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Forbes
3 hours ago
- Business
- Forbes
One Of America's Best New Bourbons Is From A Tiny Indiana Distillery
Starlight Distillery 10 Year Bourbon In American whiskey, 10 years is often considered a crucial fork in the road, the point at which the influence of age can either make or break a pour. Not every barrel can make it a decade without falling into 'over-oaked' territory, in which wood tannins start to overpower each and every sip. This is especially true among distillers aging their whiskey in hot environments, as well as smaller producers relying on pot stills for production. While those stills can preserve a lot of flavorful character coming out of distillation, they also tend to result in heavier, oil-rich whiskey that may or may not age with elegance. Given those factors, Starlight Distillery has just achieved something rare and all the more remarkable: a craft, pot-distilled bourbon aged a full 10 years, one that's just as delicious and sippable as whiskey from some of America's biggest legacy producers. Located in Starlight, Indiana, Starlight Distillery is an offshoot of a farm, orchard, and winery owned and operated by the Huber family. (The facility is the current largest fruit farm in Indiana.) While the Hubers began distilling brandy around 2001, it wasn't until 2013 that the facility began its expansion into whiskey. Today, in addition to brandy, Starlight produces bourbon, rye, malt whiskey, vodka, and gin. Starlight's latest whiskey release is its oldest-ever bourbon, boasting a 10 year age statement. The bottling is an eight-barrel blend, with a 'large portion' of grains used grown on site, according to the brand. The whiskey underwent double pot still distillation in a 500 gallon copper pot before being barreled between 112 and 116 proof and aged across two different warehouses. It was ultimately bottled at a cask strength 120.3 proof. (Notably, the barrels used came from Seguin Moreau's Napa Valley cooperage, which is best known for supplying casks used in winemaking.) A limited number of bottles went on sale at Starlight Distillery and select online retailers in late July, with an MSRP of $250. We had a chance to try this highly limited release, one of the relatively few decade-old craft bourbons available today. Punchy and deeply spiced on the nose, Starlight's first 10 year bourbon opens with aromas of dark/ripe orchard fruit, freshly baked gingersnaps, smoked caramel, barrel char, and a relatively small—but discernible—element of funky, malt-heavy porridge. While oak is certainly present in an appropriate (and pleasing) capacity, there's an underlying thread of grain oil that's likely a function of the double pot distillation. A first sip is big on Butterfingers, followed by homemade cranberry sauce, cooked cherries, and dried apricots. Sweet transitions to lightly tart, followed by black tea, oak, and nutmeg-dusted cream building across the midpalate, the last note reminiscent of the foam atop an Irish coffee. It's warming across the palate and overall strikes a rare balance between sweet and tannic, elevating well beyond the level of most craft distillate in both composure and depth of flavor. Starlight's first 10 year bourbon whiskey comes out of the gate swinging. Let's hope future well-aged releases from the distillery can match up.
Boston Globe
26-06-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Meet the Boston Fleet's six PWHL draft picks
Here's a look at the Fleet's six picks in order of selection. Round 1, pick 2: Haley Winn, D, Clarkson After losing three defenders during free agency, the Fleet opted to bolster their blue line by selecting Winn with their first pick. Winn, who hails from Rochester, N.Y., led Clarkson in scoring and finished second among NCAA defenders last season with 46 points (14 goals, 32 assists) in 38 games. During her final season with the Golden Knights, she was named a Patty Kazmaier Award finalist, a first-team All-American, and the ECAC Player and Defender of the Year. Just 21, Winn joins the Fleet with plenty of international experience. Alongside Fleet teammates Aerin Frankel and Megan Keller, Winn has represented Team USA at three consecutive women's world championships, winning one silver medal (2024) and two golds ('23, '25). Advertisement 'I'm pumped. It's everyone's dream to play in this league, and I'm pumped to go to Boston,' Winn said. 'It's incredible. I can't put it into words when your name is called.' Related : Round 2, pick 10: Ella Huber, F, Minnesota As captain of the Gophers last season, Huber tallied a career-high 48 points (15 goals, 33 assists) in 42 games. She'll likely bolster the Fleet's bottom six in her first professional season, though she could challenge for a top-six role. Advertisement An agile skater who likes to play around the net, Huber thrives at defensive faceoffs. Huber won 60.2 percent of draws in the defensive zone last season, second in the nation behind only No. 1 pick Kaltounkova. Round 3, pick 18: Olivia Mobley, F, Minnesota Duluth The Fleet added another offensive weapon in Mobley, who made it to Duluth by way of Ohio State and Quinnipiac. The Minnesota native played three seasons with Quinnipiac, where she totaled 34 goals and 51 assists in 93 games. She then played a season at Ohio State, posting 27 points (9 goals, 18 assists) en route to a national championship before transferring to Minnesota Duluth for her last year of eligibility. Round 4, pick 26: Riley Brengman, D, Ohio State Another member of the 2024 NCAA champion Buckeyes, Brengman skated in 168 career games with Ohio State across five seasons, picking up 14 goals and 47 assists. '[I'm] super honored and grateful to be a part of such an amazing, incredible organization,' Brengman said in a video posted to Related : Brengman and sixth-round pick Amanda Thiele will join former Buckeyes Hadley Hartmetz and Liz Schepers in Boston. Round 5, pick 34: Abby Newhook, F, Boston College A BC star is staying local, as the Fleet selected a two-way forward in Newhook. In 142 games with the Eagles, Newhook scored 55 goals to go with 58 assists. She was the Hockey East Rookie of the Year in 2021-22 and served as BC's captain the past two seasons. Advertisement Boston College captain Abby Newhook (right), shown battling against Harvard's Emma Buckles in the 2022 Beanpot final, will stay local after the Fleet chose her in Tuesday's PWHL Draft. