Is American beer any good? TheStar.com - living - Is American beer any good? The idea of weak American suds is being laid to rest by the boom in indie ales, stouts and pilsners Buffalo's Premier Gourmet has become a magnet for Canadian beer lovers by stocking around 1,000 beers, half of them brewed in the U.S. Where does the best beer come from?  read more »

May 13, 2008 Chewing the Fat: The Brooklyn Brewery's Garrett Oliver The SAVOR Beer and Food Festival takes place this weekend and for the past week, D.C. has been crawling with several top figures in the beer crafting industry. To kick off this week's beer festivities , DCist got a chance to sit down and talk with Garrett Oliver, Brooklyn Brewery brewmaster, food and beer pairing expert, author, and though maybe not as glamorous as the St. Pauli girl the face of top-notch, traditional beer brewing. We caught up with him before an Italian beer tasting at the National Geographic.  read more »

Recorded sound had no greater friend than Tony Schwartz, the audio documentarian, advertising guru, media consultant, and exalted citizen of the aural universe, who passed away Saturday a few months shy of his 85th birthday. He'll be forever linked to his best-known workthe infamous "Daisy" ad from Lyndon Johnson's 1964 re-election campaign (see clip, above)but to many, Schwartz is beloved for sharing with the world his lifelong infatuation with the musicality of prosaic sounds. Beginning in 1945, Schwartz, armed with a microphone and Webcor wire recorder, set out to capture the sounds of the world around himthe dogs barking, the kids playing, the street-corner preacher, the cab driver's running monologuefor the pure pleasure of it.  read more »