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Feb. 13—This Valentine’s Day Buckeye Vodka is unveiling two cocktail recipes that are perfect for enjoying with your significant other.

From a rich and indulgent Cherry Chocolate Espresso Martini to a fiery Firebomb shot, these two concoctions are set to deliver warmth and pleasure from within.

Cherry Chocolate Espresso Martini

Components:

2 oz. Buckeye Vodka

2 oz. Kahlua

2 oz. Espresso

Pink sugar

Melted chocolate

Cherries for garnish

Directions: Add all ingredients into a shaker filled with ice. Rim glass with melted chocolate and pink sugar. Shake it up and strain into a martini glass. Skewer cherries and garnish.

Buckeye Firebomb

Ingredients:

—2 oz Buckeye Vodka

—4 oz Orange juice

—3 oz Maraschino cherry juice

2 dashes of your favorite hot sauce

Cherry jam

Tajín

Pink sanding sugar

Directions: Rim four shot glasses with cherry jam, Tajín and sanding sugar. Add a maraschino cherry to each shot glass. Combine all ingredients with ice into a shaker, and mix. Pour into shot glasses and enjoy!

Buckeye Vodka is an Ohio made vodka that is distilled 10 times — giving a smooth taste that mixes perfectly with any cocktail.

The company is celebrating Valentine’s Day with giveaways on their TikTok page. All you have to do is answer a trivia question for a chance to win a Buckeye Vodka prize pack including a $50 gift card for a dinner for two at one of Buckeye Vodka’s restaurant partners.

For more information about Buckeye Vodka, visit www.buckeyevodka.com.

While a big winter storm is hitting the northeast, you don’t have to be experiencing a snow day to enjoy this storm cloud of a cocktail. A Dark ’n Stormy is an easy drink to make (and worth putting your winter boots on to go get the ingredients if you don’t already have them).

Get a tropical vibe even if you’re snowed in with a Dark ‘n Stormy cocktail.

The Dark ’n Stormy was born in Bermuda and features Goslings dark rum floating on top of spicy ginger beer. Visually, it looks like a looming storm cloud, and it’s similar to a Moscow Mule, except with rum instead of vodka. The addition of lime gives it a bit of tartness and cuts the sugar of the ginger beer.

Fun fact: the Dark ’n Stormy is actually a trademarked cocktail by Goslings and must contain Goslings Black Seal Rum in order to be called one. According to Goslings, their flagship Black Seal Rum has become synonymous with Bermuda. You can find it in Bermuda fish chowder, in a Bermuda Rum Swizzle and of course as an essential ingredient in the Dark ’n Stormy.

If you can find it, Goslings Black Seal Rum Artist Edition is a beautiful bottle featuring a colorful collage. Created in collaboration with Bermuda artists Nhuri Bashir and Domico Watson it features icons pulled directly from vintage Goslings ads and bottle labels. (Very cool!)

Goslings Black Seal Rum Artist Edition

Ready to make a Dark ’n Stormy? Here’s what you need:

Have you tried making a Dark ’n Stormy? Let me know how it came out in the comments!

By

Karen Bliss

Canadian superstar singer Michael Bublé thinks he has a global smash on his hands with “Spicy Margarita,” his collaboration with Jason Derulo. The pair performed the Latin-flavoured banger together last week on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and recently shared their mutual respect by getting tattoos of the other — Derulo got a Bublé face on his neck and Bublé the word “DARULO” across his forehead. “You spelled it wrong!” a mock-disappointed Derulo declares in the comedic clip as their single plays in the background.

The song samples Bublé’s cover of “Sway,” made famous by Dean Martin, which the crooner covered on his 2001 debut jazz album, “BaBalu,” and appears on appears on Derulo’s guest-packed collab album, “Nu King,” out Feb. 16.

Continuing the alcohol theme, Bublé teamed with Master distiller and blender Paul Cirka to create his own brand of hard liquor, Fraser and Thompson Whiskey, named after the two rivers in his native British Columbia where he spent time as a kid with his beloved grandfather, the man he credits for introducing him to jazz and swing standards. The spirit is a blend of 8% Kentucky bourbon and 92% Canadian whisky [believe it or not, the spelling of whisky or whiskey depends on where the whisky or whiskey in question was made — ed.].

No ragrets. Drink responsibly. #spicymargarita pic.twitter.com/OwgqQumsZK

But Bublé was also involved in an accidental incident involving a different substance, mushrooms. Earlier this month, while in Toronto for the NHL All Star Game weekend — co-captaining Team Hughes with Vancouver Canucks’ Quinn Hughes — he found himself a global headline after a joke he made to a roomful of sports reporters was taken seriously.

