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What are the best bars in the Midwest? See USA TODAY's 2025 Bars of the Year
If it's history and a gun fight you like, South Dakota has the bar for you. Saloon 10 in Deadwood, South Dakota, not only serves killer drinks, but dishes on the history of the gold mining town where Wild Bill Hickok played his aces over eights — known as the "dead man's hand" — poker hand before he was shot. And if you're a cocktail lover, you've also come to the right place: This list is a don't-miss read. These six cocktail bars — the swankiest, most creative, coolest in the nation — are among the selections in our second USA TODAY Bars of the Year list. The USA TODAY Best Bars in America: The 29 best bars in America in 2025: See USA TODAY's top picks More: Best Bars in America: How USA TODAY picked the 2025 finalists Selected by our network of food writers across the nation — from The Arizona Republic to the Palm Beach Post — these bars represent the best neighborhood taverns, the coziest wine bars and the beachiest beach bars. But for lovers of cocktails, and the bars that serve them, we've created a special sublist here. Here they are, the USA TODAY Bars of the Year in the Midwest. See last year's list The best bars in America in 2024: See USA TODAY's 27 favorite spots The Bartender's Handshake | Des Moines, Iowa Details: 3615 Ingersoll Ave.; 515-630-3008, Midcentury modern decor comes together with a neighborhood bar at The Bartender's Handshake, with its stellar lineup of elevated craft cocktails and three renditions of its namesake drink. Dave Murrin-von Ebers opened this gem in 2019 in a former stained-glass store, adding a curved banquet, two booths for seating and a long bar for slinging modern renditions of classic drinks. Step outside for a patio open year-round with fire pits for the cooler months and apres ski parties, and shade and bocce ball for the sunny days. Order the Prairie Rose – with gin, Campari and raspberry syrup, topped with egg whites – for a nod to the bar's logo and Iowa state flower, or try the Karate Kick – a vodka drink with Ancho Reyes, carrot and ginger – for something that feels healthy with a kick. — Susan Stapleton, The Des Moines Register Read a full review of The Bartender's Handshake on Gabe's | Iowa City, Iowa Details: 330 E. Washington St.; Fifty years of history hangs on the wall at Gabe's. The two-story Iowa City institution pulses with strong pours, cold beer and the gasp of raspy vocals and distorted riffs that rattle the floorboards. Gabe's is a lighthouse of nostalgia, and band posters tell the story, from Nirvana to Danny Brown. Stay downstairs for a no-frills dive bar experience made for a sitcom, with eccentric characters spilling stories of their memories that leak into the urban beer garden in the back. Upstairs, audience members crowd the edge of the stage to see their underground favorites from EDM DJs to hardcore punks. A night at Gabe's is a night of rock 'n' roll history. — Jessica Rish, Iowa City Press-Citizen Read a full review of Gabe's on Ghost Baby | Cincinnati, Ohio Details: 1314 Republic St.; 513-381-5333, It's four stories underground. It occupies a 19th-century lagering tunnel. And it's rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a toddler. Welcome to Ghost Baby, Cincinnati's very subterranean cocktail bar. Opened in 2019 by former nightclub promoter Josh Heuser, the bar makes imaginative use of the tunnels once used as storage for saloons and breweries before the days of refrigeration. The aesthetic is 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald meets 1980s Bret Easton Ellis. There are disco balls and chandeliers, bistro tables and classic cocktails. The entertainment might be an out-of-town jazz band or the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Since it opened, Ghost Baby has received several accolades from national press. In 2022, Esquire included Ghost Baby on its list of the Best Bars in America, describing it as a 'Babylon Berlin-feeling nightclub.' — Keith Pandolfi, The Cincinnati Enquirer Read a full review of Ghost Baby on Threes Above High | Columbus OH Details: 2203 N. High St.; 614-732-4404, The off-campus area around Ohio State University has changed dramatically over the past decade. Modern high-rise apartment buildings and national retail and restaurant chains have replaced the old, quirky (and cheap!) local places that were a common thread in the memories of generations of college students at one of the nation's largest universities. Threes Above High is a survivor, though, along the High Street corridor that runs through Columbus' University District. When the wrecking ball came in 2017 for its predecessor, an equally divey place called Too's Spirits Under High, owner Scott Ellsworth opened Threes Above High a few blocks north. And not that anyone's counting, but he has since opened Fours on High and Fives Up High, too. — Bob Vitale, The Columbus Dispatch Read a full review of Threes Above Ground on Saloon No. 10 | Deadwood, South Dakota Details: 657 Main St.; 800-952-9398, Wild Bill Hickok leaned forward from his chair while playing poker at Saloon No. 10 in Deadwood. 