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The Future of Digital Marketing: How Cincinnati is Leading the Way

The digital marketing industry is changing rapidly, and as a business owner in Cincinnati, you want to make sure that you’re keeping up with emerging trends. The following are some of the most promising emerging trends in digital marketing and how Cincinnati is leading the way to make them happen:

Cincinnati Has Always Been a Hub for Innovation.

The city’s history of innovation dates back over 200 years, with many of the inventions and innovations that helped shape the modern world being created here.

Cincinnati has been called “America’s most underrated city” by Thrillist and “one of America’s top emerging tech hubs” by Forbes Magazine.

Cincinnati is located in the Midwest, which means it’s a great place for innovation. The city owes its success to a number of factors, including its position as a major U.S. business and commercial center. Cincinnati has also had a strong history of innovation; for example, it was one of the first cities in America to have electric streetlights installed throughout its downtown area (which helped attract businesses).

Cincinnati has been home to many successful companies over the years: Procter & Gamble was founded there in 1837; Kroger grocery stores were founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883; GE Aviation operates an engine manufacturing plant there today; and Cintas Corporation supplies uniforms and other workplace services across industries worldwide (including sports teams like FC Barcelona!).

We’ve identified some of the most promising emerging trends in digital marketing and how cincinnati is leading the way to make them happen.

As mentioned above, Cincinnati has a strong history of innovation, which means it’s primed for success when it comes to new technologies. The city was home to one of America’s first industrial parks, inked its first patent in 1836 (and then another two decades later), and even gave us one of today’s most popular tech companies: Procter & Gamble. Nowadays, Cincinnati is leading the way when it comes to emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR).

Cincinnati businesses are investing heavily in these cutting-edge tools – and seeing great returns as a result! This year alone there were $1 billion worth of deals made between local startups and larger companies looking for access into their marketplaces; this figure does not include investments into other areas such as real estate development projects or infrastructure upgrades designed specifically for these types.

The Internet of Things (IoT).

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the concept that every object you can think of will be connected to the internet. This means your coffee maker, car, and even toothbrush could be talking to each other through an app on your phone or computer. It’s a huge shift from how we currently use technology – and it’s going to have a major impact on digital marketing strategies.

The first step in getting started with IoT? understand what it actually is! then, start thinking about how you could incorporate these ideas into your business model:

What devices could benefit from being connected? Do they need more functionality? Can they become more efficient if they’re connected? Are there any ways these devices could work together to provide better solutions for customers?

How can this data help improve customer experiences while also providing insight into their needs/wants/intentions as well as helping them solve problems faster/better than ever before possible?

Blockchain technology is reshaping how we engage with our clients, partners, and customers.

Blockchain is a decentralized database that stores information in blocks. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data. The result is a secure, transparent, and immutable ledger that can be used to store any type of data including financial transactions.

Blockchain technology offers several advantages over traditional databases:

Data immutability – Once data has been entered into the blockchain, there’s no way for it to be altered or deleted without altering all subsequent blocks on the chain as well; thus making any fraudulent activity immediately detectable by anyone who uses this system.

Security – Since each block contains its own unique fingerprint (or hash) there’s no chance of two identical hashes ever being generated; therefore making it virtually impossible for hackers to access sensitive information stored within these ledgers without authorization from someone who holds access keys needed beforehand such as an employee working at an organization like yours!

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing will play an important role in allowing businesses to scale quickly while avoiding financial risks associated with large-scale investments in hardware and software infrastructure.

Cloud computing is a way to store and access data remotely. This allows for faster growth because you can use more resources than you would if you were hosting your own servers, which reduces the cost of hardware. Cloud computing also offers more flexibility in storage and data usage, as well as sharing resources across multiple users or locations.

With these advantages at hand, it’s no wonder Cincinnati has become one of America’s leading cities for digital marketing innovation!

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial intelligence (AI) will help marketers improve the effectiveness of their campaigns by making better use of data collected from past campaigns and customer interactions with brands. This can be done through AI-powered automation, which will allow marketers to optimize their digital strategies in real-time.

In the next few years, we’ll see an increase in automation tools that can automate parts of your digital marketing strategy based on what has worked well for you in the past. For example, if someone fills out a form on your site but it doesn’t convert into a sale or lead immediately after submitting it, then an automated rule could be set up so that instead of emailing them directly after submission like most companies do today (which is often ignored), you instead send them an automated follow-up email 48 hours later from another user at your company who says something along the lines of “Hey! We saw that you filled out our form yesterday – did something come up? If not let me know what else we could do for you!”

Digital marketing is changing rapidly, so it’s important to stay up-to-date with emerging trends that can benefit your business’s growth.

Social media: Social media is one of the most popular forms of digital marketing because it allows users around the world to connect with each other in real-time through platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. By creating an account on these sites and engaging with followers regularly (through posts), businesses can reach out directly to their target audience while also building brand awareness through organic reach as well as paid advertising options such as promoted posts or ads at specific times.

Mobile applications: With more than 2 billion smartphone users worldwide according to Statista data, mobile apps have become essential tools for businesses looking for ways to expand their customer base beyond desktop computers – especially since many consumers now expect companies’ websites or social media profiles to provide easy access points where customers can make purchases directly from their phones without having first visited any physical locations owned by those companies!

Conclusion

If you’re looking for a way to grow your business, digital marketing is an excellent place to start. The industry is constantly evolving and innovating new ways for businesses to reach their target audience. If you want more information about how Cincinnati can help your company succeed in today’s digital world, contact us today!

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Edible Flowers: How, Why, and When We Eat Flowers

Role: Author, Art Direction, Design

Photographed by Adrianna Glaviano

“Monica digs deep into the cultural history of each native species to build the most intricate profiles that go beyond the beauty of the flower. ‘I’m really interested in the ways that you can use objects and material culture to see more of the world and trace things back to their roots,’ she says.” —Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest “Monica’s lyrical and reflective writing allows for the notes on symbolism, history, and diverse cultural perspectives, to emerge as thoughtful and wisely considered.” —Olivia Meehan, Toast Magazine Featured in The New York Times 2021 Holiday Gift Guide, Architectural Digest, Coolhunting, Financial Times How To Spend It, Wallpaper*, Atlas Obscura, Thrillist, and more. 

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Vox Media Will No Longer License Chorus, Its CMS Software

Vox Media Will No Longer License Chorus, Its CMS Software

The digital media company Vox Media, which houses editorial titles including Vox, New York Magazine and Thrillist, is discontinuing its business of licensing its content management system, Chorus, to publishers, Adweek has learned. Chorus, which has six clients currently, will no longer take on new customers and will not renew its existing contracts, according to a person familiar with the…

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Zawe is wearing the Prima cold-shoulder ruffled laser-cut floral-print gauze gown by Zimmermann 🤍🌸

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Hmm well it looks like El is wearing the same outfit + hairstyle she was wearing when the Byers moved (altho Will and Jon are not) and Colorado is btwn Indiana and California, so I’d assume the comic is abt them stopping for the night in Colorado half way thru their move, and for some reason the kids decide to go to a drive in movie. The synopsis given says “Eleven, Will and Jonathan go to a Drive-In Theater for a Double Creature Feature, but the local festivities and scary costumes bring back haunting memories.” So it sounds like there’ll be some sibling comfort in there. 🥰

Also, it looks like Stranger Con has had some updates– Sadie has dropped out of both LA and Chicago, and they changed some of their language, but no update on Charlie’s date. I don’t know why they still haven’t given him a date. If he was just tentatively signed up bc he wasn’t sure of his schedule then wouldn’t they have waited to announce until they knew for sure? They don’t even finalize the schedule of what time the q&a’s are until the week of, idk why it’s so difficult to pick one out of two days. But especially with Sadie gone you’d think they’d be able to find room for him. Well there’s 18 days until the LA con so hopefully they’ll get it figured out soon. I can’t go since I don’t live anywhere near LA (or Chicago) but it must be frustrating for ppl who do and wanna meet Charlie but don’t know what day to buy tickets for. Anyway with the omicron who knows if it’s even still gonna happen. You need a negative test to get in, but still. I guess we’ll see.

