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Spittin' Game: Unreal Tournament 3 and Guitar Hero: Aerosmithnew
Exploring space marines and the white-trash version of the Rolling Stones.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
07-30-2008 |
Video Games
Corkscrew: Taming Your Tanninsnew
Decanting — step by step.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Taylor Eason |
07-30-2008 |
Food+Drink
Normally Restrained Critics Orgasm Over 2005 Bordeauxnew
The pundits have also posited that even the area's lesser lights benefited from both the vintage's extremely favorable growing conditions and constant improvements in viticulture and winemaking technique.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
07-30-2008 |
Food+Drink
Captured By Porches Isn't a Microbrewery, It's a Nanobrewerynew
Dylan Goldsmith, 34, is the sole employee of Captured by Porches, Oregon's smallest brewery, filling every position from owner to keg-washer.
Willamette Week |
Joseph Watts |
07-30-2008 |
Food+Drink
Where to Go for Breakfast in Chicagonew
The following is a list of some of our favorite spots within city limits, stretching from Andersonville all the way down to Hyde Park, from hip weekend-morning brunch spots, to old-school classics, to destination-spots for the nighthawks .
Chicago Newcity |
Staff |
07-30-2008 |
Food+Drink
Figs Find Their Natural Mate: Beernew
Avery Brewing Company's Fifteen and Schmaltz Brewing Company's Rejewvenator ("the Chosen Beer"), each brewed this spring with dried California Mission figs.
North Bay Bohemian |
Alastair Bland |
07-29-2008 |
Food+Drink
Pine-Sol & Cat Peenew
And absinthe's allure is . . . ? Now that it's legal, our reviewer bravely swallows it all, from the stinky feet to the pickled radish.
North Bay Bohemian |
Carey Sweet |
07-29-2008 |
Food+Drink
I, Winepodnew
For just $6,000, you too can make like winemaker in the privacy of your own home! Just purchase this little robot.
North Bay Bohemian |
Alastair Bland |
07-29-2008 |
Food+Drink
Olive You Know May Not Be Truenew
Increasingly subject to fraudulent oversea practices, extra-virgin olive oil is yet another product that's best to buy close to home.
North Bay Bohemian |
Alastair Bland |
07-29-2008 |
Food+Drink
Divorce, Connecticut-Stylenew
Our court battles are long, nasty and expensive. Is there a better way?
New Haven Advocate |
Daniel D'Ambrosio |
07-29-2008 |
Culture
Trendzilla: Musicians, Fans and Fashionsnew
Music, counterculture and fashion all tie in together. And usually once a certain sect of kids gets hooked on a certain genre of music, they're going to want to emulate those bands they admire. Or, at least, they're going to try.
Tags: counterculture, fashion
Can Kansas City Support Two Entertainment Districts?new
To find out, we drink our way through the Power & Light and Westport districts.
The Pitch |
Jen Chen and Crystal K. Wiebe |
07-29-2008 |
Recreation
Gay or Straight? Pick a Side Before Joining a Lesbian Softball Leaguenew
As a woman married to man, I'm an anomaly here in the South Florida Amateur Athletic Association, which defines itself on the web as "a gay and lesbian softball league ... for both gay and non-gay participants."
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Amy Guthrie |
07-29-2008 |
Sports
Beer's Summer of the Can Continuesnew
Thanks to Oskar Blues, the Colorado-based brewery we recently praised for canning their brews, we're reverting to the metal vessel that, for most kids' high school years, was the definitive method of putting beer in one's body.
Weekly Alibi |
Evan George and Alex Brown |
07-29-2008 |
Food+Drink
Renaissance Man Jeff Daniels on His Plays, Music and His Upcoming Appearance in Detroitnew
Actor, playwright, activist, musician and proud Michigander, Jeff Daniels, keeps his creative plate full. His newest play, Panhandle Slim & The Oklahoma Kid, is currently running at The Purple Rose. But this week he also comes to the Detroit Film Theater for a special engagement, performing for one night only with Sigourney Weaver in A.R. Gurney's Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, Love Letters.
Metro Times |
Norene Cashen |
07-29-2008 |
Performance
