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Giant Corporations Want to Control Your Brew

The craft-brewing wave sweeping the US makes drinking beer more fun than ever. Maryland’s Flying Dog Brewery brews a beer from oysters, and the Delaware-based Dogfish Head uses an ancient beer recipe they dug up from 2,700-year-old drinking…

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Icy documentary focuses on people rather than penguins

When you think of Antarctica, you probably picture ice, snow and penguins. You don’t normally think of people, other than the odd intrepid explorer driving his dogsled across a frozen landscape.  




And yet a few thousand human…

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Gritty Western may or may not deserve its feminist label

Frontier life was tough in the 1850s, particularly if you were a woman. That’s the prime message of The Homesman.


Winters were harsh. Crops were uncertain. Disease was rampant. Foreplay had yet to be invented.


Directed and co-…

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Columbus joins national wave of Ferguson protests

Tuesday afternoon about 100 people gathered at the base of the Peace statute on the east side of the Statehouse to protest the Grand Jury decision to not prosecute Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Brown in the shooting death of Michael…

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