell show up, and now I can mostly forgive all those boys in high school who quoted this movie non-stop.

5. Weekend at Bernie’s (1989)

If those SNL comedies weren’t enough silliness for you, how about you add some Bernie to your lineup? Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman are wannabe-yuppies who think they’ve got their career breaks when an exec named Bernie invites them to his vacation home for the weekend. What they don’t know is that Bernie (Terry Kiser) has been laundering money, is connected to the mob, and, is now, um, dead. The right thing would be to call the police, but then we wouldn’t have a 97-minute high-concept comedy, now would we? Crowd: 9/10 // Critic: 7/10

6. Twilight series (2008-12)

I mostly skipped the Twilight phenomenon at its peak, but I’m so glad I hopped on the train years later—this series of vampire vs. werewolf showdowns are ridiculous. But major kudos to the filmmakers who somehow turned a dump truck of nonsensical gobbledygook and unhealthy teenage relationships into something insanely watchable. Also, major kudos to Billy Burke and his understated, curmudgeonly, sarcastic performance. Bella’s dad is the MVP with the only appropriate responses to all of the nonsense he's forced to participate in and the only tether this franchise has to reality. Be sure to watch with a friend so you have someone else to process this weirdness with. Series Crowd: 8/10 // Series Critic: 5/10

7. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at The Muny

You know what’s great? Live theater! This month I made my first trip back to the stage at America’s oldest and largest outdoor amphitheater, the Muny in St. Louis. Their productions never disappoint, and these performers reminded me of Howard Keel, Jane Powell, and Russ Tamblyn in the best ways.

8. Wimbledon (2004)

Paul Bettany and Kirsten fall in love at Wimbledon! Frankly, that premise alone should be enough to sell you on this very winning rom-com. Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 7.5/10

9. Career Opportunities (1991)

This month’s Dumb Rom-Com I Nevertheless Enjoyed! Frank Whaley and Jennifer Connelly fall in love while stuck overnight at a Target—which honestly sounds like a dream scenario—and since it’s a John Hughes script, it’s got some heart beneath its thin premise. John Hughes directing would’ve made it better, but there’s enough Hughes in there to catch my heart. Crowd: 7/10 // Critic: 4.5/10

10. First Blood (1982)

Aka Rambo: Part I. Sylvester Stallone is a tough-as-nails Vietnam vet, and Brian Dennehy is the self-righteous sheriff who ticks him off. It digs a bit into PTSD and how we don’t take care of our veterans, but mostly, it’s just Stallone going ape with a knife and explosives. Oddly, also from the same director as Weekend at Bernie’s! Crowd: 8.5/10 // Critic: 7/10

August Critic Picks

1. TCM’s The Plot Thickens Season 2 (2021)

You know those movies that make you ask, “How on Earth did this get made?” This season of The Plot Thickens, subtitled The Devil’s Candy, is an attempt to answer that question. Pretty much no one thinks 1990’s The Bonfire of the Vanities works as a film—including yours truly—and reporter Julie Salomon documented many of its production troubles leading to the final product. A must-listen for anyone who loves hearing behind-the-scenes stories or just gets a kick out of schadenfreude.

2. Gene and Roger (2021)

Gene and Roger, the summer series on The Big Picture podcast, is an overview and reflection on the work of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, starting with the launch of their individual careers in the ‘60s through their partnership that lasted into the ‘90s. Another must-listen for movie lovers, especially those who love digging into the history and criticism.

3. Gold-Diggers Sound by Leon Bridges (2021)

Chill vibes and cool groves to transition you from Summer to Autumn.

4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Come for the Clint Eastwood, stay for the Ennio Morricone. Actually you can stay for Eastwood, too, because his humor is at his driest, and for Eli Wallach, whose Tuco is an insanely charming cockroach. It’s almost three hours, but this treasure hunt breezes by like a tumbleweed in the wind. Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 9/10

5. AFI’s Master Class - The Art of Collaboration: Steven Spielberg and John Williams (2011)

Two GOATS talking about making some of the GOATs. They share clips and explain their collaborative process (including on projects like Jaws and Schindler’s List), and they take questions from film students at AFI. I’m only wishing it were 10 hours instead of 1!

