![]() ![]() The sale forced the industry to reckon with craft beer’s mainstream appeal and a popularity few envisioned. Then, on March 28, 2011, the Halls sold the brewery to Anheuser-Busch InBev, maker of Budweiser, the least craft-like beer imaginable. With distribution in two dozen states, two brewpubs and status as one of the 20 biggest breweries in the United States, Goose Island became an American success story and was a champion of craft beer. ![]() In the golden age of light, bland and cheap beers, John Hall and his son Greg brought European flavors to America. Goose Island opened as a family-owned Chicago brewpub in the late 1980s, and it soon became one of the most inventive breweries in the world. North American Guild of Beer Writer Award Recipient ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Roald dahl s the witches![]() ![]() ![]() ‘You can live in a hole.’ ‘I don’t want to live in a hole!’ Bruno shouted. ![]() ‘I refuse to be a mouse! I’m Bruno Jenkins!’ ‘There are worse things than being a mouse,’ I said. ‘I don’t want to be a mouse!’ Bruno shouted, jumping up and down. ‘I am a mouse! You wait till my father hears about this!’ ‘He may think it’s an improvement,’ I said. Take a look at them.’ Bruno looked down at his paws. ‘ I’m not a mouse!’ ‘If you hadn’t been so busy guzzling that sandwich,’ I said, ‘you would have noticed your hairy paws. Then they did it to me.’ ‘ You’re lying!’ he cried. ‘I have to inform you,’ I said, ‘that not very long ago the witches turned you into a mouse. ‘What on earth are you talking about?’ Bruno said. ‘Why are you insulting me? I haven’t been rude to you! Why do you call me a mouse?’ ‘ Don’t you know what’s happened to you?’ I said. ‘ I’m not a mouse.’ ‘ I’m afraid you are, Bruno.’ ‘I most certainly am not!’ he shouted. ‘The fact that you’re a mouse has nothing to do with me.’ ‘But you’re a mouse, too, Bruno.’ ‘ Don’t be a fool,’ he said. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Jo walton's tooth and claw![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If social rank in Victorian society sometimes was a metaphorical case of "eat or be eaten," Walton's version takes this notion quite literally. The biology in question is that of dragons. This novel is the result of wondering what a world would be like if they were, if the axioms of the sentimental Victorian novel were inescapable laws of biology." Indeed, Walton maintains she wanted to write a comedy of manners in the style of Anthony Trollope that would correct what she terms "core axioms" of the genre that are wrongheaded. While not science fiction, Jo Walton's Tooth and Claw is about another alien perspective - the views of social class, manners, and propriety commonly depicted in Victorian novels - which contemporary readers could easily find a bit silly, if not wholly alien. More recently, advancements in biotechnology and cybernetics have allowed humans to become the aliens they once could only imagine, and fictional depictions of people who are bio-enhanced, genetically sculpted, or resurrected by cloning aren't all that far away from what's technically feasible. Their ears or appendages or super power provide the means of contemplating the human condition from an "alien" perspective. With certain notable exceptions (Stanislaw Lem's Fiasco, for example, which satirizes the whole notion of First Contact), that's fine because the aliens are frequently supposed to be representative of human beings anyway. The aliens in science fiction tend to be humans with pointy ears or extra appendages or some kind of super power. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments A study in scarlet book cover![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I really loved this and I feel like the story benefits so heavily from being told in Watson’s perspective. We get to learn a little background information on Watson, and we get to see how he and Sherlock met and developed the most unusual of friendships. Yet, I am still happy that I can finally say I’ve read the source material. Everyone’s favorite original detective is Sherlock Holmes, and I’ve been wanting to see how it all began for a long while now! But I can honestly say that I was not prepared for the last half of this tiny book. I’m going to keep this short and (somewhat) sweet, because this is a very short little introduction that started it all. “There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination where there is no imagination there is no horror” Goodreads | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Parker curry book![]() ![]() Parker Looks Up follows Parker, along with her baby sister and her mother, and her best friend Gia and Gia’s mother, as they walk the halls of a museum, seeing paintings of everyone and everything from George Washington Carver to Frida Kahlo, exotic flowers to graceful ballerinas. Inspired by this visit, Parker, and her mother, Jessica Curry, tell the story of a young girl and her family, whose trip to a museum becomes an extraordinary moment, in a moving picture book. When a nearby museum-goer snapped a photo of a mesmerized Parker, it became an internet sensation. ![]() She saw a queen-one with dynamic self-assurance, regality, beauty, and truth who captured this young girl’s imagination. When Parker Curry came face-to-face with Amy Sherald’s transcendent portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama at the National Portrait Gallery, she didn’t just see the First Lady of the United States. A visit to Washington, DC’s National Portrait Gallery forever alters Parker Curry’s young life when she views First Lady Michelle Obama’s portrait. