Alternate titles to this entry include: "When cardboard is a flavor profile" and "Free coffee not nearly worth what I paid."
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Alternate titles to this entry include: "When cardboard is a flavor profile" and "Free coffee not nearly worth what I paid."
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The flip side of an annotation is that the focus is taken off the art and put on to the process and the surrounding ephemera. Seeing some of how the sausage is made, as it were. In some cases it informs wonderfully; at other times it's akin to academic droning.
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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 a "best of both worlds" tequila, merging characteristics of blanco and anejo all in one through a special filtering.
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Green Lantern is the kind of superhero that could never feasibly have been rendered without digital effects. But should it have been rendered at all? Or is it more worthy than most of the reviews are making it out to be?
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One of the benefits of supporting independent publishing is you can't help but feel closer to the creator and the creative process. This is only partially encapsulated by the nice hand-written thank you note I received from François Vigneault with purchase of his new "Elf World" anthology series.
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This week I stopped by Chicago Comics twice to check on some comics I had dropped off for consignment. While I waited for the staff to tabulate the massive haul of cash, Veggie Dog Saturn #4 by Jason Young caught my eye.
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'Best Worst Movie' is a documentary about the cult phenomenon of one of the most popular bad movies of recent years, 'Troll 2' (1990), and interestingly, it’s a personal film, made by Michael Stephenson, who starred in the low-budget, straight-to-video bomb.
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McDonald's snack wrap line, comprising tortilla-wrapped chicken in various sauces, has proven profitable and popular enough that the company has now introduced its first beef offering: the Mac Snack Wrap. Indeed, a Big Mac smushed into a tortilla. We tried it . . . so you don't have to.
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A Daring Young Woman: Trapeze Movement Taking Flight