After ban ends | Saudi women see new job in becoming drivers

*Movies: Sicario: Day of Soldado * Book: Lady Be Good by Amber Brock * Music: Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album by John Coltrane * Wine: The Standard-Bearers of Württemberg VIII * F&B:

In ‘Day of the Soldado,’ an equally bleak ‘Sicario’

There’s an oppressive bleakness to the brutal action-thriller “Sicario: Day of the Soldado.” But with faces like Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro, what are you going

‘Lost’ 1963 John Coltrane album a treasure

It’s a rare pleasure to hear this “lost” John Coltrane album for the first time. The component sounds of his classic quartet are so familiar that it’s

Historical fiction author explores world of a NY socialite

Kitty’s best friend, Henrietta, comes from an affluent family and is engaged to New York socialite Charles. Unfortunately, the marriage has been forced by their families

News of the World | Saudi Arabia Women drivers challenge wide array of traditional limits

Saudi women are driving freely through busy city streets for the first time after years of risking arrest if they dared to get behind the wheel. And with the

The Standard-Bearers of Württemberg VIII

(Continued from “The Standard-Bearers of Württemberg VII” on 2 March 2017) The love story between wine and oak can be traced back to time immemorial, but the

Food and Beverage | Skip the barbecue? Lack of CO2 hits EU beer, meat production

Europeans may have to cut back on their summer barbecues. A shortage of carbon dioxide that has already halted some beer production is also hitting food

Food and Beverage | US restaurants host refugee chefs who offer a taste of home

At San Francisco’s Tawla restaurant, Muna Anaee powdered her hands with flour and gently broke off a piece of golden dough to prepare bread eaten in Iraq,

Food and Beverage | Meat 2.0? Clean meat? Spat shows the power of food wording Candice Choi

If meat is grown in a lab without slaughtering animals, what should it be called? That question has yet to be decided by regulators, but for the

Food and Beverage | Sip and ship: Tourists can now send distillery whiskey home

Until recently, whiskey tourists in Kentucky had been allowed to sniff the aromas of bourbon-making and sip the finished product during distillery tours. But they couldn’t legally

Smiling Russians? | World Cup hosts defy glum, hostile image

  * Movies: Jurassic World 2 * Book: You were made for this by Michelle Sacks * Wine: The Southern Pétrus * F&B: Spat shows the power of food wording     DOWNLOAD

‘Jurassic World 2’ leans on nostalgia, contrivances

Here’s the good news: “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom “ is more fun than “Jurassic World.” It’s not exactly a high bar, but still a welcome surprise. In

‘You Were Made for This’ explores marriage and parenting

Appearances sometimes are not just deceiving but can hide fissures so deep and fractured that tragedy can seem a surprise when it occurs. Michelle Sacks richly explores

Russia | Political tensions set aside during World Cup

Chilly, gray, threatening. To many outsiders, that’s the image Russia conveys to the world. But that’s not the Russia World Cup fans are discovering. A Moscow

The Southern Pétrus

For oenophiles and even the most ardent Francophiles, Sud-Ouest remains the one unconquered territory lurking at the edge of the French realm. It would be futile to attempt

Volcano tourism in Guatemala | Living with a generous monster

  • Volcano tourism is the life blood of some villages in Guatemala. For locals it is a question of learning to live with a generous monster. * Movies: Incredibles 2 * Book:

FAMILY FUN AND INSIGHT IN SPRIGHTLY ‘INCREDIBLES 2’

The Incredibles writer/director Brad Bird has said that his characters’ powers are all born of stereotypes. Dad is strong, mom is stretched in a million directions, teenage girls put up

An inside look at the writing, production of ‘The Simpsons’

When television's longest-running cartoon show first hit the airwaves, most of its writers and producers gave it six weeks at best. The one optimist in the crew figured it might

Travelog | Tourism at a Guatemala volcano: Visitors feel the heat from the still-smoldering lava

  Tourists reached out to feel the heat from the still-smoldering lava, tossed sticks to see them burst into flames or watched a guide toast marshmallows on hot rocks as they

The Yellow Wine from France

The annual Le French GourMay tends to feature single wine regions as official themes, e.g. Bourgogne in 2013, Vallée du Rhône in 2014, Alsace in 2016 and Champagne in 2017,

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