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- Written by GLX on Friday, May 27 2011 and posted in Reviews
The Spinrack: Retro Reviews returns! A trio of comic reviews including an issue of Ultimate X-Men by Brian Michael Bendis and David Finch!
Captain Planet and the Planeteers #3 (1991)
Ma-Ti gets picked on for having the power of Heart, but learns that it's not such a bad power after all. Oh, and a group of terrorists threaten to launch a missile filled with toxic waste at Washington DC. Barry Dutter and Jim Salicrup didn't deliver a nice script. I get that this is intended to be a "kid-friendly", but it just doesn't work. One of the Planeteers actually wonders how they'll be able to get past a fence, so that they can sneak into a building full of terrorists. That would a bit understandable, if they didn't have powerful rings. Ma-Ti, are you going to call upon animals to help stop the terrorists?
"Maybe I should call on my animal friends to help! But..."
"...that would not be fair to the animals - - to place their lives in jeopardy! That would make me no better than those who use animals for testing and for warfare!"
What do the animals think about this?
"We have heard your plea, young one. And there is no need to ask."
"We are eager to assist you. Anyone who threatens the Earth is an enemy of ours."
"Let's go kick some tail!"
Pat Broderick's art is bland and does nothing except tell the story in a passive manner. Oh, and Captain Planet tells kids how to be cool with the environment.
3.5* out of 10*
Titans #1 (1999)
The original Titans reunite and they get some other people to join their team! Devin Grayson's writing is mediocre, at best. There are some things that just didn't gel (Ex: Arsenal's treatment of Tempest). On the art side of things, Mark Buckingham is an artistic beast. His work is lively and expressive. Wade von Grawbadger and Gregory Wright back him up and their work boosts the art. It's worth noting that the comic comes with two covers. Instead of having a huge cover on the front and back of the comic, DC decided to have one on the front cover followed by an ad and the other cover after that. Oi.
5* out of 10*
Ultimate X-Men #41 (2004)
In this issue by Brian Michael Bendis and David Finch, a kid finds out that he's a mutant; but not the kind of mutant that can be around people. Despite the fact that the entire comic is a relatively short read, Bendis delivers with his handling of the main character and the events that surround him. For the most part, David Finch does a nice job of complimenting Bendis' script. The only problem that I have with it is that there are few static panels. Art Thibert's inks work well with Finch's pencils and I enjoyed Frank D'Armata's color work.
8* out of 10*
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Social media sites are absolutely a distraction. Many students obsessively seek a chance to check their pages.
William (Tom) Chadwell
Unfortunately, the Minneapolis Public Schools server denies access to Facebook and YouTube for both students and teachers.
Janet Kujat
Social media has had a great impact on how children communicate with one another. In terms of secondary schools, not so well. A lot of social/behavioral problems start on the web and end up in the school. Then it has to be dealt with by the school staff, i.e. deans, counselors and adminstrative staff. With all that we do, we really don't need the added stress that comes from social media.
Steve Burrell
Students are more interested in their social networking than anything going on in the classroom. It is hard to compete with Facebook, Twitter, videos, etc.
Elinor Garely
Facebook is not an issue. My students can go to it during breaks, before and after class or when they get their work done. They respect the fact that we use technology not only for learning but also as a reward. They respect it and have not gone overboard with it at my school.
Floyd Collins
The students spend all day checking Facebook and Twitter, and it drives me nuts! They will neglect their work but will check Twitter 100 times per day. It is extremely distracting. Several fights have broken out at my school due to things said on Twitter.
Shelia Banks
So, people are being laid off on a massive scale, entire programs are being shut down--and you're asking us about Facebook and cellphones? Why not pose real and serious questions that are impacting our futures and well-being?
Lin Rolens
Facebook is too often used as a tool to vent about the hardships of life, including public work issues. It is also being used as a character assassination tool by those unable to cope with the injustices of normal, everyday life. People always seem to find a way to use a potentially good thing in a bad way. I personally avoid Facebook intentionally.
