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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

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

Galapagos Survivorsnew

Giant tortoises and friendly finches draw visitors to the islands.
The Georgia Straight  |  Kevin Revolinski  |  06-15-2007  |  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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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