And in case anyone is still curious, Sp2 has landed on a few more best movies lists since the last update: Playlist & Vanyaland (honorable mention), Spool & Spectrum Culture & Vogue (unranked), Esquire #39, AV Club #19, Thrillist #17, Cinema Femme #15, IndieWire poll #11, Dujour & Stacker #10, RogerEbert & SF Gate #8, Vox #7, Screen Slate & LWL & Hollywood Reporter #6, Austin Chronicle #5, AP #4, Film Comment #3, LA Times & Collider #2, NOW magazine & Screen Daily #1.

Ooh I love the description of the comic; it sounds like great sibling content! And good point, with the haircuts for all too, seems like it could take place on their way to Cali.

Re: Stranger Con yeah hmm wonder why they haven’t announced Charlie’s date yet, especially with Sadie dropping out. It does leave everything so close to the con; hopefully they’ll sort it soon and announce. I agree with you though re: omicron—wondering if LA will even let it take place. That’s good they ask for a negative test (and hopefully vax proof?), but could see CA limiting large gatherings depending on how hard they are hit and if hit by then like NY is rn.

Aw that’s great re: TSP2; thx for rounding those up I had missed seeing a lot of those. They’re all great lists and def deserved for the film!

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Link Tank: The Best Foreign Shows on Netflix to Watch

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Netflix’s made significant investments into foreign shows in recent years. Check out the best the platform has to offer.

“Netflix, on a mission to appeal to global audiences, boasts a huge collection of foreign shows that you may be overlooking. (If you’re specifically looking for good anime on Netflix, that’s a whole different list.) You’ll want to try one of these titles the next time you wonder, ‘What should I watch?'”

Read more at Thrillist.

One of the earliest recorded meteor showers is appearing again in April. Here’s everything you need to know about the Lyrids.

“The Lyrids appear in Chinese writing dating back to roughly 690 BCE, making them one of the earliest meteor showers on record. On the night of April 21, the annual shower will make its appearance for 2021. Here’s everything you need to know to catch the event.”

Read more at Mental Floss.

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The Florida teen who hacked into Elon Musk and Barack Obama’s Twitter accounts for a Bitcoin scam has been sentenced to three years in jail.

“On Tuesday, state prosecutors in Florida announced Graham Ivan Clark, now 18, entered a plea agreement to serve time in a juvenile facility, along with three years of probation. Last July, Clark was arrested for successfully hijacking Twitter accounts belonging to celebrities including Elon Musk, Kim Kardashian, and Barack Obama in order to instigate a Bitcoin scam.”

Read more at PCMag.

For animals and insects who find mates via sound, human noise pollution is wrecking havoc on their ecosystems.

“Noise pollution puts whole ecosystems in danger, and rapid urbanization will likely make the problem worse. According to a United Nations report, 68 percent of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050.”

Read more at Inverse.

The CW has unveiled a first look at Stargirl Season 2 supervillain Eclipso, to be played by Nick Tarabay.

“Although he’s one of the DC Comics universe’s most powerful supervillains, Eclipso has never managed to make the jump into live-action. That changes in the second season of Stargirl, in which Arrowverse alum Nick Tarabay will play the evil spirit of revenge.”

Read more at Gizmodo.

Actor Elliot Page’s TIME Magazine interview is an intimate look into his life. Check out some of Twitter’s best reactions to it.

“Actor and transgender icon Elliot Page has graced the pages of TIME Magazine in an intimate profile, and I am here for it. Not only is he in a place where he can fully be who he’s always wanted to be on the pages of such a huge magazine, but he’s also in a position of power that could change transgender representation on TV and in movies.”

Read more at The Mary Sue.

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Comic Con @ Home panel and exhibitor list (so far)

Source: Comic-Con@Home

Source: SDCC unofficial blog

TV & Movies

American Dad: Ever wanted to learn how to draw one of your favorite AD! characters? Now is your chance, join show Supervising Director, Brent Woods, as he teaches the cast and executive producers how to draw Roger! Grab a sketchbook & pens and learn to draw everyone’s favorite alien alongside Rachael MacFarlane (Hayley), Wendy Schaal (Francine), Scott Grimes (Steve), Dee Bradley Baker (Klaus) and EPs Nic Wegener and Joe Chandler as they chat about the current season and look toward the series’ 300th episode airing on TBS this fall.

[NEW] Archer (July 24 at 5PM PT): with Aisha Tyler, Chris Parnell, Judy Greer, Lucky Yates, Amber Nash, and moderated by Casey Willis.

The Blacklist

Bill & Ted Face the Music: with stars Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves, as well as Wyld Stallyns, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, William Sadler, and director Dean Parisot and writers Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson. Moderated by Kevin Smith.

[NEW] Blast Off with Disney+’s The Right Stuff (July 25 at 1PM PT).

Bless the Harts: Join the Harts, in quarantine of course, for a Paint & Sip! Watch Kristen Wiig (Jenny Hart), Maya Rudolph (Betty Hart), Ike Barinholtz (Wayne Edwards), Jillian Bell (Violet Hart) and Fortune Feimster (Brenda) with executive producers Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Andy Bobrow try to recreate Bless The Harts characters while chatting about their favorite moments from season one, what they’re looking forward to in season two on FOX this Fall and how they’ve kept busy during quarantine while drinking the show’s favorite drink – boxed wine!

Bob’s Burgers: The Emmy Award-winning animated FOX series “Bob’s Burgers” invites fans into their homes for a virtual panel with all of the laughs and surprises they generally bring to the Indigo Ballroom. Creator and executive producer Loren Bouchard will break news about the upcoming season, and the always entertaining cast including H. Jon Benjamin, John Roberts, Kristen Schaal, Eugene Mirman, Dan Mintz and Larry Murphy will have you howling with laughter with never-before-seen footage, followed by a lively panel discussion and fan Q&A.

Constantine: 15th Anniversary Reunion: with Keanu Reeves, director Francis Lawrence, and Akiva Goldsman.

Crossing Swords: Hulu Original Crossing Swordsfollows Patrick, a good hearted peasant who lands a coveted squire position at the royal castle. His dream job quickly turns into a nightmare when he learns his beloved kingdom is run by a hornet’s nest of horny monarchs, crooks and charlatans. Even worse, Patrick’s valor made him the black sheep in his family, and now his criminal siblings have returned to make his life hell. War, murder, full frontal nudity—who knew brightly colored peg people led such exciting lives? With Scott Mantz, Seth Green, Alanna Ubach, Tara Strong, Yvette Nicole Brown, Adam Pally, Tom Root, John Harvatine IV, and Adam Ray.

A Conversation with Nathan Fillion: Showrunner Alexi Hawley (“The Rookie”) talks with Nathan Fillion (“Firefly,” “Castle,” “The Rookie”) about his career in film and television. With special appearances by Joss Whedon, Alan Tudyk, Gina Torres, Mekia Cox, Molly Quinn, Seamus Dever and Jon Huertas.

Director’s on Directing: with Robert Rodriguez, Colin Trevorrow, and Joseph Kosinski.

The Dragon Prince: with creators Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond, as well as voice cast Jack Desena, Paula Burrows, Sasha Rojen, Erik Todd Dellums, Jason Simpson, Jesse Inocalla, and Racquel Belmonte

Duncanville: Join executive producers Mike & Julie Scully, executive producer and star, Amy Poehler, along with stars Ty Burrell, Riki Lindhome, Joy Osmanski, Yassir Lester, Betsy Sodaro and guest stars Rashida Jones and Wiz Khalifa for an exclusive first look at the upcoming second season; returning next Spring on FOX.