Jerry Warren
My wife and I are retired teachers of 33 years each, and our son and daugheter-in-law are young teachers. We believe that social media are here and there is no going back. We are fooling ourselves if we think we can just ban usage of such wonderful tools. Their power must be harnessed and used! I love reading from my Kindle app on my Droid X. Kids will, too. Textbooks ... hmmm ... how do we use them? Better get with the technology program or we are gonna lose them! Google and I can answer almost any question already, if you'll give me a minute.
Norman Pond
Students at East Los Angeles College, like other students across the country, embrace their social media and rely on it for personal news from friends and family. However, I have found that students may be adept at social media, but these skills do not necessarily translate to managing an online course or conducting a discussion on political and academic issues. Like all other tools at our disposal, social media have a place in our lives, but do not necessarily help students be better learners, or instructors be better teachers--the students and instructors do that themselves through intrinsic motivation.
MariaElena Yepes
Facebook and other social media have not affected my school or classroom, that I am aware of, because I am a kindergarten teacher in a K-5 building.
Regina Bates-Hardy
Facebook is only an escape for lazy individuals who think it's a great idea. Educational values are defined by what one learns and retains in the mind, not from other sources.
Rene Salinas
In elementary, it has not had the impact with students that it seems to have in upper grades. However, we had an issue at our school where a disgruntled parent with an obvious ax to grind got on Facebook and slammed a teacher. It spread rapidly and had an adverse effect on the entire school. On the positive side, as a tool for the teacher, it has a potential to facilitate communication.
Debra Scovill
Facebook is important !!!
John Volk
I am the computer teacher. Students were skipping their classes or were tardy and sneaking into my room to check Facebook accounts. I had to ban certain students from my classroom. During class, I had to keep a constant watch that students were actually doing a lesson rather than on Facebook. Finally, the school district had the ISD--the school's Internet provider--block Facebook and YouTube from the district's server. The students would provoke fights in the hall, cell phone video the fights, and place the fights on YouTube for student viewing at night. Now the students have found a link to crack the code and get on Facebook anyway.
Marsha Stewart
I use it as a reward. If this task is done or if you have all your work done, you get 5 minutes for social media. This works well. I also post messages on my page for them to read.
Nance Sucharski
It makes it exceedingly difficult and risky to conduct controversial discussions. It impairs academic freedom. It is a continuing stress and distraction, since phones not only carry disruptive messages but can be used to photograph, record and create utterly false defamatory material. This can then be used to destroy the reputations and careers of staff and students. Obviously, there are many beneficial and entertaining uses ... ELSEWHERE.
MaryMelissa Grafflin
No one is allowed to access Facebook or any social site at school. Teachers are forbidden from friending any minor or communicating electronically except in extreme school-related instances, such as a coach texting players about practice. Welcome to the 19th century.
Tim Murphy
Our system just transformed the district by doing away with middle school in one fell swoop. This caused concern, consternation and general dismay. None of the repercussions were considered. Our old faculty keeps in touch through a group on Facebook. It helps to have a sounding board.
Sheila Falkenberg
I teach technology classes in a computer lab. From the minute students log on, they're on Facebook, which the district stopped blocking last year. I wouldn't mind if they'd do their work first, but they are too busy sending superficial content, bad cell phone pictures, and grammatically incorrect messages to each other to focus on their assignments.
Donald Gentz
Facebook and other social media have not affected my 3rd grade classroom. However, I have seen some pretty intense bullying and harassment situations at the middle and high school level. I believe social media are being used by pre-teens and teens to intimidate and harass others at a level that cannot be monitored or addressed by the authorities.
Tanya Darnell
There is no going back. We are well-advised to use the technology to teach, and conquer our own lack of confidence if need be. The kids know all about how to use the tools. Help them appreciate the benefits of applying their expertise to accomplish learning what is needed to provide them a more secure future.
Sharon Waagner
So far it hasn't gotten into my kindergarten classroom, I am happy to say. But I'm waiting and watching. I would be okay communicating with other classes around the world through an online tool.
