A Perfect Holiday Pinot Noir

I spend more time in the Byerly’s wine store than you might think. No, it doesn’t have the shop-on-the-corner charm of Hennepin-Lake or Solo Vino or Sam’s. It doesn’t have the breadth of Haskell’s or Surdyk’s. It isn’t dirt cheap like Costco, World Market, or Trader Joe’s. What it is is easy. It’s close to … Read more

The Waste Land

No Country for Old Men opens with a series of shots of a dry, desolate Texas, a place that seems unkind to both man and beast. Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) begins to speak in voice-over, ruminating on his life, on his being a sheriff, admiring the men who served before him, and lamenting the … Read more

Redband Trailer for No Country…

I’d never seen "redband" trailers offered on a movie website before. I guess I’d just been going to too many Doris Day movies. Anyway, I was attracted to the one on No Country For Old Men‘s site. It’s the new Coen Brothers movie. Anyway, you click on the redband trailer link, and it asks you … Read more