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A bartender creates specialty cocktails made with Casamigos at the opening party for Alo Miami on December 16, 2021 in Miami, Florida.Jason Koerner | Getty ImagesCHICAGO — The spirits industry is overcoming economic headwinds to meet changing consumer preferences as it chips away at the dominance of beer.Spirits revenue market share grew from 28.7% in 2000 to 42.1% in 2022, surpassing beer for the first time ever, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States. Beer holds a 41.9% market share, it said.The…

New York, New York, June 15th, 2023, Chainwire Parcl’s market expansion increases access to investors seeking exposure to real estate prices via Real World Asset (RWA) Indexes Parcl, the leading blockchain-powered real estate trading platform, announced today the launch of Austin, TX, to its ever-growing list of tradable city indexes. In addition to Austin, Parcl recently launched indexes for Boston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago, Seattle, Denver, Portland, and Washington, D.C., more than doubling its market pool for…

Chicago now seems to be a school that is as interested in where Friedman was wrong as where he was right. Sure, free markets work—but only when a bunch of vital assumptions hold. And they don’t. Chicago now seems to be a school that is as interested in where Friedman was wrong as where he was right. Sure, free markets work—but only when a bunch of vital assumptions hold. And they don’t. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of…

More than 100 people were shot in Chicago over a summer weekend in 2021. One resident, 52-year-old Rick, was among them, and his story might seem like just another shooting in a city wrestling with a gun violence epidemic. But Rick’s injury was distinctive: it stemmed from his everyday heroism as one of Chicago’s more than 200 community violence interventionists. These “street outreach workers” are unarmed civilians who attempt to reduce gun violence by intervening in gang disputes, mediating violent conflicts and…

The one and only Chita Rivera answers the phone at her home in New York, but she sounds an early warning: we could be joined at any moment by a third party. That would be Dolores, the hell-raising alter ego of the 90-year-old Broadway megastar, who makes a series of arresting interventions in Rivera’s new memoir. “It’s Chita right now,” she says with a sly chuckle. “But Dolores could pop in at any second.”Dolores, Rivera’s birth name, is what her mother called her whenever she caused trouble. When Rivera was in rehearsals…

A rendering of the Heinz Remix dispenserSource: Kraft HeinzFor more than 125 years, Heinz bottles have touted "57 varieties," a number completely made up by its founder with little to no real-life application.Now, Kraft Heinz wants to offer customers more than three times that number of condiment options through a new customizable sauce dispenser, created for food-service clients.The machine, called the Heinz Remix, is the latest example of Kraft Heinz leaning into its away-from-home segment to grow sales. The company has…

Jamie Foxx’s daughter, Corinne, was being more or less straight up with fans last week when she said her father was “out of the hospital and recuperating.” But the 55-year-old actor hasn’t returned home, with a new report saying he’s recuperating in a Chicago rehab center known for stroke, traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury care. The report from TMZ will no doubt renew speculation about the undisclosed “medical complication” that the “Ray” star suffered last month. Jamie Foxx in Physical Rehabilitation Center…

Just a few hundred people of Chinese heritage still live in Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown. Many have been pushed out to cheaper and safer areas.Noah Sheidlower | CNBCPenny and Jack Lee, now married, grew up in the 1960s and 1970s among the thousands of people of Chinese heritage who lived in apartments lining the main stretches of Washington, D.C.'s bustling Chinatown."Chinatown was very bright, vibrant," Jack Lee recalled. "All of our recreations ended up being in the alleys of Chinatown." They felt it was a safe haven,…

A 25-year study following Chicago residents has found that 56% of Black and Hispanic individuals and 25% of White individuals witnessed a shooting by age 40. The research, led by a University of Cambridge criminologist and conducted in collaboration with Harvard and Oxford universities, revealed that men were more likely to be shot, but women were only slightly less likely to witness shootings. The chronic stress and health implications resulting from exposure to gun violence in Chicago and other cities across the US are…

Grammy-nominated R&B singer BJ The Chicago Kid has signed with hit producer Yeti Beats’ new label Reach The World Records in a joint venture with Sony’s RCA Records. BJ The Chicago Kid and Beats — who has worked on hits like Doja Cat’s “Say So,” “Kiss Me More” and “Woman”  — are working on a collaborative album that will be released this summer. Their first single, “Forgot Your Name,” drops Wednesday. “This project is very different for me. It’s essentially the colliding of Yeti’s world with…