Not Just For Kids Anymore:

Soda pop. It was inevitable, just as coffee and tea entered the realm of connoisseurs, so, too, has the carbonated beverage. Chicago pastry chef Gale Gand created Gale’s Root Beer, with cinnamon, ginger and vanilla. Naha Restaurant (Chicago, IL: naha-chicago.com) whips up its own cherry coke, with fresh tart cherries, as well as homemade Concord Grape Spritzer and Birch Bark Beer. Backstreet Café is using peach, pineapple and blueberry gastrique to make its own sodas. At Mizuna (Denver, CO; mizunadenver.com), things go one step further, with a homemade tonic. Not all grownups sodas are for teetotalers, either. Looking for a kick? Try the 80-proof Root (artintheage.com/spirits-aita), a birch bark beverage that tastes nothing like A&W.

Stewed, Screwed and Tattooed

New blurb about a recent Sailor Jerry documentary over at The Spearhead.

    If you know anything about tattoos, you know his work. His trademark designs feature themes of “Man’s Demise,” a brand of manly nihilism that recalls the lyrics of the Hank Williams song “I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive.” Likely owing to his war-bound clientele, Sailor Jerry’s man is tough and scrappy, but ultimately just another one of Fate’s marionettes.  You owe it to yourself to check this one out for its manly, earthy humanity.

Stewed, Screwed and Tattooed
Hori Smoku - The Life and Times of Sailor Jerry Collins

by Jack Donovan on December 28, 2009
Hori Smoku is a cantankerous collection of salty tales, practical jokes and tattoo lore, all centering around the life of American tattoo master Norman “Sailor Jerry” Collins. As unpretentious and straight shooting as its subject, Erich Weiss’ documentary delivers a 77 minute vacation in a Hawaii where men lined up to get “stewed, screwed and tattooed” as they stopped over on their way to an unknown fate.

Dirt Rage Magazine Features ROOT and Art in the Age in there 2009 recommendations!

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Narragansett offers yearlong supply of beer as drinking incentive
By Russell J. Moore

Narragansett Beer, the legendary Rhode Island brewing company, is offering beer drinkers a few extra incentives to enjoy a cold Narragansett this holiday season.