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Eater
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Eater
Detroit's First Black-Owned Brewery Wants to Make Drinking Stout a Year-Round Tradition
is a writer born with over two decades of experience in the restaurant industry, and she has been covering the local food and beverage scene for the past eight years. Detroit's first Black-owned brewery, Roar Brewing, opened its taproom at 666 Selden Street in early July with a weekend celebration that kicked off on Thursday, July 10. The three-day event featured a ribbon-cutting ceremony, a set by Detroit's own DJ Invisible, live music performances, TVs broadcasting local sports, and a lively hustle line that energized the courtyard patio. And, of course, there were plenty of pints — most notably the MVP of the tap list, a black honey oat stout. That choice wasn't accidental; it speaks directly to the brewery's mission and identity. When discussing the lack of representation in Michigan's craft beer scene, especially in Detroit, owner Evan Fay attributes it to people's unfamiliarity with the product or fear of how they might be perceived as newcomers to the industry. 'Think of us as Detroit's Guinness' 'I don't think people don't drink craft beer. I think they just don't drink beer, yet,' Fay says. 'I didn't drink a ton of beer before going into the service, but once I started learning about its complexities and the people behind it, it changed my perspective. I started to imagine what my place in it could look like. I'm hoping to inspire others in that way, too.' Roar's black honey oat stout is the brewery's main beer, a rare choice since few breweries make a dark stout their flagship. 'We want to make everyone stout drinkers,' Fay says. 'It represents the brewery really well; dark, smooth, creamy, and there's a subtle sweetness from the honey. People think stouts are just for cold weather, but I want to enjoy them any time, all the time. Think of us as Detroit's Guinness.' Roar Brewing debuted with six beers. Courtney Burk 'Craft breweries are good at gathering the community together through their programming,' Fay says. 'When I was traveling a lot, breweries and cafes were where we went to grab a drink and get to know the city through there. Breweries and cafes are two businesses that I've started because of that aspect — building community to make everyone feel at home right away.' Fay's interest in beer started after college, while stationed in Cheyenne, Wyoming. 'My first experience with beer in college wasn't craft,' Fay says. 'But being stationed near Fort Collins, [Colorado], I'd visit New Belgium often and got immersed in the culture. Later in Alaska, spots like Midnight Sun Brewing had that same welcoming vibe. When we moved to Detroit, I knew I wanted to emulate that here.' Roar debuted with a lineup of six beers, which it calls its franchise players: a raspberry wheat, pilsner, IPA, amber, and that honey oat stout. The beers are brewed on a 10-barrel system by head brewer Dave Hale, formerly of Nain Rouge. Fay served as assistant brewer during the early stages, helping develop the lineup in collaboration, but stepped back as day-to-day operations began drawing his attention away from the brewing process. The brewery uses locally sourced ingredients, including malt from Great Lakes Malt and honey from Hives for Heroes, a Michigan-based, veteran-owned business. Roar's interior opens onto an extended patio through a roll-up garage door, linking it to the nearby restaurant corridor. The brewery plans to add an 800-square-foot, three-and-a-half-season room to the outdoor plaza to increase covered seating. Events include karaoke nights, hustle and line dancing, weekly drum circles, and sports watch parties, aiming to make the brewery both a gathering spot and a taproom. A small bites food menu is currently being developed in collaboration with the neighboring Barcade, an old-school video game arcade and beer bar, and the brewery collaborated with So Creamalicious on a popcorn flight that pairs with the taproom's franchise players beer flight. The brewery also offers a pay-it-forward program inspired by Midnight Sun Brewing, where guests can buy a beer for someone who has experienced a specific situation or moment written on a card, which is then hung on the wall. Instead of a traditional mug club, Roar offers a season pass model tied to Detroit's pro sports teams. The annual Roar Pride membership costs about $175, while season pass memberships range from approximately $100 to $150. The brewery also has plans to host three brewery tours a day with beertenders facilitating them. Fay's goal is for everyone that works at Roar to know as much about the beer and the brewing process as the brewers do. The aim is to make beer really accessible to everyone in a comfortable and inviting environment. Roar Brewing is located at 666 Selden Street in Detroit; open 4 p.m. to midnight Monday though Thursday, noon to midnight Friday and Saturday, and noon to 8 p.m. on Sunday — except during football season.
