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Ameri-CAN Canned Beer Fest is Back, Beer Snobs! 

The satisfying sound of cracking open an ice cold beer is music to our ears. Craft beer enthusiasts might have turned their noses up at canned brews in the past, but things have changed. Canned beer is no longer just for light beer and beer pong. Microbreweries are taking aluminum back and that deserves not only recognition but celebration. It’s a beer can revolution and it’s taking over one pop-top at a time. The second annual Ameri-CAN Canned Craft Beer Festival is one of the highlights of American Craft Beer Week and most certainly the biggest. It’s pretty much Disney Land for 21 and over beer lovers. Full story

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Local Designer Plans Green Awakening for Couture Design Challenge

A local designer is defending the environment, one graphic T-shirt at a time. Scott Allison wanted to make a living doing something he believes in, so he decided to start a green apparel company called Artizen Apparel. Allison’s brand features T-shirts he designs that are fashionable and environmentally friendly. Allison will be one of the local designers participating in this Thursday’s MAD Couture Challenge, an event that will showcase the work of several designers, paired with some of Mill Avenue District’s stores for a design competition and fashion show. Full story

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Music

Suckers Strive to Sound Like No Other While Starving in Brooklyn 

It has been a year since Suckers toured nationally, but now they’re ready to get back on the road with their fun, inventive and trippy sophomore album, Candy Salad. Band mates Austin Fisher, Quinn Walker, and Pan grew up in the Connecticut suburbs and not far from each other. These days they make music in the one and only Brooklyn.

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Movies

'Dark Shadows' Lacks Bite

Vampire movies are subject to the rules set by general consensus. The basic lore involves blood, sunlight and wooden stakes but the mythos changes with every interpretation. Most filmmakers can get away with new additions to the vampire ideology, so long as they remain interesting and consistent. Alas, “Dark Shadows” has neither.