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Anjum Khanna - Top 10 best places to visit in USA

I'm Anjum Khanna from India and I will share with you my best places in the USA where I visited. Pleasing Planet's movement specialists have scoured the States to present to you our main 10 underestimated, restored and incredible spots to visit in 2020. From normal marvels to enrapturing coastlines and exceptional urban areas, these objections guarantee enormous things this year.

1. California’s Redwood Coast

Lose all track of time (and cell signal) along California's Redwood Coast. Film buffs may perceive the district's scene-taking sceneries from Hollywood blockbusters like Jurassic Park, E.T. furthermore, Star Wars. In any case, the full marvel of California's 2000-year-old redwoods – some arriving at 20 stories high – is difficult to catch on any screen. Gaze toward the woodland shelter: that last 100ft of redwood development marks a long time since Redwood National Park was built up in California's tree-embracing win over logging. What's more, this year, in the festivity of their 100th commemoration, Save the Redwoods League is without offering passage to more than 40 redwood state stops each second Saturday of every month.

In 2020, another sort of greenery has been standing out as truly newsworthy as California presents the state-wide legitimization of pot. However, the draws of the Redwood Coast far outperform changes in this industry, welcoming explorers to accomplish a definitive California smooth with its peculiar shops, brewpubs, espresso roasters and calm cheerful hours.

2. Boise, Idaho

Home to a lively expressions network, a blast of grant winning wineries and specialty bottling works and a socially dependable shopping locale, Boise is what cool resembles before the remainder of the world has made sense of it. Fun celebrations have large amounts of Idaho's capital from downtown's Treefort Music Festival (hailed as the new option in contrast to SXSW) to the Boise Brew Olympics and Punk in Drublic – a lovely marriage of underground rock and specialty lager.

Being in closeness to an abundance of characteristic wealth, metropolitan experiences effectively progress into outside departures. Wander through the Boise River Greenbelt, a 25-mile park in the core of the city, or head into the encompassing mountains and lower regions for climbing, mountain biking, skiing and stream boating.

3. Chattanooga, Tennessee

When minimal in excess of a refueling break among Atlanta and Nashville, the nature-driven 'Noog has changed itself into a stronghold of raised Southern living. Outside lovers rush to Chattanooga for the absolute best stone moving in the nation, bunch climbing and mountain biking trails and wild rides on the Ocoee River – one of America's best positions for whitewater boating.

Foodies, hopheads and nerds aren't a long ways behind, either. Chattanooga's revived midtown – focused on the $20-million makeover of the city's unique train station into a multi-reason nightlife and diversion objective (counting a top notch guitar historical center) – is overflowing with journey commendable New Southern food, refreshing distilleries and nerd satisfying web speeds. Meet the New South!

4. Florida’s Space Coast

Space the travel industry is a rising star, with 2018 set to check the dispatch of the world's first lunar the travel industry departure from SpaceX. Try not to need to lose your life reserve funds down a dark gap? Visit the following best thing, Florida's Space Coast: home to the Kennedy Space Center and the setting for innumerable notable dispatches including Apollo 8 – the world's previously monitored rocket to circle the moon – which praises a long time since launch in 2020.

View satellite dispatches from Cape Canaveral and Titusville or visit the new ATX (Astronaut Training Experience) at the Kennedy Space Center, where wannabe space travelers can go on a mimicked mission to Mars. Proceed your amazing experiences with an evening time kayak in the bioluminescent waters around Merritt Island and watch settling ocean turtles on an eco-accommodating visit.

5. Cincinnati, Ohio Set among steep slopes with the scaffold throne Ohio River swashing its edge, Cincinnati has consistently been a looker. Presently brew, expressions and clever neighborhood advancement are giving it some strut. The new Brewing Heritage Trail recounts the larger story: how Cincy was a main maker through the last part of the 1800s, its residents swallowing 2.5 occasions the public normal. Today Rhinegeist and other present day lager producers have assumed control over the relinquished distilleries, a considerable lot of which are walkable in Over-the-Rhine, an old German neighborhood of lavish block structures, new restaurants and crazy shops.

2020 invites another section for the city's creative symbols as the Music Hall commends its 140th birthday celebration subsequent to going through enormous redesigns, and the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company subsides into their new powerful exhibition space.

6. Midcoast, Maine

Single word says everything: 'Ayuh'. What could be compared to 'mm-hm', it's Mainers' typically eccentric and unassuming go-to answer. Is it valid, you solicit, that about 90% of Maine is forested (the most noteworthy level of any state), making it ideal for experience exercises and getting away from traveler swarms? Ayuh. Also, what about Midcoast Maine's wonderful sea exhibition halls and detonating foodie scene of art bottling works, neighborhood grape plantations and gourmet ranch-to-table cafés? It's not the tranquil woodlands it used to be. Ayuh. Indeed, 2018 will check the area's 70th Maine Lobster Festival and a transitioning as an inexorably energizing social focus of elite workmanship historical centers and exhibitions, isn't that so? Ayuh.