Boston Globe
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Find refuge from the heat, real and metaphorical, in an artist's garden
'Edge of the Garden' is an unplanned posthumous tribute. Born in Shanghai, Fay was a fixture of the New York art scene for more than 50 years; permanent monuments to his ethos, a delicate balance between playful and profound, dot the New York cityscape as large-scale public artworks. The exhibition "Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden" is on view at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Hostetter Gallery through Sept. 21. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Here in Boston is his portable cornucopia: A long stem cherry, a coconut, a bell pepper, a dourian, a sweet gum. An anise, deep brown and star-shaped, perches on an earthy ground like a human toddler-size living thing. A ginseng root roughly the size of my leg and suspended above ground disarms; its network of visceral wisps and tendrils are so true to life you can almost feel it grasping for moisture in the arid cool of the gallery's climate control. Advertisement Verisimilitude was one of Fay's most obvious gifts. But likeness for its own sake — however utter — was hardly his goal. The reactions of blasé New Yorkers aside, Fay's pieces transcend likeness to the uncanny; basketball-size cherries might prompt an initial chuckle, but wonder soon takes its place. Ming Fay, "Peach," 1990s. Mixed Media. Private Collection. Ming Fay Studio In his close-looking at the overlooked — everyday things mostly confined now to supermarket shelves or your refrigerator at home — Fay brings us back to solid ground. The industrial-scale food industry makes all of this appear as if by magic, a behind-the-veil mass industry so seamless as to appear invisible. Fay refocuses on the wonder of it all, and not just the eye: Among the experiences on offer here is scent; you're invited to open the slim doors of a pair of small cabinets, where you'll find dried ginseng in one and anise in the other. Through the perforated plexiglass that holds them in, aroma comes wafting — the ginseng, acrid and sour, the anise, licoricey sweet. There's a disconnect here, between the obvious, fantastical facsimile of Fay's main oeuvre and the sudden organic rush of odor — decaying plant matter, exhaling its rot. The rift, made sudden and plain, is profound; it transforms Fay's project from whimsical to visceral, and freights it with deeper intent. Walk back, then to a deliberate cluster of his blow-ups of a different nature: a hip-height turkey wishbone, its cool yellow-gray the shade of death, or a dizzyingly intricate sculpture of a bird's skull, more air than matter, the size of a dining room chair, bleached dry by time and sun. Advertisement "Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden," in the Hostetter Gallery. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston It's all fantasy, of course — the conflation of Fay's imagination and remarkable skill. But the friction between these things — dead and living, bountiful and spent — helps give fantasy force. I'm disinclined to think of Fay along the same lines as the wry pop conceptualists that come easily to mind — I don't know whether he intended it or not, but I felt an urge to read this paean to the processes of nature, at least partly, as epitaph. All over the world, Advertisement "Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden," Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston It all leaves me leaning into 'Edge of the Garden' as a memorial exhibition in more ways than one: For Fay, and the world we know. The perfect sheen of plum skin he crafted years ago always flirted with hyper-reality, as all his works do; nothing in nature is so perfect and unscathed. An imagined ideal now reads, to me, like a study model for future generations living a very different life on a scorched earth: We had this, once, and let it go. Fay was never so fatalistic as far as I can tell. He loved the form of things, their colors, their surfaces, dark or light, smooth or knotty and sharp (a suite of drawings, hung in a small darkened space with some of Fay's fanciful hand-scratched zines, reveal his mind as hectic and playful). But nor was be blithely unaware. The exhibition, bathed in natural light against a wall of windows, narrows as it closes; through an archway, a tight cluster of looser, later works, their skin bubbling, seem to chart a new course. Made in the 2010s, it doesn't hurt that many are called 'Flame,' rough perversions of Fay's perfect facsimiles in grotesque transitional states. The future, it seems, is now. MING FAY: EDGE OF THE GARDEN Through Sept. 21. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way. 617-566-1401, Murray Whyte can be reached at
Boston Globe
27-06-2025
- Climate
- Boston Globe
Hurricane season in the Atlantic tropics: A quiet June with July trending more intense
'June is normally a quiet month,' said Phil Klotzbach, senior research scientist at Colorado State University. 'We've had above-average wind shear, and with cooler sea surface temperatures compared to this time last year.' Advertisement Take a look at sea surface temperatures for the third week of June compared to last year. The main development region was running extremely hot last June compared to late August, which helped spawn Beryl so early. This year is much different. The reason being? Strong trade winds from a stronger Bermuda high have helped with evaporative cooling of sea surface temperatures, keeping ocean temperatures closer to normal. Sea surface temperatures are much cooler this year (left) versus the third week of June last year (right) when Hurricane Beryl formed. Weather Models Since there's virtually no possibility of another tropical storm forming before Monday, we set our eyes on July, where the season typically begins to awaken. What does a normal July look like? July is usually another quiet month across the Atlantic tropics, with about 7 percent of the season activity occurring during this month. Of course, the busiest months of the hurricane season occur between August and October, with the peak date around September 10. Advertisement Over the past 30 years or so, July averages about 1.5 named storms, with .6 becoming hurricanes and .1 strengthening to a major hurricane — meaning we typically get a hurricane every other year, with 1 major hurricane every decade during July. In addition to the Gulf and Western Atlantic, the Caribbean and the Western edge of the tropical Atlantic, just to the east of the Antilles, become possible formation spots for tropical storms and hurricanes during July as sea surface temperatures generally reach the typical 80-degree minimum to support development. Tropical activity increases across the East Coast and Western Atlantic during July. Boston Globe What will this July look like? Long-term models suggest that sea surface temperatures will creep up, with wind shear becoming less intense, but it may take a while. July typically only produces one named storm, and I wouldn't be surprised if we cap off the month with just one named storm for this time around. There is another hurricane stat worth noting about July systems — there is a growing trend with Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE). ACE is a metric that measures the intensity of hurricanes. This means that July storms are trending stronger and longer-lasting. Take a look at how storm intensity during July as increased since 1950. Accumulated Cyclone Energy during the month of July since 1950. Phil Klotzbach, CSU And one last stat regarding July activity. 