In the last few years, Americans have begun to change their beer-drinking habits. As people have seen the environmental, cultural, and culinary benefits of buying local produce (and supporting restaurants that do the same) and quality craftsman-style beers such as Blue Moon Ale and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale have become staples at bars and grocery stores, microbreweries (small, localized breweries) have opened in abundance. Western Michigan/Northern Indiana, with their largely German/Northern European heritage, is a natural region for brewing quality beer. With this in mind, I visited the Saugatuck Brewing Company, in Douglass Michigan...
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Surprise is not a word often associated with modern, even indie, music. It is even less commonly associated with traditional Americana, be it string band music, blues, country, or gospel. The Carolina Chocolate Drops, however, play this music, and do so in a way that often surprises – at times shocks – its audience. More on them in a moment; first, Deep Fried Pickles. The Acorn Theatre often hosts folk/rock/pop/blues/etc musicians who are on the cusp of national fame, are in the underground, or are regional hits. The Deep Fried Pickle Project, who opened for the Carolina Chocolate Drops on May 7, fit firmly in the latter category (although – who knows –...
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Fill up the gas tank and head to Harbor Country Michigan for the upcoming Memorial Weekend! Join us at the Round Barn Winery, Brewery and Distillery for our 4 year Anniversary of DiVine Vodka!
Round Barn is a family-owned, boutique winery, distillery and brewery nestled in the rolling hills of Southwest Michigan in Baroda-just a short drive from Chicago, South Bend or Grand Rapids. It's the perfect one-tank trip for Memorial Day weekend!
Round Barn specializes in hand-crafted wines, fruit brandies, vodka and microbrews. In the wine...
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A duo calling themselves Honest Injun and the Stool Pigeon (they probably have a different name, but that’s what they called themselves, and lacking another other designator, that’s what we’re calling them), Take the Sky, Poets and Posterboys, and I AM BAND played at Ugly Mugs, a small, bohemian-looking coffee shop in South Bend, Indiana on April 30. Honest Injun are two fellas with one guitar and some excellent song choices (Flaming Lips, Beck, Bon Iver), a singer with a fantastic voice, and apparently not long to play – after five or six short acoustic songs they got out of the way of:
Take...
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