6. The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Robert Mitchum’s terrifying preacher elevates this classic into more than just a standard crime thriller. Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 8.5/10

7. Respect (2021)

While a few scenes indulge in melodrama, Jennifer Hudson’s killer performance—both in vocals and character work—more than makes up for it. This Aretha Franklin biopic hits the familiar beats, but it makes you feel like you’re in the room listening to Franklin sing , which is really all you want from a movie like this. Crowd: 8/10 // Critic: 8/10

8. Solar Power by Lorde (2021)

At first listen, this minimalist pop record sounds worlds away from the angst of Pure Heroine and the melodrama of Melodrama. At second listen, you realize it’s the Lorde you know and love, just with a Laurel Canyon influence. Carole King even gets a shout!

Also in August…

This month Kyla and I checked out Loveline, a call-in radio show popular during the run of Gilmore Girls. Should our favorite Yale students give up dating OR call into the syndicated radio show Loveline? Should Dr. Drew Pinsky and Adam Carolla give strangers advice OR make fun of them? Oh, and Germany OR Florida? Listen to ep. 107 of SO IT’S A SHOW?

The '40s are coming! Reviews of 1940s Best Picture winners are on their way, and I kicked it off with an overview of the Academy that decade focusing on how they responded to World War II and their new prestigious reputation.

Photo credits: The Muny, The Plot Thickens, Gene and Roger, Leon Bridges, AFI, Lorde. All others IMDb.com.

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owliehoot · 4 years

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Hello!

I’m Allie! I’m trying my best to become a Graphic, Branding, & U.I Designer, and I’ve only been at this for a few months now! This is a super exciting journey, and I can’t wait to see how this goes.

I live in West Texas and currently work at a convenience store as a Sales Associate on the evening shift. I work in Adobe programs and have acquainted myself with them. I have a Huion Kamvas Pro 13 tablet and use the program Krita for drawing. If I’m tired and need a break from design I spend my extra time playing games and watching TV or videos.

Current Games include:

The Sims 4

Rise of The Tomb Raider

GTA V

Astroneer

Grounded

As for watching TV or videos, my current Netflix show is

Umbrella Academy

and I enjoy watching Charmed (1999) and am trying to catch up on American Horror Story.

I watch Twitch or listen to Spotify when I’m working on projects or making posts.

I can’t wait to show you my projects and continue on this road I’m walking down! I hope you enjoy what I have to offer!

*this is not my tumbleweed*

#first post #graphic designer #west texas #a little about me #sales associate

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stylisjh · 5 years

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RULES: ANSWER 21 QUESTIONS AND TAG 21 PEOPLE

TAGGED BY: the angel @almondharry

NICKNAMES: Mai, Maz, Mazzy, Moose, Moosey, Maisonette, Noodle, Noods and many more...

ZODIAC SIGN: I'm a Sagittarius

HEIGHT: 5′5″ average height queens riSE

HOGWARTS HOUSE: Gryffindor (i think??)

LAST THING I GOOGLED: "when are your estrogen levels lowest” and I didn't really get a straight answer if I'm honest

FAVORITE MUSICIANS: Apart from the 1d lot, Ashnikko, The Wallows, Fleetwood Mac, Girl in Red, Sorcha Richardson, Easy Life and a few others

SONG STUCK IN MY HEAD: Mr Lonely/911 by Tyler the Creator

FOLLOWING: 442 :0

FOLLOWERS: this is just a barren wasteland, one cow wanders by. there's tumbleweed

DO YOU GET ASKS: occasionally, I love getting them tho so send them in friends :))))

AMOUNT OF SLEEP: i average on 10 hours a night + 1 hour afternoon nap. I'm not even kidding, bitches be having chronic fatigue 🤪👊🏻

LUCKY NUMBER: 6

WHAT ARE YOU WEARING: my work clothes, how very working woman of me 💆🏻‍♀️

DREAM JOB: tattoo artist / painter

DREAM TRIP: venice

INSTRUMENTS YOU PLAY: i can make a pretty mean shaker out of a loo roll tube some old rice and a sock

LANGUAGES YOU SPEAK: n/a

FAVORITE SONG: [an error has occured]

RANDOM FACT: i drive a 1999 Ford KA in congealed baked bean red

CATS OR DOGS: cats

AESTHETIC: you can pry the pink aesthetic from my cold dead hands

Sorry this took me so long!! it was a lot of fun. A slight issue however is that i do not have 21 mutuals so imma tag random followers and hope they have fun! @cloudsniall @hazzagxcci @violet-harrie @thatmixedlife @moonprincessx @pensomolto

#shit i just realised i tagged people following my main not here #hope youre not confused #sorru #also dont feel obliged!!#tag #tag games #maisie spills her guts

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ebola-kun · 4 years

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Neil Youthful Debuts half a century Aged Tune & Matches Break Out Into State Theater Program

Neil Young continued a solo excursion on Tuesday evening with his 3rd of 4 programs at 4 different Minneapolis locations. Final evening's show at the State Theatre included the real-time launching of a 50-year-old tune and a handful of seizure outs and also solo one of a kinds.

