Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
City wine professionals give us their best prognostication for trends in the new year.
Sunday 19 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Washington
Grape forecast
Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
City wine professionals give us their best prognostication for trends in the new year.
White water
Washington’s Columbia Valley moves away from some American styles to produce white wines with an Old World sense of restraint.
Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
Reason No. 1 to shop the Washington section of your favorite wine shop is probably price. According to Wine Spectator magazine’s Augustus Weed, “Exploring Washington’s white wines can be easy on the wallet, with most of the bottlings … priced at $20 or less.”
The federal Titanic is sinking
Commentary
State Rep. T.W. Shannon
Ninety percent of an iceberg is typically underwater. This fact makes icebergs extremely dangerous, because it takes a keen eye to determine if the ice floating on the surface is a small block that can be pushed aside or several million tons of ice that will sink your ship.
The write stuff
A new exhibit celebrates all things Oklahoma and literary.
Visual Arts
Louis Fowler
Oklahoma Writers: A Literary Tableau
ongoing
Oklahoma History Center
800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive
okhistory.org
522-6676
$4-$18
Django Unchained
The 'D' is silent; the movie is not.
Western
Rod Lott
As he did with 2009’s Inglourious Basterds, superstar filmmaker Quentin Tarantino looked to Italy for primary inspiration for his follow-up. In Django Unchained, he’s cribbed the country’s spaghetti Western genre, shoehorned the all-American slavesploitation film into its center, and rewritten another ugly chapter in world history while filtering it all through his Movies Unlimited catalog lens.
Kevin Durant reacts to Jason Collins' coming out: 'It's cool with me'
News
Gazette staff
Numerous NBA stars have weighed in with encouraging words for Washington Wizards center Jason Collins in light of today's announcement that he is gay.
