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Feb 13, 2024 | craftedforall.com | Louis Livingston-Garcia |City Pages

The news spread like wildfire across the Twin cities in 2020 when major news outlets like the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that Kale Johnson, (now former) co-owner of 56 Brewing was accused of tying a knot resembling a noose and waving it at Mahad Muhammad, a (now former) employee, at an event two years prior. Johnson is white; Mauhammad is Black.

Sep 20, 2023 | craftedforall.com | Louis Livingston-Garcia |City Pages

“We want to be ourselves and do our own thing.” That phrase was repeated in one form or another by beverage makers who participated in HYFIN’s Brown Black and Brews: The 5th Ingredient, an event showcasing a dozen midwest-based black and brown owned craft beverage businesses. The event, now in its second year, was a fundraiser for HYFIN, a public radio station powered by Radio Milwaukee, and was held at Pilot Project Brewing’s Milwaukee location this August.

Mar 16, 2023 | edgemagazine.net | Martin Keller |Utne Reader |City Pages

On January 19, 2023, a weirdly shaped, large, orange-colored lenticular cloud appeared over Bursa, Turkey. The usual suspects erupted on cue, including the clamoring of the international news media that never met a Not-A-UFO story it didn’t like. Much ooo-ing and ah-ing occurred about the King of Cuckoo Clouds. King of The Cuckoo Clouds over Bursa, TurkeyVivid vids, and fab, almost flower-petaled-looking photos bloomed everywhere of the towering, unidentified sky thing.