7. Richmond, Virginia

River City has flipped from modest to occurring, however the 'hello you all' friendliness remains. Scott's Addition, when an abrasive assembling region, drones with microbreweries, cideries and buzzworthy cafés, while the James River baits swashbucklers with whitewater rapids in addition to another 52-mile bicycle trail along its banks.

Creative features incorporate midtown's splendid wall paintings, the eccentric Quirk Hotel (highlighting interesting plan components and its own craft display) and imaginative transitory shows at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The American Civil War Museum – an ongoing solidification of three separate Civil War locales – investigates Richmond's function as the capital of the Confederacy. One consistent? Patrick Henry requested freedom or demise at reenactments each Sunday in summer at St John's Church.

8. Kentucky Bourbon Country The territory of Kentucky is known for its moving slopes finished off with masterful pony cultivates, its wild commitment to school ball and, above all, its whiskey. The state's refining legacy runs profound, and those searching for a taste should make a beeline for Kentucky Bourbon Country, the brilliant triangle between Louisville, Lexington and Elizabethtown where this prepared soul becomes animated. You'll locate a luring organization of the nation's most notable refineries and first class eateries with whiskey motivated menus.

Yet, this industry isn't so saturated with custom that it overlooks progress – create distillers are opening their entryways, long dead whiskey locale are being rejuvenated, and in 2020 the Frazier Museum will be named the official beginning stage of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail.

9. Minneapolis, Minnesota

In spite of arriving on arrangements of 'generally moderate' and 'generally reasonable' urban areas – and in a state positioned the USA's most joyful – Minneapolis appears to be a piece overlooked. In any case, after its chance at the center of attention during the current year's Super Bowl, that could very well change. The city endeavored to tidy up for the large occasion, specifically with redesigns to downtown's primary avenue Nicollet Mall presenting awesome light highlights, craftsmanship establishments and creative social spaces.

The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden likewise got a redo, with 18 new works by well known chiselers. Furthermore, Target Center, the city's NBA and WNBA field, got a fan-accommodating $145 million makeover. In the interim, new boutique inns and present day ranch to-table cafés (hefty on neighborhood fixings) are springing up with cool verve.

10. Southeastern Utah Arches National Park's colorful sandstone ranges. Island in the Sky's Colorado River-cut vistas. Landmark Valley's sky-puncturing towers. Southeast Utah's significant milestones have been firm top picks among voyagers for quite a long time. As of late, nonetheless, lesser-realized territorial destinations like the forested levels of the new Bears Ears National Monument have become hot-button news things because of political tussles in Washington, DC over securing characteristic and social assets.

This tremendous quarter of the Beehive State holds numerous outstanding outside objections, from the lodging filled experience town of Moab and uncrowded Capitol Reef to the environmental Ancestral Puebloan vestiges of Hovenweep. Water has slashed the desert scene here, cutting the sandstone into alarming structures, for example, the pleasant Natural Bridges and huge Lake Powell. This is a quintessential Americana excursion nation.

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The States summarized (for non-US people)

Alabama: Incest joke capital of the world

Alaska: We produced Sarah Palin we know we're sorry

Arizona: The inevitable heat death will end our misery soon

Arkansas: Our state is beautiful but our politicians are just fucking awful also meth

California: It's too big full of traffic rich people and every wannabe actor ever also HEAT

Colorado: Mountains and weed. So much weed. Blaze it.

Connecticut: Where old white people go to die

Delaware: WE WERE THE FIRST STATE and then we peaked

Florida: We know "penis of America" is a joke but by golly we are gonna live up to it

Georgia: We film movies here now. Also peaches.

Hawaii: Becoming a tourist trap and losing our culture was such a great trade.

Idaho: Potatoes. Puns. Neo-Nazis. Yup.

Illinois: Thank god for Chicago or we'd be bumfuck nowhere

Indiana: Cars! Trains! Forests! please ignore the Klan running this place in the '20s

Iowa: People leave here.

Kansas: The buckle on the Bible Belt.

Kentucky: Every terrible southern stereotype lives here. And horses.

Lousiana: YEAH N'AWLINS BAYOU SHRIMP COOKING MARDI GRAS what do you mean the rest of the state is a dump that hasn't recovered from Katrina

Maine: So much goddamn lobster also nightmares born here

Maryland: Are we hicks? Are we Yanks? No safe answer exists

Massachusetts: We have the biggest IQ divide of any state

Michigan: Help us we're dying

Minnesota: Bring up the accent one more friggin time why dontcha.

Mississippi: Look! Poverty.

Missouri: Look! Racism.

Montana: Ever seen a cowboy movie? That but depressing

Nebraska: Corn.

Nevada: VIVA LAS VEGAS god there is so much fucking desert

New Hampshire: Presidents care about us once every four years. Jokes on them- we're libertarians.

New Jersey: Great beaches! Fucking awful people.

New Mexico: Are we Americans? Are we racists? Red or Green?

New York: Bada-boom ignore the urine smell we're amazing

North Carolina: Voted Romney and Trump but hey we made Michael Jordan

North Dakota: YES WE KNOW ABOUT FARGO

Ohio: Our lake got set on fire.

