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Film
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Robert Downey Jr. brings laughter to the tale

 If it’s not exactly ripped from the headlines, the plot of Iron Man 3 is as perilously
Eat/Drink
Monday, April 29, 2013

New book explores Wisconsin’s culinary heritage

Chef Michael White is opening a “Wisconsin-style supper club” in New York called the Butterfly in honor of the Butterfly Club in his hometown, Beloit. The Butterfly Club is one of 50 such places in the Badger State featured in
Eat/Drink
Monday, April 29, 2013
 The paradox is startling, once you consider it: most people spend less and less time cooking and more time than ever watching other people cook—whether on television or across the counters of exposed kitchens in restaurants
Books
Sunday, April 28, 2013

A comic riff on Frankenstein and friends

 Many of us grew up watching old horror films, those classic black-and-white pictures set in a foggy recreation of Eastern Europe where vampires prowl by night, werewolves roam in the light of a full moon and monsters
CD Reviews
Friday, April 26, 2013

Victor DeLorenzo, Lorenzo Menzerschmidt

 Given Victor DeLorenzo's busy schedule, little wonder it took nine years to complete his latest solo album. According to him, his eponymous album was originally intended as a percussion extravaganza, and evidence of