Emily the Strange: with creator Rob Reger and illustrator Buzz Parker

Family Guy: Join cast Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis, Seth Green and executive producers Rich Appel, Alec Sulkin and Kara Vallow from FOX’s hit animated comedy “Family Guy” as we celebrate 350 episodes with a virtual table read! After, we’ll take a look back at some of our favorite moments from the last 18 seasons, plus a special sneak peek at the hilarity and hi-jinx coming up in our 19th season premiering this fall on FOX!

Fear the Walking Dead: Fear the Walking Dead will present a panel for the series’ upcoming sixth season, premiering later this year. Moderated by Hardwick, the panel will feature Gimple, Showrunners and Executive Producers Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg and cast members Lennie James, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Colman Domingo, Danay Garcia, Karen David, Jenna Elfman and Rubén Blades.

G-Loc: with director Tom Paton, and stars Stephen Moyer, Tala Gouveia, Casper Van Dien, and John Rhys-Davies. Moderated by Jacob Oller.

The Goldbergs: with cast members Wendi McLendon-Covey, Sean Giambrone, Troy Gentile, George Segal, Hayley Orrantia, and Sam Lerner

Helstrom: As the son and daughter of a mysterious and powerful serial killer, Hulu Original Helstrom follows Daimon (Tom Austen) and Ana Helstrom (Sydney Lemmon), and their complicated dynamic, as they track down the worst of humanity — each with their own attitude and skills.

HOOPS: The star-studded voice cast of “Hoops,” a new adult animated series for Netflix launching this summer from 20th Century Fox Television (“The Simpsons,” “Family Guy,” “Bob’s Burgers”), gathered for an irreverent-in-the-best-way conversation about coming together to make this show that follows a foul-mouthed high school basketball coach who is sure he’ll hit the big leagues if he can only turn his terrible team around. Voice stars Jake Johnson, Rob Riggle, Ron Funches, Natasha Leggero, Cleo King and A.D. Miles join creator and executive producer Ben Hoffman and moderator/ guest voice star Max Greenfield (Johnson’s former “New Girl” co-star) for a truly wild and hilarious Q&A. Fans will be treated to an exclusive first look at footage from the premiere episode. “Hoops” comes from writer-comedian Ben Hoffman (“The Late Late Show with James Corden,” “Archer”), Phil Lord and Chris Miller (“The Lego Movie”), with animation produced by Bento Box (“Bob’s Burgers”).

Kevin Smith: You know what this is.

LGBTQ Representation on TV: with Jamie Chung (Once Upon A Time), Jamie Clayton (Roswell: New Mexico), Wilson Cruz (Star Trek: Discovery), Tatiana Maslany (Perry Mason, Orphan Black), Anthony Rapp (Star Trek: Discovery), J. August Richards (Council of Dads, Angel, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Harry Shum, Jr. (Shadowhunters) and Brian Michael Smith (9-1-1: Lone Star). The panel will be moderated by TV Guide Magazine West Coast Bureau Chief Jim Halterman.

[NEW] A Look Inside Marvel’s 616 on Disney+ (July 23 at 1PM PT).

Motherland: Fort Salen: TBA

NEXT: Coming to FOX in Fall 2020, “NEXT” arrives at Comic-Con@Home with a sneak peek of the thrilling opening scene of the propulsive, fact-based thriller about the emergence of a deadly, rogue artificial intelligence that combines pulse-pounding action with an examination of how technology is invading our lives and transforming us in ways we don’t yet understand. “NEXT” stars John Slattery (“Mad Men”) as a Silicon Valley pioneer, who teams with cybercrime agent Fernanda Andrade (“The First”), to fight a villain unlike anything we’ve ever seen. Panelists will include creator and executive producer Manny Coto (“24”), John Slattery, Fernanda Andrade, Michael Mosley (“Ozark”), Jason Butler Harner (“Ozark”) and Eve Harlow (“Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”) for a fascinating conversation about the new series and how AI and technology infiltrates all of our lives, moderated by Thrillist’s Esther Zuckerman.

NOS4A2: Moderated by Entertainment Weekly’s Clark Collis, the panel will feature Showrunner and Executive Producer Jami O’Brien, Executive Producer Joe Hill and cast member Zachary Quinto.

[NEW] Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe (12PM PT).

Rooster Teeth: Yssa Badiola, Torrian Crawford, Barbara Dunkelman, Fiona Nova, Kerry Shawcross, and special guest F.J. DeSanto are going to virtually smack you in the face with exclusive reveals and new information about Recorded by Arizal, Red vs. Blue Zero, RWBY Volume 8, and Transformers War For Cybertron: Siege.

The Simpsons: They’ll never stop The Simpsons!…from appearing at Comic-Con; this time on zoom. Join Al Jean, Matt Selman, David Silverman, Carolyn Omine, Mike B. Anderson and moderator Yeardley Smith. Find out how the show has surmounted social distancing and turbulent times en route to season 32!

Solar Opposites: Your favorite Shlorpians are getting together for Comic-Con at Home! As Hulu’s most-watched original comedy premiere to date, “Solar Opposites” centers around a team of four aliens who escape their exploding home world only to crash land into a move-in ready home in suburban America. They are evenly split on whether Earth is awful or awesome, while protecting the Pupa, a living super computer that will one day evolve into its true form, consume them and terraform the Earth… Join Justin Roiland (“Korvo”), Thomas Middleditch (“Terry”), Sean Giambrone (“Yumyulack”), Mary Mack (“Jesse”) and executive producers Mike McMahan and Josh Bycel for all things “Solar Opposites” including an exclusive clip from the upcoming second season!

Stumptown: with cast members Jake Johnson, Cobie Smulders, and Michael Ealy

TV Guide Magazine’s Fan Favorites: Hale Appleman (The Magicians), Chris Chalk (Gotham, Perry Mason), Robbie Amell (Upload), Kennedy McMann (Nancy Drew), Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Picard), Richard Harmon (The 100), Lindsey Morgan (The 100), Harvey Guillen (What We Do in the Shadows), and Alex Newell (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist)

The Walking Dead: The Walking Dead will make its 11th San Diego Comic-Con appearance with a panel spotlighting the Season 10 Finale episode, “A Certain Doom,” which will air as a standalone episode later this year. Moderated by Hardwick, the panel will feature Gimple, Showrunner and Executive Producer Angela Kang, Executive Producer Greg Nicotero, who directed the season finale, and cast members Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lauren Cohan, Josh McDermitt and Paola Lazaro, among others.

The Walking Dead: World Beyond: The Walking Dead: World Beyond makes its Comic-Con International debut as the third series in wildly successful The Walking Dead Universe. Moderated by Hardwick, the series’ panel will feature Gimple, Showrunner and Executive Producer Matt Negrete and cast members Aliyah Royale, Alexa Mansour, Hal Cumpston, Nicholas Cantu, Nico Tortorella, Julia Ormond and Joe Holt.

[NEW] What We Do in the Shadows (July 25 at 5PM PT): with Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Mark Proksch, Harvey Guillen, Paul Simms, Stefani Robinson, and moderated by Haley Joel Osment.

Wynonna Earp.

COMICS

Celebrating 80 Years of The Spirit: Moderated by Danny Fingeroth.

Decoding the Kirby/Lee Relationship: with Danny Fingeroth.

[NEW] Howard Cruse: The Godfather of Queer Comics.

In Conversation with Robert Kirkman: Creator Robert Kirkman answers fan questions on his titles including THE WALKING DEAD, INVINCIBLE, FIRE POWER, OBLIVION SONG, and more!

[NEW] LGBTQ Comics and Popular Media for Young People.

[NEW] Out in Comics 33: Virtually Yours.

[NEW] Marvel Comics: Next Big Thing: Friday, July 24, 11:00 AM PST

[NEW] MARVEL HQ: Thursday, July 23, 4:00 PM PST

Skybound Presents: Comics & Creators: A panel of Skybound’s comic book creators including Robert Kirkman, the team behind EXCELLENCE, and more come together to discuss their latest projects.

Tribute to Dennis O’Neil: with Danny Fingeroth.