Oklahoma: Yes there was a musical but also okra and terrorism

Oregon: Can the Californians please leave our hippie commune why is it so white here

Pennsylvania: We have two amazing cities and the rest is shit. Also Hershey's chocolate and the Amish.

Rhode Island: We're not even an island and that's not even the worst thing we've done

South Carolina: We sell fireworks. Also Stephen Colbert. YOU'RE WELCOME.

South Dakota: Home of the unfinished President Heads.

Tennessee: We made Elvis, whiskey, dry counties and crime

Texas: We're like five different states in one and it's only safe to be gay and non-white in a couple of them

Utah: Hey buddy! Wanna join our cult? Yes I'm on Grindr stop judging me.

Vermont: Syrup, cheese, and Ben & Jerry's. Truly the Hufflepuff of America.

Virginia: Named after a virgin but man are we fucked

Washington: Inventors of coffee, grunge, and weather-induced suicide

West Virginia: Okay, the REAL incest capital of America

Wisconsin: Home of cheese and the best footb- wait, what do you mean California makes more cheese than us

Wyoming: Guys? Hello? We're over here! We invented equality but we still vote Republican! Guys?

#funny #wtf #america #american humor

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CNN Analysts Unleash Personal Attacks On RNC Speakers In Twitter Storm

We have previously discussed the case of former Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann who was repeatedly and falsely called a racist in an encounter with a Native American activist in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Various media organizations have apologized or settled cases with Sandmann for their unfair coverage, including CNN. However, when Sandmann spoke at the Republic National Convention, CNN’s political analyst Joe Lockhart again attacked him personally after he criticized how the media got the story wrong. CNN’s Jeff Yang also attacked the teenager and even suggested that his speech proved that he was not innocent. Fellow CNN analyst Asha Rangappa attacked former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley as yielding to a racist America for not using what Rangappa suggested was her real name as opposed to “Nikki.” It turns out that Nikki is her lawful middle name and the Hill’s Saagar Enjeti noted it is “a Punjabi name.” That however is an appeal to reason not rage which seems to have little place in our national discourse or media coverage.

The personal attacks on speakers were beyond the pale, but hardly unprecedented. What happened to Sandmann was a disgrace for the media and he had every right to speak publicly about his treatment by the media.

Sandmann is a pro-life kid who wanted to demonstrate against abortion. He sought to play a meaningful role in his political system, which is what we all have encouraged. Indeed, CNN has aired many such calls for young people to have their voices heard. He was in Washington as part of the annual “March for Life.” This is one of those voices. Sandmann spoke about his horrific experience in being labeled the aggressor in the confrontation when all he did was stand there as an activist pounded a drum in his face. Sandmann said this morning in an interview that he only learned at 3 am in the morning on the bus home that he was being labeled a racist who attacked or harassed this activist.

In addition to Lockhart, CNN opinion writer Jeff Yang said that the speech confirmed to him that he was guilty all along.

“Hey @N1ckSandmann, I watched your speech tonight at the #RNCConvention2020 with an open mind, thinking I might hear something that would convince me of your position that you were an innocent victim of a cruel media. I was disappointed, but not surprised, to hear otherwise.”

So Yang now believes Sandmann was the aggressor or the one who was at fault? Yang even criticized Sandmann for not extending a “branch of peace” to Nathan Phillip, the Native American elder in the confrontation. Sandmann did nothing wrong in front of Lincoln Memorial. He just stood there as Phillip pounded a drum in his face. Yet, Yang now believes that the media was not wrong or Sandmann innocent.

Yang previously personally attacked Pete Buttigieg for calling for a “vision shaped by the American Heartland rather than the ineffective Washington Politics.” Yang again viewed Buttigieg’s political statement as a license for personal insults: “Okay, gloves off: This is the bullshittiest quote of many bullshitty quotes from this man, whose vision was shaped by Harvard, Oxford, McKinsey & Company and a keenly honed sense of ambition. Dude, your dad was a lit professor and you went to a private prep school. Quit fronting.” Nothing on the content of Buttigieg’s point. Just a personal attack from the CNN commentator.

The Sandmann controversy arose because of the very bias that Yang reaffirmed this week. For many, the mere fact that he was wearing a MAGA hat was enough to declare him a racist. An example that we previously discussed is the interview of “Above the Law” writer Joe Patrice with Elie Mystal. In the interview, Mystal, the Executive Editor of “Above the Law”, attacked this 16 year old boy as a racist. Patrice agreed with Mystal’s objections to Sandmann wearing his “racist [MAGA] hat.” They also objected to Sandmann doing interviews trying to defend himself with Mystal deriding how this “17-year-old kid makes the George Zimmerman defense for why he was allowed to deny access to a person of color.” It was entirely false that Sandmann was denying “access to a person of color.” Yet, the interview is an example of the criticism (which continued with Lockhart) of Sandmann speaking publicly about his treatment. Mystal and Patrice compared this high school student to a man who was accused of murdering an unarmed African American kid and continued to slam him even after the true facts were disclosed.

After his remarks at the RNC (which is not an easy thing for most teenagers to do), Lockhart declared on Twitter “I’m watching tonight because it’s important. But i [sic] don’t have to watch this snot nose entitled kid from Kentucky.”

