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Evanston’s Temperance Beer Company debuts on retail shelves with Gatecrasher English IPA
Evanston’s first craft brewery packages its first beer: Six-packs of the English-style IPA left the canning line Friday.
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Spiteful Brewing celebrates the end of winter with Dibs Are for Dummies
Spiteful says good-bye to winter with an English-style barleywine—and looks forward to summer with enough new tanks to double its capacity.
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Up the irons, down the hatch: Robinsons’ the Trooper, aka the Iron Maiden beer
A beer that people will buy because it says “Iron Maiden” on the bottle isn’t necessarily a beer that’s actually worth drinking. So is the Trooper both?
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The Language of Love Does Have Borders
“Well, you don’t know the language. How are you going to talk to people?”
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Repeat after me: No new taxes
In the Iowa debate, a Fox anchor cornered the candidates into a loyalty oath.
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Enforcing Ennglish English in Homer Township
Homer Township passes English-only resolution, but what will it do about the Tea Party’s English?
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Adicts
This English band, formed in 1977, plays raise-your-pint-glass pub punk in outfits straight out of A Clockwork Orange. But though the catchy, brilliantly boneheaded tunes are plenty aggressive, they’re much more likely to inspire a drunken sing-along than a bit of the old ultraviolence. By the early 80s the Adicts were so sick of the […]
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Acid Mothers Temple/Spaceheads
The sprawling psychedelia of the Japanese collective Acid Mothers Temple–more formally known as Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.–makes the neohippie trappings of their countrymen in Ghost seem downright subtle. On their recently released second album, Pataphisical Freak Out MU!! (P.S.F.), about 15 of the 30-some “famous and unknown musicians, artists, dancers, farmers, […]