“My buddy told me, ‘This is just a microdose of mushrooms’ and he was lying,” he quipped, sitting next to fellow celebrity captain, actor Will Arnett. “So, I’ll be honest, I thought I was in ‘Blades of Glory’ for most of the time that I was out there, until it sort of settled down. And then I realized, ‘Holy shit. I am at the NHL All-Star Game!’”

As he soon found out, the joke went over many people’s heads.

The singer and owner of his own junior hockey team, the Vancouver Giants, spoke with Variety discussing topics including going viral, creating a hit song with Derulo, his endeavor to create a female-centric whiskey brand, his enthusiasm for the Professional Women’s Hockey League, and what the future holds.

Am I addressing the viral sensation, Michael Bublé? You created quite a buzz with your comment about mushrooms. Yes, I did cause some stir! In my view, I am genuinely living my best life.

We may need to donate your brain to science. I’m carefree and just living in the moment, and having an amazing time. I guess the sports media wasn’t ready for that. They were probably expecting generic responses, like “I’ll do my best to show up and give 99%.”

Let’s discuss another topic: Your whiskey brand. I don’t usually drink whiskey, but I think I’d try an alcoholic beverage from your Bubly brand. Are you abstaining completely from alcohol, or just whiskey?

I need a wimpy whiskey.

Can I tell you something? Honestly, you need to be prepared to start liking whiskey because I made a whiskey for you — I’m not kidding. When we designed this, it was [intended] for people who don’t really love whiskey. It’s really smooth and it has a nice sweetness at the end. And the truth is, my wife would tell me the same thing: “Mike, I don’t like it. It’s too strong. It’s harsh.” And then I made her first Old Fashioned for her and she went nuts. By the way, I made it with Bubly. I put a bunch of orange Bubly, a little bit of brown sugar, a little bit of bitters and I smash a little orange peel and mixed it up. It is so yummy. You might like that.

It sounds like I would, actually. I’m reading the description of it: “Offers delicate aromas with hints of fig, blood orange and vanilla. The palate is smooth and creamy with rich, complex flavours of caramel, sweet vanilla, light oak and a hint of spice.” You can smell all those things? Fig? Blood orange?
We literally spent three years reverse engineering a whiskey for people that don’t like whiskey — that was the thing. Listen, we understand what the whiskey connoisseurs want and I get what a $2,000 Pappy Van Winkle tastes like, but that’s not what we were doing. We wanted to make a really approachable whiskey at an affordable price [$29.99 U.S.]. I kept asking my partners, “What is the goal?,” and they kept saying, “We want something that tastes amazing, that gives people value for flavor.” I’m telling you, this is gonna work for me because I stayed out of their way enough — I did not mess with them [laughs] as we were actually making this. And, one of our real honest [goals] was hoping to make something that women liked.

You’re cheating on your whiskey with the margarita. How did Jason Derulo end up contacting you and what was your idea was for “Spicy Margarita”?
It was really organic, to be honest. I’ve known Jason for 13, 14 years. I always liked what he did — I think I had a bigger impact on him, probably, because I’m a little older. I think he actually thought about becoming a jazz singer as a younger guy. And I’ve always wanted to take the love and reverence I have for the great American songbook to jazz. I knew this was the root of modern music; I knew that this is where rap, R&B, pop, hip-hop all comes from. So I know that if you take care of it, you can mash these things up and they can work — not just work, but it can slap.

And so, when he called me and said, “Let’s do something,” he had a completely different idea in mind. I just said to him, “Jay, you’re the king of your thing, man, and I’ve got my lane; why are we not finding a way to bring this together to unite this music?” I might have been a little harsh in what I said to him — and I was harsh because I know he’s smart — but he came back to me two days later and he was so excited. It was very sweet. He was like, “Dude, I listened to what you said and you’re right. It works. I have something.”

Was the sample of “Sway” from your first album your idea?
We looked at the songbook, at all these great jazz songs that I [cover], and we just started looking at samples that we thought would be great. And, by the way, it turns out that that song, for me personally, is one of the biggest streaming songs every single year. So it was a no-brainer. I did the reinterpretation of my part; he came up with his writers with his part, and then we met in the middle, basically.

Actually, I should go further [in telling the story]. I sent him the recording. I did all the orchestration with my partner Nicholas Jacobson-Larson, he went in with an orchestra, and we sent that to them and just let them use all those parts. When I got through with it, I was excited, but Jason said that it could be better. I was like, “What do you mean?” He said, “Mike, you’re singing like a pop singer” — because, you know, I have two sort of styles — and he was right. He was like, “I don’t want Michael Bublé in Jason’s Derulo’s world, and I don’t wanna be in your world either. Be Michael Bublé.” So I went back in, rerecorded it and that’s what you have now. And that’s why I think we’re about to have a big global hit.