The Wonderful, Horrible History of E.C. Comics: Moderated by Danny Fingeroth.

OTHER

The Art of Collaboration: Duos Behind Top Films, TV Shows, & Video Games.

California Browncoats.

Creative Renaissance: How to Thrive When it’s Hard to Survive. The continued need for social distancing has brought about a creative renaissance in the digital space. Join the conversation with Joe Barrette (Creators, Assemble!), Phil Jimenez (Creators4Comics), Alonso Nunez (Little Fish Comic Book Studio), and Kit Steinaway (Book Industry Charitable Fund) to hear how nonprofit organizations are working with comics creators to support each other and their communities during these challenging times. You will hear about new learning opportunities, collaborations, how to forge new creative friendships in a time of global disconnect and what it means to find your tribe through fandom and shared passion. Moderated by Dan Wood (Comics librarian, EPL).

From Script to Screen: Behind-the-Scenes of Your Favorite Film & TV Shows.

The Future of Entertainment.

GirlsDrawinGirls Presents Industry Professional Women Artists in Quarantine: Balancing Work, Art, Homeschooling, and Life: With Melody Severns, Debbie Mahan, Sherry Delorme, Rehana Khan-Tarin, Aisling Harbert-Phillips, and Christine Chang.

The Legal Geeks.

Making a Living Being Creative: with Lee Kohse, Brendan Hay, Lex Cassar, and Johnny Kolasinski.

Masters of the Illustrated Film Poster.

Music for Animation.

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Judged by your peers, here are the best India Pale Ales available on Tavour.

If you’ve been an active follower of publications like Thrillist, Paste, or any innumerable websites which feature a “Best of …” list associated with beer styles, then you're familiar with articles that tell you what you should or shouldn’t drink. But this month, a local mail-order bottle shop reached out with a unique approach to “Best of…” lists judged not against countless entries but judged against popularity. Focusing only on the most popular beers, Tavour invited trusted members of the brewery community from brewers to writers, to judge Tavour’s customer favorites while providing sensory feedback.

 First, meet your judges. 

Ben Keene, former Editorial Director of BeerAdvocate Magazine and author of The Great Northeast Brewery Tour. His beer writing has appeared in DRAFT, Beer Connoisseur, The New York Times, and The Oxford Companion to Beer, etc.

Jackie Dodd, founder of the popular Beer Baroness blog and author of three beer-centric cookbooks. Her beer writing and recipes have appeared in Beer and Brewing, Saveur, etc.

Annie Johnson, Master Brewer of Seattle’s PicoBrew, Certified National Beer Judge, and the first woman ever to win the Homebrewers Association’s Homebrewer of the Year Award.

Marley Rall, founder of The Brewmasters Taproom and The Brewmaster’s Bakery (that uses spent grain from Seattle-area craft breweries to create items like granola, bread, and dog treats).

Lara Zahaba, co-owner of Stoup Brewing, an award-winning, draft-only craft house in Seattle’s competitive Ballard brewery district.

Matt Storm, founder of The Masonry, a Seattle-based pizza and beer bar named one of Eater’s Top Beer Bars in the city for its impressive selection of suds! 

image of Illuminated Brony IPA sourced from Tavour

Under the supervision of Tavour staff, the judges spent 2 hours sampling, re-sampling, and cycling through each of the beers, and providing a scale from 1 to 6, in the following sensory categories. 

How many could you drink in a single sitting. 1 = I’ll pass to 6 = How many you got?

How enticing is the smell? 1 = Not bad to 6 = I’m floating through the air like a cartoon character.

How fruit is it? 1 = I’m smelling something else to 6 = It should come in a juice box.

How full is the body? 1 = Is this water? to 6 = My straw is clogged.

How dank is it? 1 = Not even sure what that means to 6 = Willie Nelson meets Snop Dogg.

How generous (or greedy) does it make you feel? 1 = Up for grabs to 6 = BACK OFF! IT’S MINE!!

 Having some fun, the judges had the following to say about some of their beers. 

“[Patterns] smells so green & grassy, my nose is doing a happy dance.” -Ben Keene

“Judging by its thick pour, I can tell [DDH Fairy Nectar London is] going to be danky.” -Marley Rall

“I would take [Azacca Crush] to the yard party and shotgun it all day.” -Lara Zahaba

“[Butterfly Scratch is] my favorite of the bunch… When I first sipped this beer, it warmed my cockles.” -Annie Johnson

In no particular order, the following beers were selected and sometimes found in multiple categories, ranging from “So easy to drink, you could crush a fridge full (a.k.a. most easy-drinking)” to “Most likely to drink at hempfest (a.k.a. dankest)”. What is clear from this list is that Tavour’s customers are heavily invested in Hazy India Pale Ales and Double India Pale Ales. See for yourself. 

Mumford Brewing Company - Butterfly Scratch. 6.6% ABV | 35 IBU

Butterfly Scratch is our latest hazy/Northeast style IPA, which we brewed with a truckload of Hallertau Blanc and Mosaic hops. It's a perfect beer to pair with visiting relatives and the holidays

Winner of: 

So easy to drink, you could crush a fridge full (a.k.a. most easy-drinking)

“Most likely to give one star on Untappd just so no one else buys it” (a.k.a. personal favorite / Best in Show)

image sourced from Tavour

Reuben’s Brews - Azacca Crush. 6% ABV | 47 IBU

Reuben's Crush series beer with loads of Azacca® hops

Matt Storm’s top pick in the category: 

So easy to drink, you could crush a fridge full (a.k.a. most easy-drinking)

Fair State Brewing - Mirror Universe. 7% ABV | 33 IBU

Double dry-hopped hazy IPA brewed with wheat, oats, and lots of Citra, Mosaic, and El Dorado hops

Winner of: 

Most likely to turn you into Toucan Sam (a.k.a. most aromatic)

Most likely to drink at hempfest (a.k.a. dankest) 

Anchorage Brewing Company - Patterns. 6.5% ABV | 80 IBU

1st in the Series. Mosaic hopped.

Top Pick by Jackie Dodd in the category: 

Most likely to turn you into Toucan Sam (a.k.a. most aromatic)

Weldwerks Brewing Company - Juicy Bits. 6.7% ABV | - IBU (not listed)

Our version of a New England-style IPA featuring a huge citrus and tropical fruit hop character from the Mosaic, Citra, and El Dorado hops and softer, smoother mouthfeel from the adjusted water chemistry, higher protein malts, and lower attenuation. The end result is a beer reminiscent of citrus juice with extra pulp, thus the name Juicy Bits.

Winner of: 

So freakin’ fruity, it should come in a juice box (a.k.a. fruitiest flavors)

Odd13 Brewing Company - Codename Superfan. 6.5% ABV | - IBU (not listed)

Codename: Superfan is a deliciously modern take on the American IPA style, brewed with a variety of juicy American hops from the Pacific Northwest.

Lara Zahaba’s top pick in the category:

So freakin’ fruity, it should come in a juice box (a.k.a. fruitiest flavors)

Annie Johnson’s top pick in the category

Most likely to drink at hempfest (a.k.a. dankest) 

Kros Strain Brewing - DDH Fairy Nectar London. 6.2% ABV | - IBU (not listed)

The 2018 Juicy Hazy IPA category Silver Medalist at GABF is Back! With the extra dose of Citra and Mosaic hops, this juice bomb will deliver exactly what you are looking for! Hazy, juicy, and full of tropical and citrus flavor all with very low bitterness, this is a NEIPA that hits all the right notes!

Winner of: 

Most likely to get stuck in your straw (a.k.a. thickest) 

Illuminated Brew Works - Brony. 7% ABV | - IBU (not listed)

Double Dry Hopped Double IPA  Ponies are cool. They can fly and make magic and have the prettiest tales. But people have hands. Ponies don't. With hands, people can drink beer (usually). Like this beer here. This beer is for Bronies, not phonies. Huell Melon, Motueka, Citra & Rakau hops swim together in rainbows of citrus, strawberry & orchard fruits.  You can even share it with your pony, Brony. But you'll probably have to help it drink it. Because ponies don't have hands.

