Fly Gypsy Mix Up Vodka and Rum (antiMUSIC)Fly Gypsy, the hip-hop duo comprised of Russian-born producer/one-man-band Alexei Jendayi and Jamaican-born emcee Kowboy Kom, is proud to announce the release of its latest project, The Vodka and Rum Mixtape

'Rum & Coke' follows naive agent through Cuban crisis (Arizona Daily Wildcat)“He's very idealistic, very young, very naïve,” said Joe Hubbard, an acting sophomore, about his character Jake in the play “Rum & Coke,” a shadowy comedy about the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. The play returns to Arizona Repertory Theatre today after an initial run in June.

U.S. Tax Dollars Go To Diageo, Captain Morgan Rum Maker (The Huffington Post)Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum. With little fanfare, a deal is moving forward to direct billions in U.S. tax dollars to an unlikely beneficiary -- the giant British liquor producer that makes Captain Morgan rum.

Picky Eater: Crazy Cookies, Dragon Fruit Rum (Inside Bay Area)The Picky Eater samples Parker's Crazy Cookies, tipsy desserts and pineapple vodka.

Picky Eater: Crazy Cookies, Dragon Fruit Rum (Inside Bay Area)Several weeks later, Parker — a Miramonte High alum from Orinda — arrived at my door with a pouch of cookie samples that made me laugh out loud. There were dinosaurs and wine bottles, but the best were the recognizable portraits of politicians, grandmas, graduates and newborn babies.

Captain Morgan may set sail for tax benefits (Los Angeles Times)The rum brand's parent firm, Diageo, would receive advantages worth $2.7 billion under a deal to move production to the Virgin Islands from Puerto Rico. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

Tracey Shuffler, managing director of West Indies Rum Distillery Ltd. (Daily Nation)Published on: 8/31/2009. LOCAL AND EXPORT SALES of rum and spirits are not as good in 2009 as they were last year, but distilleries have no plans to cut staff or wages.

Board Delays "Historic" Vote For Bacardi Buildings (CBS4 Miami)The Miami's Historic Preservation Board was scheduled to vote on Tuesday whether to declare the two mural-adorned buildings owned by rum maker Bacardi USA "historic." But because of a paperwork snafu, the board decided to postpone the vote until next month.

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.

Trademark wars: US goods sold under famous Cuban brands an issue if trade relations ease (The San Francisco Examiner)SAN JOSE DE LAS LAJAS, CUBA — Cuban rum maestro Jose Navarro's taste buds sing when he sips Havana Club, the sweet spirit distilled in this farming town south of the capital.

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