Call it the malbec conundrum. Argentina’s national grape produces one of the most popular wines in the world, but finding a $10 malbec that is worthwhile is not easy to do. T[...]
25 Aug 2010
Let’s make one thing clear at the start: The city is broke, so any donation — even from a company as flawed as Oncor — is welcome. The problem, of course, is that[...]
24 Aug 2010
Mayor Park Cities says he has this budget thing whipped, now that we’re taking handouts from upstanding corporate citizens like Oncor. I’ll have a few thoughts about th[...]
23 Aug 2010
Buying wine sight unseen is not easy. Store shelves are packed with too many bottles, too many of which lure consumers with clever labels that makes what’s in the bottle seem[...]
18 Aug 2010
I still have considerable family in Chicago, as well as quite a few friends from my college days. And we have one rule. I’m not allowed to complain about winter down here, an[...]
17 Aug 2010
Regular visitors here know that I think the worst budget calamity in a city budget full of calamities is the approximately $250,000 earmarked for the city’s “vertiport&[...]
16 Aug 2010
June’s sales tax collections came in $200,000 over budget, less than a 1 percent increase. That’s the fourth month in a row that revenue met or exceeded the budget. For[...]
12 Aug 2010
The losers? That’s easy. Us. The taxpayers. There isn’t one part of the budget that directly affects us that wasn’t cut significantly, and it’s a lot more t[...]
11 Aug 2010
The search goes on for a replacement for Osborne Solaz. The Volteo ($8, purchased, available at Whole Foods) comes close, and not just because it’s imported by the company th[...]
11 Aug 2010
I’ve been out of town on wine stuff for the past 10 days, and haven’t had a chance to parse the proposed city budget. Which is probably just as well, given that it appe[...]
09 Aug 2010
Tag city budget
Wine snobs can be so dull. I found the Feudo stuffed in a corner at Jimmy’s (a tip o’ the wine glass to the Italian Wine Guy for pointing it out), and did a little rese[...]
04 Aug 2010
New label, same incredible quality. It’s almost embarrassing to do a Vitiano review. I’m hardly the fawning type, yet I sound like a gushing school girl whenever I writ[...]
28 Jul 2010
