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Standing on My Head (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Instant interview with Monsignor William Stetson: Mgr. William Stetson is the Secretary of the Pastoral Provision. The Pastoral Provision is the structure provided by Pope John Paul II in 1980 to enable married former Episcopal Priests to be ordained as Catholic priests. The Pastoral Provision also empowers the establishment of personal parishes which use the Anglican Use liturgy. A 'personal parish'...
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LAist (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
TMZ's latest Maria Shriver gotcha moment was published today after they observed her park an Escalade for one hour in a red zone while going to the doctor's office in Santa Monica. Miraculously, the aggressive parking enforcement people did not catch this. "Some advice 2 First Lady: TMZ isn't going away," twittered John Myers of KQED Capitol Notes , referencing the recent paparazzi crackdown...
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Off The Presses (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
The theatre had Al Hirschfeld. The cocktail crowd has Jill DeGroff. Jill is cocktail pioneer Dale DeGroff's wine, and can be seen accompanying her husband at various cocktail events. As her husband's better half, she's had ample opportunity to meeting the eminent bartenders, mixologists and "brand ambassadors" of the world, and has caught their essences in ink and paint. Jill has just published...
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Off The Presses (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
I attended the two-day "preview" of the new Manhattan Cocktail Classic, a cocktail caucus that is now supposed to materialize in Manhattan every May. Or, rather, I attended half of it. My schedule only permitted me to hang about on Saturday. Luckily, that gave me the opportunity to attend a panel by Milk & Honey's Sasha Pestraske. Petraske doesn't do many public seminars; his appearances...
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Off The Presses (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
One of the things you expect when you attend cocktail-centric conclaves like the Manhattan Cocktail Classic (held this past weekend) is you'll discover some weird and different new cocktail trend or product looming on the horizon. The first person I saw at the MCC was Portland, Maine, bartender John Myers. I put the question to him, and he said, "Oh, yeah. I just had something this morning that's...
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Off The Presses (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
The Manhattan Cocktail Classic, New York's first cocktail centered convention, begins tomorrow at Astor Center—or, at least, what they're calling a two-day preview of the real event, which will happen in May. I'll be there at the "Official Bar," which, I predict, will be where all the action is. As I reported for the New York Times, it will be manned by a rotating roster of fantastic...
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D-Day (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Around 11:00 this morning some senior Yacht Party members and their acolytes will stand in front of microphones in Sacramento trumpeting a report about state labor regulations and small businesses. They can be expected to say that the real problem with the California economy is all those gosh darn regulations, and if only businesses could free themselves from the iron boot of - I don't know, the 40-hour...
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Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
John Myers in the Duluth News Tribune : Substantial areas of what is now Northland forest may someday change to savanna or grassland, according to University of Minnesota scientists detailing the impacts of climate change in a newly published research paper. The paper predicts Duluth-area forest types — red and white pine, birch and aspen — will recede northeast to about Thunder Bay, while...
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LAist (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Leo Carillo State Beach is one of the many threatened state parks | Photo by Zach Behrens/LAist A spokesman for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said today that the list of parks slated for closure will not be released this week as officials continue to work to save more money, therefore keeping more open, according to John Myers of KQED . "It is a really terrible situation to be in," Schwarzenegger...
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The Hankster (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
INDEPENDENT VOTERS Obama must prod Demos toward agreement on health-care legislation (By Dan Balz, The Washington Post) The most immediate task at hand for President Barack Obama in his drive to win enactment of health-care legislation is to bring together members of his party behind a single piece of legislation. That is the first step toward a more important political objective, which is to rebuild...
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Phil's Concert Bootlegs (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
First, a general comment. As I have said before, I still have several years worth of recordings to digitise and upload. Identifying all the performers and titles, adding and labelling track markers, scanning in any programmes etc. all takes time. So from here on in, I am likely to just upload the recording as it stands, with little editing beyond noise filtering. If you can add any information, please...
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Liqurious (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
The Land of Forgotten Cocktails’ John Myers helps you through times of economic uncertainty with his advice on making drinks at home.
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Pope Benedict XVI Blog (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
InsideCatholic.com by Rev. Dwight Longenecker 9/08/09 In the late 1970s, a group of Episcopal clergymen with typical American chutzpah wrote to Pope Paul VI. They said they wanted to become Catholics, and wished for their priestly ministry to be fulfilled by being ordained as Catholic priests. The only problem was that they had wives and children. Paul VI received their petition, and they heard nothing....
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Uncertain Principles (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
"...Can you name the six noble gases?" As this could be no poaser for an economic geographer, I rattled them off in their proper aristocratic order. "Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, and -er- Radon. They were raised to the peerage in the eleventh year of Englad's George Fifth, and Neon was awarded the Order of the Seraphim by Gustav Sixth of Sweden for its compassionate service...
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Film for the Soul (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
Counting Down The Zeroes welcomes back J.D from the superb Radiator Heaven, and not only for yet another excellent submission but as team member, who will be on hand for the ever expanding project from now on. This time round however, J.D has taken on one of the more critically acclaimed comic adaptations of recent memory with Guillermo del Toro's vivid adaptation of the celebrated comic book series...
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