The AFP has reported that winegrowers in France's Provence region are furious over European Union plans to let producers make rosé by mixing red and white wine saying this risks destroying a local tradition and could lead to tens of thousands of job losses. According to the report the European Comm...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) wants you to know that there is no lock on the U.S. Treasury: With the jobless rate rising and the economy continuing to slow, Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters: "We have to keep the door open to see how this goes." Pelosi's remarks came after seni...

Likely Starter: Justin Morneau 2008 Stats: .300/.374/.499, 23 HR, 129 RBI Can Morneau avoid another September thaw? Potential Backups: Michael Cuddyer, Brian Buscher, Brendan Harris If not for an ugly final few weeks last year, the season may have had a very different conclusion for Justin Morneau. ...

Congress has passed the $410 billion omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2009. That means it will soon be landing on President Barack Obama's desk with all the wood-shattering force that only a massively swollen, pork-addled, insane hunk of burning government love (metaphors fail me!) could m...

                      Illinois is getting pretty comfortable in Boston. Last Thursday at Great Scott marked the band's fifth Boston show in as many months, with one more to come in April. Illinois took the stage after Magic Magic, and proceeded ...

Little Hells was released March 3 on Kemado The Morning After features thoughts on a quick tryst with a just-released album. No regrets. Report Card: B Marissa Nadler’s built a nice little scaffolding of critical acclaim from her last couple albums, and during this time she’s admirably f...

Geothermal is the bastard child of renewable energy. Constantly overlooked in articles and headlines in lieu of the much sexier solar and wind, which have become the go to cleantech representatives, geothermal energy use could quietly double in the next six years. It requires no fuel, can provide ba...

From Recipes I've had so many boring versions of channa masala I was little flabbergasted when I came across a version that was delicately spiced, fragrant, and worthy of the spotlight. I was up on Devon Avenue in Chicago at Uru-Swati, an incredible vegetarian Indian restaurant on the north side of ...

It wasn’t too long ago that social networking was more popular than porn. Now it appears they, along with blogs, have overtaken that perpetual necessity, email. A Nielsen Online report says two thirds of us now use what it calls “Member Communities,� which includes both social networks and blo...

Remember back when we all believed in hope and change and the idea that light beer could taste great and be less filling? When President Obama promised to bring fiscal sanity to a Washington that spent too much, saved too little, and yadda yadda yadda? Well, keep waiting until some time after the gi...