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Beer
When I see Southern Tier brews on tap I generally make a point of at least sampling them. Their specialty beers are generally exceptional. I tried the Oak Aged Backburner Barley Wine along with a few Imperial IPA samples that w...
Flicks
Since 2009 director Amma Asante has been trying to make Belle, a film based on Misan Sagay’s script about Dido Belle, a woman of mixed race who grew up in England during a time when slavery was still legal. Raised by her father...
Q&A
Singer-songwriter Sean Rowe has played everywhere from the little corner bar to late-night TV. His current tour brings him to the most intimate of stages, the living room. Sean has been traveling around the country playing hous...
Concert Recaps
Whopperjaw HQ is Cleveland, Ohio—also home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. New HOF inductees, Daryl Hall and John Oates, brought their Philly blue-eyed rock-and-soul to Public Hall for the Museum’s Spring Benefit Concert. Th...
Q&A
Singer-songwriter Neko Case got her start playing in punk bands in British Columbia. She eventually would embrace an alt-country sound with 1997’s The Virginian. She hasn’t looked back. Her latest album, last year’s The Worse T...
Q&A
British producer Alan Parsons is perhaps best known as the guy who engineered Pink Floyd’s classic Dark Side of the Moon. Parsons, who got his start at as an assistant engineer at the famed Abbey Road Studios, worked on The Bea...
Q&A
Released earlier this year, †††’s self-titled debut album features another side of singer Chino Moreno. While Moreno is known for, as he puts it, “screaming his head off” with the heavy-hitting Deftones, he tones th...