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff Round 6, pick 42: Amanda Thiele, G, Ohio State The Fleet rounded out their draft class with a goaltender to play behind Frankel. Thiele finished her five-year stint at Ohio State as the winningest goaltender in program history with 73 career wins. She backstopped the Buckeyes to a 2022 NCAA title and led them back to the national championship game in '25. Thiele finished last season with a .887 save percentage. Emma Healy can be reached at
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
International Festival of Arts & Ideas weathers management shakeup by diving deeper into community
This has been a year of change for New Haven's International Festival of Arts & Ideas, resulting in a burst of fresh energy at the decades-old summertime institution. This year's festival is already in full swing through June 28. Shelley Quiala, the festival's executive director for the past four years, announced in August 2024 that she was stepping down so she could take care of her mother in Minnesota. Quiala is staying with the festival in the role of senior artistic and development strategist to smooth the transition to new leadership. For now, longtime board member Rev. Kevin Ewing has stepped in as interim executive director. Melissa Huber, who has been with the festival in various roles since 2003, has assumed a managing director role. 'We are using our collective knowledge of how the festival goes together,' Huber said, to strengthen the festival during the transition. The festival also experienced a tragic loss. Denise Santisteban, who had been with the event since the beginning and was the curator of the Ideas programming as well as tours and storytelling, passed away in April. Ewing said the festival is honoring her memory by basing this year's programming on events she had outlined or already had in place. The International Festival of Arts & Ideas began in 1996 with a goal of not just bringing major performers, thinkers and artists from around the world to New Haven but to do it at a time of year when the city most needed not just the entertainment and enlightenment that the festival would provide but tourists who would eat and shop in the city. The festival was deliberately planned for the barren weeks in June after college students left and before the summer concert and festival season kicked in. Over time, the International Festival of Arts & Ideas expanded its footprint in New Haven,. A dozen years ago, a series of neighborhood festivals were created and scheduled for the weeks leading up to the main downtown festival. Local artists had always been a part of the programming, but instead of being relegated mainly to free concerts on New Haven Green, they started being incorporated into other events. If certain artists became available outside of June, the festival could accommodate them by hosting events at other times of year. 'One of the shifts for the artists was to now have local participation in more ways, including as opening artists,' Huber said. To Ewing, the increased community focus helps with perception problem. 'There was this impression that the festival was for the elites, the Yalies, the East Rockers … but anyone can participate,' he said. In some years, a sizeable percentage of the program was arranged years in advance due to commissioned works, longterm development of projects or established relationships with some artists or companies. This year, Ewing and Huber said the only event planned well in advance was A Broken Umbrella Theatre's production of 'Family Business: (A)Pizza Play,' running June 13-28, which uses original research and interviews about the development of pizza restaurants by immigrant families in New Haven to create the dramatic story of the fictional Carbonizatto family. Huber noted that the festival's legacy and its importance to the New Haven arts community leads to some unexpected connections. This year's keynote speaker is playwright Martyna Majok, whose Broadway drama 'Cost of Living' won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2018. Majok is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. While she was a student, she worked at Arts & Ideas. Huber added that Majok was recently commissioned to write a new musical based on the classic Ray Bradbury novel 'Farenheit 451,' which the festival has designated as its Big Read title this year and has also based events around in previous years. 'It's a nice nod to previous festival programming,' Huber said. There's an extra impetus, and obstacle, to pushing ahead with a cutting edge, envelope pushing arts festival in 2025, Ewing said. 