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14 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 12.14 thebit CIT Ysentence . in a HAIKU REVIEW WE L OVE "In the brewing industry, I think facial hair is a prerequisite," Against the Grain Brewery co-owner Andrew Ott says in a "Real Guys, Real Grooming" ad campaign for Wahl beard trimmers. The commercials — another edition features the LumberKings minor-league baseball team from Clinton, Iowa — have run on ESPN. Each ATG owner's beard takes on a different personality: Ott the teddy bear, Adam Watson the wizard, Jerry Gnagy as President Chester A. Arthur. Sam Cruz's is simply "detailed and groomed." Wahl sniffed out ATG last summer (each of the owners, who weren't paid for the campaign, already used a Wahl trimmer, just not the sleek lithium-ion model featured in the ads) and followed the guys around with cameras for a few days. The videos are posted to atgbrewery.com, with this disclaimer: "We're not male models." — Mary Chellis Austin I'm a Mitch, I'm a Mitch, oh, the Mitch is back! Christmas in July Highlight of the year was Jack White at Forecastle. "Misirlou" cover! derbydinner.com WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO ? Drones. The NSA. That creepy guy down the street who's always smoking on his porch when I go for a run at 5:30 in the morning. What I'm saying: I'm being watched. Paranoia? Nay. It's called "tactical intelligence" — glossy police speak for "we see you at all times." (To be fair, the creepy man may just crave a hit of tobacco before sunup.) Anyway, did you know 82 security cameras now watch Louisvillians all over the city? Cops monitor these cameras around the clock on 16 screens at what LMPD is calling a "Real Time Crime Center" downtown on Fifth Street. Thirty cameras alone are mounted up in the somewhere at Waterfront Park. Remember that "mob" violence back in March when teens assaulted walkers on the Big Four Bridge and other folks downtown? The city's immediate answer — those 30 Waterfront Park cameras. Cops love them, saying crime has dropped at Waterfront Park since installation back in April. Sure enough, an open-records request for crime data from April through October of this year shows reported crime at Waterfront Park dropping signifcantly when compared to the same time frame in 2012 and 2013. During that seven-month period in 2014, 70 crimes were reported, ranging from assault to purse snatching to vandalism. Last year over those same seven months, 116 crimes were reported. The year before that: 119. We asked for crime data for other large parks — Iroquois in the South End, Cherokee in the Highlands and Shawnee in west Louisville. The one with the fewest reported crimes in that April- to-October time frame? Shawnee. — Anne Marshall Feet of ribbon that will be used this season at the Amazon fulfllment center in Jeffersonville, Ind. 780,000