Having already covered the beer highlights of the year, here’s a list of some of my favourite and least favourite travel adventures and destinations of 2010. Favourite Place: Vancouver There’s a bunch of reasons I stayed in Van longer than anywhere else.  Beautiful summer weather, beaches and the ocean, a bunch of my good friends, [...]

Since everybody’s doing it, I’ll probably come up with a few ‘best of’ lists, so it only makes sense to start with my (liquid) bread and butter.  Here’s a fresh look at the year’s microbrewery accomplishments and failures along the West coast. Best Brewery: Santa Cruz Mountain As I’ve pointed out before, the impression of [...]

I spent my time in LA living with the assistants to directors and producers in Hollywood.  Getting home from work at 9 PM was pretty much standard so the stiff drink to immediately follow was well earned.  Running someone else’s life is a task I would not be suited for considering I barely bother to [...]

A shrine to the museum form itself with artifacts about curators hundreds of years gone entangled with the stories of their treasures and discoveries.  Dark lighting, haunting sounds, holograms, tricks of perception.  I’m still not quite sure what’s going on here having just walked out the door, but considering I’m filled with a sense of [...]

If you like beats and cuts and funky rhythms and rapid fire samples, look no further than where it all began with the seminal mid-80’s work of Steinski.  A true student of all things syncopated, leave it to a white ad agency copy writer to come up with what would become some of the most [...]

It’s been one of the better news weeks I can remember, and it just keeps getting better. Miley Cyrus on Salvia This sounds like a made up YouTube video, and while I wish it was, I’m afraid not.  I haven’t watched it, but reading the story, well, even I have to say this isn’t good.  [...]