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Local bartenders, cocktail gurus and absinthe aficionados are tasked with creating a cocktail using Lifted Spirits Absinthe Verte. They will be judged on creativity, presentation, taste and execution.
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Once-vacant warehouses now house carefully curated galleries in the Crossroads. It’s here that visitors can truly take in the arts, both hanging in showrooms and spray-painted onto building exteriors—while restaurants, breweries and speakeasies round out the neighborhood that the arts built.