The judging panels awarded Silver, Gold, and, for the standouts, Master medals to spirits that meet a very high benchmark for balance, purity, and category character.
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Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
This new rye whiskey started its life in Illinois, specifically at Chicago craft distillery Koval, which makes some very… interesting spirits (the Koopers trained there as distillers).
Recently, believers have moved away from physical explanations entirely, theorizing that aliens might be interdimensional beings, spiritual entities or modern encounters with angels and demons.
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Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
This doesn’t go down well with some of his fellow angels, who prefer the original plan.
In the centuries-old Cape Town Muslim community of my childhood, none of this was particularly unusual; older people spoke freely about ghosts or jinn, counseling us to take precautions of prayers, salt, incense, to limit our interaction with them.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
By the time Laras is making like Linda Blair, malicious jinn power resisting that of Almighty Allah, the film has already gone down a familiar path of grotesque makeup, stunts and digital FX.
As the players linked arms as one by one — five of them were brave enough to take on the enormous pressure of these penalties — in the shadows was the 2-1 defeat by Barcelona in their only other Champions League final twenty years ago.
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Amy Lawrence,
New York Times,
31 May 2026
Pérez daring anyone in the shadows to step forward.
The score by Joseph Bishara is shivery with chorales that moan like wraiths in the wind.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
The earliest depictions of slavery were already crawling with the terrible proceedings the Gothic tends to depict, from bloody whippings to family curses to the wrathful wraiths of the slain enslaved.
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