Annie Johnson’s top pick in the category:  

Most likely to get stuck in your straw (a.k.a. thickest)

To learn more about the winners and maybe purchase a few for your own private judgement, visit landing.tavour.com/blind-tasting.

from Northwest Beer Guide - News - The Northwest Beer Guide http://bit.ly/2TjZ7nB

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Sophie Thatcher for Thrillist Magazine

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Reporters discover Erotic Hypnosis

Every so often, reporters will discover erotic hypnosis and do a piece.  I have a folder of ‘em.  I am not including podcasts or blog posts in this, it’s pure old-school media.

You’re not going to find a whole bunch of depth here, but isn’t it nice to see all these reporters actually liked it once they got past talking about how strange it is?

I Tried Erotic Hypnosis and Liked it, I Think, Vice Magazine

What is Erotic Hypnosis? It's A Way To Have An Orgasm Without Touch, And You Could Learn A Lot From The Practice, Bustle

This hypnosis video promises hands-free orgasms, and by god, it kind of works, Rooster

I Got My Brain Fried By an Erotic Hypnotist, Thrillist

An Erotic Hypnotist Can Make You Orgasm Just by Touching Your Wrist, also by Thrillist

Talking to people that like to be hypnotised for sex, Dazed

Erotic Hypnosis Gave Me the Most Intense Orgasm of My Life, Vice

Dominated by a Goddess: Hypnodommes and the Aural World of Erotic Hypnosis, Vice again

5 Surprising Things You Learn About Sex As A Hypnotist, Cracked (by an erotic hypnotist, so not inline with others)

You are Getting Horny, Adventures in Erotic Hypnosis by the Observer

Inside the underground world of erotic hypnotism by the Tab.

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Defending the Duke: David Bowie’s “problematic” actions debunked

You’d think that after two years people would have figured it out by now, and yet here we are. Alright let’s get started.

“David Bowie was a sexual predator.”

TW: CSA, statutory rape, rape

This claim originated from an interview with former groupie Lori Mattix of the “Baby Groupie” scene of the 1970s that was republished on The Thrillist the day after David’s death, where she claimed she lost her virginity to him in 1973 when she was 15 years old and he was 26. Additionally, she claimed that she kept seeing him over ten years, however this causes a problem with consistency because David’s personal life was scrutinized more than the average rock star (most likely because of him coming out as bisexual), and the two were never photographed together unlike Mattix’s relationships with other rock stars during the 1970s. More problems with the consistency of her claims include that in some interviews she said she lost her virginity to David and in others she said she had her first time with Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, and certain circumstances that contradict her side of the story (or stories).

For example, in an 1985 interview with Stephen Davis, she stated that she had her first time with Jimmy Page in 1972 while the band was in California for their summer tour. She later said that she was having sex with David before Page. This provides an inconsistency because David’s Ziggy Stardust tour came to California in October 1972, months after Led Zeppelin’s summer tour. In a later interview, which was made available online in 2009, she said she was a virgin when she met Page.

In an 1986 interview with Peter Gillman, she said that while eating at the Rainbow Bar in March 1973 with her friend and fellow groupie, the late Sable Starr, David spotted her and got his bodyguard to invite her to his suite, and she accepted. She said they had sex for five or six hours and she convinced him to let Starr join them, and all fell asleep afterwards, and the two snuck out before David’s then-wife Angie would arrive. In a different interview with Paul Trynka however, she said that in October 1972 she and Starr snuck into his Beverly Hilton suite and convinced a tired David to sleep with them before they snuck out without being seen.

In the Thrillist interview, Mattix said David approached her in October 1972, but she rejected him. When he came back in March 1973, he called her and invited her to dinner. John Lennon and Yoko Ono joined them for dinner before she and David left for his Beverly Hilton suite, they and Sable Starr had a threesome, and Angie walked in on them the next morning. In addition to her earlier interviews contradicting this so-called recollection, David didn’t meet Lennon until September 1974 when they were introduced to each other by Elizabeth Taylor at one of her parties.  And David stayed at the Hyatt hotel in March 1973, not the Beverly Hilton.

In the same interview, she said she attended a recording session in 1975 when she was 17, where John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Mick Jagger, and a bunch of other artists were there, and she slept with Jagger after the session wrapped up. Another inconsistency with this is that the only time Lennon and McCartney jammed together after the Beatles broke up was the year before, in march 1974. Not only that, there is no evidence to suggest that Jagger was at that session in 1975.

Mattix’s claims were further contradicted by Pamela Des Barnes, another former groupie who was in her 20s during the 1970s (one year younger than David), in her memoir, I’m with the Band. Des Barnes was in a relationship with Jimmy Page by 1972, however she ended their relationship and moved in with Frank and Gail Zappa and worked for them as a nanny in February 1972,  because he was sleeping with Mattix and leaving Des Barnes in the dust. The breakup and move happened a month before David’s tour came to Long Beach, when Mattix claims she lost her virginity to him.

(Additionally, along with changing her story about it many times including how old she was when it happened, she said once how she met him in LA in 1973 five months beforehand, but the his tour didn’t have a stop in California at that point, and the last time he really visited LA at that point was 1972.  She said it happened at the Beverly Hilton in 1973, but the only time he is photographed there is in 1972.)

Sources: X X 

In 1987, he was falsely accused of rape by 30 year-old Wanda Nichols who claimed he exposed her to AIDS. They were both tested and both their results were negative. He was cleared of the charges. (x) (x)

Not to mention that this kind of behavior sounds completely out of his character. On one of his later tours, he threatened to fire his drummer for directing teenage girls to his hotel room (x), according to one of the commentaries of the 1986 Jim Henson film Labyrinth, a kiss scene was originally written but he refused to do it because his co-star Jennifer Connelly was 14 at the time (x), and when he was in the band Tin Machine he wrote the song “Shopping for Girls” which is about and brings awareness to child prostitution in Thailand (x).

Now with that said, this isn’t to say that the “Baby Groupie” scene never happened. Although Mattix obviously lied about him, there are perverts in the rock music industry like Kim Fowley and Gary Glitter, and the whole Baby Groupie scene and the idea of teens having sex with adults were being encouraged in the 70s, according to the June 1973 issue (pages 59–61) of Star Magazine 

and this quiz in the March 1973 issue (pages 62–63) of Star to see if you have what it takes to make an older guy like you.

They were encouraging these young girls to go out, dress up and wear makeup to make themselves look older, act older by smoking and drinking, carry fake IDs, and lie about their ages. Even though I don’t trust her word, I do feel really sorry for her for being manipulated by disgusting men and bad influences in the 70s into thinking this was okay. It’s especially horrid once you consider how rape culture was at a high point in the 70′s and how a lot of disgusting things were being romanticized and encouraged.

(The Runaways promotional poster from the 70s with bodice,  ass and crotch shots of the then teenage girls and  a then 24 year old Tony Parsons calling them nymphets and saying the “young and extremely horny teenage females was a bonus”)

(Love’s Baby Soft Perfume ad from 1975)

Disgusting. Moving on.

“David Bowie was a racist and a n@zi sympathizer.”

This claim came from Bowie’s comments in 1976 under his persona the Thin White Duke that supposedly supported fascism. However, at this time his diet consisted only of milk, red peppers and cocaine, and he really was out of his mind at that time because he was at the height of his cocaine addiction, when he was convinced Jimmy Page was trying to steal his soul, that witches were trying to steal his semen, and wanted an exorcism done on his swimming pool because he believed Satan lived in it. When he was getting clean and coming back to his senses, he became horrified and disgusted of how his image was being used by neo-nazis.  With all that crazy shit and more, do you honestly think he meant all the garbage he said? He was so out of it, he barely had any recollection of recording the album for Christ’s sake. Also, around this time he was photographed supposedly giving a n*zi salute but he was really just waving hello to his fans.��He retracted and apologized for his statements in a 1977 interview for Melody Maker and later called the Duke an “ogre,” and again looked back at that period with unkind words in 1983. 