Youthful played 22 songs final night and 12 weren't played at any of the very first 4 programs of the run. The famous entertainer opened up along with "Cinnamon Gal," which hadn't been dipped into a solo program due to the fact that May 11, 2011. Rarity "Pocahontas" happened next prior to the biggest surprise of the operate: the live debut of "Operating Dry (Requiem for The Firecrackers)." Neil taped the tune for 1969's Everyone Understands This Is No place and never executed "Running Dry" jointly ... up until final night. The obscurities kept coming as "White Collection" appeared for the very first time considering that a 2015 series along with Pledge Of The Genuine. "White Line" was actually final participated in at a solo show way back on June 2, 1999.

The cherished "Lengthy May You Run" ended a cord of five 2019 launchings to start the program. Quickly after that arrived another unpleasant surprise as Youthful dusted off "Southern Man" for the 1st time given that October 24, 2015. Next up was actually the yield of "Don't Allow It Deliver You Down" after additional than six years as it was actually final used October 21, 2012. Farm Aid 2004 was actually the previous Neil solo series to feature "Don't Permit It Take You Down." Another seizure out was hanging around in the airfoils. Young pulled out "Stupid Woman" from 1975's Zuma after a 23-year cutback. The Canadian artist played "Silly Girl" 23 times along with Crazy Steed and also The Echos in 1996. Final evening's version was the only one that didn't take place in 1996. Rare solo handles standards "Fuckin' Up" as well as "Down By The Stream" were actually one of the last tracks of the set, while "Tumbleweed" remained in its own normal area as encore.

Watch the 1st three tunes featuring "Operating Dry (Requiem For The Rockets)":

Setlist (by means of Glucose Mountain Range)

Specify: Cinnamon Woman/ Pocahontas/ Running Dry (Requiem For The Rockets)/ White Line/ Long Might You Operate/ Old Master/ Green Is Actually Blue/ Are You Prepared For The Nation?/ Harvest/ Southern Male/ Do Not Permit It Carry You Down/ See The Sky Regarding To Rainfall/ Broken Arrowhead/ Dumb Female/ Fuckin' Up/ Thrasher/ (Olden Days)/ Down Due To The Stream/ Out On The Weekend break/ From Hank To Hendrix/ Cardiovascular System Of Gold

Encore: Tumbleweed

[Hat Tip-- Rolling Stone]

This content was originally published here.

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raeloganthesonic06fangirl · 5 years

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Was watching this new Investigation Discovery true crime show called "Blood Runs Cold", and like... Episode two is about this one case in Imperial Beach, San Diego that happened a few years ago before I moved there as a kid, and it was a really well known case back then about two boys who were killed behind a Home Depot in 1993

And well, not only was there quite an impact on the community from this (there used to be an old man who would walk the block where the crime occurred, backwards, for years until it was finally solved, as a sort of way to remind people that it still a cold case, like, I remember seeing that old man everytime we went to town to go shopping, walking backwards).

It's really strange seeing that particular case covered on a channel like ID, since I grew up in that specific part of town, and I know the exact stores and shops in that area where that happened. I moved there in 1999, but I know the exact places, I could tell you all about the Rally's Burgers kiosk that my brothers and I used to ride bikes to to get spicy chicken sandwiches and Rally Burgers, and load them up in our backpacks.

I could tell you about how that pet shop was a place my brothers and I would hang around while Mom got her hair done... Heck, that very same pet shop was were I got my cat, Shy, in 2003. We'd go to that pet shop to get meal worms for our tortoise, even. I remember that exact Home Depot. I could tell you about the palm trees and the grayish brown sandy beach with the gray water and the breeze that always rolled off the bay into town.