'The energy we're running off this year is resistance,' he said, citing the current politicization of the arts community, changes in federal funding for the arts, increased scrutiny of artistic content and other issues. Arts & Ideas is one of numerous Connecticut arts organizations that had grant money from the National Endowment for the Arts — in this case $65,000 — rescinded after it had already been awarded. It is 30 years since Arts & Ideas was conceived in part due to the New Haven's successful hosting of the Special Olympics World Games in 1995. Huber said the financial setback has only strengthened the impetus and opportunity to foster partnerships with sponsors and other organizations. 'We're gonna make it,' Ewing said. The International Festival of Arts & Ideas is already in the midst of its main multi-week run of performances, talks, concerts, tours, food events and more. All the locations are in downtown New Haven. Here are some highlights: 'Copenhagen': A presentation of Michael Frayn's play based on an historic meeting between the famed physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in 1941. In 1998, the same year the play had its world premiere in London, Arts & Ideas arranged for the original cast to perform it at the festival. May 29 at 7:30 p.m. at the Yale Schwarzman Center. Free. An Evening with Monique Martin: The New York artist, producer and activist will be interviewed onstage while she is in town to receive Arts & Idea's 2025 Visionary Leadership Award. June 11 at 6:30 p.m. at Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School. $75. Martyna Majok: The Pulitzer winning playwright and Yale School of Drama graduate delivers the festival's keynote address on June 14 at 2:15 p.m. in the Humanities Quadrangle on York Street. Free; reservations required. 'Family Business: (A)Pizza Play': A new theater piece by New Haven's A Broken Umbrella Theatre, whose previous associations with the festival include the premiere of another original work based on New Haven history, 'Freewheelers' in 2013. June 13-28 with performances on Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 3 and 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. plus a Thursday performance on June 26 at 8 p.m. $44.86-$52.42. Traces: An interactive exhibit of photos by Bill Graustein. June 14 and 15 from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. at the Connecticut Center for Arts & Technology (ConnCAT) in New Haven's Science Park neighborhood. Free. Theater as Resistance: Godfrey L. Simmons Jr., leader of Hartford's HartBeat Ensemble and a frequent actor in shows at Hartford Stage, joins Dexter Singleton of New Haven's Collective Consciousness Theatre and playwright Majok in this discussion of theater and social change. June 14 at 1 p.m. Free. Minty Fresh Circus: This Black circus troupe conceived by producer Monique Martin uses circus routines to inform about African American history and culture. June 14 at 8 p.m. and June 15 at 2 p.m. at the Yale University Theater. $68.89. New Haven Hip Hop Conference — Visions of Truth: The seventh annual gathering of hip-hop scholars, performers and others. June 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Neighborhood Music School on Audubon Street. Free. Jacques Pépin: The renowned chef and cookbook author shares stories from his life and kitchen. June 19 at 5 p.m. at the Yale University Theater. $84.32. Autumn Peltier: The First Nation member (Anishinaabe and Wikwemikong) and Canadian environmental activist speaks about the need for clean water. June 21 at 4 p.m. at the Humanities Quadrangle. Free; reservations required. City of Floating Sounds: A two-part night-long collaboration among the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Yale's Schwarzman Center and Arts & Ideas on June 21. The event begins with a 6 p.m. guided walking tour that involves recorded sounds by composer Huang Ruo that will grow in clarity and intensity as the walkers approach New Haven Green for a live 7 p.m. concert. Free. Sons of Mystro: A free show on New Haven Green from the eclectic Black violin ensemble that plays everything from pop to hip-hop to jazz and yes, classical. DJ Kasey Cortez opens the night of free music at 5:45 p.m.; Sons of Mystro goes on at 6:30 p.m. Free. Mireya Ramos: The Latin vocalist performs her concert act 'Guerrera,' a tribute to strong women, on June 24 at 8 p.m. at the Yale University Theater. $68.89. Squonk: The experimental musical entertainers perform their latest concert, 'Brouhaha,' featuring their signature instrument the Squonkcordion. Free on New Haven Green with performances June 26 at 5 p.m., June 27 at 1, 3 and 5 p.m. and June 28 at noon and 2 p.m. Hang Him to the Scales and Christine Tassanet et les Imposteurs: A double bill of free bands on New Haven Green on June 26. Hang Him to the Scales, which goes on first at 6 p.m., is an Asian shoegaze act based in Brooklyn while Christine Tassanet et les Imposteurs, performing at 7 p.m., are purveyors of the jazz genre manouche. Joshua Redman: The great jazz saxophonist and his quartet perform June 26 at 8 p.m. at the Yale University Theater. $68.69. Seny Tatchol Camara and Sol and the Tribu: The final night of free concerts on New Haven Green features West African drummer and dancer Seny Tatchoil Camara at 6 p.m. and the Cuban rhythms of Sol and the Tribu at 7 p.m. Free. The festival also features film screenings, storytelling shows, walking tours of everything from local LGBTQ+ history to a botanical garden and the oyster industry in Fair Haven, food events such as 'Black Table: Afro-Culinary Futurism,' panel discussions on such topics as 'Making Memories: Neurons, Quantum Computing and Art' and special events that tie in to Juneteenth celebrations as well as the iconic New Haven community Freddy Fixer Parade and New Haven Caribbean Heritage Festival. The full calendar of events for the International Festival of Arts & Ideas is available at
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Spectrum Launches 24/7 Channel Spectrum News Michigan