Additionally, while making his blue-eyed soul album Young Americans, he gave credit to where credit was due, saying, “It’s the squashed remains of ethnic music as it survives in the age of Muzak rock, written and sung by a white limey,” and collaborating with Ava Cherry, Luther Vandross, and Carlos Alormar to give the album an authentic soul sound. (x) (x) He also encouraged Nina Simone to continue performing, and a huge supporter of Tina Turner’s career. (x)

David wrote many songs and videos with anti-nazi and anti-racism themes. The “China Girl” video serves to parody Asian female stereotypes as well as to protest colonization by making the lyrics in the POV of a colonizer to show how fucked up the mindset is, and the video, as well as the Let’s Dance video, were made as statements against racism. The Let’s Dance video in particular was very influential in Australia. David even openly criticized MTV for not playing videos from black artists. The first Tin Machine album had a direct anti-fascism and anti-neo n*zi stance. He continued to protest racism throughout his career. 

And also marrying Iman. Yes, yes I know. It’s true that many white celebrities who enter relationships with black partners often do it either as a front or to satisfy some eldritch fetish, and usually try to start relationships with black people who are either naive or ignorant (like, “my black boyfriend said it’s okay” and shit like that). *cough cough* K*rdashians *cough cough* But here’s the thing, this is Iman Abdulmajid we’re talking about here. This is the same woman who started her own cosmetic company for women of color, protested the lack of black models on runways with Naomi Campbell and Bethann Hardison, and supports many charities and human rights causes. Just take a look at her Twitter page. She is absolutely not ignorant or naive. She and David worked on many charitable activities and events together, including her I Am African campaign.

And I know what you’re thinking, he could have used his charity support for publicity or as a front like many celebrities in the past. *cough cough Sp*cey, W*instein, H*ffman *cough cough* But when Iman was given a Voice Award at the Save The Child’s Illumination Gala in 2016, she dedicated the award to him, saying “David was also a staunch supporter of human rights and devoted an innumerable amount of time and resources, which he chose to do anonymously. [...] I share this award with him, knowing that the fire in him lit the fire in me, and vice versa. [...] Good partnerships have a habit of doing that.” 

And finally,

“David Bowie was never bisexual.”

(X)

Okay, but let’s talk serious. This claim is more specifically saying he used bisexuality as shock value and he isn’t a good icon for the LGBT community. In 1983 he called his coming out a “mistake,”said he was only experimenting, and called himself a “closet heterosexual,” in 1993. However, there are things to heavily consider. In the 1980s he was going through a depressive period in his life with alcohol problems. In addition, he felt that his sexuality overshadowed his music in America and and wanted to change his image to appeal to a more mainstream audience (to make his career survive during that time when homophobia was on the rise so he had to shield himself; may I remind you of when he was falsely accused of giving Wanda Nichols AIDS, not to mention dealing with ignorant interviewers acting so clueless over such a simple concept). In 1993, Tin Machine failed to revive his career after the critical failures of his last two solo albums of the late 1980s, of course those problems continued. And if you think I’m reaching, take a look at what he said in an interview for Blender in 2002.

You once said that saying you were bisexual was "the biggest mistake I ever made." Do you still believe that? WHOODAAMANN, SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA

Interesting. [Long pause] I don't think it was a mistake in Europe, but it was a lot tougher in America. I had no problem with people knowing I was bisexual. But I had no inclination to hold any banners or be a representative of any group of people. I knew what I wanted to be, which was a songwriter and a performer, and I felt that [bisexuality] became my headline over here for so long. America is a very puritanical place, and I think it stood in the way of so much I wanted to do. (x) 

And it’s not like his impact on the LGBT+ community is nonexistent.

He was bi and a damned good LGBT icon.

And with that said, just because his most high-profile relationships were with women that doesn’t mean he wasn’t bi. A bi person can have a preference towards one sex or gender but that does not in any way diminish their attraction to the other sex or genders. There are plenty of examples of bisexual people who enter monogamous relationships with people of the opposite sex. That doesn’t make them any less bi.

Reflections & Conclusion

One of the biggest problems I see when the Bowie/Classic rock fandom talk about this is how they completely derail the conversation to how “feminism and sjw culture is toxic and spreads lies” and other dumb shit like that. You can’t blame an entire movement for trouble caused by a few assholes on a site like this. This is Tumblr, remember? You can’t expect people to be perfect to know everything about everyone famous. Newsflash: I’ve made mistakes too. There are many more people who make up for their mistakes than you give credit for. It should only be a real problem if they refuse to believe you or ignore you after you give them solid corrections. Chances are the people like that have generally shitty views or have something to hide (like every TERF blog on here). It also upsets me when people, who I will not name (you know who you are) defend him by slut-shaming Lori Mattix or the other groupies (I won’t say why, I hope you can figure that out for yourselves). 

So in conclusion, don’t believe everything you read, be patient with people but don’t take shit from anyone, don’t use people screwing up as an excuse to spread your own ignorance, stay away from books written about David by Lesley-Ann Jones, Dylan Jones, and “Backstage Passes” by Angie Bowie, and if you have written a callout post about David Bowie, don’t ever fucking do that shit again. Have a nice day.  

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Famous Muses & Groupies in Rock Music Pt. 3

GROUPIE: Lori Mattix/Maddox (modeling name Lori Lightning)

Researching this woman is honestly such a headache that I almost wasn’t even sure where to start….So I guess we’ll begin with everything we know to be definite fact. Lori was born on November 11th, 1958, and raised in Los Angeles with her single mother and three sisters. By the time Lori was in middle school, her mom (supposedly a talent agent or a waitress depending on the source) started signing Lori up for photoshoots in music magazines like Creem and Star (a vintage groupie rag, not the modern tabloid). In these photos, Lori was usually posing in skimpy outfits with fellow teen models and friends Sable Starr, Shray Mecham and Karen Umphrey to appeal to the rock music scene. From these modeling gigs and her friendships with baby groupies Sable and Queenie Glam, Lori very quickly spent nearly all her free time at clubs on the Sunset Strip from about 1972-75. She’s possibly the most profiled and interviewed baby groupie from back then, and still lives in LA running her own clothing boutique when she isn’t glamorizing her groupie days as ‘the best time ever’ or whatever.

[Note: this entry ended up three pages long….Good luck following this mess]

Besides this, everything regarding Lori’s reputation as a teen rock groupie gets very muddled and confusing. During an interview in 1985 with writer Stephen Davis for the sensationalist Led Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods, Lori states that she was with Jimmy Page from 1972 to ’75 and he was the only rockstar she was involved with. But in Pamela des Barres’ 2007 groupie compilation Let’s Spend the Night Together, Lori claims she lost her virginity to David Bowie and Sable in a threesome before she met Jimmy, and that she hooked up with a ton of musicians. In the 2010 filmed version of Pamela’s book, Lori makes no mention of Sable being involved in her alleged incident with Bowie. In the 2004 documentary A to Zeppelin, Lori sloppily says she was “a vir—I mean come on, I was like a baby then,” when she met Jimmy. In a 2015 interview with the publication Thrillist, Lori claims she originally turned down Bowie after he propositioned her and didn’t sleep with him until 1973, even though she occasionally suggested that the incident was more likely to be late 1971 or early 1972. She also claims in this article that she continued to keep in touch with Bowie intimately for the rest of the decade, when previously she suggested it was only a one-night stand.

The people over at Medium penned a rather informative expose in 2016 on how inaccurate her stories are on her alleged hook-up with Bowie based on date history. Though it should be noted the piece doesn’t include that in the 1997 punk scene biography Please Kill Me, Sable participated in a rare interview where she revealed she and Lori did meet Bowie in 1973. But Lori got cold feet at the last minute, and only Sable ended up fooling around with the musician. The journalist of the Medium article also gives Lori a little too much credit on the legitimacy of her affiliation with Jimmy Page, as there are a lot of contradictions there too.