I could tell you about how that exact strip mall with the pet shop also had a martial arts class down the row that's got a picture of the instructor standing next to Chuck Norris on the wall. I could tell you about the Blockbuster that was across from the Rally's kiosk and how there was this fantastic Mexican food place down the road that was in front of a recycling center. Streets named after plants and numbers, and maybe a trail of tumbleweeds that happened because I dragged a tumbleweed home after going to a theater with my brothers and accidentally ruined a neighborhood worth of yards because no one told me tumbleweeds drop seeds.

I also remember there being a local news report at some point as a reminder that the case was unsolved at the time (I was like, 9, when I first heard of it), and while this happened long before I came to live in Imperial Beach, it seemed like everyone knew about this one way or another.

Most notably, that old man who used to walk the block backwards, everyday, for years and years. You could always count on seeing him everyday, and we'd even occasionally wave if we caught his eye, and we'd explain who he was if we had a friend in company who wasn't aware of that tragedy.

Then one day, in 2004, the old man stopped walking the block. The case had been solved.

Anyway, what I'm getting at here is that it's really a surreal thing to me that after seeing all these cases on Investigation Discovery, on all these programs, all these lesser known crimes that were in places I've never heard of... and suddenly this one comes out of nowhere and jars my brain with such familiarity.

I never knew these people, but I knew this story. And I knew the impact it had on the city.

It's honestly nice to see that it hadn't been forgotten. I suppose it's also nice to note that one thing I hadn't known before the episode was that a memorial park was made for those two boys shortly after I moved out of Imperial Beach about 7 years ago.

It's just honestly weird to see a crime covered on one of these programs that I know the exact layout of that city because I used to venture the streets with my brothers when we were kids. I honestly remember that vacant lot of woodsy area behind the Home Depot and how we were never allowed to wander there because of what happened to those two boys in 1993.

I really just didn't expect to see this case covered on this channel.

#Tw: death #Just tagging to be safe

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brookstonalmanac · 1 year

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Beer Events 2.1

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Foster's beer 1st public tasting (Australia; 1889)

Cincinnati, Covington and Newport Brewers Exchange founded (Ohio, Kentucky; 1897)

Champion Brewing changed its name to Lone Star (1940)

H.L. Buffington patented Portable Cooler Cabinet Construction (1966)

William Hunt patented a Container for a Keg (1966)

Malley Brewery patented a Continuous Brewing Apparatus (1966)

Schaefer Brewing patented the Preservation of Beer (1966)

Mack Johnston patented a Single-Opening Beer Keg (1977)

Federal law H.R. 1337 went into effect. legalizing homebrewing in the U.S. (1979)

Sierra Nevada Bigfoot released (1983)

Rene Sauvage, et al., patented an Installation for Steeping Grains (1994)

Miller Brewing patented a Light Stable Hop Fraction and Method of Making the Same (2005)

Breweries Opened

Boston Beer Co. (South Boston, Mass.; 1828)

Berliner Kindl Brauerei (Germany; 1872)

Sierra Nevada Brewing (California; 1980)

Portland Brewery’s Flanders Street Pub founded (Oregon; 1986)

Catamount Brewing (Vermont; 1987)

Old Columbia Brewery (California; 1989)

New England Brewing (Connecticut; 1990)

Hale’s Ales (Wash.; 1992)

Old World Brewing (Arizona; 1992)

Tumbleweed Grille Brewery (NC; 1992)

Woodstock Brewing (New York; 1992)

Syracuse Suds Factory (New York; 1993)

Lagunitas Brewing (California; 1994)

Randy’s Fun Hunter Restaurant & Brewery (Wisconsin; 1994)

Bayhawk Ales (California; 1995)

Beau Ce Broue brewery (Quebec; 1995)

Browar Belgia (Poland; 1995)

Draught Horse Pub & Brewery (Texas; 1995)

Faultline Brewing (California; 1995)

Flagship Brewery (England; 1995)

Old Broadway brewery (North Dakota; 1995)

Trailhead Brewing (Missouri; 1995)

Triumph Brewing (New Jersey; 1995)

Bare Bones Grill & Brewery (Maryland; 1996)

Blue & Gold Brewing (Virginia; 1996)

Dunedin Brewery (Florida; 1996)

J.T. Garrison Brewing (California; 1996)

Main Street Brewing (Texas; 1996)

Siletz Brewing (Oregon; 1996)

