The Barrel News Today

The owner of several businesses in North Carolina has been arrested after an investigation by special agents with the North Carolina Department of Revenue.

The local dining scene continues to expand with additions like Kawa Ni, MAKfam and Verbena, plus bars like Pretty Neat and My Boy Tony.

The new festival will keep Military Park home to the states largest wine festival.

“Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire,” said nature writer David Rains Wallace. And the Silicon Valley is full of breweries and taphouses

The Washington Nationals are swinging hot bats on the road and look to continue that pattern when they face the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday night in Denver.

Following the release of "Water In The Barrel," which was inspired by Zen philosophy and the 20th century professor Alan Watts, the Portland-based folk artist Eddie Berman is releasing “The Wheel,” another reflective single that deals with the destructive power of habit energy and the need to reconnect with our own humanity. The song is featured on 'Broken English,' Berman's 11-song suite of campfire-worthy, cosmic folk-rock, out January 31st via Nettwerk Records.

The Band In The Barrel concert series has begun at Restoration Vineyards, and it will continue with live music on Saturday afternoons into October. There are two different seating times for each date in the concert series at the Restoration Vineyards Tasting Room, 3594 E½ Road, in Palisade. The first is from 1:30–3 p.m., and the second is from 3:30-5 p.m. The concerts are free to attend, but a reservation is needed for the particular time slot you want. That reservation can be made thro...

Winter upstate is no joke, and with patio dining off the menu and doors closed on the few...

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