AltWeeklies Wire
Absinthe, eh? Canadian, eh?new
Absinthe's bad rep lead many countries to ban it -- enter enterprising distillation iconoclast Frank Deiter of Okanagan Spirits, one of the world's smallest distilleries but with perhaps one of the world's largest portfolios.
The Georgia Straight |
Jurgen Gothe |
09-14-2007 |
Food+Drink
Rich Sicilian Reds Put Warmth into Fallnew
There are plenty of reds, despite the fact that white-wine grapes are still Sicily's largest plantings. Perhaps the most promising variety is the ubiquitous nero d'avola, which takes to oak aging successfully.
The Georgia Straight |
Jurgen Gothe |
09-07-2007 |
Food+Drink
Blah Blogs Morph into Useful Resourcesnew
At what point does a blog become an online specialty magazine, a news service, an information conglomerator, a collaborative wiki created by devotees, or an annotated archive of rare audio or video?
The Georgia Straight |
Dave Watson |
07-13-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Waiter, I Didn't Order This MSGnew
The current chain email says that people might be shocked to see that monosodium glutamate shows up in thousands of foods.
The Georgia Straight |
Gail Johnson |
07-06-2007 |
Food+Drink
Mobile Monopoly Old News to Canadiansnew
There's no doubt that the current troika of companies stopped competing with each other and settled into a comfortable and mutually profitable detente.
The Georgia Straight |
Dave Watson |
07-06-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Galapagos Survivorsnew
Giant tortoises and friendly finches draw visitors to the islands.
The Georgia Straight |
Kevin Revolinski |
06-15-2007 |
Travel
Tags: travel
Comic Russell Peters: Fun with Stereotypesnew
The Indo-Canadian comic has exploded onto the international scene.
The Georgia Straight |
Guy MacPherson |
06-15-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Korean Kimbap Rolls Out of Sushi's Shadownew
No need for soy sauce, wasabi, or pickled ginger: kimbap stands alone -- it's a star waiting to be discovered.
The Georgia Straight |
Carolyn Ali |
06-08-2007 |
Food+Drink
Geek of the Week: DailyLit.comnew
This free service will educate you with book classics, a chunk of text at a time.
The Georgia Straight |
Dave Watson |
06-08-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Games Through a Comix Lensnew
Scott McCloud didn't anticipate that video-game developers would adopt his 1993 book Understanding Comics as an instruction manual for their industry.
The Georgia Straight |
Blaine Kyllo |
06-01-2007 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Geek of the Week: Placeblogger.comnew
Placeblogger organizes blogs by neighborhood, city, region and country to make it easier to pick up the chatter from far-off locales.
The Georgia Straight |
Dave Watson |
05-11-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Summer's Battle-ready, Brainy Blockbustersnew
From TMNT to God of War II, here are some of the biggest new video game releases.
The Georgia Straight |
Blaine Kyllo |
05-07-2007 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
IMDB Redesign Splices a New Film Historynew
IMDB was wiki a dozen years before wiki came into usage, and it's as if the web was built for it to exist in -- so this was probably less of a wikification than a redesign to highlight some information categories that had a low profile or hadn't existed before.
The Georgia Straight |
Dave Watson |
05-07-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Brand-new Berries Offer Health Benefitsnew
Blueberries could be facing some serious competition for the attention of health nuts and smoothie lovers as a new crop of exotic berries and fruits starts to gain popularity worldwide.
The Georgia Straight |
Gail Johnson |
04-27-2007 |
Food+Drink
VHS to DVDnew
Yes, it's time to digitize those precious tapes.
The Georgia Straight |
Dave Watson |
04-27-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