Shari Gewanter
The social media is something we need to embrace, not fight, to learn and and run from it. The students love using the technology and they support each other in their learning. I teach language arts in sixth grade and I have students posting their great beginnings of their writing to each other, finding support and quotes from each other to make their writing stronger, and I am able to save a ton on copy costs by posting PDFs on the site that they use most and they can look it up at any time. When people tell me that my students need to learn to read and write with paper an pencil, I'm usually reading that on an e-mail. It is the future.
Neal Clark
This is a way to communicate with your students using Facebook. I started this page about three years ago. Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Mrs-Schimkos-Algebra-Corner/399186224993
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I woke up when the plan landed. When we were walking to the baggage clam area i knew somthing was up because Mike and my mom were being quiet. And i knew my mom would have been talking up a storm by now.
" ok what is up why are you guys being so werid and quiet?" i asked
" What?! nothing is wrong sweetie i am just thinking thats all" My mom said and she didn't look me in the eye so i knew she was lying. But i just dropped it because i knew i wouldn't get any answers from both of them right now. Once we got our bags we got a taxi and headed stright for our new house. I looked out the window of the taxi taking in all the views, it was nothing like New York and i kind of like that though!
When we arrived at the new house i could not believe on how close we were to the beach, " hey mom i think i am going to go do some exploring of the new area" i shouted to mom even though i didn't even go looking through the house yet. " ummmmmm sweetie there is somthing your brother wants to tell" my mom said worry in her eyes. That is when i knew somthing was up. " Come on lets go for a walk on the beach" Mike said coldly with no emotion.
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" come on lets go walk on the beach" i told Cloe camly. Once we were out the door Cloe started asking me questions like no tomorrow " whats up? is there somthing wrong with mom? why are you guys being sooo quiet lately?" cloe asked all at once with no breathe in between.
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" yeah about that Cloe, there is somthing you should know..........." i said" this school we are going to it isn't like a normal school it is for like people like me ( aka warewolf vampires zombies etc.)" i said waiting for her to scream and or run away but she didn't. We just kept walking on the beaches without saying anything and when she spoke it was like she was whispering.
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Historical Society returns to KillingtonBy Josh O'Gorman
STAFF WRITER | March 28,2013KILLINGTON — The Sherburne Historical Society is getting back together, with plans to restore the former home of the library and the Teen Center.
Historical Society member E.J. Willis is looking to reconvene the currently dormant group, with the first meeting scheduled for 1:30 p.m. April 9 at the Sherburne Memorial Library.
"The group is inactive right now, because most of the past members have passed away," Willis said.
The first task for the Historical Society is to explore the viability of restoring the one-room schoolhouse, located across River Road from the library.
The building was built sometime in the 19th century- records are unclear regarding the exact year- in West Bridgewater. At some point during the latter-half of the 20th century, the town bought the building for $10 and paid another $40 to move it to its current location.
The building was home to the town library, and later the Killington Teen Center, which has been inactive for at least the last three years. In 2011, flooding from Tropical Storm Irene damaged the building. During past meetings of the Select Board, Town Manager
Seth Webb said the town has received estimates to both restore and demolish the structure, with the former costing anywhere from $100,000 to $250,000, depending on its use, and the latter costing around $10,000.
The town has $10,000 left in flood insurance money.
"When I saw the Select Board was thinking about demolishing it, I thought this might be a great opportunity for the Historical Society to have a place to store and display our historical items," Willis said.
While the Historical Society has no official home, the library has become a sort of de facto dumping ground for items of historical interest. However, a broken water pipe damaged some old photographs and highlighted the need for a new location, said Gail Weymouth, director of the Sherburne Memorial Library.
"When the pipe burst, it really raised the issue that they (historical items) need some kind of preservation," Weymouth said.
Recently, Ann Cousins, a field service representative for the Preservation Trust of Vermont, came to Killington to assess the state of the schoolhouse.
"Structurally, the building looks really good," Cousins said. "When they moved the building, they reinforced the floor joists to accommodate the weight of the book stacks, and they're still in great shape. And, the roof looks good."
Cousins said the major repairs would be to the foundation, while restoration work would include removing the vinyl siding — which covers some windows — and replace it with wooden shingles.
