Why take on yet another project, especially when there is so much more competition on the restaurant scene in Portland today? Sam Minervino says he doesn’t worry about competition.

Eryck asks: “What would the surname for bastards born at Ringer HQ be? Do you personally think Dorne still has a role to play in the South? I know historically they can tend to disengage from Northern conflicts, but the army was ready to get picked up. Should Cersei have some eyes on them?”

TONY: We came back, we did the issue, and it was immediately everyone’s favorite. I think it sold pretty well, but after that, it was the issue most people talked about.

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She has spotted a few trends in the world of wood carving lately, which she’s featuring in a few of her Christmas makes. “Many people are incorporating more texture into their pieces, more deliberate and bold carving strokes, showing the marks from the tools and using light to show the highlights and shadows of each piece. I think it reminds people that this work has been hand carved and not made by some slick machine. I used to sand out all of the troughs and facets that my tools would leave and am not doing that so much at the moment. People seem to be responding well to it. It’s all part of a more honest approach in showing how pieces are made and the process behind each one.”

at salone del mobile 2019, pedrali welcomes fair-goers into a palace of wonders where 10 new collections each furnish a dedicated contemporary interior.

See Jessica write a list of Alien Franchise books…see Jessica fudge it a bit so she can include even more books than it says in the title. There are seven Complete Aliens Omnibuses, and between them they encapsulate all of the Alien franchise novels published between 1992 and 2008, which is something like 15 novels in total. These Omnibuses, added to the four original novelizations (Alien through Alien Resurrection), comprise the entirety of both the first and second Alien novel series. And, happy day of happy days, the anthology series includes works from all five of the franchise’s female authors: S.D. Perry, Yvonne Navarro, Diane Carrey, A.C. Crispin, and Sandy Schofield (Sandy is actually a two person team of Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith). The novels in these Omnibuses span the width and breadth of the Alien universe, stretching its boundaries and giving it a marvelous depth of detail beyond even what the film series presents. Other authors involved include: Steve Perry, David Bischoff, Robert Sheckley, Michael Jan Friedman, John Shirley, and B.K. Evenson.

Red Coins 13-15:  On the row furthest from the screen, walk along and you will see the shy guys holding coins in papercraft windows. Egg them.

The gentleman in the charcoal-gray suit is leaning on a railing in the gallery of the Neanderthal Museum. He has a gnarled face and brushed-back hair and scrunched-up eyes that seem to be off on a secret, faraway trip. He looks like Yogi Berra formulating a Yogi-ism or maybe a Neanderthal contemplating fire. Indeed, he is a Neanderthal, albeit a Neanderthal dummy. Which we now know to be an oxymoron.

I haven’t driven the G25 so can’t compare the two, but was quite happy cruising along in this car all week. 

The joke on the ballers is that everything here is baller. And everything, if you squint, is kind of a steak, from the huge Center Cut King Crab Legs, which restore the crown of that crustacean after too many dissolute years spent hanging around Vegas buffets, to the Slab Salad, a classic iceberg wedge topped with ranch and Benton’s lardons that somehow inspires you to attack it with some of the same bloodlust you do the deeply crusted rib eyes, strips, and porterhouses, or the 100-day-wet-aged wood-grilled hanger, which is the sneaky winning order. Shepherd, who this year also opened UB Preserv, a new evolution of Underbelly, as well as a “Mediterranean” iteration of his rotating concept, One Fifth, has a gift for deliciousness but not always for coherent editing. The conventions of a steak house seem to have focused his fertile mind. The candle on my table turned out to be a wick floating in a limpid pool of clarified smoked-brisket fat. Bread dipped into it came out tasting like a barbecue rib. I suspect so would kale.