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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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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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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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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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'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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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, 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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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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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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Is it worth a business' time to maintain a blog? One communications professional shares an emphatic "yes"--and quantifies it!
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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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"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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Revolution Redux: Beatles Mania is Back