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Craft beer, spirits to enjoy during the summer

We know you have choices when you go to the liquor store, but in the ever-expanding world of craft beer, wine and spirits, there are now more options than ever to enjoy at home, with friends or before the outdoor summer fire. Here are just a few products to keep your eyes out for as the summer weather gets ever closer:

May 22, 2017
(liverpoolecho.co.uk)

NES Classic shortage burns Gen Y gamers

As my generation -- who, for argument's and demographics sake, we'll call Gen Y -- sailed through their thirties and the attendant spouses, jobs, children and deaths of parents and friends that are the inevitable companions of maturity, it wasn't surprising that a certain nostalgia for the gaming culture of youth began to take hold. Arcade bars provide rotating craft beer menu and the electronic bings, boops and blips of their childhood.

May 16, 2017
The interior of Blackwall Hitch. (Blackwall Hitch)

Blackwall Hitch restaurant unveils ‘Blackwall Beauty’ oyster

Alexandria, Virginia's waterfront has benefited from a riverside restaurant renaissance, and one of the crown jewels in that rejuvenation is Blackwall Hitch, an oyster and seafood boutique on the docks that has gone one step further in the oyster game with the recent addition to its offerings of the Blackwall Beauty oyster.

May 16, 2017

Bruce Springsteen bandmate Garry Tallent tours solo 1950s-inspired rockabilly show

Long before he joined Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, Garry Tallent played his bass guitar to the strains of 1950s rockabilly, R&B and blues that emanated from the radio stations broadcasting near the Jersey shore towns that would one day make he and The Boss' bandmates world-famous. Mr. Tallent and his band will take the stage at AMP by Strathmore in North Bethesda, Maryland, Sunday evening, where they aim to recreate the sounds of the era of poodle skirts and leather jackets, but in a contemporary atmosphere.

May 11, 2017
The horses of the 143rd Kentucky Derby are paraded around the track of Churchill Downs prior to the big race. (Eric Althoff/The Washington Times)

Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming one of many sights at Churchill Downs

The "Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports" is inarguably the marquee event of Derby Week, when 20 horses race the track of Churchill Downs for glory, cash and bragging rights as thousands of hat-besotted onlookers cheer in hopes of a return on wages. (As Rand Paul, the junior senator of Kentucky, once told me at the White House Correspondents Dinner, "Bet a lot of money; you'll feel really good about yourself.")

May 10, 2017
(Hollywood Reporter)

‘Obit.’ documentary brings life to the death section of New York Times

Working in the obituary section of The New York Times would, on its surface, seem to be either the purview of the perversely minded or, perhaps, those either obsessed with death or overcoming the attendant fear that sooner or later, it takes us all. And yet the new documentary "Obit." from director Vanessa Gould is, I am happy to report, the most uplifting film possible about those who spend their days giving their subjects a worthy sendoff in prose.

May 8, 2017
In this combination photo, Liev Schreiber, left, portrays boxer Chuck Wepner in a scene from the film, "Chuck," and Chuck Wepner appears during a workout at his home in Bayonne, N.J. on Jan. 21, 1975. The film will open in limited release on Friday. (AP Photo/Sarah Shatz/IFC Films, left, and Ray Stubblebin)

New Jersey film tax incentive loss caused ‘Chuck’ filmmakers to move to New York

A struggling boxer gets the chance of a lifetime to fight the world heavyweight champ. While he ultimately doesn't win the match, he nonetheless becomes a legend in his own right. If this story sounds familiar, it's because Sylvester Stallone in fact "borrowed" a key element in the life of New Jersey boxer Chuck Wepner, whose lengthy, much-underestimated 1975 fight against Muhammad Ali became the stuff of legend -- to say nothing of the inspiration for the climactic bout between Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed in the Oscar-winning "Rocky."

May 8, 2017
(Documentaries.io)

Cambodian genocide effects on descendants explored in ‘Angkor Awakens’ film

Robert H. Lieberman, a physicist at Cornell, knew he had to turn to a certain kind of documentary filmmaking. Mr. Lieberman's parents escaped Austria during the Second World War while most of their relatives were exterminated in Hitler's pogroms. "What happens with the next generation? Not those who obviously suffered, but do the effects continue on?" Mr. Lieberman told The Washington Times of the impetus behind his new film, "Angkor Awakens: A Portrait of Cambodia."

May 5, 2017
Dessert course at District restaurant The Palm. (Eric Althoff/The Washington Times)

The Palm restaurant in D.C. offers ‘power lunch’ option to dine amid politicians, local celebrities

The Palm may be D.C.'s most iconic spot for a power lunch. Since 1926 politicians, power-brokers change-makers, journalists, the elite, the locals and the intrepid visitors intent on finding the cuisine for which the capital has become lauded have come to this singular Italian spot in Northwest to break bread and enjoy recipes that Pio Bozzi and John Ganzi brought over from the Old Country.

May 4, 2017
This image released by Showtime shows Julian Assange in a scene from the documentary "Risk." (Praxis Films/Showtime via AP)

Julian Assange documentary ‘Risk’ shows iciness of WikiLeaks founder

Documentarian Laura Poitras ("Citizenfour," about Edward Snowden) returns to the well of controversy with "Risk," a film years in the making that follows WikieLeaks founder Julian Assange from little-known outsider free speech advocate to, depending on your beliefs, either the world's most hated or heroic man.

May 4, 2017