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Silver Palm Cabernet Sauvignon This review is of Silver Palm Cabernet Sauvignon 2010 from the North Coast of California, USA. According to Silver Palm Wines the grapes for this varietal come only from the California North Coast, including Mendocino, Napa and Sonoma counties. This area is greatly influenced by cooler coastal air and ocean fog. […]

BENEFITS OF COCONUT OIL Coconut oil has gained much popularity over the last few years and research continues to support its many benefits. Many of you have probably heard numerous ways to use it, but I am going to highlight some of its great qualities and explain a little of the science behind it. Coconut […]

PEJU 2011 CABERNET // A BOLD BORDEAUX BLEND Wine is meant to be drinkable, enjoyable and a reflection of the personality that made it possible. Even for the snootiest wino, price does not necessarily dictate a stunning flavor profile—they teach you that on the first day. On retail shelves across the country, low-priced wines are […]

FILM REVIEW OF ”FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY” Although Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson gets top billing in British writer & director Steven Merchants’ amusing but insightful wrestling biography “Fighting with My Family” (**** OUT OF ****), he spends most of its 108 minutes off screen.  In other words, if you’re going to watch another of the […]

MOVIE REVIEW OF ”ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL’ “Sin City” director Robert Rodriguez’s manga-inspired, post-apocalyptic, science fiction,  cyberpunk, origin epic “Alita: Battle Angel” (*** OUT OF ****) is a spectacular, but predictable fantasy extravaganza set in the dystopian future of the 26th century.  The action unfolds in the year 2563, after an Armageddon referred to as “The […]

MOVIE REVIEW OF ”WHAT MEN WANT” Remakes rarely top originals. Surprisingly enough, “What Men Want” (**** OUT OF ****) surpasses “What Women Want” (2000).  The above-average Mel Gibson romantic, comic fantasy qualified as entertaining, but it was far from memorable.  Meanwhile, “Rock of Ages” director Adam Shankman, “Drumline” scenarist Tina Gordon, and “Good Old-Fashioned Orgy” […]

MOVIE REVIEW OF ”COLD PURSUIT” Liam Neeson plays a vengeful Colorado snowplow driver in Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland’s thriller “Cold Pursuit” (***1/2 OUT OF ****) who clashes with the gang of dastardly drug traffickers that murdered his innocent adult son.  Eventually, this bereaved father finds himself caught in a blazing crossfire between two rival […]

Moon Taxi Talks About There New Album. To Trevor Terndrup, creativity is a use-it-or-lose-it sort of gift, which helps explain why less than 11 months after the release of “Let the Record Play,” the breakthrough album by his band, Moon Taxi, he and his bandmates are already at work on their next album. “You’ve got […]

Class Act: Nine Inch Nails’ Chris Vrenna on Becoming a Teacher in Alabama Millions of fans know him as the legendary drummer of iconic rock band Nine Inch Nails. But to a classroom of 20 students, he’s just Mr. Chris Vrenna, a teacher. Just last August, the Grammy award-winning artist officially started his residence as […]

St. Paul and the Broken Bones About About There Southern Values When you talk about Southern values, family certainly ranks as a significant cornerstone. For Paul Janeway, lead singer of St. Paul & the Broken Bones, it was inspiration for the collection of songs that make up “Young Sick Camellia,” the third studio offering from […]

Kurt Vile Talks About His Music and Tour! Kurt Vile was relaxing at his Philadelphia-area home in early February, playing with his daughters and thinking about hitting the road in 2019 with his band The Violators. That journey, which began a couple weeks later, will take Kurt Vile and Violators across the United States in […]