Why is this teenager “entitled”? Because he is discussing his role in a national controversy or his abuse by the media, including CNN? CNN settled with Sandmann. When did that become “entitled”? The message from these media personalities seems to be that Sandman is expected to simply stay silent and such interviews make him either a George Zimmerman wannabe or a textbook case of entitlement. Of course, media figures like Lockhart can continue to slam Sandmann, but he is . . . well . . . entitled to do so.

Nikki Haley gave one of the most polished speeches at the RNC. There is clearly much in the speech that many do not accept about racism in America. However, Haley lashed out that it is

“now fashionable to say that America is racist. That is a lie. America is not a racist country. This is personal for me. I am the proud daughter of Indian immigrants. They came to America and settled in a small Southern town. My father wore a turban. My mother wore a sari. I was a Brown girl in a Black and White world. We faced discrimination and hardship. But my parents never gave in to grievance and hate. My mom built a successful business. My dad taught 30 years at a historically black college. And the people of South Carolina chose me as their first minority and first female governor. America is a story that’s a work in progress. Now is the time to build on that progress, and make America even freer, fairer, and better for everyone.”

That speech led to an immediate personal attack from Rangappa that Haley bowed to racism by dropping her real name: “Right. Is that why you went from going by Nimrata to ‘Nikki’?” Rangappa asked.

The problem is that Haley birth name is Nimrata Nikki Randhawa. She is not the first politician to use her middle name like Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, who goes by Boris. Then there is Willard Mitt Romney. Was Romney denying his roots by going with Mitt? Yet when a minority member uses her middle name, it is somehow evidence that she is a racist tool.

What is telling is that, rather than address the underlying argument on systemic racism in our society, analysts like Rangappa prefer to attack Haley personally and suggest that she is some type of shill for racism. Why? Rangappa teaches at Yale and in academia such ad hominem attacks are viewed as the very antithesis of reasoned debate. Likewise, in journalism, such attacks were once viewed as anathema, particularly when they are based on false assumptions.

There is much in these conventions to debate. In truth, I have never liked political conventions and view them all as virtually contentless. Nevertheless, there have been parts of the RNC that I have criticized, including the appearance last night of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a departure from past traditions of keeping such cabinet members out of political convention roles. Once again, such important lines of separation were obliterated by the Trump Administration. I also found reformed former felon John Ponder’s remarks to be powerful, but I agree with critics that the incorporation of a pardon signing into the events at a political convention to be wrong. I have also previously criticized the use of the White House for the political convention, including for the First Lady’s speech (which I also thought was a good speech).

Those are issue worthy of debate and people of good faith can disagree on the merits. That is a lot more productive than attacking an 18-year-old kid because he had the audacity to criticize the media and support President Trump. There is, of course, a troubling entitlement evident in these stories. It is the entitlement enjoyed by media figures who feel total license to personally attack anyone who challenges their narrative or supports Trump. It is not just permitted but popular. This is why Merriam-Webster defines “entitlement” as the “belief that one is deserving of or entitled to certain privileges.”

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12 Brewery Music Venues to Visit in the South

Music inside Hardywood Park’s taproom. (Credit: Hardywood Brewing)

June 13, 2017

You could argue that beer and music go together better than any other beer pairing. Bold words indeed when you consider all the combinations of beer and food, beer and lawn games, beer and … everything.

But when we acknowledge that beer has been part of celebrations for thousands of years — from ancient warriors singing and sloshing mead to providing liquid courage for modern-day wannabe karaoke stars — breweries and music is match made in beer heaven.

We’ve rounded up 12 brewery music venues to visit in the South. These Southern breweries have made music a part of their lifeblood.

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Highland Brewing Company | Asheville, NC

Twenty-three years ago, Highland set the tone for Asheville’s craft beer scene to be forever linked to the area’s deep musical roots.

As the city’s first brewery to open since Prohibition, the decision to include an indoor stage in their tasting room has served them so well that they later built an outdoor stage surrounded by shipping container bars and restrooms that they call The Meadow.

“As we developed our Tasting Room, it seemed only natural to blend our craft with the craft of our talented local musicians,” explains marketing manager Molly McQuillan. “We now work with local, regional, and nationally recognized artists, and have music at least four nights per week.”

Highland Brewing Company in Asheville has an indoor and outdoor stage. (Credit: Highland Brewing Co.)

Hardywood Park Craft Brewery | Richmond, VA

Hardywood Park Craft Brewery regularly offers live music from both their taproom stage and new outdoor stage. The Richmond brewery also hosts many music events including Bluegrass Festival, Heart & Soul Brew Fest and The Shape of Sound’s epic drum circle.

“We are committed to supporting our community and love to show that by giving local creatives and original artists a stage,” marketing manager Matt Shofner tells CraftBeer.com. “As we feature all genres of sounds —bluegrass, djs spinning vinyl, metal, hip hop and more — music helps us reach and attract wider audiences to the brewery.”

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Quest Brewing Co. | Greenville, SC

Quest features an outdoor stage and invites folks to bring blankets (and kids!) to enjoy live music in their backyard. A food truck typically accompanies their Thursday Night Concert Series, and they host a chili cook-off every January paired with a concert. Live music also happens on many Fridays, too.

