Eckhart and Jenkins join Depp in "Rum Diary" (Tiscali)BERLIN (Hollywood Reporter) - Aaron Eckhart and Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins will be hitting the sauce in "The Rum Diary," the screen adaptation of the Hunter S. Thompson novel that stars Johnny Depp.

Rum-runners' stash seized by RCMP (CBC Newfoundland and Labrador)RCMP in southern Newfoundland found $14,000 worth of smuggled Caribbean rum Thursday morning.

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.

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.

Elgin likes pina coladas at Boriqua Fest (Daily Herald)Victor Borrero knows pina coladas. He first sipped the coconut-based cocktail in his native Puerto Rico, where he grew up in a small farming town.

Wisconsin Dells add several new attractions (Daily Herald)If you haven't had time to take a trip this summer, it's not too late to get away. After last year's flooding of Lake Dalton, the Wisconsin Dells are back in full swing and high spirits.

Season for deals: A frugal traveler's guide to the islands (Miami Herald)We've all been cornered. The gauntlet thrown down by America's new economic realities: Change your evil, thrift-less ways. But making do with less doesn't have to mean cutting out a Caribbean holiday.

It's dessert and a show with flambe on the menu (Rapid City Journal)Want to get your party started? Try setting a banana on fire.

Talking about mental illness can lessen discomfort (The Palm Beach Post)Last week I went diving in the Florida Keys. Divers are chatty folks and on the ride to the reef we got to know one another. When asked what I do for a living, I explained that I am a journalist. I do some investigative reporting, I write a blog and a column. Then came the questions about my column.

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