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photo: Margaret Houston Nothing against juleps, but horse-racing season has plenty of room for other cocktails. In Maryland, equestrian fans prefer a different mint-garnished sipper during the spring steeplechase months—it’s called the Southside. Baltimore’s Elkridge Club helped popularize the cocktail, but Old Line State tailgaters whip up their own versions everywhere from amateur races to the Preakness. Doug Atwell, bartender at Blue Pit BBQ & Whiskey in Baltimore, has studied the Southside and its many individual incarnations. “I discovered that the local variation is predominate...

Restaurants Have a New Problem, and It Has Red Eyes and Is Super Loud Saahil Desai © Lily Lambie-Kiernan Restaurants are back, baby! Head over to that reopened neighborhood joint, and snag a table with some friends you haven’t seen in a year. Overpriced cocktails have never sounded so good. Sit on the patio, and take in late May for all it’s worth. Oh, the waiter’s coming over; have you decided on drinks yet? Sorry, what’s that? I can’t hear you. Can you shout a little louder? Uh ... did something just fly into your face? The cicadas are back, baby! From Illinois t...

All winter/spring community trout stockings will be unannounced this year and family fishing events will not be held to help reduce the crowd size at stocking locations and minimize the spread of COVID-19. The winter/spring community trout stockings are a great place to take kids to catch their first fish. A small hook with a nightcrawler or corn under a small bobber or small simple spinners such as a panther martin or mepps is all you need to get in on the fun. Bringing trout to cities and towns offers a “close to home” option for Iowans who might not travel to the coldwater streams in n...