Break the Humdrum With Some (OK, a Lot of) Rum (NBC Washington)After sampling 10 rums at Ceiba, pretending to be lounging on a tropical island may not be that hard after all.

Highway 23 detoured for new Rum River bridge (St. Cloud Times)Motorists will encounter a detour on Minnesota Highway 23 beginning July 6 as crews reconstruct the Rum River bridge in Milaca.

Tale of flowin' rum, howlin' dogs and screamin' seafarers honored in bad writing contest (Sun-Sentinel)SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A shambling sentence about screaming seafarers on the sturdy whaler Ellie May stood shoulders above the rest in an annual bad writing contest.

Bank bailout gave British rum $2.7B boost (The Cincinnati Enquirer)In June 2008, U.S. Virgin Islands Governor John deJongh Jr. agreed to give London-based Diageo Plc billions of dollars in tax incentives to move its production of Captain Morgan rum from one U.S. island -- Puerto Rico -- to another, namely St. Croix.

Stock your summer drink cabinet (The Times-News)It's one of the divine pleasures of warmer days: backyard barbecuing or sunning at a patio bar somewhere, a summery cocktail in hand. But this summer, we don't want that cocktail to be a mojito. After more than a decade of downing the rum-mint-and-lime concoctions, we are parched for something new.

Malibu(R) Offers Budding Environmentalists an Office With an Ocean View, as Brand Establishes the Ultimate Beach ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)rum.com/reefcheck and

Lucky charms or bad habits? Athletes are a quirky bunch (Kern Valley Sun)Matthew Martz Special to the Sun A shot of rum, a boa constrictor and an African voodoo doll named Jobu may be a bit of an exaggeration, but to the Indians Pedro Cerrano it was a religion. “That was just a movie,” you say, “no one in a real-life locker room would behave that way.” Or would they?

Johnny Depp is magnetic in 'Public Enemies' (The Buffalo News)''Public Enemies” is a good movie about one of the truly great American subjects. So split the difference and slap a “very good” label on what's opening today in your friendly neighborhood megaplex, for those micro-attentioned span folks who like movie reviews in two words or less.

Cheers, Florida, for many great places to drink! (AP via Yahoo! News)Where else but Florida could a place like Jimbo's exist?

SUBVERSE | Rum deal (The Times of India)I wonder what Ram Prasad would have made of it. It was a write-up in an Indian travel magazine about the introduction into India of Glenfiddich 50 Year Old, a single malt whisky from Scotland aged for 50 years.

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