Living through a pandemic for over a year has given me an opportunity to begin appreciating more wine, and I’m fortunate enough to have a four generation family winery near me whose delivery drivers are MORE
It was Opening Day for baseball yesterday, and as Michiganders have been known to refer to it before, it was Sno-pening Day. If the thought of bundling up with your cold beer and hot dog MORE
A few weeks back in Black History Month we visited the Blue Front Cafe and listened to some juke joint blues with a simple man named Jimmy “Duck” Holmes. This video was shared in 2010 MORE
If it’s 5:00 where you are, you can look forward to the vernal equinox in just a little more than 12 hours. The first day of spring, a day to celebrate the Northern Hemisphere tilting MORE
We are likely to hear a lot about Daylight Savings Time this weekend, which occurs early Sunday morning when my circadium rhythm will be working at maximum efficiency to restore my body and soul. I MORE
It’s Women’s History Month, and we’ve been given a chance to celebrate all of the joyful roles that women fill in our lives. Today, we’re looking back at several decades of music we’ve been gifted MORE
Welcome to the 5:00 Somewhere Cafe! Come along today on a Black History Month peek at some Old South culture. Grab a drink, smoke ’em if ya got ’em, and let’s get tangled up in MORE
The Friday 5:00 happy hour is provided for you as a means to relax and alleviate the stress of the week. While this is often suggested as a place to partake of a cocktail, beer, MORE
What a Friday! What a week! We made it through. I know I need some Distance from this horrific moment in America’s history, some time to reconnect with the world outside of the outrageous theater MORE
A great question was raised this morning in light of the current snow globe atmosphere slamming the Great Lakes region, including my own back yard. Is this Phil’s fault? Or is it the fault of MORE
Today’s Happy Hour research has led me to find that President Biden is a teetotaler. He says that one of his favorite uncles was a heavy drinker, and therefore chose to avoid it. The majority MORE
As “dem Trumps” have vacated Washington, there’s one fantastic benefit we may have overlooked. We no longer have to stand for Trump women hogging the fashion spotlight in their pretentious, vulgar couture. Enter Bernie Sanders MORE
Trump walks into a bar…….and immediately lowers it. Ugh……Did he have to lower it this far? These MAGAholics need their next pub crawl squashed and sent directly to the MAGAdrunk-tank. Thanks to the MAGApandemic, raging MORE
Nothing could be better than kicking back on a Friday night, fluffing the couch pillows and grabbing your favorite lap throw, and settling in to watch more about a fine group of domestic terrorists attempting MORE
We’ve officially turned the page on 2020, but almost like an epilogue to a horror novel, there was one more name to add in the annals of artists lost in the painfully ugly year that MORE
Somewhere it’s Christmas! I put a pumpkin pie in the oven, the potatoes are ready to be whipped, and the spiral ham’s aroma is arousing memories of Christmases past, filled with music, noise, wrapping paper MORE
Did anyone else just figure out that Christmas is a week from today? That was me last night. So today has been spent in the kitchen making treats for the lucky handful who will be getting some goodies — easy on the baking, just some melting chocolate for assorted dipped delicacies. MORE
To Christmas or not to Christmas, that is the question. I am not in the mood, that is for certain. I’m not in the mood to decorate, shop, or bake. I have a tree up. MORE
So, hey, it’s Friday again! And it’s 5:00 somewhere, and I think we should be there or be square! Can I interest you in a big frothy can of Big Gretch Beer? Really. Just like MORE
Thanksgiving tradition in my neck of the woods has almost always meant a Lions loss. I don’t have any statistics, but I’ll say that the NFL tradition of the Lions being one of the contenders MORE
I wanted to share what I’ve been listening to this week since it was released on Monday. The video is so moving, you really don’t need to have been a follower of his dad’s music MORE
It’s 5:00 somewhere this Friday the 13th, and we’re 67 days away from Inauguration Day. Do you have your champagne ready? Unfortunately, we still have 67 days to survive until we can celebrate our freedom MORE
The clock does say 5:00 here, but let’s talk about time for a few minutes. (See what I did there?) We follow time with clocks, calendars and moons, and still a true concept of time MORE
Does this look like a guy who would approve of the Trump campaign using his music at superspreader rallies? Nope. While many artists have objected to the use of their songs on Trump’s campaign trail, MORE
Today marks the beginning of Big Ten Football, a conference that has agreed upon an eight game conference-only schedule. I should thank Trump for his intervention, right? Otherwise, how would I ever go on? I’ll MORE