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Best Fudge Recipes I love baking for the holidays. There are always so many new recipes to try. One of my favorite holiday treats is homemade fudge (without nuts, of course). If your family loves fudge as much as mine does, make them the kind you know they like, and then have them try one […]

FOODS TO EAT WHILE UNDERGOING CANCER TREATMENT Cancer has personally hit home this past month when one of my dearest friends mom was diagnosed with a very serious form of colon cancer. I was in contact with her right away discussing what she should be eating during her treatment because she had been told and […]

CUPCAKE RED VELVET WINE Cupcake Red Velvet wine was unexpectedly excellent! From Livermore, CA the 2011 Cupcake Red Velvet is a blend of red varietals with a Zinfandel base. Released winter of 2012, it was harvested Sept. – Oct. 2011 and has an alcohol content of 13.5%. According to the winemaker, the wine has “fantastic […]

MOVIE REVIEW OF ”MONSTERS OF MAN” One of the worst things a movie can do is wear out its welcome. Sadly, Australian filmmaker Mark Toia couldn’t bear to trim 30 minutes off this derivative, two-hour plus, paranoid, sci-fi thriller “Monsters of Men” (*1/2 OUT OF ****), a drawn-out, predictable, bloodthirsty catalog of clichés. As a […]

MOVIE REVIEW OF ”BORN A CHAMPION” “Boondock Saints” star Sean Patrick Flanery holds Black Belts in both karate and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, so it’s no surprise he staged all the stunts in co-writer & director Alex Ranarivelo’s “Born A Champion,” (*** OUT OF ****), a sentimental, hard knocks, mixed martial arts tearjerker that borrows heavily […]

Kanzi Plays The Keyboard With Peter Gabriel I first learned about Kanzi, who recently celebrated his 40th birthday, from one of his best-known musical collaborators. The year was 2001 and Peter Gabriel, who was doing advance press for his “Up” album, took a break from our interview to show me “home videos” of himself playing music with […]

MOVIE REVIEW OF ”BREACH” Counting “Twelve Monkeys” (1995), “The Fifth Element” (1997), “Armageddon” (1998), “Surrogates” (2009), and “Looper” (2012), “Die Hard” superstar actor Bruce Willis has starred in five substantial sci-fi sagas during his forty something year career. Now, imagine the classic creature chiller “Alien” (1979) mashed up with the Chris Pratt & Jennifer Lawrence […]

The Great Music Catalog Sell Off In what came as a surprise to many, the final months of 2020 saw an unprecedented number of high-profile artists selling off their song catalogs to the highest bidders. The most prominent among them was Bob Dylan, who turned over the rights to his more than 600 songs for the […]

Kanzi Plays The Keyboard With Peter Gabriel I first learned about Kanzi, who recently celebrated his 40th birthday, from one of his best-known musical collaborators. The year was 2001 and Peter Gabriel, who was doing advance press for his “Up” album, took a break from our interview to show me “home videos” of himself playing music with […]

Holiday Album Guide 2020 Perhaps it’s because music acts were forced off of the touring circuit, leaving unplanned time to work on albums or other projects, but 2020 has been a bountiful year for holiday music. This column covers many of the full-length holiday albums, although I left out the EPs and singles for fear […]

TOP MUSIC GIFT BOXES For all the things that went horribly wrong in 2020, it was a good year for deluxe box sets and album reissues – all good options for Christmas gifts. Of the dozens of such sets that arrived this year, here are some recommendations. Anthology Sets: * Elton John: “Elton: Jewel Box” […]