Archive for November 2010
Frontier Cyclist – ‘Hapless’ Females and Bike Shops
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: November 30, 2010
- In: Bikes
- 3 Comments
Have you ever felt patronized in a wine store? How about a record shop? Somehow the boys who sell records always seem to be judging your devotion to Rick Astley. If you’re not an expert in arcane roots music, it feels as though you’re trespassing on their time and space. Bike shops can be worse. [...]
Frontier Gastronomy: How To Say Latkes in Korean?
Posted by: Frontier Gastronomist on: November 29, 2010
Hanukkah celebrations usually involve foods fried in oil, and every year I face the perennial temptation and horror of deep-frying in my home kitchen. The idea of homemade Hanukkah doughnuts always entices me, and at some point I really would like to master the art of the French fry. But hot vats of oil in [...]
Mini-phemera Friday: Thanks for Reading
Posted by: L.V. Lopez on: November 26, 2010
This weekend, you’re busy. We get it. Busy with family, busy with food, busy with wine, busy with giant inflatable Spider-Men. The fact that you are reading this at all fills us with gratitude. Frontier Psychiatrist is growing by the week due entirely to your readership, and for that we could not be more thankful. [...]
Bob Dylan – Still Breathing
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: November 26, 2010
As a kid, I discovered the genius of Bob Dylan via my uncle’s record collection, which included Another Side of Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited, Blood on the Tracks, and Desire. But when my uncle invited me to see Dylan play this week at Terminal 5, I hesitated. How would Dylan the Man measure up [...]
Serious Juice – A Thankgiving Threesome (of Wine)
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: November 24, 2010
[Today we launch Serious Juice, a new column about wine] It’s no secret in my family that I’m no fan of Thanksgiving, the American harvest feast turned industrial holiday. For years, I’ve fought my Midwestern brethren over proper turkey cooking temperature, blanching Brussels sprouts, and killing the canned cranberries. Yet despite my culinary school degree, [...]
Frontier Cyclist – Biking in Winter
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: November 23, 2010
- In: Bikes
- 4 Comments
It’s Thanksgiving. This means the end of fall and the beginning of winter. Here come the pale days of December and January, the 4 p.m. sunsets, and the first time I have to decide: am I a winter cyclist? I’m relatively new to the world of cycling. This is my first cold season as a [...]
Frontier Gastronomy: Thanks for the Dough
Posted by: Frontier Gastronomist on: November 22, 2010
I live in a primarily Mexican and Puerto Rican neighborhood. Every day, Mexican food vendors set up shop on the main streets with big containers of tamales for sale. To accompany the tamales, they sell cups of atole or champurrado, a thickened hot breakfast drink. When I lived in Mexico, in the countryside, atole was a breakfast [...]
Twin Shadow – The New New New Wave
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: November 22, 2010
- In: Music | Record Reviews
- 5 Comments
Lately there has been no shortage of 1980s New Wave sound-alike artists. Fortunately Twin Shadow’s Forget is at the top of the Brat Pack with sophisticated melodies, R&B intimacy, poetic lyrics and George Lewis Jr.’s laid-back, yet never too precious, delivery. The Brooklyn artist on Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor’s Terrible Records label has an unusual past. [...]
Frontier Videology: Spike TV
Posted by: L.V. Lopez on: November 20, 2010
Spike Jonze, in addition to directing films such as Being John Malkovich and Where The Wild Things Are, has become one of the most prolific and respected music video directors of our generation. After spending the 90s creating some of the most iconic videos of the MTV generation (“Sabotage,” “Buddy Holly,” “Praise You“), Mr. Jonze [...]
Frontier Mixology: The Hawaiian Lady, an FP Original
Posted by: Roddy Rickhouse on: November 19, 2010
- In: Drinks
- 2 Comments
There are those who say the ukulele is the sidecar of musical instruments, i.e., no matter what you do, it’s hard to look cool doing it with a diminutive plucked lute. Those people are wrong. In the hands of such masters as Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards, who in the 1930s performed such hits as the [...]
