Appetite for Murder:
A Mystery Lover's Cookbook
by Kathy Borich
A tantalizing slant on cooking and crime. Relive your favorite classic detective stories and then whip up the food that caught the culprit.
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An Illustrated Introduction to Classical Horsemanship: Concepts and Skills from A to Z
by Gary Borich
A comprehensive resource in a succinct alphabetical format that brings the beginning rider through every aspect of learning to train and ride for show and trail.
Often been surprised by a movie after what a film critic said about it? Ever felt cheated out of big bucks on the recommendations of a punk 24-year-old? Or really loved the ones they panned? Well, you no longer need to feel out of step with the current movie review band. Different Drummer is for you. Read more about our take on the film world. And get ready to relive your favorite movies with the recipes that follow each review.
As sweet, light, and indulgent as its signature pastry, this quirky film dances into our spring just when we need some relief from the unrelenting dank weather, cinematic and otherwise.
Sean Connery decides the best way “to catch a thief” is to marry her in the relatively unknown and often unappreciated Hitchcock thriller. Watch it for no other reason than to see the ultimate playboy become a determined monogamist relentlessly searching for the root of his wife’s obsession.
Told from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers awaiting the inevitable American invasion of Iwo Jima, director Clint Eastwood gives us this epic World War II battle from the inside out. Hope for reinforcements slowly fades, and the troops tunnel into the mountainside for a valiant last stand, the bitter taste of defeat as pervasive as the dust and darkness of their cavernous trenches.
If you’d like to time warp to wintry Victorian London this pre-Christmas weekend, see this gem of film about the early adventures of Holmes and Watson. Long before Harry Potter and his assorted school chums treated us to mystery and mayhem, Young Sherlock Holmes was up to his eyeballs in adventure at his boarding school as well. Only it’s not magic that the precocious teenager has up his sleeve -- just the mandates of cold, hard logic.
Billed in our local paper as a “Hitchockian story of l’amour fou or "crazy love,” The Blue Room lured me to it like a weary traveler finding a magnificent guesthouse in the middle of nowhere. This weary traveler and film critic warns you to stay away.
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