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Meet the Ansel Adams of Liquor Store Photography Matt Oswalt © Provided by The Daily Beast Courtesy Matt Oswalt Next time you fly into Hollywood Burbank Airport glance out the window as you descend along Victory Boulevard and you’ll see colorful liquor store neon signs through the smog. During the day these weathered displays covered in pigeon droppings form a fossil-like middle finger pointed at the big-box stores across the street. But when the sun goes down they’re transformed. Drive around at night and you can be a Gene Hackman cosplayer from Night Moves or Elliott...

Sitting at 4-9 in the year and 3-3 in SEC play, we’re way past the point of danger to the Wildcats in their hopes of making it to the NCAA tournament as an overall team. At this point, Kentucky must play near-perfect basketball in the team’s last 12 games of the regular season – 13 if / when the South Carolina game moves – or win the SEC tournament for a chance. And given the team’s play throughout the season – particularly in each of the team’s last two games – that’s an undeniably big task. Before we get into the details of the LSU game, let’s first discuss some of Thur...

“I’ve seen it go for twice of what the auction price went for,” said Liquor Max co-owner Hal Rogers. “Most of the price is driven by scarcity. It’s supply and demand. It’s an old, reputable distiller, and we get it in maybe once a year. On the shelf it would go for $600 or $700.” Maybe part of that high-dollar figure is the price of bragging rights, Rogers said. “A lot of people collect these things. And if they give it as a gift, it might create a bigger bond, and they’d get a bigger thank you.” The Tourvilles planned to drink it, however. “It’s aged well, with a bett...

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Hidden Omakase, 5353 W. Alabama, is shooting to make its debut December 15. The tasting menu-only restaurant comes from Japanese chef Billy Kin, most recently executive chef and partner at Blackbird Izakaya, a Japanese pub and restaurant Kin opened with Ken Bridge of Delicious Concepts. Blackbird closed this past July. Robot Noodle, another concept from Bridge, has taken its place. Kin is a graduate of the Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management at University of Houston. Kin comes from a restaurant family with a grandfather owning restaurants in Japan and his father operating restau...