'The old duffer, he broke me on the hand!' said the outlaw legend before he was shot in the back of the head by 'Crooked Nose' McCall on Aug. 2, 1876. The chair in which Hickok sat still hangs on the wall of the sawdusty 'ol watering hole on Main Street today. South Dakota's 150-year-old bar and social club in the rowdy valley of the Black Hills has been owned by the Lew and Marion Keehn family since 1963 and is famous for its award-winning whiskey collection, the Butcher's Block steak special and relics from the Old West that hang above the bar and all the way toward the dance floor in the back. Stick around for one more nip to deal your own hand at poker in the gambling hall – just keep your back to the corner. — Angela George, Argus Leader Read a review of Saloon 10 on Agency | Milwaukee, Wisconsin Details: 819 N. Marshall St.; 414-409-5399, Agency is a cocktail lounge in the heart of downtown Milwaukee that lives up to its name: Every patron has the agency to choose whether they drink alcohol or not that night, no matter which cocktail on the menu catches their eye. Owner Ryan Castelaz opened Agency with the goal of providing an elevated drinking experience for both drinkers and nondrinkers, and every drink can be made in nonalcoholic and alcoholic form. Patrons can further customize their drinks with the bar's dealer's choice cards, which are used to custom-make a drink based on a patron's preference, including everything from spirit choice and flavor profile to alcohol content. Agency is a 2025 James Beard Award finalist for best new bar. — Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Read a full review of Agency on This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Best bars in the Midwest: Six spots you need to visit in 2025 Solve the daily Crossword
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18-06-2025
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2025 Governor's Ag Summit kicked off in Deadwood
Deadwood, S.D. (KELO) –The 2025 Governor's Ag Summit kicked off in Deadwood Tuesday as agriculture leaders from across the state gathered to discuss the current state of ag from east to west. Crash closed parts of I-29, 12th Street Tuesday night Glenn Muller was named this year's Governors Ag Ambassador for his decades long contributions in both pork and South Dakota agriculture. 'We see the need to produce food for the world actually and it's just great to see these people get together and talk about common concerns and common benefits of the agriculture industry for the state of South Dakota and beyond.' SD Pork Producers Executive Director Glenn Muller Said Cattle population across the nation has been down, however that has benefited ranchers here in the state. 'It has led to some very high markets and that has been a huge benefit to the producers in South Dakota and you know there's a lot of things at play but right now the ranchers have really been doing well with their markets the last couple of years.' Governor Larry Rhoden Said When looking at the future, being able to inspire and motivate the next generation of ag workers is important. 'It's going to be a limited number of individuals that are going to be starting up from the grass roots and starting from the ground up but there's a lot of opportunities out here in agriculture. We need these good young producers and young agricultural interested individuals to get involved .' Muller Said The Keep Farmers Farming program was a big part of these conversations. '…and helping the entire family transition through to the next generation because that's what agriculture in South Dakota is all about, is the next generation and how to keep our young people on the farms and give them the ability to move forward.' Governor Rhoden Said The Governor's Ag Summit will continue in Deadwood tomorrow with more speakers and current obstacles on the table. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Washington Post
12-06-2025
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- Washington Post
The gritty, unglamorous truth about the antiheroes of the Wild West