2020 tied the record for the number of named storms with five — Edouard, Fay, Gonzalo, Hanna, and Isaias. The only other year on record with five named storms was in 2005. New England and July tropical activity New England hardly sees a direct landfall from tropical storms or hurricanes as it is, let alone during July. However, there have been several remnant storms that have pushed into the region, along with weakened tropical depressions and post-tropical systems, all flooding parts of New England over the years. Advertisement Last July, New England was impacted by the remnants of Hurricane Beryl, dumping flooding rains across parts of New Hampshire and Vermont. Tropical Storm Fay in July of 2020 made landfall in New Jersey, but most of New England took on the brunt of the storm. The last direct landfall from a tropical storm or hurricane in New England during July? Tropical Storm Beryl in July of 2006, storm names are recycled until their retired, made landfall on Nantucket. All in all, it takes one storm to make a world of difference, regardless of the time of year. Take a look at the costliest and strongest hurricanes, in terms of pressure, on record. A list of the seven costliest hurricanes on record. Boston Globe The six strongest hurricanes on record in terms of barometric pressure. Boston Globe Ken Mahan can be reached at
Daily Mirror
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Fay Ripley confesses a Traitors star played a huge part in her marriage
Cold Feet star Fay Ripley shared how she met her husband. Fay Ripley has revealed that she has The Traitors US host Alan Cumming to thank for her marriage. The 59-year-old Stretford Wives star opened up on The One Show this evening (June 12) about her journey on ITV's DNA Journey, but it was her personal anecdote about Alan that stole the show. Fay shared a charming tale of how Alan "gave" her a husband after a segment featuring the stage icon discussing his new children's musical. Host Alex Jones noted that Alan played "a key part" in Fay's life, prompting her to recount: "Alan gave me a husband!" Fay elaborated on her story, saying: "I was staying with Alan in his flat in New York because I couldn't afford to stay anywhere. "He was like, 'You can come stay with me,' we were old friends," reports Wales Online. She added with gratitude: "He introduced me to a friend of his and I married that friend, so thank you Alan!" The Cold Feet actress tied the knot with Australian actor Daniel Lapaine in October 2001 in a picturesque Tuscan ceremony. The couple have two children, Parker born in 2002, and Sonny born in 2006. Reflecting on her marriage in a 2010 interview with The Mirror, nearly a decade after they wed, Fay expressed: ""I still look at him and think, 'how lucky am I?'" She then quipped: "Not all the time, especially when he's standing in front of me in his thread-bare pyjamas. " Sharing the key to her successful relationship, she disclosed they have "no real secret," other than: "Apart from making sure that we're never apart for too long. I remember a friend of mine saying, 'three weeks is the cut-off point - up until then you still need each other'. "But once three weeks have passed, you get used to being on your own and can manage without the other person - then it gets dangerous. "So if we're ever apart for two weeks six days, I make sure we're together again by the time the clock strikes midnight!" The One Show airs weekdays from 7pm on BBC One and iPlayer.
Wales Online
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
Fay Ripley admits she owes her marriage to The Traitors star in One Show confession
Fay Ripley admits she owes her marriage to The Traitors star in One Show confession The actress revealed how she met her husband, who she married in 2001 Fay Ripley has admitted she owes her marriage to The Traitors US host Alan Cumming. The Stretford Wives actress, 59, appeared on The One Show tonight (June 12) to speak about her experience on ITV's DNA Journey. However, at one point, she dropped a sweet story about how Alan 'gave' her a husband. After a clip aired of stage star Alan talking about his new children's musical about the Loch Ness monster, Fay quipped: 'Alan gave me a husband!' Host Alex Jones had commented that Alan was 'a key part' of Fay's life. Alan Cumming had a key part to play in Fay's marriage (Image: PA Archive/PA Images ) Fay continued: 'I was staying with Alan in his flat in New York because I couldn't afford to stay anywhere. Article continues below 'He was like, 'You can come stay with me,' we were old friends. 'He introduced me to a friend of his and I married that friend, so thank you Alan!' The Cold Feet actress married Australian actor Daniel Lapaine in October 2001 in a ceremony in Tuscany, Italy. They share two children together, daughter Parker who they welcomed in 2002, and son Sonny in 2006. Fay and Daniel married in 2001 (Image: David ) In an interview with The Mirror in 2010, having been married to Daniel for a decade, Fay said: '"I still look at him and think, 'how lucky am I?'' She continued: "Not all the time, especially when he's standing in front of me in his thread -bare pyjamas.' She revealed that they have 'no real secret' to their relationship, adding: 'Apart from making sure that we're never apart for too long. I remember a friend of mine saying, 'three weeks is the cut-off point - up until then you still need each other'. "But once three weeks have passed, you get used to being on your own and can manage without the other person - then it gets dangerous. "So if we're ever apart for two weeks six days, I make sure we're together again by the time the clock strikes midnight!" Article continues below The One Show airs weekdays from 7pm on BBC One and iPlayer