You were recently an NHL celebrity captain, involved with the draft pick, etc. Is it fun to step into a different world?
Yeah, but [hockey] is my world. It really is. I’ve owned a junior hockey team for many years now. A lot of my life is spent behind the scenes of this sport. Everyone knows I’m a [Vancouver] Canucks fan, but really, I’m a hockey fan and my goal and my love of this sport is to help to continue to grow it.

Have you seen a Professional Women’s Hockey League game yet?
Yeah. I went and was hacky-sacking with the ladies backstage before the game.

Every PWHL game is selling out instantly. It’s amazing.
It’s such an entertaining [game]. They’re such great players. I mean, I’ve got two daughters and it gives me so much hope. It was fun last night, there was a guy named Brian Troche, that you might not know, but one of the greatest who ever played. And I was so excited to meet him and he gave me a hug and he said, “You know what I like about you? Your music’s OK, but number one, I like that you’re a girl dad, and I know you’re a good girl dad.” So that meant a lot to me. And I just love this whole thing of getting hockey in the community and really getting our kids out.

Are you writing new music with anyone now or going in the studio?
I’ve got a lot of stuff on my plate that might not have as much to do with music, but music is my love — and I have a big idea, but that idea is gonna take time. What I wanna do is more of an event. And I wanna make sure that when I do that, that I give everyone the time to be ready for it.

Very intriguing. Well, lay off the mushrooms. Stick to the whiskey.
[laughs]. Thank you. And do me a favor, try that whiskey with a little bit of what I said. And believe it or not, I even hired the coolest mixologist in the world, and he taught me how to make a spicy margarita with Fraser & Thompson. So I have left no stone unturned.

She was forced to take a two-year break from ITV due to her condition. Fortunately, she was able to turn her life around and recently marked four years of sobriety.

During an interview with OK!, she opened up about her tumultuous relationship with alcohol and its impact on her mental health. She reminisced about her time in the facility stating, “This lovely nurse took me for a walk and I went into M&S at Marylebone station.”

Finding herself without any possessions, she found herself unable to make payments. She shared, “I had no money, but I asked for a bottle of rum, downed it on the spot, and the security guard had to wrestle it away from me.”

She added that she was struggling mentally, and confessed, “I was in a bad place. I was on suicide watch.”

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The star went on to recognise that her mental health affected her family – including her daughters and grandchildren.

She said: “I felt so bad for what I’d done to everyone who loved me.”

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They have all reunited and even celebrated her success earlier this month having a family meal.

Despite her dark days she has made it to the other side and is now a regular on the popular female chat show.

Linda confessed Stacey Solomon would sweetly ring her up and check in as well as the likes of Jane Moore and Nadia Sawalha.

In her new book Truth Be Told: Tales From A Baggy Mouth, she shares intriguing narratives regarding her personal life and professional journey.

She has candidly discussed both her highs and lows, including the end of her marriage.

Looking back at those moments while writing her book occasionally became overwhelming. She admitted: “The process was especially difficult while recording the audiobook – I found myself unable to stop the tears.”

While Taylor Swift was notably chugging beers at the Super Bowl, she later switched to her customary vodka cranberry to celebrate her boyfriend’s victory at an expensive nightclub post-game.

After the Kansas City Chiefs overcame the San Francisco 49ers in overtime, tight end Travis Kelce was seen reveling in the team’s third Super Bowl triumph with his pop star girlfriend at Resorts World Las Vegas and Zouk Nightclub, the location of the official post-game party.

As reported by The Sun, the pair continued to party into the wee hours and later visited XS Nightclub nearby. Taylor Swift certainly holds the musical talent in the relationship, but Kelce was seen on stage with famous DJ Marshmello too. They even danced to Swift’s track “Love Story” earlier in the evening.

The party allegedly didn’t end until past 5 a.m., and the couple indulged in some late-night chicken fingers, as reported by a source from the nightclub.

If you can’t find joy in a video of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce dancing to Love Story that then pans to Jason Kelce on stage with Marshmello while wearing a wrestling mask then you need to reevaluate some things. pic.twitter.com/By7qpeBgbF

— Rob Dauster (@RobDauster) February 12, 2024

Before the official after party, Swift and Kelce celebrated on the field with a sweet kiss.

