While grocery stores and vegetable vendors every day put up new exotic offerings in the ingredient department, there’s still a deficit of seed, grain and other fun textured ‘base’ ingredients for a meal. Only one brand of proper soba, no wild rice, no quinoa, unpolished barley is hard to access… you get the idea. My brother’s

Whether you’ve always loved The Killers or missed that boat completely, it’s great news either way.

Yes, I know it’s the fourth of July but really, it’s not the weather for firecrackers or barbeques or potato salad. So happy fourth of July if you’re that ways inclined but honestly, even though I’m writing this in the past (early deadlines for Sunday papers) and all the accurate weather forecast people only do a five-day forecast, I’m assuming the monsoon is still playing push-pull. Indecisive rain, beastly sunshine, mind-numbing humidity… and the sniffles have arrived. Thunder and lightning have

Caught these guys on VH1 the other day with their track Let’s go surfing (how long has it been since a song had a catchy whistle instead of a hook?). Two years old, some members have been in the working musician business for a while. Jonathan Pierce (vocals) already had a band called first, Goat Explosion and then Elkland while guitarist Jacob Graham had a record deal with his band Horse Shoes.

If there is only one culinary accomplishment you aim for, let it be to convince the family that sandwiches are a plausible, substantial meal. If you go back in time (before Subway), sandwiches were regarded as a snack,