I've long been obsessed with the fact that, in 1869, even as the Brooklyn Bridge rose, you could board a train in New York City and some days later disembark into a parallel universe where horse-mounted Comanche warriors still reigned unconquered over the Great Plains. The two worlds coincided for the briefest moment, a time when, under the big skies of that untamed frontier, so too rose that most American icon the cowboy — and his even more heroic alter ego, the Old West gunfighter. I grew up with them; we all did, no matter what year we were born. Even in the twilight of Clint Eastwood's career, you can stream a modern western of one form or another on any given night, among them one of the greatest television shows ever written, David Milch's Shakespearean drama 'Deadwood.' Bryan Burrough's 'The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild,' a history of that era (ideally paired with S.C. Gwynne's fantastic 'Empire of the Summer Moon,' about the Comanche during the same period), is a great debunking, Burrough forewarns. He's not out to prove that those legendary figures of the frontier were purely mythological, but he does set his sights on the way that they were mythologized. Forget facing off in the streets of Dodge City and Tombstone, saloon doors swinging to Ennio Morricone's soundtrack as time slowed and both men reached for their guns. More often than not it was just murder — a sudden, explosive violence, often with a racial component against Black people, Latinos and Native Americans, especially in the earliest years in Texas. People were shot in the eye. In the back. In the hands. No trick shooting required. They were shot through doors, and they were shot through walls. They were shot with pistols, and they were shot with long guns, and they were shot holed up in hotels, brothels, ranches, trains and banks, or out in the open on the streets, everywhere and anywhere. Of the legendary John Wesley Hardin — memorialized by Rock Hudson in a 1953 film, by Johnny Cash in two songs and by Bob Dylan on a whole album — Burrough writes: 'Hardin ranged the Texas backcountry shooting men in the face. … He killed just about anyone who irked him in any way, from Black men he found disrespectful to white men who beat him at cards or jostled him in a crowd; most famously, he probably killed a man for snoring. He may have been the first 'great' gunfighter, but it's also clear he was a maniac.' The story — and death — of Wild Bill Hickok, one of the most famous of them all, is typical. His early legend was fantastically exaggerated and his denouement (by which time he was an alcoholic and arthritic gambler not yet 40) came as he played poker at a saloon (in Deadwood, of course). When 'a drunk named Jack McCall was losing big,' Hickock encouraged him to take a break and McCall left the table, only to return the next afternoon. He circled behind Hickock and 'placed a Colt .45 beside his temple, and with the words 'Damn you! Take that!' Pulled the trigger. Hickock died instantly.' There was no gunfight at all, which 'Deadwood' the show seems to have gotten right. This is no weighty, soporific tome of history, but a gallop through the years 1869 to 1901, when a specific set of conditions aligned: the end of the Civil War and the expansion of the railroads and open range cattle ranching, which sent large numbers of Southerners, particularly Texans, driving herds west and north into territories that had little government or law enforcement. 'If you think of postwar Texas masculinity as a bubbling cauldron,' Burrough writes, 'its roux was the Southern honor code, but other ingredients were crucial as well: the tumult of war, the persistent and ongoing risk of Mexican and Native American raiders, the rigors and isolation of frontier life, the searing hatred of northern dominance. … From this combustible brew rose a stridently martial way of experiencing the world, tribal, heavily armed, hypermasculine, hyperviolent, and acutely sensitive to slight.' Oxidizing this simmering explosion was the introduction of the Colt revolver, the first mass-produced, easy-to-carry handgun able to fire rapidly. In this lawless landscape of frail masculine egos clinging to cockeyed, and often booze-fueled, notions of honor, the bullets fly, the bodies pile up, the pages turn fast and easy, and other places and other ideas come to mind: how these glorified American icons aren't so different from other men in other cultures and times much more readily vilified — young men who nowadays fill our prisons. Or of honor cultures everywhere — the Pashtuns of the tribal regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan, for instance — who have never been celebrated in film, television and popular music. Indeed, Burrough makes clear that there wasn't a whole lot to celebrate in these men and their stories, and at the time it was happening, 'the gunfighter wasn't really a thing.' 'Though they fought in the nineteenth century, the fame of men like Earp and Hickok mushroomed during the twentieth, thanks to modern media, especially Hollywood films.' It is a reminder that we are selective about our heroes. And that American history was made not just by the Founding Fathers but also by the messy rascals and gamblers and liars and killers who have long filled out its more sordid chapters. Our nation has always been shaped by the latter, too, it turns out, and reading about them years after the fact, antiheroes though they may have been, is still a hell of a good time. Carl Hoffman is the author of five books, including 'Liar's Circus,' 'The Last Wild Men of Borneo' and 'Savage Harvest.' How Texas Made the West Wild By Bryan Burrough Penguin. 430 pp.