Cousins said there are many grants available, depending upon the building's proposed future use. The Preservation Trust gave the Historical Society a $250 matching grant to hire a contractor, who will provide estimates for repair and restoration.
Tuesday night, the Select Board approved a request from Willis for a $250 loan from the town, which will allow the Historical Society to accept the matching grant. Per the terms of the request, the Historical Society will repay the money by July 1.
"We want to preserve the history of Sherburne because the history of Killington has been well documented," Willis said.
"We had 225 years of being Sherburne and 25 years of being Killington, and people will ask, 'Where is Sherburne?" Weymouth said.
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The Worship Choir and the A Cappella Choir will join together periodically as the University Singers for large choral presentations with orchestra. The University Singers perform a wide range of music including choral classics, church anthems, broadway, pop, spirituals, gospel, and praise and worship.
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Chamber Singers is a 12-to 16-voice choral ensemble performing vocal chamber works from all style periods. Emphasis is placed on the development of choral tone, dynamics, blend & diction. Chamber Singers performs in a variety of venues ranging from church services & concerts to Carnegie Hall.
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Tip: How To Roast and Peel Chestnuts
To me, few things signal the arrival of autumn better than the sweet chestnut. As soon as I see them at the farmer's market, I happily scoop them up, filling a bag with them. Chestnuts have to be cooked before they can be eaten. The meats are large and sweet, and do well on their own as a snack, chopped and added to savory stuffings, or added to desserts. Peeling and roasting them is a bit time-consuming, but knowing a few tricks can help expedite the process.
Select chestnuts that are firm and heavy for their size. Pinch them - there should be some "give" between the shell and the nut, but they should not rattle around in the shell. Select nuts that do not have holes or blemishes. Chestnuts are highly perishable, so store them in a ventilated bag in the crisper drawer of your refrigerator. If you aren't going to use them within a few days, seal them in an airtight bag and freeze them. Don't leave them out at room temperature as they will develop mold and go rancid quickly.
A note about peeling chestnuts. There are two layers you have to peel through; the shell and the skin. The skin comes off more easily when the nut is hot; as the nut cools down, the skin hardens and becomes more difficult to get off. So, you need to keep the unpeeled ones warm while you're peeling others. I'll explain that method below. Another thing is, you have to cut "X's" in the shell otherwise the nuts will explode in the oven, making a mess.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. With a sharp knife, cut an "X" through the shell on the flat side of each nut. Measure out a square piece of aluminum foil and place the chestnuts in it - don't overcrowd, maybe about 2 cups of chestnuts per foil square. Bring up the sides of the foil and crimp the ends together, creating a foil "bag." Leave a small hole at the top for ventilation. Add 1/4 cup of water to the makeshift foil bag. Place the foil bag and any other bags (depending on how many nuts you are roasting) on a baking sheet and place in the oven. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes. Remove from oven.
Leave one foil bag open but seal the others to keep the heat in. When the chestnuts in the opened bag are cool enough to handle (don't wait too long!) peel off the shells at the X which will now have its corners curled up. Slip off the skins. When you finish this batch start on another batch. Don't open the foil bags until you're ready to peel the nuts in them.
Peeled chestnuts need to be placed in an air-tight container and refrigerated if they aren't going to be used immediately. They can keep in the refrigerator for two or three days.
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Yay, thanks so much for posting this! I bought some hazlenuts at the store on an impulse because they were so pretty and fall-ish, but I had NO idea what to do with them or how to do it! You have solved that problem!
misplacedtexan: hazelnuts (filberts) are different from chestnuts, you can just crack those with a regular nutcracker and eat raw.
are chestnuts the same as water chestnuts?
When I went to London in 2002, there was a guy from Spain in the hostel who was in the shared kitchen/lounge area, roasting chestnuts in a pan on the stove (and making a lot of smoke). He was giving them out to everyone from all the different countries staying in the hostel, and I think it was the first time I ever ate a chestnut. I liked them enough to buy a freshly roasted bag the next day from a street vendor in London. I don't recall them being scored with X's though. I just peeled off the skins somehow.
these look like buckeyes.
Thanks for this post. For the 1st time I'm living in a region that has chestnuts and I'm looking forward to trying them.
