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Washingtonpost.com: Anyone Can Play

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After Japan's Bubble Burst, Golf Became More Populist (Brian Cronin - For The Washington Post) By Kevin Sullivan Washington Post Staff Sunday, May 23, 1999 The cigarette lighter costs $4,200. It is 14-karat gold, bears the Hourin Country Club logo and is offered alongside golf balls, tees and towels in the pro shop display case. The Hourin-logo gold belt buckle goes for $2,200, and the Hourin lamp is $6,600. Read More...

When ice cream meets booze, what could go wrong?

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New York City gave us the Manhattan. Florence gave us the Negroni. Santiago de Cuba gave us the daiquiri. Into such hallowed geographies of mixological offerings, Milwaukee bears its own: the Pink Squirrel. Make recipe: From North to South by Way of East Don’t call animal control just yet. It’s the tail end of summer, after all. Give the rosy rodent a chance. This is the season for blissful bites of frozen desserts and the agony of brain freeze, for sitting on porches and soaking up the sun, for ordering a two-scoop cone and mastering that particular rotational thumb-wrist-tongue pivot by which the human animal prevents a tower of melting sweetness from rivuleting down its arm. Read More...