As has been reported by multiple sources, Jimmy infamously left his main US groupie Pamela des Barres for Lori while the three of them were partying on the Strip when Zeppelin was in Hollywood. Pamela usually says this happened at the Whisky a Go-Go in either 1972 or 1973. There is photographic proof of Jimmy, Pamela and Lori together at the English Disco that was originally credited on Getty Images as John Bonham’s 24th birthday party on May 31st, 1972. But the only problem is that the band was not in California the week of his birthday, and only played in the state for the last week of June. Zeppelin was however in Los Angeles on his birthday the following year, and the band’s hair and wardrobe in the party pictures match closer to how they looked in summer ’73 rather than ’72. The incident also seems more likely to have happened in ’73 as Lori was Jimmy’s date to a press event at the Continental Hyatt House sometime in June 1973. Both Jimmy’s and Lori’s hairstyles there are identical to how they looked in the English Disco photos as well.

On the 2007 DVD Way Down Inside, Lori says she first met Jimmy randomly at a pool party on the roof of the Hyatt House. In the Let’s Spend the Night Together documentary, she says she met him backstage at the Hollywood Palladium. In the book version and in Thrillist, she claims he personally called her house to introduce himself—but in LSTNT she says they first physically met clubbing at the Whisky before hopping over to the Hyatt House, while in the 2015 interview she says she met him in person at the Hyatt House and then they left to party at the Rainbow. In A to Zeppelin, she claims that Jimmy contacted publicist Lee Childers to set up a date for her to meet the band after he saw one of her photoshoots, rather than call her personally. On Instagram, Lori posted one of the photos of herself with Jimmy and Pamela at the English Disco with a caption stating that was the night she was introduced to Jimmy. If the two did meet backstage, it would have had to have been on either May 31st or June 3rd, 1973 when the band played the LA Forum, as LZ never performed at the Palladium. If he did set up a supposed date, it was probably the night he dumped Pamela. The pool party claim would also make sense, as the week Jimmy and Lori met, the infamous episode where Bonzo threw George and Pattie Harrison into a pool during his birthday party also happened. Except apparently this party was in Laurel Canyon, not at the Hyatt House, and Lori has never been name dropped in retellings of that story.

Besides the month of June in 1973, the only other confirmed time Jimmy and Lori were together is the week of May 10th, 1974, when Jimmy ditched her at the Swan Song label opening party in LA for older groupie Bebe Buell. Bebe went into detail in her 2001 memoir Rebel Heart, of how Lori became hysterical when she realized Jimmy was leaving her for Bebe. The model recalled Lori jumping her and wildly pulling her hair in anger at Bebe ‘stealing’ Jimmy from Lori. Lori conveniently leaves this accusation out when she talks about the break-up. So this is about four to five weeks in Los Angeles when Lori could have socialized with Jimmy, and quite possibly the only times they saw each other in 11 months.

In Hammer of the Gods, Lori asserts she was secretly on tour with the band for two years. Except that between June 1973 and May 1974, the band was only on tour for a month in July. In the novelized Let’s Spend the Night Together, she insists Jimmy arranged to have her visit him in NYC whenever he wasn’t in LA. Lori would eventually completely backtrack ever traveling as a teen and claim she only saw Jimmy when the band was in LA. In the Thrillist piece, she claims that they would travel back to Hollywood after every show and spent the whole summer of 1973 in the city. Not only did the band reportedly spend the last week of touring staying at NYC’s Drake Hotel, but journalist Lisa Robinson tagged along on this tour, and remembers LZ spending nights in a lot of major US cities. Lori’s also infamously said numerous times that she had to be kept locked up (either on tour or in his LA hotel room depending on the interview) while she was with Jimmy because she was underage. Seeing as how there are three different sets of famous party pictures of the pair posing together, taken by professional photographers and originally published the years they were shot, that doesn’t make much sense.

In both Hammer of the Gods and Way Down Inside, Lori says she was kidnapped by LZ roadie Richard Cole, who allegedly yelled at her to get into his car before taking her to Jimmy’s hotel room. In the Thrillist piece, she says Zeppelin manager Peter Grant was the kidnapper and he tossed her into their limo. In a Q&A Lori participated in after the premiere of Let’s Spend the Night Together in 2010, she suggests Jimmy himself kidnapped her. (In the same Q&A, Lori also says that Jimmy broke up with her when she was ‘16’ right after the FBI got involved with the band’s hotel safe theft in NYC. But this obviously isn’t true, as the FBI incident was only two months after she met Jimmy in 1973.) In A to Zeppelin, she makes no mention of any kidnapping and says she just followed him back to his room. Lori has also continually asserted that she and Jimmy spent the rest of the night in his room ~falling madly in love.~ 🙄

Lori says in the Thrillist piece that she had to hide when Zeppelin went back to LA after the FBI got involved in a theft from the band’s hotel safe in NYC at the end of July 1973. In Let’s Spend the Night Together, she erroneously states that the theft happened in 1975, right after she was flown out to visit Jimmy, and then quickly forced to go back home. But many biographies, including A to Zeppelin, report that the band just went back to England after the FBI episode without any mention of Lori. There are photos of Lori partying with musicians after the theft, but most of them are with Iggy Pop and the New York Dolls in LA.

It is also interesting to note that of all the pictures of Lori with musicians from 1973-75, the rockstar she was photographed with the most is Sylvain Sylvain of the NY Dolls. The two of them are even featured in the documentary All Dolled Up (2005) partaking in PDA in vintage 1973 footage. But funny enough, she’s never talked about Sylvain in interviews. Probably because all the photos and footage of them together were at the same time frame she knew Jimmy, and that disputes her story of how she and Jimmy were committed to each other the whole time they were together.

Other things that are likely fake/made up by Lori:

In most interviews, Lori claims that her mom gave Jimmy her blessing to go out with her teenage daughter because he didn’t have a criminal record and ‘wasn’t a terrorist.’ I mean…I guess this could be true, but it has to be the worst excuse I’ve ever heard of a parent letting her 14-year-old child date a man pushing 30.

In the Let’s Spend the Night Together book, Lori has a story of how Jimmy once saw her smoking a cigarette, then forced her to smoke a whole pack, and that made her never smoke again. Three months after Jimmy dumped Lori, she was photographed smoking at Keith Moon’s 28th birthday party, as well as in a personal picture from the early 1980s.

Lori likes to brag about how Robert Plant and Jimmy would dedicate concerts to her while she was with Jimmy, but within the 11 months they were familiar with each other, there were only two shows in LA. Both at the Forum on May 31st and June 3rd, and neither known bootleg recordings of either show feature any shout outs to her.

Lori has gone as far as to say that when she was in LA and Jimmy was back in the UK, he would call or write her every day. Seeing as how in 1973-74, Jimmy was in another country writing, recording and producing songs on the album ‘Physical Graffiti;’ living with model Charlotte Martin and their daughter Scarlet; and having an additional affair with Krissy Wood, he might have been a bit too busy to include some teen halfway across the world. Lori also claims that Jimmy had to choose Charlotte over her because they had a toddler together, and that he would be a jerk to Charlotte to prove he loved Lori. (Never mind the fact that Lori simultaneously calls Jimmy the ‘sweetest’ man ever.)

Some articles and blog posts state Lori and Jimmy got back together for a while in the ‘80s, but this conflicts with Jimmy’s own relationship history as there were only two years in between his separation from Charlotte in 1983 and the meeting of his first wife Patricia Ecker in 1985. On top of that, whenever he would visit the US in the ‘80s when he wasn’t with Charlotte or Patricia, he was usually with a photographer named Ashley Hamm. (Could this man be anymore promiscuous.) A few times, including in Thrillist, Lori has said she still keeps in touch with Jimmy. Yet he has never mentioned her publicly and there have never been any personal photos of them together, such as on Lori’s social media, where she’s posted photos of herself reuniting with Pamela, Rodney Bingenheimer, Robert and Sylvain in modern times.

