Lifestyle

“Magical.” Travel on the Roads and in the Skies Unveiled in Recent Expo Shows

Michael Patrick Shiels

Imagine, in your travels, driving through a grimy industrial area and, with a voice command, your video-enabled windshield puts you, visually, in a more pleasing mountainside setting. Automotive journalist Paul Eisenstein, of TheDetroitBureau.com, learned of that technology, and more, at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Cars, electric or otherwise, have more gadgets than gears these days.

Review & Betting Guide For The Desert Classic

James Mason

The PGA Tour now moves back to the mainland and tees up at the Arnold Palmer Course at La Quinta... Read more »

Review & Betting Guide For The Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship

James Mason

The European Tour is back this week and tees up at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club in the UAE for... Read more »

Marketing Michigan golf in the postcard era

Terry Moore

Last spring, I attended an informative presentation on Grand Rapids history at the main downtown library. It was about how... Read more »

Historic, traditional Poland feels like an undiscovered, un-crowded travel destination

Michael Patrick Shiels

Michigan’s connection to Poland is palpable. There is even a link to the late U.S. President Gerald Ford, who was... Read more »

12 Beers of Christmas 2018 – 12: De Dolle Stille Nacht

Tom Bedell

I may be getting on a line somewhere in mid to late October, when the 2018 version of Stille Nacht... Read more »

12 Beers of Christmas 2018 – 11: The Bruery 11 Pipers Piping

Tom Bedell

Back in 2015, when I added The Bruery’s Six Maids-a-Milking to the list, the PNC Christmas Price Index was at... Read more »

12 Beers of Christmas 2018 – 10: Prairie Christmas Bomb

Tom Bedell

Eight of the 11 cast members of our Christmas Day were in place late last night, my son and his... Read more »

12 Beers of Christmas 2018 – 9: Hermit Thrush Dark at 4:30

Tom Bedell

We’ve turned the corner: the days are growing longer. True, it’s still dark at 4:30, but not for much longer.... Read more »

12 Beers of Christmas 2018 – 8: Anderson Valley Winter Solstice

Tom Bedell

I didn’t quite plan it that way, but I pretty much cracked open a can of Anderson Valley Brewing’s Winter... Read more »

12 Beers of Christmas 2018 – 7: Samuel Smith Winter Welcome

Tom Bedell

“Blessing of your heart, you brew good ale,” it says right on the label of the Samuel Smith Winter Welcome.... Read more »

12 Beers of Christmas 2018 – 6: Troëg’s Blizzard of Hops

Tom Bedell

My good friend Ace Schmidt (the golfer formerly known as Ed (long story)) wondered today on the social interwebs (where... Read more »

12 Beers of Christmas 2018 – 5: Berkshire Brewing Holidale

Tom Bedell

It was a cold day here in Vermont, so a stout seemed like a good way to go. I was... Read more »

12 Beers of Christmas 2018 – 4: Samichlaus Helles (2014)

Tom Bedell

Beer writers of a certain age, like me, picked up our early beer hunting cues from the late great Michael... Read more »

12 Beers of Christmas 2018 – 3: To Øl Santastique (and Jule Mælk)

Tom Bedell

In the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum in Copenhagen there’s a bust of Beethoven in the heroic mode, sculpted by Frenchman... Read more »