November 2007

November 13th Shrek the Third (Dreamworks) I swear . . . Shrek looks like Patti LaBelle. Do an image search online and compare their pictures. It's uncanny!! I kept expecting Mike Myers to belt out a verse of "New Attitude". Seriously! Oh, and I almost forgot! Prince Charming looks dead-up like Diane Sawyer! Not ki...

November 2007

November 2nd American Gangster (Universal) Denzel Washington (Oscar winner for Training Day, Glory) stars as Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas and Russell Crowe (Oscar winner for Gladiator) stars as the cop hell-bent on bringing him to justice. Washington has been attached to this based-on-a-true story project for years, but there was a time it appeared that American Gangster ...

November 2007

Ween - La Cucaracha (Rounder) 5 First off, notice the record label. Longtime members of the Elektra lineup (the insanely brilliant, and with cover art to die for, Chocolate & Cheese and The Mollusk), and more recently founders of their own label, Chocodog (featuring Moistboyz - half of which was Dean Ween), the here-there-and-ev...

November 2007

We're here! We're beer! Get used to it! Check out local retailers and restaurants such as the Winetree, Old Chicago, Westside Liquors, the Gerst House, the Fox & Hound, University Liquors and other fine dispensers of goodness for brews along the lines of these. This month we welcome Michigan resident Dan Moit, a man for all seasons who brings a new set of taste buds to the table. Living in the...

November 2007

November ushers in the holiday season with Thanksgiving, starting a period of celebration that blesses us with food, family and friends. Wine and other alcoholic beverages are part of the tradition in many homes, both for entertaining and for meals. Because many wines are released in the fall, there is currently a very wide variety of new wines and vintages available for the choosing. This is a...