KitchenWise | Chocolate Peppermint Cookies are a holiday treat

If, like me, you’re a fan of dark chocolate peppermint bark at Christmastime, you’re going to love these cookies. Your friends and family will, too. But you’ll

Spielberg, Streep and Hanks deliver in ‘The Post’

The Post” is kind of like the Yankees of movies. A Steven Spielberg directed film about the Pentagon Papers starring Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep and a murderer’s

Bickering meets brutality in David Moody’s dystopian read

Hatred abounds from the first page in David Moody’s “One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning,” the first in a dystopian trilogy. After a jolting opening

It doesn’t take much to keep Van Morrison singing

Van Morrison has proven that he’d rather be singing than anything else. Stage chatter? Not so much. Interviews? Not his thing. But he loves making

News of the World | Surrounded by scandal, Globes turn to old favs & fresh faces

Guillermo del Toro’s Cold War-era fairytale “The Shape of Water” swam away with a leading seven Golden Globes nominations this week and the HBO drama “Big Little

Oak-cult

The use of oak barrel to store wine is at least as old as Jesus. Back when the Romans invaded the Gauls, they discovered that some locals were

Globes… & Scandals

  * Movies: The Post * Books: One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning by David Moody * Music: Versatile by Van Morrison

The Capital of Discord

  * Movies: Wonder Wheel * Books: The Vanishing Season by Joanna Schaffhausen * Music: Who Built the Moon? by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds * Wine: The Standard-Bearers of Württemberg V *

Woody Allen goes in circles with dark ‘Wonder Wheel’

The great playwright Eugene O’Neill looms as large over Woody Allen’s latest film as the giant Ferris wheel that dominates the movie’s Coney Island setting. It’s

‘The Vanishing Season’ has precise prose, suspenseful plot

Ellery Hathaway, junior officer on the police force in sleepy Woodbury, Massachusetts, will do almost anything to convince her boss that three locals who disappeared over the

Noel Gallagher widens sound on ‘Who Built the Moon?’

His younger brother Liam’s new album has been heaped with praise, he turned 50 in May and a recent TV appearance featured a French bandmate playing scissors,

News of the world | Newly crowned by US as Israel’s capital, Jerusalem is unique

  Here is a look at some of the extraordinary facts about the city that Israel claims as its capital, even though nearly 40 percent of its population

The Standard-Bearers of Württemberg V

(Continued from “The Standard-Bearers of Württemberg IV” on 1 September 2017) Besides being the capital and the largest city of Württemberg and indeed Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart is one

Food & Beverage | Caffé B: A Taste of Southern Italy

A  cozy and stylish Italian restaurant that hugs the Nam Van lakeside is back with a new face. Fronted by restaurant manager Cristiano Cannata, who exudes a

How to cope with fallen idols

  * Movies: The Disaster Artist * Books: Bobby Kennedy: a Raging Spirit by Chris Matthews * Music: Songs of Experience by U2 *

In ‘Disaster Artist,’ Franco finds his masterpiece

Who is Tommy Wiseau? It’s a question that has long befuddled and endlessly amused fans of “The Room,” the infamously bad 2013 movie Wiseau directed, self-financed and starred

U2’s ‘Songs of Experience’ is a thrilling listen

Like its 2014 predecessor, U2’s “Songs of Experience” is the product of a difficult and drawn-out recording process. Much more so than “Songs of Innocence,” however,

Chris Matthews paints loving portrait of RFK in new book

Television and print journalist Chris Matthews’ biography, “Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit,” is the latest in a spate of Kennedy literature to capture the public fancy.

News of the world | Post-Weinstein, Lauer: A reckoning for fans of fallen heroes

When it comes to fandom, it’s reckoning time for Matt Lauer, Garrison Keillor and scores of other men accused of sexual wrongdoing. Hero celebrities have fallen

Glassware Reflection

I’m not proud to say that I used to be part of the vast majority who thought that as long as a glass is waterproof it will do the

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