And for misplacedtexan - you can eat hazlenuts raw but they're much better if you roast them first, in the shell. They make the house smell amazing too.
@sirisha - no, those are 2 different things. Chestnuts are tree nuts and water chestnuts are the tuber of a water plant.
At Christmas, my mom likes to bundle up chestnuts in a foil package and toss it into the fireplace (presumably onto the coals).
We discussed chestnuts at a dinner party last night. Everyone agreed they're one of those things that is worth ordering at a restaurant or buying if someone else deals with them. I remember them being rather painful to peel and kind of disappointing.
Chestnuts are great. But be careful to make sure you're eating chestnuts and not horse chestnuts. A while back my girlfriend and I collected a big bushel of what we thought were chestnuts. Took them back home, painstakingly roasted and peeled them, put them into a chestnut and bacon risotto. About 6 bites into it both of us realized that what we were eating wasn't really food, and was actually sort of poison. Spent the rest of the night with upset stomachs, sipping 7up and eating light safe stuff like cucumber and tomato. After doing some reading, it sounds like we made ourselves a horse chestnut and bacon risotto. The first few bites were not terrible, but the more you ate, the more bitter it became. So bad.
Love chestnuts! I've just found them for the first time this fall and they are delicious. The roasting bit is totally easy, as I just throw them in the oven at 400 or 425 for 15-20 minutes. It's the cutting the little x in each one that is fiddly--you have to be careful because the little buggers are rounded, and to make sure you don't cut too deeply into them.
one information.
chestnuts don't have to be cooked. You can eat it in anyway you want.
@lnwn, there are not buckeyes. They look similar, but you can't eat buckeyes.
@Oneisco, wow! Yes, you can't eat horse chestnuts (also called buckeyes) - they cause stomach irritation.
@nyorange: chestnuts contain tannic acids that give them a very bitter taste. Cooking them kills off the tannic acids and removes the bitterness.
I have a box of peeled steamed chestnuts in the pantry. Any suggestions on what to do with it?
@fab those would be great in many chestnut recipes - with rice, stewed, in stuffings, pureed ...
Looking for a fresh chestnut icecream recipe. I've found many with canned chestnuts but none with fresh roasted...any ideas on a recipe or adapting the ones with canned chestnuts?
@fab: one of my cookbooks has a recipe for chestnut soup -- involving sherry and topped with foamed milk and grated nutmeg. I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds really good. (The cookbook is "a beautiful bowl of soup" by Paulette Mitchell.)
@Corby we have it the same way in Portugal. You don't need to make the X cut, just one across the chestnut.
Here's how to do it:
Wash them well, dry them, make a cut across the chestnuts and add lots of salt. Put them in the oven and let them roast well. Than just eat it. Some people add a little bit of butter when they're hot!
When I was a kid, we'd always cook chestnuts on top our old coal fueled boiler. (It looked like an aga, but as it was coal fired, you could never really cook anything on it.)
Nowadays, I must admit I don't have the patience for fresh chestnuts. I don't seem to be able to find the quality any more. The last bag of fresh chestnuts I bought, I cooked them all and half of them were rotten inside.
I use vacuum packed or tinned chestnuts in cooking now, and I'm also a big fan of chestnut puree. Chestnut stuffing is an absolute must for our family at Christmas. I could eat it by the bowlful.
A Simple Chestnut Stuffing Recipe (Apologies for strange measurements, I don't weigh anything!)
Tin of Chestnut Puree
About 4 handfuls of whole chestnuts
2 large onions
Approximately half a loaf's worth of breadcrumbs
Salt and Pepper
About a cup of cream
Chop the onions and sauté in a little butter until they are softened.
Transfer the onions to a mixing bowl, add the chestnut puree, whole chestnuts, cream and seasoning.
Mix well, and add enough breadcrumbs to absorb the liquid and make a sort of dough (You should be able to gather it into a large sticky ball.)
Transfer into a greased baking dish (I put mine into a ceramic pie dish) and bake on a medium heat until it has firmed up and the top is slightly crispy.