Treasure Coast Brewing (Florida; 1996)

Wild Duck Brewery (Oregon; 1996)

Appalachian Brewing (Pennsylvania; 1997)

Beowulf Brewing (England; 1997)

Clocktower Brewing (Canada; 1997)

Forest City Brewing (Illinois; 1997)

Kelley Bros. Brewing (California; 1997)

Mystic River Brewing (Connecticut; 1997)

Nimbus Brewing (Arizona; 1997)

North Fork Brewers (Washington; 1997)

Rio Salado Brewing (Georgia; 1997)

Seidermann Brewing (Arizona; 1997)

Southeastern Brewing (South Carolina; 1997)

Strip Brewing (Pennsylvania; 1997)

Trout Brooks Brewing (Conneciticut; 1997)

USA Cafe (Texas; 1997)

Westwind Brewery (New Mexico; 1997)

Willoughby Brewing (Ohio; 1997)

Your Father’s Moustache (New York; 1997)

Yukon Brewing (Canada; 1997)

La Lambic du Nord (Canada; 1998)

Max Lager’s American Grill & Brewery (GA; 1998)

Silver Gulch Brewing & Bottling (Alaska; 1998)

Erie Brewing (Pennsylvania; 1999)

Lightning Boy Brewery (Montana; 1999)

5280 Roadhouse & Brewery (Colorado; 1999)

Mystic Brewpub & Restaurant (Penna.; 2000)

Spinning Dog Brewery (England; 2000)

#Events

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greensparty · 6 years

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Rounders & Monument Ave Turn 20

In the Summer of 1998 I scored a Summer internship at Spanky Pictures in NYC. It was the film production company headed by the late great Ted Demme and his producing partner Joel Stillerman. A year earlier I had been a location intern on their film Monument Ave, which Ted directed. During the time I was at Spanky, they had a first-look deal with New Line and Ted was very prolific as well. The internship in their production office was one of my favorite jobs I’ve ever had in the film industry...and ironically I wasn’t an actual employee of the company. Ted, Joel, development executive Tracy Falco and the entire team were so cool and really made me feel like I was a part of things. I got to sit in on staff meetings, read scripts they had in development and help out wherever needed. Being at Spanky spoiled me for any other job in the industry because I thought all producers were going to be as cool as Ted and Joel (not always the case).

Ted Demme and me at Spanky Pictures, Summer 1998

Some of the projects they had in development at the time included Tumbleweeds (released in 1999 featuring an Oscar nominated Janet McTeer), A Lesson Before Dying (a 1999 HBO TV-movie that won the Spanky team a well deserved Emmy Award), and Blow (released in 2001 and considered by many to be among Johnny Depp’s best performances).

But the big excitement in the air during the time I was at Spanky was that (1) Monument Ave, which premiered at Sundance a few months earlier, was going to be released by Lions Gate in September, and (2) Rounders, which they finished filming and was now in post-production, was going to be released in September by Miramax.

9/11/1998: Rounders opens

One of the great poker movies of all time was released in Sept. 1998. It was filmed in the Winter of 1997-98. The film was directed by John Dahl, a modern film noir vet. They had cast Matt Damon just before Good Will Hunting and he was now a star. When it was released it did modest business, but over time it became a cult film. The genius in this movie is that it doesn’t wait for the audience to catch on to poker, you either have to keep up with the game or be left behind. I especially loved both Martin Landau and Ed Norton in it. I saw it opening night and cheered for my pals at Spanky in the credits. To this day it is one of my favorite movies of 1998 (up there for Spanky’s other 1998 release Monument Ave)!

9/25/1998: Monument Ave opens

In Sept. 1998, the first movie I ever worked on was released. In April - May 1997, I was a Location Intern on the production of Spanky’s film Monument Ave, which was filmed in Boston. I had never worked on a movie before, so the whole entire experience was super exciting to me at the time. The fact that it was directed by Ted, who I was a fan of, and starred Denis Leary, who I was also a fan of, made it more exciting. On set I mostly ran errands, hung up and took down location signs and did whatever I could to help out the Location team. I’ve written about this film many times and how it was one of my favorite experiences on a movie set, but what was really exciting was seeing it on the big screen. In June 1998 shortly after I began my internship at Spanky, they let me go to a press screening to see Monument Ave. I was truly blown away. It was a gritty Boston crime movie that hearkened back to the 70s. But the bigger surprise for me was watching the closing credits. I was only in the Locations dept. a few days a week, so I was told I would not be in the closing credits. As I watched the credits and recognized many of the names, there it was “Location Intern: Eric Green”. I was so proud to see my name in the credits and to be a part of this great film, I actually shed a tear. I profusely thanked everyone at Spanky the next day!

