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~ FALERNUM ~ Alcoholic cordial. 11% ABV, ~£15 for 700ml Friends with: rum, other kinds of rum, more rum, rhum agricole, lime, lemon, tropical fruits and spices of all kinds. Also marries well with gin and green Chartreuse, clashes interestingly with agave spirits, and has a holiday romance w/ Irish whiskey. Falernum is a lightly alcoholic spiced lime cordial from Barbados. For the most part, it is used as a sweetener in tropical drinks, especially those involving rum and lime.

~ SUZE ~ Gentian-based aperitif liqueur / 15% ABV / c£15-25+ for 700ml Friends with: Gin, vermouth, but then aren’t we all? But especially: bianco vermouth, Lillet, sherry, champagne. Mezcal and tequila. Strawberries. Passion fruit. Grapefruit. Orange. I HAVE had a bottle of Suze knocking around for a while - a whole litre of the stuff, purchased in France for something like €9 - but it is only recently that I figured out what it is.

2017 Convention of the League of Ukrainian Canadians and League of Ukrainian Canadian Women, Ukrainian Cultural Center, Etobicoke, Ontario. Sitting front and center (wearing the blue tie) is Stefan Romaniw, international leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists-Bandera. On the far-right is a portrait of the World War 2-era Ukrainian fascist leader and Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera.The other day, I was informed that Oksana Prociuk-Ciz, the CEO of the Buduchnist Credit Union (BCU) Financial Group, is allegedly the present-day leader of the underground Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists-Bandera (OUN-B) in Canada, and that before her, it was Oleh Romanyshyn.

Do you have any favorite camping foods? Please comment and tell me them, I’ve got a camping-heavy few months coming up and I’m at a bit of a loss. -Katherine By Hallel Yadin If there’s an obscure historical phenomenon you’d ever like to trick people into asking you about, wear a cute hat depicting it. That’s what I learned when I acquired this cap, which features an appliqué of a fish perched over a tub.

Peace. I write to you from the floor of my bedroom in Sierra Leone. Two days ago, Iran launched successful counter-attacks against the apartheid regime occupying the land of Palestine, currently known as Israel (which bombed their embassy in an open act of war on April 1). I can hear construction workers breaking rocks outside my window and the children of the house playing and running and the noise of Freetown traffic in an endless rise and fall.

Welcome to our weekly column offering perspectives on lit mag publishing, with contributions from readers, writers and editors around the world. It might seem too ironic for fiction, but the literary community has spent decades unnecessarily shackled by language itself. The word “published” bears no weight in the digital age, and yet, purely out of habit and momentum, we still pretend that it does. Literary magazines continue to require submissions be “previously unpublished,” so we hide our work offline in the dungeons of our file folders like some archaic virginity rite.

This is an ONLINE EXTRA from The Charlotte Ledger. Stay in-the-know about Charlotte by subscribing to our newsletter. Free and paid versions available (details here): Father Michael Martin (left) will be the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte’s new bishop, after current Bishop Peter Jugis (right) retires in May. by Cristina Bolling The Catholic Diocese of Charlotte announced a new bishop Tuesday, as current Bishop Peter Jugis prepares to step down after 20 years leading the diocese due to health concerns from a kidney ailment.

This past week, UDiscoverMusic asked me to craft an article chronicling the story of Barry McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction,” a song written by P.F. Sloan that went to #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in 1965, amid a flurry of controversy which included radio bans and, according to McGuire, FBI surveillance. You can read it here! Getting to write about Barry McGuire was an exciting prospect for me. As a child, my introduction to his music was in contemporary Christian music.