I love chestnuts! I never cut an X though, I do one vertical cut; after they are done roasting I pinch from the top and bottom and the shell and skin easily comes off.


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Bottles and magnums of first-growth Bordeaux and big-name Burgundy stud a 700-bottle glassed-in wine storage unit that holds a bottle or two of the most-ordered wines and some top-shelf labels. It runs the length of a cocktail bar at the entrance to Element 47, the awkwardly renamed restaurant that won a Wine Spectator Grand Award as Montagna, its previous incarnation.
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Blindly nailing down a wine's identity is a neat trick. But should it be a job requirement?
Posted: July 18, 2013 By Ben O'Donnell
If you're an American in the wine industry and are within my age range (mid-twenties to early thirties, not to put too fine a point on it), you have, or are somewhere on the path toward, a Master Sommelier diploma. That is barely an exaggeration. (Some folks pursue a Wine & Spirits Education Trust diploma, or go on to a Master of Wine, instead.) For a generation that purports to care little about what the so-called experts have to say about wine, it seems we all want to become one anyway.
"It definitely helps to have it on the résumé when it comes to scoring a great job in the wine world," said Dustin Wilson, wine director at Wine Spectator Grand Award-winning Eleven Madison Park and MS class of '11. "It's a title that earns you some automatic respect."
Blogs : Exploring Wine with Tim Fish
I confess that I sometimes take the rules in vain
Posted: July 17, 2013 By Tim Fish
It's blasphemy, I know, but I don't always drink the perfect wine with my food.
Forget perfect: Sometimes I don't even remotely drink the right wine. This isn't a radical idea for old wine hands, but I think it's worth restating for new wine lovers. The right wine with the right meal remains the ideal, but who lives in an ideal world?
Blogs : Mixed Case: Opinion and Advice
The People's Republic has embraced wine—particularly French—in the past decade; not everyone is pleased by the hug
Posted: July 11, 2013 By Mitch Frank
Is there a China backlash in France's wine regions?
China's growing thirst for wine, particularly French wine, has been a favorite topic in wine circles for several years. Our fascination is understandable—the People's Republic of China has engineered a spectacular economic story during the past two decades, growing from 2 percent of global GDP to 16 percent, according to International Monetary Fund data. As China's wealth has soared and an upper class has arisen, wine sales have grown dramatically.
But anytime a new group joins an industry as tradition-minded as wine, some people are going to grumble. The three men in Hostens may be just isolated criminals, but they might also have given voice to an underlying tension: Some wine people may not welcome the planet's newest big spenders.
Blogs : Harvey Steiman At Large
Washington wine book author Paul Gregutt switches gears with Waitsburg Cellars, and his first vintage looks promising
Posted: July 10, 2013 By Harvey Steiman
Washington wine writer Paul Gregutt got himself into quite a kerfuffle earlier this year when he sprung Waitsburg Cellars onto the world.
The longtime resident of the Evergreen state is a veteran critic and author of Washington Wines and Wineries, the definitive book on Washington wine, whose wine reviews appeared on his own blog and in several print publications. He had never been a winemaker, but in 2011 partnered with Precept Wines, the state's third-largest wine company, to craft his own wines for the new label. Questions were raised. Could a wine critic also be a winemaker without raising conflict-of-interest issues? Could an untrained neophyte's wines be any good?
Well, I tasted them blind with their peers, as we always do around here, and I can say they are better than good.
Blogs : Exploring Wine with Tim Fish
A heat wave has jump-started ripening in what was already an early growing season in California
Posted: July 10, 2013 By Tim Fish
There's one thing you can say about the recent growing seasons in Northern California: They haven't been boring. 2010 was chilly then blazing hot. 2009 and 2011 were soggy. Only 2012 was a dream.
As for 2013, it's too early to tell.
Because of warm weather in late winter and spring, the season began early, with budbreak starting March 1 and bloom unfolding in mid-May. Skies were mostly sunny as summer began, and the season was moving along at a good clip, and then an extended heat wave arrived (with temperatures hovering around 100° F) in late June and continued through the Fourth of July.