Me at the Monument Ave premiere at Boston Film Festival in Sept. 1998

In Sept. 1998, Monument Ave was the Opening Night film at the Boston Film Festival. I attended with a group of friends and briefly caught up with some of the crew in the audience. Later in the month when Lions Gate released it, I took my Mom to see it opening night in Chestnut Hill and she took a picture of my name in the credits. That same weekend I saw it again in Waltham with a friend of mine. A few months later I saw it at a second run theater in Arlington with another friend who hadn’t seen it. Someone at Spanky Pictures joked that I should get some sort of compensation from Lions Gate for paying to see it that many times in the movie theater! I likely helped the film’s box office ($333,760 domestic gross). Looking back, even without my involvement it’s one of the best movies of 1998 and possibly Ted Demme’s best film (with a filmography that includes Beautiful Girls, The Ref, Blow and A Decade Under the Influence - that’s saying something!).

My ticket stubs from Rounders and Monument Ave

I look back at my brief but influential time at Spanky Pictures with tremendous pride and fondness. In the years that followed, Spanky closed their NYC office and re-located to L.A. Sadly Ted passed away in Jan. 2002. Everyone I’ve met in this industry has nothing but wonderful things to say about Spanky Pictures and their films. As I write this I have a framed Monument Ave poster on my office wall. I raise a glass to both Rounders and Monument Ave, two fantastic films that I still love 20 years later!

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LOS ANGELES CITY BEAT Aug 24-30, 2006 ⋆ VOL. 4 NO. 35

MUSIC NOW DOWNTOWN'S PALLADIUM OF ART-DAMAGE: THE SMELL STREET LOVE: ROBBY DANGER AND TANYA AVULA OUTSIDE OF ZAMAKIBO!

Downtown Skronk Art and noise venues thrive halfway down the L.A. underground ~ BY RON GARMON ~

AFTER DARK, DOWNTOWN LA'S BUSI-ness district scares the mortal pantload out of most Angelenos. By late afternoon, the offices empty out, the vendors pack up, and the pavement around the pricy hotels begins to sprout security, leaving the streets for mean drunks, jackrollers with a hundred dumb hustles, and some of the most destitute people on public display in America; some little better than walking corpses. Far be-low the expensive aeries of Gallery Row (where a sprinkling of showfolk and high-artisans cling to the vault of in-habitable space like merry self-sculpted gargoyles) is sonic terra incognita, where the tourist, the rube, the dilettante simply will not venture. Most choices between friends for live music follow a sidewalk conversation I over-heard last Friday afternoon near Pico and La Brea. Quoth dood to another, "Man, where we go tonight?" His partner muttered "Downtown," and was checked with "Man, I do not want to be shot!"

As deplorable as this attitude is to civic boosters, I approve of it. What Westsiders say about downtown, the world soon believes, so if some TV scenarist depicts the vicinity as home to Crip and killer mutant, then small wonder locals avoid and tourists flee, fearful the very pavement will spit up their bones. One of the aesthetic benefits of a collapsing capitalism is the sheer acreage of neglected urban space from which some jittery owner would love to derive income, any income. inevitably, an ambitious someone turns on the power, loads in amps and equipment, and the neighborhood begins to orchestrate its own scratchy, discordant score. Here, far from the rhino-stomp of tourism and the death-embrace of hip, one may detect the call-and-response skronk of a music scene dependent on neither. Here, there be monsters.

Downtown's palladium of art-damage is the Smell. Since blowing off the pricy, constipated NoHo arts district in 1999, This all-ages avant-performance space has lived on the other side of a tiny neon sign on Harlem Place (an otherwise deserted a!leyway behind the Jalisco Inn on South Main), adding a bloc of downtown arties to its core patronage of under-21s and disaffected hip-sters. Usually described as a "storefront," the space is more a brick alleyway with a stage at the end, though acts do load in and wail in every corner. Elegantly battered the-ater seats scavenged from some defunct Odeon or Bi-joux line the main room's walls, with armchairs, book-shelves, and paintings scattered around the outer “lobby." The unisex toilet is an unforgettable riot of band stick-ers and appeals to sturdy common sense (like "GEORGE W. BUSH IS STILL A PUNK-ASS CHUMP") , and the vol-unteer staff enforces the no-booze rule. The cover is typ-ically five bucks and worth it.

