AltWeeklies Wire
Value Vino: Sipping Spainnew
The Spanish economy is in the tank these days. A little mercy wine buying accordingly might be in order — and the notion may be an easier sell than a recent suggestion to do the same for Greece.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
04-13-2012 |
Food+Drink
How I Walked 500 Miles and Got My Soul Cleansednew
Right now, I could murder that little old lady in the confessional.
Charleston City Paper |
Jon Santiago |
07-07-2011 |
Religion
Tags: Spain, Pilgrimage
Ask a Mexican: Why do Mexican Women Hate Spanish Women?new
"I'm half-Catalan, and the women on my mom's side of my family have spent most of their lives being hated by Mexicans. I've never understood it."
Outlaw Wine Series Shows Off Growing Regionsnew
The Ole Imports G series from Vinos Sin Ley (loosely translated as "outlaw wines") is meant to showcase the effect that different growing regions have on a single grape varietal, the garnacha, a grape native to Spain that is called grenache in France and elsewhere.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
07-09-2008 |
Food+Drink
Lately of Spainnew
A wine critic presents a diary of Iberian discovery.
INDY Week |
Arturo Ciompi |
06-14-2006 |
Food+Drink
A Slump So Sublimenew
Love Kraft is a good album by Super Furry Animals' standards and a great one by the standards
of most other rock bands.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Caribbean Homesick Bluesnew
Robert Antoni, whose latest novel is about an Anglo who's run away from both his Trinidadian roots and his wealthy family, chafes at being labeled a literary writer.
Miami New Times |
Brett Sokol |
04-19-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
What People in Spain Are Saying about Iraqnew
The torture at Abu Ghraib prison reminded a contributor to the International Herald Tribune of the sight of white people laughing in old photos of American lynchings and a writer in El Pais of "young, strong, jolly" German soldiers having their way with naked Jews.
Chicago Reader |
Michael Miner |
08-07-2004 |
Media
Cinco de Mayo Isn't What People Thinknew
Cinco de Mayo is not, as many would have it, a day to commemorate Mexico's independence from Spain. It's a celebration of the date in 1862 that Mexico defeated the French at the Battle of Puebla.
San Diego CityBeat |
Edwin Decker |
05-05-2004 |
Race & Class
Spanish Blame Oil Spill on Houston Firmnew
Fishermen and citizens harmed by what's been called the worst environmental disaster in Spanish history are looking to a Houston ship classification society to bear some financial responsibility.
Houston Press |
Josh Harkinson |
04-27-2004 |
Environment
Tags: This Week in Alternative Weeklies, coast, environment, Houston, Spain, fishermen, $1 billion, American Bureau of Shipping, civil lawsuit, damages, environmental disaster, financial responsibility, Houston Press, international law, M/V Prestige, November 2002, oil spill, oil tanker, ship classification society
