Viewing by month: May 2008
World-class brews at the Portland Beer Festival.
One of the country's top beer gatherings, The Oregon Brewer's Festival, is coming up. Located in Portland's Tom McCall Waterfront Park, this year's event will be held from July 25 - July 28. More than 70 brewers are participating, including Alaskan, Anderson Valley, Bridgeport, Full Sail, Hales, MacTarnahan's, Red Hook, and Sierra Nevada.
Washington, Oregon, and Idaho are the country's leading producers of hops, and Northwest brewers take full advantage of the local bounty and add hops, hops, and more hops throughout the brewing process. Traditional European brewers think these beers are crazy. But once you taste a finely crafted Northwest IPA or ESB, there's no going back.
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London Hidden Treasure -- Courtauld Art Institute
London is a great city for art. With the Tates (Britain and Modern), The National Gallery, The National Portrait Gallery, The British Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London offers more than most visitors could reasonably hope to see.
But one of London's most rewarding art galleries isn't even on most traveler's radar, much less their short list. The Courtauld Institute of Art has one of the finest collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the world. And it's conveniently located in Somerset House on the banks of the Thames near Waterloo Bridge.
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Send your credit card company a bill -- Part 2.
Last December, we blogged about a Class Action Suit requiring credit card companies to refund the International Transaction Fee they charged between February 1, 1996 and November 8, 2006. Turns out that it was, in a word, illegal.
When I got my packet in the mail last year, it seemed like light years before I had to respond. But my, how time flies. The deadline for filing a claim is May 30, 2008. The good news is that you can file online at www.ccfsettlement.com
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