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Rhinoceros de eugene ionesco![]() ![]() Rhinoceros shows us just how far totalitarianism can go. The big question raised by Ionesco on the possibility of effective communication in a world at war in which certain abuses of power are so difficult to comprehend, remains relevant today. Ionesco wrote Rhinoceros during a period of existential crises – not only his own, but also those of his contemporaries. Is foreign language the only hurdle in the way of comprehension? What exactly helps or hinders our understanding of a situation? In choosing to mix French and English in this adaptation of Rhinoceros, the members of Theatraverse explore new possibilities of linguistic exchange. Ionesco’s plays approach the question of communicability not as an impossibility, but rather as a difficulty or a challenge. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sister Thérèse Saint-Augustin told the dying woman she’d had a dream in which Thérèse was in a very dark room, getting herself ready to join her magnificently dressed father and go through “an extremely black” door to a world of only light. ![]() In Thérèse of Lisieux: God’s Gentle Warrior, Nevin makes it clear that Thérèse’s life was far from tranquil, as her 1897 conversation with another nun revealed. ![]() At the end of the 20 th century, Pope John Paul II declared her a Doctor of the Church, one of just 36 saints so designated, only four of them women. She died a decade later, leaving behind three manuscripts, published as The Story of a Soul, one of the great religious documents of Catholicism. Thérèse entered the Lisieux Carmel at the age of 14, joining two of her sisters and later welcoming a third. All five of the daughters, the only offspring to survive childhood, became nuns. She was the lively, doted-upon last child in a happy and devout family. In its outlines, the life of Thérèse can appear serene. She is popularly venerated as The Little Flower of Jesus and is often pictured in statues and holy cards tranquilly holding a bouquet of roses, clustered around a crucifix. Thérèse, a Discalced Carmelite, known in her French convent as Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, was designated a Roman Catholic saint nearly a century ago. Nevin, the key insight into the short life and rich spirituality of Thérèse of Lisieux is to be found in a conversation in January, 1897, eight months before her death from tuberculosis. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Jordan b peterson beyond order![]() The advice in Beyond Order reflects some new and painful awareness of mortality. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780241407622 Number of pages: 432 Weight: 779 g Dimensions: 240 x 162 x 14 mm MEDIA REVIEWS ![]() Drawing on the hard-won truths of ancient wisdom, as well as deeply personal lessons from his own life and clinical practice, Peterson offers twelve new principles to guide readers towards a more courageous, truthful and meaningful life. In times of instability and suffering, Peterson reminds us that there are sources of strength on which we can all draw: insights borrowed from psychology, philosophy, and humanity's greatest myths and stories. Beyond Order therefore calls on us to balance the two fundamental principles of reality - order and chaos - and reveals the profound meaning that can be found on the path that divides them. While an excess of chaos threatens us with uncertainty, an excess of order leads to a lack of curiosity and creative vitality. Now in this long-awaited sequel, Peterson goes further, showing that part of life's meaning comes from reaching out into the domain beyond what we know, and adapting to an ever-transforming world. His insights have helped millions of readers and resonated powerfully around the world. ![]() Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to modern anxieties. In 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Novel love from a to z![]() from Canada who is of Chinese and Finnish heritage has recently been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and returns to his adopted homeland to spend time with his family while trying to hide his disease from them for as long as he possibly can. ![]() The circumstances in which the Muslim teens find themselves in the Qatari capital during a two week period in March could not be more different. Ali’s highly original spring break love story, Love from A to Z. What are the chances that two young people living on two different continents are both inspired by the same thirteenth-century Islamic manuscript to keep a journal detailing life’s highs and lows? This very manuscript, The Marvels of Creation and The Oddities of Existence housed in the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, helps bring together eighteen-year-olds Adam Chen and Zayneb Malik in S.K. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Love Comes Silently by Andrew Grey![]() ![]() And some argue that cancel culture doesn’t even exist. There are plenty of debates over what it is and what it means, including whether it’s a way to hold people accountable, or a tactic to punish others unjustly, or a mix of both. Over the past several years, cancel culture has become a deeply contested idea in the nation’s political discourse. This term was then referenced in film and television and later evolved and gained traction on social media. ![]() The phrase “cancel culture” is said to have originated from a relatively obscure slang term – “cancel,” referring to breaking up with someone – used in a 1980s song. The number of people who can go online and call out others for their behavior or words is immense, and it’s never been easier to summon groups to join the public fray. But the internet – particularly social media – has changed how, when and where these kinds of interactions occur. People have challenged each other’s views for much of human history. ![]() |