Spectrum News has launched Spectrum News Michigan. Spectrum News Michigan is available 24/7, and available to Spectrum TV customers across the state on channel 1. The channel features local headlines every thirty minutes, at the top and bottom of every hour, and hyperlocal weather forecasts every 10 minutes on the 1s. The new network will be led by executive producer Craig Huber, a Michigan native with more than three decades of journalism experience. "Michigan welcomes the launch of Spectrum News to our roster of state media," said Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks. "At a time when it can be difficult to differentiate fact from fiction, I am glad to see more space being created for journalists who are dedicated to providing hyperlocal coverage and encouraging informed engagement in communities across the state." 'People across Michigan, from big cities to our close-knit communities, want access to news that impacts their lives," said Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt. "I'm pleased Spectrum News is stepping up with its trusted journalism to deliver the stories that matter most to Michiganders.' The new linear network features reporting from Michigan-based journalists as well as relevant stories from across the country. "From Metro Detroit to West Michigan and Up North, Spectrum News delivers meaningful journalism," said Huber. "As a native of the Mitten State, I know Spectrum News' community-focused storytelling will resonate with our audience." Huber began his journalism career in 1993. Also joining the network is journalist Brian Farber, who will report on the community in and around Grand Rapids, an area he has been covering since 1998. It is also available to Spectrum customers via the Spectrum News App on mobile, Xumo Stream Box, Roku and Apple TV.
Sky News AU
15-05-2025
- Business
- Sky News AU
Oil tycoon busted at lavish Utah mega-mansion, accused of working with Mexican cartels in $466 million scheme
A Utah oil magnate was arrested along with his wife in a dramatic raid on their opulent, 27,000-square-foot mansion after allegedly smuggling more than $300 million (AUD$466 million) worth of oil from Mexico to the US with the help of drug cartels, according to reports. James and Kelly Jensen were arrested on April 23 by US Marshals, who used battering rams to bust through the doors of the couple's $9.2 million mansion outside Salt Lake City, KSLTV reported. 'They were unwilling to come out,' Assistant US Attorney Michael Hess said of the family, which has deep political ties — Kelly's father, Gordon Walker, worked in the US Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Ronald Reagan, while her mother, Carlene Walker, was a Utah state senator, according to KVEO. Just days earlier on April 17, the Jensens were indicted on charges they conspired to buy and smuggle more than 2,800 shipments of stolen oil from Mexico into the US as part of an alleged scheme that began three years ago, according to the feds. The Jensens' company made payments for the crude oil to 'businesses in Mexico that operate only through the permission of Mexican criminal organizations,' according to the feds. The feds alleged the family used their ill-gotten gains to buy a new home and cars — and have moved to seize them. Their sons Zachary and Max were also allegedly in on it and were also indicted, though it is unclear if they were arrested at the mountainside mansion with their parents. The family owns and operates Arroyo Terminals, a Texas company that buys and sells crude oil at a property just miles from the US border in Rio Hondo. Arroyo Terminals was raided by federal agents on the same day the family was arrested, with employees being handcuffed and questioned about the business's practices. 'We don't know about that,' one employee told CBS 4 News after the raid. 'We're just in charge of unloading the trucks and loading the barges.' 'When it comes to the aspect of knowing where this oil's coming from or what company or what part of Mexico or anything like that, we were always out of the loop,' another work told Border Report. The Jensens were detained and taken to the Salt Lake City Jail, but despite prosecutors' fears of being a flight risk, were back home within days after their attorney, John Huber, agued they had deep roots in the community and weren't going anywhere. 'They're active in their church. They're active in their community. They come from a stalwart Utah family,' Huber said. '[James'] in-laws have served in public service for decades and they don't want to throw that all out of the window.' Huber also disputed the feds' claim that the family refused to come easily during the raid. 'Mr. Jensen and Mrs. Jensen's story about that is very different,' Huber said, claiming the couple agreed to come out but that the feds busted down their door anyway. The family business was previously accused of buying stolen oil in 2011. In that case, James Jensen was sued by a Mexican government-owned oil company for allegedly traveling to Mexico to buy fuel from cartels. Jensen denied all wrongdoing and that case was dropped two years later. After their April arrest, the Jensens were ordered to forfeit all money they'd earned from the alleged scheme, along with new cars, a second home, their business, and bank accounts — all worth about $300 million, KSLTV reported. Both sons pleaded not guilty. All were also charged with money laundering spending conspiracy, and aiding and abetting smuggling goods into the US. They face up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted. Originally published as Oil tycoon busted at lavish Utah mega-mansion, accused of working with Mexican cartels in $466 million scheme
