Fearful Symmetries

Having read Iris Chang's The Chinese in America and found it quite engaging and enlightening, I was happy to find another of her book...

That BBQ Joint opened on Willy Street last week so I stopped in after work to sample the smoky comestibles. The place was empty but the garb...

I've been reading of bit of Tacitus lately, specifically Germania which dates from the first century C.E. In it the historian describes...

That BBQ Joint was supposed to have opened last week on the 1st but the new opening date is apparently tomorrow. A friend of mine, who trav...

Eau Claire's Lazy Monk Brewing is the brainchild of Leos Frank, who emigrated from Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s. His distaste fo...

Lucette Brewing up in Menomonie have a generally good reputation as near as I can tell and I found myself intrigued by Hips Don't Lie...

A few years ago virtually no one outside of food microbiology circles knew what brettanomyces was and now, curiously enough, office drones...

Paul Cornell's Love and War has a very good reputation amongst Doctor Who fans. Indeed, it is just short of legendary and is general...

Back in 2010 Viking Brewing up in Dallas ran into hard time and closed . However, Fate has other plans. Owners Randy and Ann Lee found a ...

Nightshade is the first Virgin New Adventure to not be a part of a mini-series. No Timewyrm and no silver cat. Instead Mark Gatiss gives...

These are pretty neat: The photos were taken by Charles Fréger , a French photographer for his "Wilder Mann" project. Fré...

Sounds like someone forgot the Categorical Imperative and used someone else as a means instead of an end in themselves. Two men in Russi...

Last week the friendly folks at Big Finish announced that they are going to produce a series of audio dramas based on the Pathfinder role-p...

With the weather getting cooler, I thought it'd be nice to make Gołąbki . Gołąbki (pronounced guh-wumpkee, or something close to that) ...

Sad news for those of us who still buys books printed on paper. The east side location of Frugal Muse will close in November. Bowing to i...

It’s been six years since Fish ’s last effort, 13th Star . That album was forged in the aftermath of his disastrous relationship with Mostly...

I wish I had been at either of the screenings of Dirty Wars that Jeremy Scahill had attended here in Madison because I would have loved t...

This one goes out to Gregory Humphrey because, well, because Obama!

There were still a couple parts that I laughed at.

Having some Polish blood I thought it was time to learn about the history of the country from which some of my ancestors had emigrated. Th...