Neighbors frustrated by blight in Rum Village (22 WSBT South Bend)SOUTH BEND — Paul Duda and his Rum village neighbors are tired of cleaning up.

Cruzan Rum Celebrates Its Caribbean Heritage Through New Advertising Campaign (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)DEERFIELD, Ill.----Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc. [Fortune Brands, Inc. ], the leading American spirits company and Cruzan® Rum, the fastest-growing rum brand among the top five brands in the U.S., today announced a new advertising campaign that showcases the U.S.

Rum Rises From the Cocktail Shaker to Challenge Scotch, Bourbon (Bloomberg)Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Rum is going up in class. More often seen in the company of its proletarian partner Coke, the sugarcane-based liquor is mixing instead with the elite sipping spirits, the single malts, XO cognacs and aged bourbons.

A Look Back:Prohibited or not, the booze kept flowing (Daily Pilot)Decades before the Prohibition era brought smugglers to Newport's beaches, their boats laden with barrels of whiskey and rum, the city had a problem with unlicensed drinking establishments called blind pigs.

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Potpourri (Erie Times-News)EERIE BAYFRONT GHOST WALKS -- most summer evenings, 8:45 p.m. -- meet at Lund Boat Works, 12 E. Dobbins Landing (near Rum Runners) -- discover history, strange, weird, paranormal of Erie bayfront on this 90-minute, 1-mile walk with Captain Bob of the S/V Someday Isle as your guide -- $5, reservations required, 460-8009.

Festival Review: The Big Chill 2009 (MTV UK)The sun was shining over Eastnor castle this weekend for another great year at The Big Chill festival. The site had grown for 2009 with The Funky Bison bar, Sailor Jims Rum bar and Mr...

Summer's Freshness, Sipped From a Glass (New York Times)Lighter than fruit juice, much more fun and flavorful than water, agua fresca is, quite simply, a very watery version of juice.

The calendar for Aug. 11 (Miami Herald)LOADED QUESTIONS 6 p.m. How well do you know your friends? Find out by playing Loaded Questions. Head to Segafredo Brickell and enjoy complimentary Cruzan Rum samples from 6-7 p.m. Board games and cocktails: the perfect combo for a hump day happy hour! Miami.com will be there, and we will hold nothing back. Segafredo Brickell, 1421 South Miami Ave., Miami; 305-577-9809.

Bars looking for more niches in cocktail lists (San Francisco Chronicle)The other night I took two out-of-town guests to Heaven's Dog, chef Charles Phan's Chinese restaurant and lounge in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood. The 10 drinks on the menu, all of which had appeared in Charles Baker Jr.'s 1939 travel book "The Gentleman'...

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