“Oh my god. I can’t believe that. I can’t believe it. How did you do that?” Taylor reportedly told her tight end BF. “I’m so proud of you?”

According to Entertainment Tonight, Travis reportedly asked, “Was it electric?”

Who would’ve thought that in 2024 we will see videos of Taylor dancing at club to Love Story and You Belong With Me with her footballer boyfriend!!! pic.twitter.com/kPALmqViBi

— Taylor Throwbacks (@ThrowbackTaylor) February 12, 2024

“Unbelievable,” Taylor replied. “It was unbelievable. That was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.” During the game, Swift cheered on Kelce alongside pals Blake Lively and Ice Spice, as well as her parents, and Travis’ whole family. She was seated in one of the $2.5 million Allegiant Stadium suites, which Kelce hinted at paying for during a recent “New Heights” podcast episode.

“I’m not really doing much different other than just counting how much money I’m spending on this damn Super Bowl for family and friends to come,” Kelce said.

The luxe suites had an equally high-end menu, which included a shrimp cocktail tower, king crab fried rice, lobster and steak quesadillas, and a wagyu loaded hot dog that was topped with crispy onions, banana peppers, and wagyu brisket burnt ends. Taylor was *clearly* eating well.

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Haiti’s renowned rum has become the newest victim of violent gangs vying to control a growing number of businesses and territory in the troubled Caribbean nation.

At least 19.8 acres of sugarcane fields were torched in recent days as rival gangs fought near the Rhum Barbancourt distillery in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, the company said in a statement Sunday.

Rum is derived from sugarcane. The number of acres burned would cover more than four soccer fields, but Barbancourt officials stressed the lost fields would not affect production.

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The company’s foundation, however, said it would temporarily stop distributing free potable water, providing medical care, and offering the use of football fields and basketball courts in order to protect the safety of its employees.

Haiti’s rum is considered one of the country’s most popular exports.

The Haitian flag is hoisted against a clear sky at the site of the presidential palace, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 19, 2011.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has signaled that in excess of 800 victims were either massacred, wounded or abducted across Haiti in January, a figure that is over triple when contrasted with the same month in 2023. An additional approximated count of 300 gang affiliates were also reported dead or hurt in the previous month, he disclosed.

He referred to the escalated intensity of gang skirmishes, some of which persist for numerous hours, as a possible sign that certain gangs have recently procured new supplies of ammunition.

Haiti is also in the process of recuperating from a recent surge in aggressive demonstrations demanding the stepping down of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Türk stated that a minimum of 16 individuals lost their lives and close to 30 others were wounded during these protests, predominantly in clashes with law enforcement.

In the meantime, gang violence progresses with no cessation in sight.

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“Every day that goes by, new victims are reported,” Türk said late last week as he urged the swift deployment of a U.N-backed Kenyan police force that has been stalled in court.

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The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board is making 1,896 bottles of rare whiskeys from the Pappy Van Winkle and Buffalo Trace Antique Collections available to purchase through a lottery.

Whiskey lovers have their chance to land some rare bottles this week.

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board is making 1,896 bottles of rare whiskeys from the Pappy Van Winkle and Buffalo Trace Antique Collections available to purchase through a lottery. For a chance to win the chance to purchase a bottle, Pennsylvania residents and licensees must enter the lottery by 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16.

There will be two lotteries for each of the whiskeys available. Participants have the chance to enter one or both.

The first lottery held will be for 513 bottles from the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection 2023. Winning entries are limited to one bottle — which costs $124.99 — per participant.

The bottles available are:

The second lottery will be for 1,383 bottles of Pappy Van Winkle. Winning entries are limited to one bottle per participant.

The bottles include:

To be eligible to enter, consumers and licensees must have an active account with Fine Wine and Good Spirts with current billing information on file.

Upon winning, residents are prohibited to resell any bottles of whiskey purchased.

The lotteries are open to Pennsylvania residents and licensees 21 years old or older who provide both a verifiable Pennsylvania billing address and a Fine Wine and Good Spirits store address at registration.

You can find more information on the Fine Wine & Good Spirits site.

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Entrepreneurs Charlie Gilpin and Sam Moss from East London participated in BBC One’s Dragons’ Den on February 8th, 2024. The duo, who are founders of STOCKED, are childhood friends from Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Visit their website here for more details.

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ST. LOUIS • As a crowd huddled against the courtroom door, the bailiff held his ground. “Unless you hold a pass or are indicted for whiskey frauds, you are not permitted to enter,” he declared.