Scottish Sun
09-06-2025
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- Scottish Sun
80s movie star who played iconic villains makes rare appearance 23yrs after child abuse scandal ended glittering career
A court ordered the star to register himself as a sex offender for the rest of his life Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) DISGRACED movie star Jeffrey Jones made a rare public appearance more than two decades after a child abuse scandal ended his glittering career. Jeffrey, who played the roles of iconic villains in the 80s, appeared on a panel with his former co-stars at The Hollywood Show. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 4 Actor Jeffrey Jones attends The Hollywood Show held at The Westin Hotel LAX on July 28, 2018 Credit: Getty 4 Jones attends HBO's Telefilm Premiere of Deadwood at Grauman's Chinese Theater on March 3, 2005 in Hollywood Credit: Getty 4 Jones (C) exits Los Angeles Superior Court with his lawyers, Leonard B. Levine (R) and Jeffrey Brody (L) after making his first court appearance Credit: Getty The actor, who has been away from the public eye for years following his arrest in 2002, interacted with the audience and shared bits about his personal life. Jeffrey made a rare appearance to discuss the iconic 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, in which he played the role of high school principal Ed Rooney. Chatting about the cult classic, the actor revealed he does not live in Los Angeles anymore. He told the audience: "I moved to live in the desert. "I didn't want to be in LA anymore, but I got my family here, and so little kids get old fast. I'm driving back and forth." The actor added: "I'm getting a place now in LA I've given up because I can't keep going back and forth from Burbank to the desert." On the panel, he also discussed what it was like to work with legendary director John Hughes, who passed away in 2009. The Beetlejuice actor said: "He entertained, and was certainly collaborative. "He wanted what he wanted. Usually it was a fight because there was time and budget to consider, and John didn't really pay much attention to that.' In November 2002, Jeffrey was arrested and charged with possession of sick child abuse images and soliciting a minor for nude photos, according to a report by The Los Angeles Times at the time. The actor later pleaded no contest to soliciting a minor while prosecutors dropped possession of sick child abuse images. A court sentenced Jeffrey to five years of probation, one year of psychological counselling and two years of drug and alcohol abuse counselling. He was also ordered to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life and prohibited from possessing any pornography. Jeffrey said at the time: "I am sorry that this incident was allowed to occur. "Such an event has never happened before and it will never happen again." In 2004, Jeffrey was arrested again after he failed to register himself as a sex offender when he moved to Florida and again in 2010 when he came back to LA. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 250 hours of community service, in addition to three years of probation. Last year, Jeffrey's character in Beetlejuice was killed off as part of the movie's long-awaited sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. 4 Jones speaks to the media after his court appearance in Los Angeles Superior Court on November 21, 2002 Credit: Getty
The Irish Sun
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
80s movie star who played iconic villains makes rare appearance 23yrs after child abuse scandal ended glittering career
DISGRACED movie star Jeffrey Jones made a rare public appearance more than two decades after a child abuse scandal ended his glittering career. Jeffrey, who played the roles of iconic villains in the 80s, appeared on a panel with his former co-stars at The Hollywood Show. Advertisement 4 Actor Jeffrey Jones attends The Hollywood Show held at The Westin Hotel LAX on July 28, 2018 Credit: Getty 4 Jones attends HBO's Telefilm Premiere of Deadwood at Grauman's Chinese Theater on March 3, 2005 in Hollywood Credit: Getty 4 Jones (C) exits Los Angeles Superior Court with his lawyers, Leonard B. Levine (R) and Jeffrey Brody (L) after making his first court appearance Credit: Getty The actor, who has been away from the public eye for years following his arrest in 2002, interacted with the audience and shared bits about his personal life. Jeffrey made a rare appearance to discuss the iconic 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, in which he played the role of high school principal Ed Rooney. Chatting about the cult classic, the actor revealed he does not live in Los Angeles anymore. He told the audience: "I moved to live in the desert. Advertisement "I didn't want to be in LA anymore, but I got my family here, and so little kids get old fast. I'm driving back and forth." The actor added: "I'm getting a place now in LA I've given up because I can't keep going back and forth from Burbank to the desert." On the panel, he also discussed what it was like to work with legendary director John Hughes, who passed away in 2009. The Beetlejuice actor said: "He entertained, and was certainly collaborative. Advertisement Most read in Celebrity Exclusive "He wanted what he wanted. Usually it was a fight because there was time and budget to consider, and John didn't really pay much attention to that.' In November 2002, Jeffrey was arrested and charged with possession of sick child abuse images and soliciting a minor for nude photos, according to a report by The actor later pleaded no contest to soliciting a minor while prosecutors dropped possession of sick child abuse images. A court sentenced Jeffrey to five years of probation, one year of psychological counselling and two years of drug and alcohol abuse counselling. Advertisement He was also ordered to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life and prohibited from possessing any pornography. Jeffrey said at the time: "I am sorry that this incident was allowed to occur. "Such an event has never happened before and it will never happen again." In 2004, Jeffrey was arrested again after he failed to register himself as a sex offender when he moved to Florida and again in 2010 when he came back to LA. Advertisement He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 250 hours of community service, in addition to three years of probation. Read more on the Irish Sun Last year, Jeffrey's character in Beetlejuice was killed off as part of the movie's long-awaited sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. 4 Jones speaks to the media after his court appearance in Los Angeles Superior Court on November 21, 2002 Credit: Getty Advertisement