Mississippi’s Yalobusha Brewing features laid-back live shows on the weekend. (Credit: Yalobusha Brewing)

Motorworks Brewing | Bradenton, FL

What do you do when you have the largest beer garden in the state of Florida? Build an outdoor stage and feature live music nearly every day of the week, of course.

Motorworks doesn’t stop with just tunes; the beer garden also has a handful of cornhole boards, a large projector screen, and a massive 150-year-old oak tree wrapped in lights. Talk about good times!

AquaBrew | San Marcos, TX

Music is a big deal at AquaBrew. A large “Live Music” sign hangs above the door, and their tagline reads, “AquaBrew stimulates all the senses. Artisanal Cuisine. Craft Beer. Community Feel. Live Music. San Marcos Roots.”

Owner Carlos Russo aims to make AquaBrew THE live music venue of downtown and has his sights on booking big names as well as supporting local artists.

Avondale Brewing Co. | Birmingham, AL

Avondale’s mission from the start was to help revitalize Birmingham’s blighted Avondale neighborhood in part by tapping into its rich, 125-year history. Their efforts have paid off as Thrillist dubbed Avondale “Birmingham’s hippest neighborhood” in 2015, the same year the brewery opened its doors.

Since then, their permanent outdoor stage has attracted the likes of notable acts such as Shakey Graves, Gov’t Mule and Galactic, and a sold-out stop on J. Cole’s 4 Your Eyez Only World Tour. The inaugural Southword Summer Series kicks off with Chicago’s Sidewalk Chalk June 22.

Yalobusha Brewing | Water Valley, MS

Yoga at breweries has been a trend for a few years now, but YaloBrew takes it to another level with their live music, yoga and beer events. Fridays and Saturdays often feature laid-back live shows on a small indoor stage surrounded by sacks of grain and kegs in their historic 1860 brick building.

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Tennessee’s Mayday Brewery calls itself a “funky, music-centric pit stop.” (Credit: Mayday Brewery)

Mayday Brewery | Murfreesboro, TN

The self-described “funky, music-centric pit stop” boasts both indoor and outdoor stages and their event page promises, “Beer, hugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll!” These music and beer lovers like to mix it up with events like 80s Prom and Twang ‘n Roll, too.

“I love meeting musicians and have made many lifelong friends with them,” says founder and president Ozzy Nelson. “At Mayday, we have original bands with some covers thrown in here and there every Friday and Saturday, and we don’t charge a cover.”

Goodwood Brewing Company | Louisville, KY

The folks at Goodwood tap into Kentucky’s musical roots with their Bluegrass Brunches and Open Bluegrass Jams every Saturday.

“We believe music and beer go hand in hand,” says Paige Peterson, marketing and events manager at Goodword. “Beer offers a sensory experience of taste, aroma, mouthfeel and music elevates that experience, engaging another one of your senses.”

Peterson says the brewery’s Kentucky roots also inspire their love of music.

“We love embracing all things Kentucky. We take cues from America’s Native Spirit: Kentucky Bourbon. All of our beers are barrel-aged or wood-touched and brewed with limestone water, just like bourbon. So embracing Kentucky’s strong ties to Bluegrass just seemed like a natural fit for our taproom.”

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Bayou Teche Brewing | Arnaudville, LA

Every Saturday at Bayou Teche Brewing, you’ll find Louisianans and travelers stomping their feet to some of the best bands in the Acadiana region, heavy on the Creole and Cajun varieties. Saturdays also mean Song Trivia and Social Commentary followed by a DJ playing tunes to close out the night. The outdoor stage area is covered and often mingles with sublime smells cooked up by celebrity guest chefs, like soul food king Chef Big G.

Blue Ridge Brewery | Blue Ridge, GA

This brewery doesn’t mess around with other types of events; instead, beer and music lovers know they can enjoy shows every Friday and Saturday on their new outdoor patio stage. One sign sums up Blue Bridge Brewery’s passion for music: “Brewsician,” with hooks for a hanging chalkboard sign touting the name of the evening’s band.

(READ: 6 Churches Turned Craft Breweries)

Vino’s Brewpub | Little Rock, AR

One of Vino’s claims to fame? Green Day played this joint before hitting the big leagues, and during their March show at Little Rock’s Verizon Arena, the band gave the brewpub a shout out.

Recently, the crew brought back their Fresh Blood series, serving basically as a tryout for new-to-Vino’s bands on the last Thursday of every month. Touted as “Arkansas’s premiere alternative entertainment venue,” the divey backroom stage features neon lights and hosts all ages shows.

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College Football - Week 10 - In Just Two Years Nick Saban Has the Crimson Tide No 1 in the Nation

Farewell Texas. Hi Alabama. It is presently the Crimson Tide that have turned into the No. 1 desired objective in the country for big-time school football programs in America.

The Texas Longhorns, who were No. 1, took on their fourth top-positioned group in back to back weeks and missed the mark out and about Saturday (11-1-08) in Lubbock to No. 6 Texas Tech 39-33 on a scoring play that never ought to have occurred with 1 second left.

