This Small Town Life

3/14/10

• Story of the Week – Women Artists for Women’s History Month
  

• Beer Moment
  
  • Dolores River Brewery
    
  • Main Street Brewery (Cortez)
  • According to the Brewers Association, in 2009 small and independent craft brewers saw sales dollars increase 10.3% and volume increase 7.2% over 2008, a growth of 613,992 barrels. Ska Brewing Co. did better than the average craft brewer last year, 2009 saw a 54% increase in dollar sales over 2008 and a 46% increase in volume.
    

• This Week on the Internet
  • Google Reader Play
    
  • Judge rules record label can’t sell Pink Floyd tracks individually without band permission.
    
  • Google Maps adds Bike Directions
  • Logorama – This year’s Academy Award Winner for Animated Shorts on iTunes
    

• On the Small Town Media
  • Amazon.com fires CO affiliates (good overview in the Herald today)
  • DOW Shoots Dog for Harrassing Elk
  • FBI arrests suspected bank robbers – allegedly robbed Band of the San Juans in Durango (March 26, 2008) and First National Bank in Bayfield (September 22, 2009). In Bayfield they escaped on ATV’s.
    

• Music: One Hit Wonders
  1. Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm
  2. Better than Ezra – Good
  3. Liz Phair – Polyester Bride
  4. Nada Surf – Popular
  5. Veruca Salt – Volcano Girls
     
  6. Verve Pipe – The Freshman
  7. New Radicals – You Get What You Give
  8. Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah – The Skin of Your Yellow Country Teeth
     
  9. Lisa Loeb – Stay
  10. Harvey Danger – Flagpole Sitta
  11. Verve – Bittersweet Symphony
  12. Jill Sobule – I Kissed a Girl
  13. The Dandy Warhols – Bohemian Like You
  14. Marcy Playground – Sex and Candy
  15. Fiona Apple – Criminal
  16. Nappy Roots – Po’ Folks
  17. Phantom Planet – California
  18. Ben Kweller – Wasted and Ready