Diary: Jerry Sandusky is not allowed to rewrite his heinous narrative
I’ve been thinking about Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State football coach and convicted serial child molester. Sandusky is in prison, and his earliest...
Absent Ian Gillan, it’s less of a Jesus Christ Superstar to me
Recounts the last days of Jesus Christ from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, his betrayer. As Jesus’ following increases, Judas begins to worry that...
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Three: Beery Copenhagen days and Oktoberfest nights in Munich
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Two: A placid traditional Danish lunch in Copenhagen, 1989.
Among my proudest moments as an American abroad was the...
Diary: Nature teaches beasts to know their friends
Title credit courtesy of Shakespeare (Coriolanus).
During The Edge’s and Bono’s recent Tiny Desk Concert at NPR, Bono introduced the U2 song “Stuck in a...
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Two: A placid traditional Danish lunch in Copenhagen, 1989
Copenhagen, Denmark (1989).
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-One: Those legendary working beers with the FDJ in the GDR.
There was a faint glow, and...
Green with entropy?
Regardless of who invented it, the first people to make green beer probably made it the same, slightly unintuitive way it’s made today: a...
Damn straight Guinness is good for you
One of the beer world’s most famous advertising slogans is “Guinness is good for you,” which dates to the 1920s and is credited to...
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-One: Those legendary working beers with the FDJ in...
West Berlin, 1989.
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty: Beer, zakuski, vodka and ice cream.
As August approached, I’d been tourist-grade ambulatory in the East...
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty: Beer, zakuski, vodka and ice cream
Changing of the guard at Lenin’s Mausoleum.
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Nineteen: Moscow skyline in twilight, 1989.
Founding Soviet patriarch Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died...
Bock beer’s back story, because the time draws near
Is Bock the G.O.A.T.?
This question has been nagging me since Jimmy Carter was in office.
All I knew for sure at the time was that...