In a Texas-style shootout, the Longhorns trailed 19-0 and mobilized to take a 33-32 lead on Vondrell McGee's 4-yard touchdown keep running with just 1:29 to play. That gave only excessively much time left for the Red Raiders' Graham Harrell and Michael Crabtree, two talented competitors on a crucial others would set out to take.

With for all intents and purposes no time left and 28 yards from compensation earth, Harrell wound up encompassed by awful Longhorns and out of time with Crabtree in twofold inclusion and no space to try and pivot. So what does an extraordinary quarterback do? He tosses high into twofold inclusion, trusting his All-American wide collector is as incredible as Harrell might suspect he seems to be.

Michael Crabtree doesn't baffle either his partners or himself. He meets people's high expectations, gets the stone with sure hands, breaks the wannabe arm handle of a sophomore spread back attempting to strip the ball, and steps into the end zone and the game clock indicates 1 second left.

Incredibly, Crabtree remains in limits as a great many shouting, dazed fans pour onto the field of play. It is sheer chaos as fans tear down the goal line toward one side of the field, and the authorities on the field attempt to reestablish request for the extra-direct endeavor and last opening shot toward Texas to take out the one second left on the clock.

This is school football in America on a Saturday evening. A significant college with a large number of fans who have endured the strength of Texas and Oklahoma groups for an excessive number of years. This is their snapshot of magnificence and they won't be denied. It is the focused soul of America in its best hour, their long stretches of hardship and misery are finished and their 15 minutes of popularity and wonder have shown up.

The majority of the Texas Tech fans, players and mentors need to gathering down big-time since Texas Tech's season isn't finished. The Red Raiders will currently run a gauntlet fairly like the one that the Longhorns looked as 8-1 Oklahoma State and 8-1 Oklahoma lie ahead and a lesser-light Baylor group sneaks out of sight.

The dramatization of this game couldn't have been higher. Texas Tech just required a field objective to win, however couldn't depend on its kicker to change over from somewhere in the range of 40 yards out. Not exclusively was Harrell's disregard into twofold inclusion the top, and despite the fact that Crabtree made an incredible catch, had he been handled shy of the end zone or left limits, it is impossible at the time that the Red Raiders could have gotten a break and still had sufficient opportunity to set up for a game-winning field objective attempt.

"All we required was a field objective, yet a touchdown's much better," said Raider quarterback Graham Harrell after the game. "In case you're a quarterback and would prefer not to be in that circumstance, you should change positions." Harrell completed with 474 yards passing and 2 touchdowns while finishing 36 of 53 endeavors.

Was this extremely THAT huge of a success for Texas Tech? Indeed it was. The Red Raider prevail upon Texas was the greatest success in Texas Tech history and its first win against a No. 1-positioned group. The triumph gave them order of the Big 12 South and put them smack in the center of the race for a spot in the national title game.

What's more, exactly how close was Texas to winning? What about 1 second among an hour of play? Or then again the way that on the play preceding Crabtree's triumphant 28-yard TD get, first year recruit wellbeing Blake Gideon dropped what might have been a game-closure interference on a tipped pass. That solitary drop implied Harrell could settle on the risky choice to toss into twofold inclusion to Crabtree. The rest is presently history.

The success vaulted No. 6 Texas Tech past Penn State, Florida and Oklahoma into the No. 2 spot in the current week's AP Top 25 Poll. For Texas Tech fans far and wide, this ascent to unmistakable quality came none too early.

The explanation Alabama vaulted from No. 2 in the AP rankings to the top spot is on the grounds that the Crimson Tide shut out Arkansas State Saturday 35-0, scoring in each quarter and looking just as on the off chance that they ought to be No. 1.

Mentor Nick Saban has immediately turned out to be superior to the highest quality level in Alabama. Saban has taken the Crimson Tide to the No. 1 positioning in the country in just his second year at Tuscaloosa.

Saban is the most generously compensated mentor in school football ($32 million for a long time). Numerous fans and supporters at Alabama trust Saban merits each penny of it and now you know why.

Saban pivoted Michigan State's program in one year and went to 3 bowl games in his initial 3 years. He pivoted Louisiana State's program in one year, won or shared 3 SEC titles, went to bowl games each of the 5 years and won the National Championship in 2003. He pivoted Alabama in his first season a year ago and went to a bowl game. Presently his Crimson Tide players are 9-0 and in the chase for a spot in the current year's national title game.

No. 5 Florida recorded a gigantic win out and about at No. 8 Georgia, putting some significant hurt on the Bulldogs, 49-10. Since their unforeseen absence of center and 31-30 misfortune to Mississippi, Coach Urban Meyer's Gators have gone ballistic croc chasing, tearing separated Arkansas 38-7, LSU 51-21 and Kentucky 63-5 preceding facilitating Georgia.

Evidently the Gators have turned out to be savage to such an extent that they will tear separated their unfortunate casualties yet additionally drink their blood in their journey to get into the national title game. The following unfortunate casualty to visit Gainsville this coming Saturday is the Vanderbilt Commodores, who would be wise to request up huge amounts of against crocodile shower. The Gators mean business.

