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Of microdistillers and moonshine
Washington Post
Booze is, by and large, peddled by a handful of gigantic multinational companies. The names are familiar even to casual drinkers: Diageo, Pernod Ricard, Bacardi, Beam, Brown-Forman, Moët Hennessy, among others. To flex their lobbying and marketing muscles,...
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6 hot new spring fashion trends
CNN
Here are some of the hottest new looks for the new season and the best ways to wear them:Trend: SoftWhy we love it: This season, soft is not just about frilly blouses. Pick any article of clothing and...
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Slurping Soup, Shaking Umbrellas Make `Rain' Slog: John Simon
Bloomberg
March 9 (Bloomberg) -- The program for “When the Rain Stops Falling” at New York’s Lincoln Center Theater , supplies a complicated family tree for the Law and York families, whose history the play follows back and forth...
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Books roundup: A feast of food and travel titles
USA Today
Four authors dive into the delights of food from different perspectives. Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food and Healing in Italy By Paula Butturini Riverhead, 259 pp., $25.95 Life doesn't always turn out quite the...
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Should you tell spouse everything?
CNN
I have two friends, a long-married couple, whose bathroom features face-to-face toilets. To hear them tell it, they generally start the day there together, trading plans, opinions, and last night's dreams.Personally, I never felt the need to be...
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Blades Flash, Tongues Lash, Kitties Squeal in ‘Trouble’: Review
Bloomberg
March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Two smart, unlikable women spend much of the second act of “Girls in Trouble” screaming at each other and commanding our attention. Their conflict is just one of several provocations in Jonathan Reynolds’s unsettling...
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No classic title is safe from onslaught of literary mashups
1 RelatedUSA Today
It has been a year since Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was unleashed upon the unsuspecting masses. Rather than running for their lives, readers ran to bookstores, making the quirky collaboration between Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith a...
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Reality TV is entrepreneurs' friend
CNN
A giddy fan of the TV reality show "Top Chef" greets Kevin Gillespie as they pose for a picture, "You should have definitely come in first!"The scene is repeated many times during an evening at Woodfire Grill, a...
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Sex Slaves, Scandals Drive Fairstein’s `Hell Gate': Interview
Bloomberg
March 9 (Bloomberg) -- When the rusty Ukrainian freighter ran aground on a sandbar near New York City’s Rockaway Beach, the bodies started washing ashore. The boat was crammed with human cargo, poor men and women desperate for...
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'Shadow Tag': A chilly touch for a gripping tale told in a whisper
USA Today
So many of life's darker moments occur in the shadows, out of plain view: a child's terror dreams, a teenager's descent into drinking, a mother and father's mutually manipulative behavior, played out in bedrooms, basements and, in Shadow...