Tag Archives: Silver Lake

The Black & Black: New Beverage Menu At Lamill Coffee Boutique

February 18, 2010 – 6:28 am

It’s not often when I visit a place on occasion of a press release – and actually, I had asked Lindsay and H.C. to forward it to me, so Twitter gets the credit for this one. Something has to have really grabbed at me, and in this case it was the Black & Black. This [...]

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The Liquid Muse Cocktail Club Does Absinthe: Don’t Believe The Voodoo

December 1, 2009 – 9:49 am

I’m always excited when The Liquid Muse cocktail club meets – there’s always fun people to meet and new things to learn. When I heard, though, that the next meeting would be over absinthe, I was especially ecstatic. I knew nothing of absinthe but the tales and lore of the just recently unbanned liquor. Was [...]

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Pizza and Beer Pairing To Benefit Real Medicine Foundation

October 7, 2009 – 8:20 am

What better way to celebrate and benefit a charity like Real Medicine Foundation than to pair pizzas with beer? Real Medicine is a charity which provides humanitarian support to people affected by disaster, post-war, and poverty – and Gev Kazanchyan & Stone Brewing Co. led the charge for their benefit one Sunday afternoon at Citysip, a [...]

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Santa For A Day

December 9, 2008 – 1:02 am

Caroline sent out a last-minute email to friends to accompany her on a sleigh pass to SantaCon. I have to admit, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences I just had to see for myself. If you’ve only read on blogs or heard on Japanese gameshows about mob pranks before then maybe you’re crazy enough [...]

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Heima

November 3, 2007 – 11:37 am

Sigur Rós, Iceland’s second largest music import, makes music that is … just sweet nothingness. It’s ambient, it’s completative, it’s emotional. It’s not for everyone. Wiki describes it as post-rock, experimental, dream pop–all of that would be correct. And while my attention span until recently hadn’t had the capacity to fully appreciate the niche genre [...]

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