Both Texas and Georgia lost to top-positioned groups. Texas Tech, Alabama and Florida were among 13 of the 20 AP Poll groups to win this week, 7 others-including Texas and Georgia which played top-positioned groups - lost and 5 groups were inert. No. 3 Penn State, No. 13 Ohio State, No. 18 Ball State, No. 21 North Carolina and No. 25 Maryland were all inert.

The other positioned groups which won huge and created an impression included:

No. 4 Oklahoma at home in a three step dance over Nebraska 62-28 (the Sooners drove 62-21 after 3 quarters), No. 7 Southern Cal out and about shut out Washington 56-0 (the Huskies are dead and hanging tight for terminated lead trainer Tyrone Willingham to jump on not far off), No. 9 Oklahoma State at home over Iowa State 59-17 (the Cowboys scored in each quarter), No. 11 Boise State at home shut out New Mexico State 49-0 (the Broncos scored in each quarter against what we believe is a group in the southwest), No. 12 TCU out and about over UNLV 44-14, and No. 15 LSU at home over Tulane 35-10.

Four other positioned groups won however were not really noteworthy. They included:

No. 10 Utah out and about over feeble, unranked New Mexico 13-10 (the 9-0 unbeaten Utah Utes are misrepresented for sure and may locate that out this week when they conflict with 9-1 TCU), No. 14 Missouri out and about over unranked Baylor 31-28 (the now toothless Tigers bring down a 3-win Baylor group), No. 17 BYU out and about over powerless, unranked Colorado State 45-42 (the Cougars are not really brutal, they surrendered 32 points to TCU, 35 to UNLV and now 42 to Colorado State in the wake of beating a winless 0-8 Washington group 28-27 prior in the season), and No. 22 Michigan State at home over Wisconsin 25-24 (the facts demonstrate that Wisconsin likely could be the best 4-5 group in the nation, however the Spartans ought to have won by two touchdowns).

Five other positioned groups submitted the reprehensible sin of losing to an unranked group. They included:

No. 16 Florida State lost making progress toward Georgia Tech 31-28, No. 19 and unbeaten Tulsa lost headed straight toward Arkansas 30-23 (Tulsa is the freshest most misrepresented group in 1-A football, Illinois lost that title by speedily losing 4 games), No. 20 Minnesota lost at home to Northwestern 24-17, No. 23 Oregon lost making a course for California 26-16, and No. 24 South Florida lost making a course for Cincinnati 24-10.

Dropping out of the AP Top 25 Poll on Sunday (11-2-08) were Minnesota (the Golden Gophers are 7-2 and a genuine astonishment in the Big Ten), South Florida (misrepresented all season), Oregon (exaggerated all season) and Tulsa (horribly misrepresented all season). Good karma to all on out the entryway.

Playing their way once again into the AP Poll this week were the No. 20 West Virginia Mountaineers (they beat Connecticut), the No. 21 California Bears (they beat Oregon), the No. 22 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (they beat Florida State) and the No. 25 Pittsburgh Panthers (they beat Notre Dame 36-33 in the fourth additional time).

The main 6 unbeaten groups remaining incorporate Alabama, Texas Tech, Penn State, Utah, Boise State and Ball State. In different rounds of note this week:

Oregon State scarcely beat Arizona State 27-25 out of an extremely terrible, intense, at times grimy Pac 10 experience. A 2-8 Idaho group put 24 points on the board and just lost by 6 points to a 6-3 San Jose State group. The Idaho Vandals are not the most exceedingly awful group in America, that title has a place with the 0-9 winless, miserable Washington Huskies pursued intently by the hapless, past sad 1-8 Washington State Cougars.

Additionally earlier winless North Texas posted its first win of the period out and about more than 1-AA Western Kentucky 51-40. The Purdue Boilermakers helped the whole Midwest out by whipping Michigan 48-42, guaranteeing that Michigan should endure its first losing season in quite a while and a conclusion to its dash of 33 back to back bowl game appearances.

From my point of view as a Michigan State graduate, any week that Michigan State wins and Michigan loses is a brilliant week, up to this point superb event has happened multiple times this season and could happen twice more "Master willing and the brook don't rise".

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How Harry Truman Ran a Bourbon-Soaked White House

Now that we are officially in the throes of the 2016 presidential election race, the media is obsessed with weighing the merits of one candidate’s platform versus another. But let’s be honest: We are interested in more than just their politics. Dissections of vacation destinations, price comparisons of haircuts and even psychological analyses of music playlists count in the minds of voters, almost as much as proposed foreign policy strategies and views on taxation. But the one detail I’d love to learn about the lives of these wannabe commanders in chief is never discussed: What they like to drink. (And I don’t mean iced tea or lemonade.) Like in a scene out of Veep, most would no doubt find some way to dodge the simple request if asked. (No surprise, given how well Obama’s so-called “beer summit” went over back in 2009.) However, the United States has a long and rich boozy presidential history that often reflected the state of the union. It started in the very beginning: George Washington owned the country’s largest rye whiskey distillery after leaving office. And it wasn’t that long ago when presidential candidates proudly publicized their drink of choice—case in point, Harry S. Truman. Truman, who held office from 1945 to 1953, has one of the most storied presidential relationships with alcohol to date.

