Zacapa XO: Delicious, Sure

Zacapa XO Rum

Zacapa XO rum is good. Very good. But I'm not sure I'll ever have occasion to drink it again. Premium quality, it seems, merits premium pricing. Go figure.
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How the Mainstream Press Affected the Outcomes of Three High-Profile Criminal Cases

How the Mainstream Press Affected the Outcomes of Three High-Profile Criminal Cases

Does the mainstream press play a role in the results of high-profile crime trials? In 2011, it seems as though it did.
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Thanksgiving’s Transforming Traditions

Thanksgiving’s Transforming Traditions

It’s a dilemma facing families who hold the holiday precious: how do you make each Thanksgiving better than the last without violating what people know and love? And what can take the place of a treasured recipe or practice that, owing to the passage...
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Halloween Special: An Interview With Cosplayer Nash Nova

Halloween Special: An Interview With Cosplayer Nash Nova

Just in time for Halloween, we present an interview with someone who knows a lot more about costumes and costuming than most: a real life cosplayer.
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Ed Piskor Talks Comics

Ed Piskor Talks Comics

Ed Piskor's recently finished the online version of his 400+ page graphic novel, Wizzywig, which will soon be given the collected treatment by Top Shelf. Wizzywig is the story...
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The Curious Case of Don Julio 70

The Curious Case of Don Julio 70

A review of Don Julio 70, created in honor of the 70th anniversary of the year that Don Julio González himself began making tequila. It's presented as something of...
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‘Drive’ Thrives on Full Tank of Style, Narrative

‘Drive’ Thrives on Full Tank of Style, Narrative

Drive, starring the currently ubiquitous Ryan Gosling, is in part an homage to Walter Hill’s The Driver (1978) and quite an earnest endeavor: a post-modernist situation lacking most of...
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Happy 121st Birthday, Yosemite National Park

Happy 121st Birthday, Yosemite National Park

Few places can match the pure grandeur of Yosemite National Park. On Oct. 1, 1890, the U.S. Congress reserved more than 1,000 square miles of "forest lands" in the...
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Infusion Resolution: Gov. Brown Should Pass SB 32

Infusion Resolution: Gov. Brown Should Pass SB 32

There are few better ways to show off how lovely fresh produce can be than to extend its life as an infused spirit -- something that California's master mixologists...
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Top 10 Reasons You Might Want to Have a Blog on Your Web Site

Top 10 Reasons You Might Want to Have a Blog on Your Web Site

Is it worth a business' time to maintain a blog? One communications professional shares an emphatic "yes"--and quantifies it!
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Moral Dilemma of the Week: I Found a Wad of Cash

Moral Dilemma of the Week: I Found a Wad of Cash

Does it say something about the state of popular media that when I spotted a wad of bills on the sidewalk, my first instinct (which I obeyed) was to...
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Degrees of Fandom: Jon Westhoff on the ‘Low Concept’ Comic Anthology

Degrees of Fandom: Jon Westhoff on the ‘Low Concept’ Comic Anthology

"Low Concept: An 11 O'Clock Comics Anthology," was recently published. It weighs in at an impressive near-140 pages... and it took some doing. This comic book was all fan...
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