A lot of LZ books and posts state that the song ‘Sick Again’ is about Lori and her fellow baby groupie friends. This…actually is true, but the tone of the lyrics is intentionally sarcastic as Robert was known to be one of the few rockstars that era not interested in teen girls. He even said in a 1975 Rolling Stone interview that he felt sorry for the Star girls revolving their lives around how many celebrities they could meet.

TL;DR: Lori was a real, legit groupie in the mid-1970s. There are enough pictures of her with dozens of celebs and other groupies to vouch for that. Feel free to judge these adult men for getting involved with teenagers, they mostly deserve it. But it’s also pretty obvious this woman was not in serious, long-lasting, or romantic relationships with any of these rockstars and just likes being famous, no matter what context. (And she is a terrible, terrible storyteller).

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Half Acre’s Far and Away Invitational is the City’s New Top Tier Beer Event

Half Acre’s Far and Away Invitational breathed a bit of life back into Chicago’s otherwise stale beer festival calendar this weekend.

Chicago can claim more than a few fun annual events and one world class barrel-aged beer festival, but for the most part, the tentpole gatherings have a heritage that stretches back a decade or more. So when Half Acre announced plans to host an invitational festival with a drop-the-mic lineup of brewers, I had a hunch we were looking at something really special.

The Half Acre team confirmed my beliefs this Saturday afternoon and evening with a lights-out array of some of the best breweries in the nation, pouring nothing but their finest beers for a crowd of very appreciative beer fans. At a couple points during the afternoon I was asked “what has your favorite beer been so far” and rather than recount basically everything I’d sampled up until that point, I remarked that it’d be easier to list the beers I hadn’t liked — because there were none.

Starting with an easily-accessible downtown location, Far and Away gave beer fans a wonderful place to indulge. The weather cooperated as well as you could ask for in mid-October in Chicago and while the layout favored the breweries on the outer ring (I was a half-hour into the fest when I realized there were breweries pouring at the center as well; that’s what I get for not bothering to look at the map) everyone kept moving and very few lines lasted more than a few minutes.

I dug that every brewery got a cool carved wooden sign from the Half Acre Build Co. which helped tie together the feel of everyone being here for a reason — that reason being that Half Acre wanted them there. Bringing in brewers from out of town that never distribute here is a legit pain in the ass — a fact we learned during the years we held our South of 80 event — so the array of beers from both coasts and all points between is an indulgence that isn’t lost on me.

No doubt, nearly $90 for a ticket is a steep price — Far and Away’s first outing was more expensive than a FoBAB pass or a GABF session ticket, for example — but nothing’s worth more to beer fans than being able to get something that they couldn’t have otherwise. A few of these brewers are regularly available in Chicago — this may have been the first fest I’ve been to where Three Floyds was almost an afterthought — but most were in town just for the weekend, and having them pouring in Chicago’s Front Yard is a rare privilege. That’s definitely a value that you don’t get at things like FoBAB or Beer Under Glass.

It was also wonderful to be at a festival where the quality:dollar ratio was skewed to the “ridiculously favorable” side. At the festivals I just mentioned you’re probably going to taste a lot of average beer. The brewers at F&A, clearly out to impress, all brought out some heavy hitters and I didn’t find a dud in the bunch. The list skewed heavy on strong stouts and big sours, hefty hazy IPAs and non-hazy IPAs (and a smattering of pilsners just for variety). The relatively limited number of breweries meant that you had a chance at trying something from nearly everyone, as opposed to the fests where you’re only going to get to try a slice of the pie.

Far and Away wasn’t trying to be the biggest festival. It wasn’t trying to be the craziest, most extreme festival. It was meant to be a nice day in downtown Chicago having beers with friends. It just so happens that many of those friends make some of the most sought-after beers in the nation.

Also: I’m so glad to take home a glass that isn’t a tiny little 2oz. taster pour. Thanks for the rad highball glass, Half Acre. This one’s going to get regular usage at home.

Far and Away Highlights:

Other than pretty much everything, you mean? Here’s some of the beers that I really loved and was glad to have available:

Green Cheek‘s West Coast IPA is Dead was one of the first beers I tried and the aroma was just massive — a wonderful beer that took Bronze in the IPA category at this year’s GABF.

Just steps from Green Cheek was Alvarado Street who came heavy with some 2018 GABF medals of their own — the Mai Tai IPA was fun but their Contains No Juice hazy DIPA was the business.

Do you think an imperial stout collaboration between Colorado darling WeldWerks and Chicago darling Mikerphone was probably pretty good? Yeah, that Sweet Disposition was pretty damn good. Silky smooth, super rich and sweet.

Though lines for Monkish and Side Project dominated much of the festival, if you checked out some of the more “sleeper” selections you weren’t going to be disappointed either. Columbus Brewing has been making great beer for years (we loved their flagship IPA enough to mention it on our first trip to Cleveland) and their Bodhi DIPA was no exception. Bright, fairly lightbodied for easy drinking and refreshing for a hefty beer.

A collaboration between Jester King + Scratch Brewing is almost guaranteed to top my must-have list and their spontaneously-fermented Abscission was as wonderfully fun and complex as I wanted it to be. I made a point to try the 100% spontaneously fermented Tender Buttons from New Jersey’s The Referend Bier Blendery which was also rich, fruity, tart and funky. I’m pretty sure I really liked Fonta Flora‘s Scuppadine wild ale too. That was a late pour for me and my palate was a bit … spent, shall we say, so here’s a pretty picture of their pour setup:

I always make it a point to track down the real outliers at a fest and Superstition Meadery sure counts as a weirdo at a beer fest. That said, both of the options I tried were choice; the bourbon-barrel aged Amante with coffee, cinnamon, hatch chiles and cacao was like no other mead I’ve ever tried (and the all-berries Cherion was delightful as well).

Were there pastry stouts there? Oh, yes, there were — and I can appreciate a well-crafted one. The Rice Proxi Treats, a collab between Other Half and Angry Chair with toasted rice, marshmallow and cacao lived up to the rice krispie promise. Cinnamon was a big flavor on Saturday — the Vanilla Sunday Brunch from Kane Brewing (whose beers I discovered at this year’s GABF just weeks prior) was very lightbodied for an imperial porter with vanilla, coffee cinnamon, maple syrup. Very well balanced, very tasty.

Wiseacre‘s Astronaut Status was also delicious, barrel-aged in Woodford Reserve oak with cinnamon and vanilla. Fremont Brewing’s Rusty Nail promised cinnamon and licorice and followed through on the cinnamon part mostly, which is good for them because I don’t love licorice in my beers. (Their fresh-hopped offering was also pretty delicious.) Finally, Jackie O’s Oil of Aphrodite felt old-school for just being aged in apple brandy barrels and brewed with walnuts. No cake! Shocking.

Even the stuff that could be considered more mainstream was great — TRVE’s mixed culture pale ale took a style that is usually pretty middle of the road and added layers of depth and complexity that was noticeable even after a couple hours of sampling. Similarly, Burial‘s fresh-hop pilsner allowed a ribbon of bright dank hop flavor to really sing through in a way that I didn’t get from basically anything else on hand all day.

So, yeah, Far and Away was fun. More than just being fun, though, it felt important. I felt like I walked away having learned something new about beers from around the nation and lucky to have done so. That’s a thing that you can rarely say for a beer festival these days.

Thanks for bringing us out, Half Acre. See you next year for sure. We hope.

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Karl has written about food, travel and beer for Chicago Magazine, Draft Magazine, Thrillist, Time Out Chicago and more. His book, Beer Lovers Chicago, is now available via Amazon and other booksellers. If you're buying, he's likely having a porter or a pale ale.

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