Beer News: Calagione and Batali Open Brewpub in NYC

I recently (a day ago) found out that two people who I think are pretty damn kick-ass are opening a brewpub in New York City. While I don't live in NYC, it is possible for me (and you) to go there, so I am excited about the news. Sam Calagione, founder of Dogfish Head Brewery, and Mario Batali, who used to be on numerous Food Channel shows and is the owner of Otto (an awesome pizza place in NYC that you should definitely go to if you're in the city) among other restaurants, are part of a group of people about...

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Carl Sagan: Posthumous Recording Artist

As a fan of Carl Sagan, reader of Scientific American and pop science books, and believer that I understand some of what people like Hawking, Feynman, and Kaku do/did/do, I figured I had to post an entry about this little video I read about earlier in the week (over at Pitchfork (also of note: Jack White is releasing the song as a 7")). Apparently, somebody took footage from Cosmos, the Carl Sagan c. late 1970s/early 1980s miniseries, added music and autotuned  Sagan's voice into a song. I'm almost 100% sure this video is awesome. Although with...

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Missing Tom Waits Live

A little over a year ago, in July '08, Tom Waits played in Birmingham, AL as part of his "Glitter and Doom" tour. I remember finding out about the tour a few months earlier and telling my then-finacee that we would have to go no matter what because I wanted to see a Tom Waits show more than any other show I could think of, and I told her what date he'd be in Birmingham. She had bad news for me and had to spoil a fairly big and cool surprise. We were getting married at the end of that May,...

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