The Cleveland Clinic is by far and away the biggest brand in Cleveland and the largest employers (probably the biggest real estate holder, but I don’t know about that one – they do seem to grow by a block or two along Carnegie and Euclid Ave every year as well as branches in Florida for [...]
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“Should a cup of coffee should be a rich, sensory experience or a cheap chemical fix? Like most things, it depends on what you’re willing to pay.” Dwell’s Kitchen blog Caffeine is the worlds most used (or abused?) drug and for many of us we get our daily fix from coffee, although there is an [...]
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Scottish & Newcastle, brewers of one of my favorite beers Newcastle just got added to the list of brewers worldwide who are now part of massive conglomerate brewers (well actually split between two Carlsberg and Heineken going at this in a joint venture). In the US and Europe pretty much any brewery of any size [...]
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Just got back from a brief but enjoyable trip to London, always enjoy getting to walk around that city and amazing to see how international it is even compared to 10 years ago. Anyway, as you all well know the American economy is struggling under the problems of the sub prime lending problems, and it [...]
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Half the reason I planned a trip to London was to go watch Arsenal play, the north London football club (soccer) that I follow. Playing away at Fulham meant a less then competitive game (Fulham is facing relegation with their bottom 3 of the table spot) and while Fulham plays at Craven Cottage, one of [...]
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Wolfgang Puck may have ushered in our era of celebrity chefs and he has run with that making his name by putting it everywhere he can think, including a chain of fast casual restaurants. In Columbus he has one on Lane ave (as well as another in the airport one of my earlier introductions). Anytime [...]
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The new and final season of The Wire (its fifth) is in full swing already (one episode down, nine to go – although you can watch a week early on HBO inDemand so I am two weeks in). Much has been written on the new season (for those who follow the show that is) by [...]
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If your not a hockey fan you may have missed a great sporting event today, the NHL winter classic, an outside game (the 2nd time ever for the NHL) was played in the Buffalo Bills football stadium with 70,000 plus fans in attendance for the Sabers vs. Penguins open to the elements. The game was [...]
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