Blogs : Harvey Steiman At Large
How critics of the critics miss the point
Posted: July 3, 2013 By Harvey Steiman
The news media has jumped on a new study of judges at the California State Fair wine competition as evidence that all wine tasting is baloney. But the author of the study says that's not what he meant. Not by a mile.
Blogs : Mixed Case: Opinion and Advice
The American Wine Consumer Coalition will support direct shipping, grocery-store sales, privatization, BYOB laws and more
Posted: July 3, 2013 By Robert Taylor
The 21st century has been a tumultuous, albeit productive, one for Drinkers Rights, were one so inclined to dub the movement. The tug-of-war over where, when and how alcohol can be bought and consumed has played out everywhere from local community boards to state legislatures to the U.S. Congress and the Supreme Court.
In the past 10 years, interstate direct-to-consumer shipping has vastly expanded for wineries, but contracted for retailers; wholesalers continue to thrive and exert political influence despite claims that deregulated wine markets would drive them out of business; politicians perpetuate stereotypes of politicians by pandering to special interests. Yet somehow one group affected by each development—consumers—never seems to have a say. The founders of a new wine lovers' advocacy group hope they can change that.
Blogs : Exploring Wine with Tim Fish
With the western U.S. broiling, uncork sparkling wine for July 4th
Posted: July 3, 2013 By Tim Fish
I usually smoke ribs or a brisket or chicken on Independence Day, but that's not going to happen this year. Thanks to the heat, I'll be outside as little as possible. As Woody Allen said, "I don't tan. I stroke." This year I'll grill salmon or something else that's easy and light.
As for the wine, it's bubbly for me. Not only will it go well with the heat and salmon, but also the Fourth is a day of celebration after all, right?
Blogs : Harvey Steiman At Large
Tenor Matthew Polenzani keeps an open mind when exploring new wines
Posted: June 28, 2013 By Harvey Steiman
This story should sound familiar to anyone who has fallen for the world of wine. One day about a decade ago, a budding opera singer and his wife were sitting outside a caffè in Rome. "I had quit drinking in my very early 20s due to the financial constraints of college and grad school," said Matthew Polenzani, "but on a beautiful warm evening the moment called for a nice glass of wine. We've never looked back."
Blogs : Mixed Case: Opinion and Advice
Single-hop beers allow consumers to understand specific ingredients
Posted: June 27, 2013 By Jennifer Fiedler
Among the beer-drinking community, the ongoing "winification" of beer—750ml bottles, beer sommeliers, ultra-high-alcohol products—is a fairly controversial phenomenon. But looking at this development from the wine side of things, one facet is particularly interesting: the rise of single-hop beers.
Blogs : Exploring Wine with Tim Fish
Time to have fun pairing wine with the traditional Fourth of July spread
Posted: June 26, 2013 By Tim Fish
Nail biting over the wine to drink with Thanksgiving dinner pales next to the challenge of pairing wine with a classic Fourth of July barbecue. That's one reason so many Americans reach for a beer.
I'm something of an anarchist when it comes to food and wine. There's too much fuss put into finding the seamless match in my view. Seamlessness is boring. I prefer a wine that offers a playful contrast and enhances the food or brings out something new.
And face it, if you can't be playful and have fun with food and wine on July 4, then you don't deserve to watch the fireworks.
Blogs : Bruce Sanderson Decanted
An exclusive vertical tasting of 20 vintages of Frescobaldi's Luce sheds light on this evolving Tuscan red
Posted: June 24, 2013 By Bruce Sanderson
In 1995, Vittorio Frescobaldi of Italy's venerable Marchesi Frescobaldi joined forces with Napa Valley icon Robert Mondavi to produce a Tuscan red called Luce della Vite. The grapes came from vineyards in Montalcino, adjacent to the Frescobaldis' Castelgiocondo estate.
Luce debuted two years later with the 1993 vintage. There is also a second wine called Lucente produced from the same vineyards. Earlier this year in New York, Lamberto Frescobaldi, vice president of the company in charge of production for Marchesi Frescobaldi, presented a vertical tasting of every vintage of Luce from the past 20 years, exclusively for Wine Spectator. Here are my scores and tasting notes.
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