Club Animals in NYC

I happened upon these folks on the interwebs. They’ve been keeping it silly in NYC.  I’ll admit, this is funny and I would love to happen upon such scenes somewhere in Chicago.  I’m certain plenty of people would just get scared and perhaps alert the authorities, but those people simply scare too easily. Here is [...]

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Between the Bluffs Beer, Cheese, and Wine Festival: Update

As promised, here is another update concerning the Between the Bluffs Beer, Cheese, and Wine Festival (bringing smiles on April 25th in La Crosse, Wisconsin).  Add Lift Bridge Beer Company - Stillwater, Minnesota – to the list of brewers from the last update.  Guess what, Wineries and Creameries have been announced! The Cheese Makers: Nordic Creamery [...]

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Between the Bluffs Beer, Wine, & Cheese Festival: Update

As your most comprehensive and considerate source for BtB information, ATS promises to keep you up to date on the excruciating foreplay involved in this month and a half build-up to the Summer’s Most Anticipated Opening Festival. A list of breweries has been released. It may not be complete, stragglers have been known to scramble in late [...]

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Super-Fly Plans for the Weekend?

I know what I’ll be doing.  As for me, I’ll be pregaming like this. “How ’bout that thirst? What’s your pleasure?” Then I’ll be busting it at a party like this. Probably representing with the little lady like the folks jumping on the scene at 0:53. But that’s Friday night. Saturday will involve the Chiditarod. [...]

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Chicago Artist Paints Nude Politicians for Fun, Wife’s Bar

I guess I’ll have to hit up Old Town Ale House to check out the Sarah Palin Nudie, among others.  After reading some articles, reviews, and hitting a few other websites I’m expecting this place to be a pretty great dive.  Perhaps I’ll add it to this summer’s Beer Bar Bicycle Tour (more on that [...]

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Lifted from: The World’s Best Ever.

Video today. This blog post is lifted/plagiarized from a great blog I like to check on, The World’s Best Ever.   French Design Company Easy Web have put together an amazing show reel of their work. If you can sit through the music you will be amazed. Via: here Very cool stuff.

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Two for the Morning

Much of the twitter talk I’ve been following lately has revolved around bikes. I kept track of Lance’s TT being stolen [and found], I’m keeping tabs on the the Amgen Tour of California, EighthInch is posting some of their latest deals that I’m going to swoop, and I caught this little video below. Incredible stuff. [...]

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Who’s Ready for Spring Training?

  There are still a lot of Cubs fans out there; usually they are the children of other Cubs fans. Those Northsider families are gearing-up for Spring Training this month. They first see the Brewers on Feb 26th, then March 7th. Get pumped! Special thanks to Sexy People.

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Between the Bluffs Beer and Cheese Festival: 7th Edition, This Time with Wine

Subtitle: An Early, Pre-Announcement, Warning to the ATS faithful Fest Date: April 25th, 2009 Breweries: Unknown Wineries: Unknown Creameries: Unknown Weather Forecast: TBD Tickets: On Sale March 13th – Noon (don’t take mine) Apparently, the tasters at the last six Between the Bluffs Beer and Cheese Festivals were not sufficiently intoxicated at the end of [...]

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I’m a Beer Runner

I thought being included in the Teecycle.org Top 10 of 2008 was sweet, but this is for sure the bee’s knees.  I recently talked with Tim Cigelske about beer, biking, and living the high life and he put it together in a post for Draft Magazine‘s online feature, The Beer Runner. According to Tim, a [...]

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