Journalists from every corner of the nation crammed into the U.S. Post Office and Custom House located at 218 North Third Street. The reason? A trial that began on February 8, 1876, and lasted for an astounding 18 days. At the center of all the attention was one Orville E. Babcock, who served as private secretary to President Ulysses S. Grant and was now the alleged mastermind behind the notorious “whiskey ring.”

Babcock had also been Grant’s aide during the final months of the Civil War and was present when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865.

Upon Grant’s subsequent Presidential victory three years down the line, Babcock was brought onto the White House team to manage his correspondence. Prosecutors alleged that Babcock, unbeknownst to others, facilitated a multi-city scheme that enabled liquor distillers to evade taxes. There is, however, no evidence indicating that Grant was involved. His only mistake was blind loyalty.

The national scandal broke here in 1875. Four prominent local men already had been convicted when Babcock went on trial. Every day, crowds gathered on Third Street as Babcock, often attired in silk hat, light jacket and sky-blue pants, sauntered to and from his lodging at the Lindell Hotel, Sixth Street and Washington Avenue.

Prosecutors pieced together a case of incriminating coded telegrams for the jury of seven farmers, three blacksmiths, a wagonmaker and a bricklayer. Defense lawyers had something no one has enjoyed before or since – a deposition by a sitting president, taken in the White House, on behalf of a criminal defendant. They presented Grant’s transcript Feb. 17. That same day, William T. Sherman, then a St. Louis resident and Grant’s wartime brother in arms, took the stand and said of Babcock, “His character has been very good.”

Babcock’s lawyers painted the prosecution as attacking Grant himself, a man who once had been a farmer in south St. Louis County. On Feb. 24, the jury needed only two hours to acquit Babcock of conspiracy to defraud the government.

The jubilation began on Third Street and moved to the Lindell, where Babcock and friends, including Sherman in uniform, held forth from the balcony over Washington. Babcock told the crowd, “I can only thank you most heartily for your kindness.”

He was the only major figure in the scandal to win acquittal, but soon was forced from the White House. Grant made him a lighthouse inspector, and Babcock drowned on duty eight years later.

The Old Custom House, at Third and Olive, was demolished in 1941 to make way for the Gateway Arch grounds.

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Witnessing Labour being well-received by the City, accompanied by endorsements from austerity hero George Osborne, incites a peculiar sensation. It appears, I am not alone in this sentiment. Conversely to the past, when a substantial waiting period was necessary to evaluate a policy’s success, today’s dynamics allow immediate feedback.

Labour’s rapport with business demonstrates a perplexing union akin to vodka and tomato juice, or even socks with sandals. From my perspective, Labour, while not being anti-business per se, should advocate more for the workers. This includes fair wages, elimination of zero-hour contracts, and more. When Labour’s policies gain traction in the City, and are even applauded by George Osborne, it stirs unease. It seems this view is not unique to myself. The landscape has evolved to where reactions to policy implementations can be gauged much more rapidly than before.

Common sensibilities would suggest a 50-year span post the departure of a state head to adequately assess the legacy left behind. The present, however, allows much quicker evaluations – Liz Truss’ impact, for instance, took merely about 45 minutes to decipher. Savanta quickly released a poll post Labour’s Business Conference conclusion. Only 20% of the public supported uplifting the cap on bankers’ bonuses, with apathy being the overarching sentiment towards maintaining the corporation tax. Experts have voiced concerns around the perception that Labour is not undertaking any revolutionary moves for the economy.

Savanta’s Chris Hopkins observed, “Labour have succeeded in presenting their case as no threat to the British public. This could potentially propel them into governance. However, there is an apparent longing for a more audacious approach yet to be satisfied.” The real issue is the precarious balance of interests. When business interests feel threatened, there is often fierce opposition to change. For instance, the CBI has urged Labour to soften its stance on workers’ rights. Additionally, offshore energy representatives warn a windfall tax on profits could lead to significant job losses.

It’s vital for Mr Starmer to maintain his resolve. Engaging with business is a sound strategy, but allowing them to determine Labour’s governing approach is a completely different issue. We have experienced 14 years of manipulation by the wealthy elite. More immediately concerning for Mr Starmer is the uproar regarding the £28 billion green investment pledge U-turn. This move is not well-received, even though the party has managed it effectively. However, it fuels the quick-spreading Tory narrative about indecisiveness.

The most shocking Tory critique this week came during the Prime Minister’s Questions, with Mr Sunak making an insensitive joke about trans rights. An insider commented, “The situation was appalling, but the genuine shock illustrated by people’s reactions was the truly startling aspect.” This sentiment will be echoed in the future, further intensifying the conflict. In the words of Cormac McCarthy, what we have witnessed will be “nothing compared to what’s on the horizon”…

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