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Nick Olsen's Design Advice For Recent Grads
The Washington Post recently caught up with Nick Olsen, a protégé of high-profile interior designer Miles Redd and former "Deal Hunter" for Domino's now-defunct blog, Daily Dose. The 27-year-old designer has been discount decorating since his teens, and working under Redd for five years. In other words, he knows a thing or two.
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The Washington Post's 2nd Annual Peep Show
This year the folks at the Washington Post put together their second annual Peeps Show. It's a contest they run in which they invite their readers to put together Peeps dioramas. This year they received over 800 entries, and narrowed that down to 31 semi-finalists and one winner.
What?! Women Are Too Dumb to Live? Are You Outraged?
Hoo boy. So Charlotte Allen wrote a little piece in the Washington Post yesterday. It started out mildly controversial, with her hypothesizing that women's reactions to Obama at campaign rallies were evidence that women were behaving like empty-headed Beatles bimboes around Barack.
Bad Lieutenant: Good Cop Gone Nuts
Nicolas Cage has said, "There's a very fine line between Method actor and schizophrenic." In Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, he teeters that line maniacally, with an ever-increasing slur and crooked swagger. Cage plays Terence McDonagh, a detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating a drug-related murder and his personal threshold for cocaine and heroin.
Website of the Day: MSN Twilight
Only one more day until the highly anticipated New Moon premiere and I know you were just hoping I'd squeeze in one more Twilight tech treat before the big day. And here it is! MSN has launched its very own Twilight website that takes you right to Forks, Washington where all the Twilight excitement takes place.
Food Section Sampler — Nov. 18, 2009
- Time to stock up: Looks like pure canned pumpkin is in short supply this year. — Los Angeles Times
- Don't miss out on the Beaujolais Nouveau celebrations. — Wall Street Journal
- Catching up with rapper Coolio, who's come out with a new cookbook, Ghetto Gourmet.
Consumers Warm Up to Humanely Raised Veal
While the vegetarian trend has continued to rise, a meat movement is also gaining popularity. The latest subject in sustainable agriculture? Pasture-raised veal.
First Couple Faces Criticism For Dining Decisions
The first couple have continued to convey political messages about food with their recent dining choices. The Obamas spent Saturday evening in Manhattan, where they dined at James Beard Award-winning chef Dan Barber's restaurant Blue Hill before catching a Broadway show.
Within hours, news sites were awash with commentary on the first couple's romantic dinner.
Does a Wine's Score Matter?
Wine is a super subjective drink; to one person a merlot may taste harsh and to another it could be full of flavor. That being said, I do take into account a wine's score when choosing what wine to purchase. Created in the 1970s by wine critic Robert Parker, the 100 point American wine rating system is widely used by wine magazines to rank a wine's overall taste, appearance, and aroma.
France's President Has Country Divided on Hot Topic: Le Jogging?
While over here in the USA, we are constantly arguing over our President's decisions on things like withdrawing our troops, environmentalism, etc., the French are arguing over their President's decision on his undignified exercise. His new workout is being criticized as an activity for self-centered individualists (such as the Americans who popularized it). Nope, Sarkozy has not taken up naked yoga.
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