If your Valentine’s Day is still unplanned, here are some great options for your big date.
rosés
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Beer and wine
Wines at Ludivine Photo by Mark Hancock For the committed red wine drinker, rosés are an excellent choice for spring and summer. Rosés have more body and more tannins than most whites but are still light enough to be warm weather-appropriate. Several new rosés are available in the metro this year, including a couple from […]
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Over the Rainbow
Scott Booker, circa 1988 Photo: Scott Booker Today’s world is a virtual playground for music lovers. There’s no shortage of avenues to learn about breaking bands, download new songs or unearth a rare track. And there is little to no effort needed to find what you want or stumble upon the unexpected. All you need […]
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Stitches
The title refers to the booze-soaked, foul-mouthed, likely STD-infected clown (British stand-up comedian Ross Noble) who meets an early, accidental demise while performing at an only child’s 10th birthday party. Because that’s what happens when kids tie your shoelaces together, causing you to trip and fall face-first into the butcher knife left precariously pointing upward […]
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The film fills in the details of Holmes’ three-year spell of assumed death — “Only the facts have been made up,” teases a title card — by pairing the great detective with the great psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud. Arguably more notable is that Solution is the first dilated-pupils depiction of Holmes, the only to tackle head-on […]
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French summer
The original vines, like most in France, were destroyed by insects in the late 19th century. The region persevered, however, and new Grenache, Cinsault, Syrah and Mourvèdre vines were planted. The Tavel region produces richer, fruitier rosés than most of its French counterparts, but what stands out most about Tavel wines is their utter dryness. […]
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What a tool
Oh, it’s a chain saw? Never mind. According to a KFOR-TV report, a man in Chickasha got caught trying to steal an Echo brand chain saw from Ross Seed Company by stuffing it down his britches. (No word if the chain was attached.) Anthony Darren Black, 21, is who police allege to be the pilferer […]