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On Tap: State College Brew Expo 2017
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Visit your local beer distributor — or, these days, any grocery store or convenience store that sells beer — and the shelves are stocked with more different beers from more different breweries than one could ever have imagined. The craft-beer industry continues to grow, which has surprised Michael Martin. “I’ve been saying this…
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Health & Wellness: Bacteria or Virus? Antibiotics are not always the answer
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The discovery of penicillin in 1928 was heralded as a medical miracle. As one of the first antibiotics, it could cure patients of potentially deadly bacterial illnesses, such as scarlet fever, typhoid, and pneumonia. Unfortunately, overuse of penicillin and other antibiotics can cause other problems for both individual patients and the general population. That’s…
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About Town: Christopher Kent
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Christopher Kent — a Patton Township resident who is six feet, five inches tall — is sort of invisible. He is a lifelong musical performer who has made few public appearances since moving here — becoming mainly a “digital performer.” His original songs — many of which are currently on three albums plus singles…
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Taste of the Month: Spats Café and Speakeasy
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When it first opened in 1987, Spats Café and Speakeasy was true to the theme of a Prohibition-style eatery where the undeniable allure was the idea of a secret hideaway where the door was locked, and to gain entry, one would knock and utter the password.
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Taste of the Month: The Tavern Restaurant
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For almost 70 years now, The Tavern Restaurant, located at 220 East College Avenue in State College, has been a Penn State tradition. The walls are a treasury of Pennsylvania and Penn State history, highlighting old photographs and rare lithographs. Originally opened in 1948 by two Penn State graduates John O’Connor (1938) and Ralph Yeager…
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Taste of the Month: Tommy’s Asian Grill
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Tommy’s Asian Grill, located at 432 East College Avenue, is State College’s first Xi’an Chinese restaurant serving authentic, fresh, hand-stretched noodles, handmade flat breads for Chinese burgers, and traditional Xi’an BBQ on a stick. With the ever-growing Chinese student population at Penn State, a New York City lawyer and his business partner saw a need…
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Taste of the Month: Rusty Rail Brewing Company
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The Rusty Rail Brewing Company in Mifflinburg currently encompasses 50,000 square feet of a 250,000-square-foot brick building that had a rich history in the manufacturing industry. Originally built in 1911, the building at one time was where buggies, carriage bodies, gears, axles, and automobile bodies were assembled. In 2013, two brothers, Paul and Eric John…
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Taste of the Month: Hummingbird Room
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Life is an adventure, with many faraway lands to explore, fascinating people to meet, exotic foods to try, and new experiences to savor. That is the philosophy that the owners of the Hummingbird Room live by. After a 10-year hiatus, the Sarnows are back doing what they love, but not in the traditional sense of…
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Living Well: Handle the Holiday Humbugs in Your Life
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Ideally, the holidays are a time spent with family where good food, laughter, and love are celebrated. Unfortunately, however, the reality is that most people have at least one or a few emotionally unsafe individuals in their family, and this can cause major anxiety, depression, and emotional distress, making the season one of dread not…