Month: December 2005

  • Jonathan Rhys Meyers

    Woody Allen has made a few changes to the patented Allen formula, which may be why his latest film, Match Point, is better than anything he’s done in ages. For one thing, he’s replaced New York with London, albeit for financial, rather than creative, reasons. For another, there is no neurotic Jew shambling through scenes…

  • Salut Bar Amèricaine

    Some people attempt to spite the French by pouring out red wine and voting against John Kerry. Other people believe that a little smirk while enjoying an American version of coq au vin is just as effective. Salut Bar Americaine in Edina celebrates the French and sticks it to them at the same time. Warm,…

  • State of Grace

    I was pleased to read Jennifer Vogel’s exegesis on the religiosity of Eric Enstrom’s “Grace” [“That Old-Time Religion,” December]. It is good for us to have such an abject image of humility in a season–nay, a yearlong culture–of conspicuous consumption. I was disappointed, however, by the omission of the fact that Enstrom’s work, or some…

  • The Style of Elements

    I would like to assert my science-geekiness onto “A Tisket, A Tasket,” [Down the Hatch, December], the article about personalized gift baskets. I have been creating handmade Christmas gifts for some time and enjoyed Ms. March’s sentiments on the subject. Additionally, I very much look forward to trying out the Fiscalini San Joaquin Gold cheese,…

  • Kimberly Joy Morgan

    Hair color, style, degree of curl–according to Kimberly Joy Morgan, these define black women more than any white girl contemplating a box of blonde hair dye will ever know. Morgan, who styles her own locks in sassy faux dreads, was a winner at the Twin Cities’ first-ever Ivey Awards for her performance in Hot Comb:…

  • Soundtrack to Mary

    Want to see me squirm and duck for cover? Try one of these conversation starters: 1. “I met someone who knows you.” What possible good can come from a sentence that begins this way? It’s never followed up with, “It was someone whose life you saved a few years ago and then selflessly asked for…