Manchester Online (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
BLACK Sabbath, Black Keys, Black Flag, Black Grape: there's something about rock music that makes people want to pin their colour to the mast. Black Lungs play here tonight.
A Wine Story (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Pinot Noir? Yawn. Been there. Done that. Sure, this finicky grape had more than its fifteen minutes of fame in the film Sideways, where the film’s characters got teary-eyed just thinking about this thin-skinned black grape varietal. Few people, however,...
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
in post Indiecater from The Devil Has The Best Tuna .
The Devil Has The Best Tuna (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
No your eyes aren't deceiving you and the internet hasn't been the subject of a terrorist attack lead by Osama Bin Hugger , todays Devil's post is given over to one of the best music blogs out there, mp3hugger. The reason for this comradely gesture is that the first (hopefully of many) mp3hugger curated indie compilation, 'indiecater' has just been released. The downloadable...
AskMen.com (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Known for its distinctive flavors and great value, Portuguese wine deserves to be discovered. Let's start with the "national grape."
Drinks Are On Me (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
This is the first of a many-part series aimed at learning more about the fermented grapes we all enjoy in our wine glasses. Background and history: Aglianico (pronounced “ah-LYAH-nee-koe”) is a black grape grown in southern Italy (think of the front of the shin and ankle of the boot shape of Italy). Though it’s considered one [...]
Manchester Online (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
AS with any other form of business, the old adage ‘as one door closes, another opens’ is true for city nightspot South too.
AngryApe News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
It's the 25th to date for the rocker
The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
May we speak francly? Among the five varietals allowed in the great red wines of Bordeaux is a dark black grape called cabernet franc.
CR Blog (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
In design terms, what do we think of first when we think of Factory Records? Perhaps it's the impact of Michael Winterbottom's 2002 film, 24 Hour Party People and, more recently, that of Anton Corbijn's Control , that steers our thoughts towards Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, or that famously costly New Order sleeve for Blue Monday. Or the yellow and black striped columns in the Haçienda... But...
Bordeaux-Undiscovered (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Making great wine starts with the vine and the growing of grapevines has its own gardening lore – after all a vineyard is just a big garden with one crop. It's a specialised process but there are techniques and tips that you can follow to grow your own grapevine in the garden here in the UK. Firstly you have to remember that grape vines are only frost hardy which means that they can't be grown in areas...
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
When I heard that Bez was playing the worst student union in the country, notably The Pav in Salford, I knew something was up. I mean. Bez has danced like Brassneck from The Dandy in some pretty big places... so...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
Celebrity Big Brother winner and former Happy Mondays dancer Bez has been declared bankrupt for a second time.
Food-n-More (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Although England is still in the grips of cold spring weather people back home in India are probably already in the depths of a hot summer. Pune my hometown used to be a city with moderate summers till about 10 to 12 years back but no more. Summers of Pune are something to reckon with these days . The sun starts blazing down on you practically from eight in the morning and relief in the form of a cool...
Idolator (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Depending on which side of the alt-rock generation gap you fall on, Shaun Ryder might be best known to you as the frontman of the Happy Mondays or as a disembodied head in a Gorillaz video. But as an American teen in the '90s who cared not about "baggy" this or "Madchester" that, all I knew was that Ryder's short-lived post-Mondays combo, Black Grape, had by far some of the most entertaining videos...
