Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rules change within the space of a dozen yards. Tex-Mex, the cuisine born of that uneasy schizophrenia, retains some of the intrigue of its homeland. Few innocent consumers should be bamboozled into believing, for example, that the stale tortilla coated with brown paste and overflowing with sour cream and jack cheese might with pride be called a burrito, or that the proper recipe for guacamole calls for mayonnaise. Just as Hank Quinlan--the crooked cop Welles plays in his recently re-released film noir--might have done in their shoes, they are better served drowning the lot in hyper...
...necessary prerequisite for any Tex-Mex restaurant, Baja offers a wild assortment of margaritas, both standard and bastardized with the likes of Chambord and Grand Marnier. A timely cantina, the bar also offers two martini specials: Fuzzy Grape Chinaco Martini (Chinaco, Peach Schnapps, grape juice and sour mix) and Tarantula Martini (Tarantula Azul, Cointreau, and Chambord). The mere descriptions sent my insulin levels through the roof and the floor at once...
...despite Tabrizi's pure-cream frosting and sour lemon syrup, the baking wasn't going as planned...
...mindless tunes. Jason Robert Brown's Stars and the Moon tells the wry tale of a material girl who brushes off a series of poor but ardent suitors only to learn that yachts and champagne aren't everything; Ricky Ian Gordon's Dream Variations is a laconic, sweet-and-sour setting of the famous poem by Langston Hughes that ends with "Night coming tenderly/ Black like...
...environmental battle over logging in redwood groves turned deadly last week when Earth First activists challenged Pacific Lumber Co. loggers at work above Grizzly Creek in California's Humboldt County. Cat-and-mouse taunting between protesters and timber crews had gone on for years, but recent confrontations had turned sour. Earlier this year an activist took refuge in a 40-ft. redwood sapling, and loggers felled the tree. Somehow the climber tumbled out unharmed. Last week's skirmish ended differently: with shouts, the whine of a chain saw and a falling redwood hitting another tree. As the confusion of dust...