AltWeeklies Wire
Sushi, Pigtails, and Hopsnew
Who puts wasabi in beer? Brewers who are trying to pair their creations with those of a top San Antonio sushi chef.
San Antonio Current |
Travis E. Poling |
12-07-2011 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Wasabi Beer
20 Essential Techniques To Make You a Better Cooknew
Is Michael Ruhlman more of a writer or more of a cook? Given his impressive body of work, it can be hard to tell. Call him a renaissance man.
Charleston City Paper |
Brys Stephens |
12-07-2011 |
Food+Drink
The Memory-Invoking Power of Quincenew
Boisean Dave Turner knows all about taste and memory, if not Marcel Proust and his madeleines. The catalyst that shot Turner into his past was quince, a fragrant apple-like fruit.
Boise Weekly |
Guy Hand |
12-07-2011 |
Food+Drink
DIY: Walnut Ornaments for the New Yearnew
Fruits and nuts were used as ornaments on some of the earliest Christmas trees, and this project provides an updated twist with the addition of a hidden message — and it also makes a thoughtful gift.
Charleston City Paper |
Allison Nadeau |
12-07-2011 |
Culture
Tags: Holidays, DIY Decorating
Joseph Crone's 'Fragments'new
The Herron grad shows off his film noir-inspired work — in colored pencil, following a process involving photography and acetate — in a show at Wug Laku’s.
Tags: acetate, joseph crone
Bought & Sold: The Jacksonville Jaguarsnew
After 18 years of the NFL, Jacksonville needs to acknowledge that pro sports are no civic salvation.
Folio Weekly |
Bob Snell |
12-06-2011 |
Sports
Tags: Shahid Kahn, Jacksonville Jaguars
The One, True White Whalenew
Reading the other bible at Christmas time.
The Inlander |
Nicholas Deshais |
12-06-2011 |
Commentary
The holiday bait and switchnew
No, my annual grumbling set in around the same time it usually does: just after Thanksgiving, when the moneyed interests unleash a full blitzkrieg on our weaker impulses with the goal of stripping us of more money that we want to spend. The trigger was a piece on the television news, a spot report issued the day before Thanksgiving from the front lines of the battle on our bank accounts.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
12-03-2011 |
Commentary
Follow Atlanta's most-wanted Twitter handlesnew
#ATL's Twitterati in 140 characters or less.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Bobby Feingold |
12-02-2011 |
Tech
Best of Flash Fiction, November 2011new
Raising children, I can imagine, is always a task. But being a child is no better (or worse). Clarence Darrow’s penetrating (and obfuscating) quote wraps it up nicely: “The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.”
San Antonio Current |
Lyle Rosdahl |
12-02-2011 |
Art
Family-Friendly Stocking Stuffersnew
Be nice to children, or it’s coal in your stocking and stones in your shoes. At your wit’s end and don’t know what to do?
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-02-2011 |
Art
The Best Atlantans to Follow on Twitternew
#StaffPix from Besha Rodell, Rodney Carmichael and Bobby Feingold.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Besha Rodell, Rodney Carmichael and Bobby Feingold |
12-01-2011 |
Tech
Twitter-Friendly Atlanta is Not Fully Wired Yetnew
Atlanta is supposed to be one of America's most wired cities. #Truth?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Wheatley |
12-01-2011 |
Tech
The Best Games to Gift in Decembernew
Ask any gamer out there what the biggest problem with the holiday season is and most of them will say, "There's too many games to choose from!"
San Antonio Current |
Grayson Hamilton |
11-30-2011 |
Video Games
Baby-Bucks Bordeauxnew
If fine wine prices are an indicator of economic health, then here’s the correlation: after reaching a peak of $3,500 per bottle in mid 2008, the price of a bottle of Bordeaux’s 1982 Chateau Lafite Rothschild dipped to a mere $3,300 or so in June of 2009.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
11-30-2011 |
Food+Drink
Tags: wine, value wine
