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This summer topnotch chefs are moving the backyard grill, source of much of America's classic cuisine, beyond the realm of traditional burgers and hot dogs to a more global way of cooking outdoors. Three new cookbooks show how the American barbecue can embrace ingredients and influences from regions as diverse as Latin America, Asia and the Caribbean...
...dark cloud rolled over the indie comix horizon this past week when LPC Group, a retail bookstore distributor with many comix clients filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Topnotch publishers such as Drawn and Quarterly, Oni, and Highwater Books, who exist on very slim margins, found themselves suddenly unable to collect monies owed them by LPC. Top Shelf, the Marietta, Georgia-based publisher of "From Hell," the comicbook inspiration for the Johnny Depp movie of last year, was compelled to release an extraordinary electronic plea for $20,000 in direct purchases to save it from going under...
...both movies received critical accolades, a rare occurrence for a B feature. The tale of a young woman who is held captive by a crooked mother-and-son team who attempt to convince her that she's the son's mentally unstable wife, "Julia Ross" is distinguished by topnotch camerawork and George Macready?s over-the-top turn as the middle-aged mama's boy who likes to play with his pocket knife. "So Dark the Night", on the other hand, is a masterful little whodunit about a French detective who faces the biggest puzzle of his career. The denouement...
...friends. When his parents divorced in 1982, Ryan's mom knew that her teaching career couldn't support her three boys. She went to work in advertising and eventually successfully started her own company. Without support from her ex-husband, she put each of her three sons through a topnotch private school and managed to somehow keep the family home...
...NISSAN "TOYS" Car ads were not generally driven by trenchant wit this year, but Nissan's spot amounted to topnotch satire of one of auto advertising's perennial themes: the right wheels always win you the babe. To the beat of Van Halen's You Really Got Me, a G.I. Joe look-alike leaves one playroom, hits the road for another in a sporty coupe and picks up a silver-lamed faux Barbie from her plastic manse. The crestfallen loser? A dull, preppie sort. The message? Drive Nissan...