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Hair of the Hound Dog

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So, we’re riding through the Upper Peninsula last night and decided to stop in Hancock, Michigan. Walked into a little mom-and-pop liquor store called The Shottle Bop — I’m not kidding — and right up to a shelf with The King Cabernet Sauvignon 2003, third edition. The bottle features a photo of Elvis from his … Read more

It's the American Way: Vote, Consume, and Go Mental

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FILM Cast Your Vote Today is the final day to vote on your favorite entry for the 2007 Screenlabs Challenge Audience Award. Have your say. Watch each of the short films. Then vote here. May the best film win. ART Consummate Consumers OVERSTOCKPILE is artist Mari Richards’s latest exhibit of “sculptures and installations exploring the … Read more

A Norwegian Cabernet, perhaps?

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My very talented co-blogger Ann Bauer is much too modest and self-effacing to mention this herself, but she just published another terrific piece in Salon.com, on the impact that global warming is having on the world’s top wine-growing regions. You can read it here.

The Lost Holocaust

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Over at Britain’s crack newspaper The Independent, I log on to read the great Middle East journalist Robert Fisk, nearly every day (though he only posts three to four times a week, if that). For insightful and often brave coverage of that quagmire, Fisk is the nonpareil. Here he writes of the Armenian Genocide, the … Read more

Cherry on Top

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There’s a new blog in town — Your Dress Would Look Better on Me (What a name!) — and Ms. Eda Cherry seems to be having some fun with video. This is awfully cute.