This revered pile has been dubbed a contemporary version of the Masque (L.A.'s first punk-rock venue, open in Hollywood from 1977 to 1979), and the wide range of ferocious avant-rock acts that appear there —Car-la Bozulich, Dos (Mike Watt and Kira Roessler), Deer-hoof, Upsilon Acrux — makes the boast credible. One re-cent show had Redondo Beach homocore punks Le Joshua wedged into an outer com, like cranked tigers, the vocalist snarling unintelligible abuse at fresh-faced patrons and writhing on his belly. The main area was lat-er infested by This Song Is a Mess, But So Am I, a one-man art-noize haybaler named Freddy Ruppert. Chunky machine-beats choogle underneath icy synth lines as distorto-screech resolves-itself into melodic postpunk as caressing as 154-era Wire. last Saturday night (August 19) was a heavily attended CD-release party for Captain Ahab's Snakes on the Brain, which uncoincidentally turns up on the similarly named Sam Jackson squirmfest now in theaters. Kings of the burgeoning "ravesploitation" movement, this duo packed 'em in with a freakish amal-gam of house, ambient, postpunk, and Giorgio Mo-roder pop boiled to jump-gumbo. Scores of teenage boys sweated in bounding monkey-heaps while their girlfriends sprawled patiently on the divans outside the main room.

The ladies were having a better time of it at Zamakibo! a mile away. Situated along an ill-lit swatch of South Grand Avenue spiky with broken pavement, this plush and cuddly art space opened earlier this year, such tiny fame as it enjoys deriving from word of 'net. The small room was overflowing like rock 'n' roll Playskool when arrived late last Friday night, with a dou-ble-homeroom's-Worth of 1979 new-wave kidz gambol-ing in and out. The management— two energetic fellows named Turtle Z and Tumbleweed keep unobtrusive or-der and enforce the no-booze policy — and several pa-trons spotted the "writer from CityBeat" as he loped out of the pitch in the shape of a bleached-blond hillbilly. Onstage, frontchick Ammo of no-wave rompers Teenage Talking Cars looked heavily sloshed and was playfully showing a smitten heckler. Anon, photographer Jennifer Miller arrived with retinue and began to clump far-from-bashful patrons into portrait groupings. The kidz seemed to understand what was going on; as I scribbled notes and picked my way through the tangle of spoon-ing couples on the sidewalk, one gorgeous urchin called out to me, "Up to no good again, huh?"

Perhaps, but even Coleridge nodded, and Proust's flashbacks made him immortal. I was in such a mood the next day at Little Pedro's Blue Bongo. A community hub with mailing-list-only show announcements, Little Pedro's bids fair to become downtown's version of Mr. T's Bowl, a character-laden scene oasis far off the clubland path. This genial over-21 establishment perched on the cor-ner of Vignes and First (at the last light on the west side of the Los Angeles River). hosts live or spun music every night of the week, with emphasis on themed evenings and cultish rock acts like Icebird and Oliver Future. This past weekend, however, I limped into the bar feel-ing a bit depleted, but in time for "Back in the Saddle Saturday." This meant I listened to an hour's worth of classic country by Loretta Lynn, Buck Owens, Faron Young, and more in glorious near-solitude, dreaming of my Appalachian boyhood to the tune of my mom's record collection. The decor is kitsch-Americana with Mid-dle Eastern touches, with a long shuffleboard table and plenty of padded benches and 1970s-vintage vinyl chairs in the barnlike space. The room is dominated by Little Pete, a giant polar pear hanging suspended by chain-har-ness from the wall over the bar. Some taxidermist's mas-terpiece, Pete glowers at all with fine impartiality, sym-bol of the poker-faced extravagance of Los Angeles, a town that goes to immense pains to nourish absurdity.

I finished my club soda and left, feet backward-shuf-fling to the pavement while eyes took in a last sentimental glance at the lady bartender's magnificent ass; decor wortthy of awed notice as any two tons of Ursus maritimus. *

#icebird #punk rock #noise #art rock #city beat #los angeles city beat

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