Now that Thanksgiving’s over, it’s time for my annual wrestle with the Christmas spirit. I’ve struggled with it for years, often because I’m simultaneously struggling with my faith. My reasons are nothing new: the December holidays in the USA are consumerist, they’re corporate, they’re saccharine, they’re so materialist to be effectively meaningless, the stress of … Continue reading
I don’t know how it’s taken this long for a rapidly-gentrifying city like Washington, DC to get its own microbreweries (perhaps we’re really as formal and stuffy as they say?), but according to Prince of Petworth, Chocoloate City Brewery will be brewing by the end of spring. I’m not crazy about the name (could be that … Continue reading
