This week’s big show is the return of Jon Dee Graham to the Sunday Roadhouse series this Sunday, Feb. 12, 5 p.m. at The Side Door Lounge. Graham’s music is tough and tender, ferocious and luminous. His songs reflect the day to day struggles of life in all its rawness and richness, with a thread […]
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Edible Seduction
The coating of a truffle is just a diversion, a way to camouflage the simplicity of its creation and the core of its existence — the versatile seductress ganache. The decadent, melt-in-your-mouth chocolate creation is in many ways the playgirl of culinary confections, it looks expensive and complicated, but beneath its illustrious sheen it’s pretty […]
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Edible Seduction
The coating of a truffle is just a diversion, a way to camouflage the simplicity of its creation and the core of its existence — the versatile seductress ganache. The decadent, melt-in-your-mouth chocolate creation is in many ways the playgirl of culinary confections, it looks expensive and complicated, but beneath its illustrious sheen it’s pretty […]
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Cutting Room for February 8
If you’re a child of the 1990s, the phrase “Snootchie bootchies” doesn’t necessarily sound like the demented ramblings of a man with a massive head wound. The signature catch phrase of Jay from the beloved/loathed duo of Jay and Silent Bob will be uttered once more, as their creator, Kevin Smith, intends on resurrecting them […]
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Flourless Chocolate Cake Takes The Cake
The first bite of flourless chocolate cake and you’re wondering just what flour ever did for cake anyway. If it’s done right, the fudgy goodness will coat your fork, and possibly your teeth a little as well. Just don’t smile at your date. M’s Pub does flourless in the form of a Mocha Fudge Torte, […]
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Housing Gaga
Tom Ware keeps building on his successes on the control room side of the recording studio glass. Ware and his wife Terri have owned the Warehouse Productions for almost 20 years now, Ware says. “We’re still here beating the odds,” Ware says. While Ware says there’s always been the thought he’d eventually have to grow […]
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Flourless Chocolate Cake Takes the Cake
The first bite of flourless chocolate cake and you’re wondering just what flour ever did for cake anyway. If it’s done right, the fudgy goodness will coat your fork, and possibly your teeth a little as well. Just don’t smile at your date. M’s Pub does flourless in the form of a Mocha Fudge Torte, […]
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The Reader’s Chocolate Feature
Flowers will die, cards are tossed in a shoe box, or worse casually tossed into the trash. However, the joyous account people have when food is the vehicle for love, is long lasting and hopefully delicious. The economy is struggling and maybe you need a little help creating an unforgettable Valentine’s Day for your loved […]
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Pick: Red Wanting Blue
Feb. 9 Red Wanting Blue The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $8, onepercentproductions.com Red Wanting Blue may just be turning up on the radars of those who love honest, hooky heartland rock, but the band has been around 16 years since forming on the campus of Ohio University. The band, led by […]
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Pick: Twin Sister
Feb. 15 Twin Sister w/ Ava Luna The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St. 9 p.m., $10, onepercentproductions.com Long Island, N.Y. indie-poppers build their songs from a foundation of ’70s soft-rock and ’80s new-wave, then pile on the hipper touches like chillwave and dream-pop. Vocalist Andrea Estella leads the way with an understated delivery, while […]