“He did have a reputation for enjoying his bourbon,” says Clay Bauske, the curator of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri. “[Though] he certainly didn’t go as far as Winston Churchill, who is a very famous drinker.”

The Missouri Democrat harbored a love for bourbon so well-known that in November of 1945 the Baptist General Convention of Texas, which objected to his frequent drinking and poker playing, tried to prevent Baylor University from giving him an honorary degree.

The following year, the New York Times Magazine ran a story by Luther Huston called “Bourbon on the Potomac,” which talked about how the spirit was the social lubricant of choice in D.C.

The article included a section on the then administration: “Now, President Truman does not settle momentous controversies on the basis of teetotaler vs. tippler, but anyone who knows him is aware that there is quite likely to be a stronger bond between him and a Southern gentleman who likes a hooker of red likker than between him and an arid Iowan.”

It should come as no surprise that both sides of Truman’s family came from America’s most famous whiskey-producing state, Kentucky. But despite his lineage, he seemed to keep his appreciation for the spirit and his foreign policies separate.

He shut down the nation’s distilleries for 60 days in 1947 to preserve grain, which was sent overseas to feed hungry Europeans.

The move was particularly tough for American distillers, since they were just getting started after World War II, when most of them had been producing high-proof alcohol for use in rubber, explosives, and antifreeze for the armed forces. It was also a rough period for drinkers, with stocks of straight whiskey running low.

Ultimately, Truman’s fondness for bourbon not only broadened his appeal, but also helped him defeat his much-heralded opponent, Republican Thomas Dewey.

Truman’s campaign, according to David McCullough’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Truman, ran on a diet of bourbon and poker, while Dewey’s staff and accompanying press favored the more rarified combo of Martinis and bridge.

The president’s liquor preference was no cheap election-season publicity stunt.

The straight-talking Midwesterner was an unabashed whiskey fan, for years beginning most days with a dram of Old Grand-Dad or Wild Turkey bourbon and a power walk.

The regimen, according to McCullough’s book, was perhaps responsible for his good health that lasted well into his late 60s.

Bourbon could also melt the awkward formalities of official Washington.

After losing a tough fight at the Supreme Court, when even his own appointees declared his attempt to temporarily nationalize the steel industry unconstitutional, Truman found himself invited to an Old Alexandria home for a cocktail party with Supreme Court justices William O. Douglas and Hugo Black.

As McCullough recounted in Truman: “At the start of the evening, Truman, though polite, seemed ‘a bit testy,’ remembered William O. Douglas. “But after the bourbon and canapés were passed, he turned to Hugo [Black] and said, ‘Hugo, I don’t much care for your law, but, by golly, this bourbon is good.’”

Later in life, Truman’s physician actually instructed him to imbibe. “The doctor says he should drink, that it’s good for him, it’s relaxing for him, and that it’s particularly good for people who are getting older and have hardening of the arteries or restricted circulation, and so forth,” said his son-in-law, E. Clifton Daniel, in a 1972 interview. “So, he is not only permitted to drink, but encouraged to drink, but of course not too much.”

Besides his morning constitutional, Truman usually enjoyed his whiskey with water or with ginger ale—but to nowhere near the excess one might think.

According to numerous interviews, with friends, former colleagues and subordinates, collected as part of an oral history project at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, he generally limited himself to just a few drinks per event, which he would nurse all night.

“He can make a highball last longer than anybody I ever saw,” said Edgar G. Hinde, a lifelong friend, comrade in World War I and former postmaster in Independence, Missouri. “I’ve seen him take one highball, and—all evening that would be all he’d take but he’d drink with everybody that’d come in…I never saw him when he was anywhere near under the influence of liquor.”

No matter how much he drank at one time, bourbon became one of the hallmarks of his presidency.

For Christmas 1946, his cabinet presented him with a handsome bar set featuring two crystal decanters (one for bourbon, one for Scotch) and 12 matching silver cups each engraved with a staff member’s name and, of course, one for the him.

Spirited gifts were frequently bestowed on Truman. The list of Christmas presents that the White House received in 1951 includes a case of Old Grand-Dad and an unnamed 18-year-old bourbon.

The 33rd president certainly had enough friends and colleagues to share his liquor with.

But he wasn’t the only Truman to enjoy a glass of whiskey before dinner. McCullough recounts how the first lady, Bess, schooled the White House bartender on how to make an Old-Fashioned.

Her version, it turned out, was actually a sizable glass of bourbon on the rocks void of the sugar, bitters and fruit that normally make up the cocktail.

All of this raises the question, what bourbon did Truman love best? Though there are lots of opinions on the matter, the truth is he drank a number of them, including the aforementioned Wild Turkey and Old Grand-Dad, as well as Old Crow and Old Forester, which are all still available.

So this Fourth of July weekend, pour yourself a dram, toast to Truman and his affinity for the good stuff—and hope that at least one of 2016’s candidates is a whiskey drinker.

Noah Rothbaum is the author of the recently published The Art of American Whiskey.

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