The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com' 2B - Thursday, October 6, 2011 FOOD9 WARS Each week, one Ann Arbor staple menu item becomes a battlefield as Daily Arts editors butt heads over which restaurant makes it best. PLAIN BAGEL WITH CREAM CHEESE I I PANERA BREAD 777 North University Avenue Plain bagels can be boring, but Panera's version of this food item is delicious. The bagel is perfectly toasted so that it's crisp on the outside but chewy on the inside. The cream cheese is mercifully spread- able and tasty. All the awkwardness that's usually associated with a normal slab of cold cream cheese is nowhere to be found here. BRUEGGER'S 709 North University Avenue With a lightly crispy outside to comple- ment the thick and soft interior, Brueg- ger's gets it right with its homemade bagels. Throw in some signature cream cheese, with just the right balance of savory and sweet, and this becomes a nicely satisfying breakfast or filling snack. It's cheap, too, ringing in at only $1.05 includingtax. ZINGERMAN'S BAKEHOUSE 3711 Plaza Drive Zingerman's doesn't serve plain bagels. Zingerman's Bakehouse makes a 1610 tra- ditional bagel which, despite its crisp crust and chewy innards, is bland. What sets this classic apart is the cream cheese. Made by hand at Zingerman's Creamery, the fluffy spread, with its light milky flavor, adds enough zest to the plainest of plain bagels to make it an ideal part of any Sunday brunch. AMER'S 530 South State Street From your mouth's perspective, the bagel is fine. It's dense and chewy with a nice crust. But our eyes sense something is wrong - there is no hole in the center! Even if we could overlook this amateur mistake, we can't forgive the smattering of nothing-special cream cheese, which is especially insulting when the pair tallies up to $1.99. B-SIde Buzz Micheal Louis O'Dell Jr. Get Your Game On employee Describe your dream wedding. I don't think I can answer that. Cheap? Would you ever get married in Ann Arbor? Possibly? Hard to answer that, too. If you were going to get married in Ann Arbor, where would it be? Outside? Do you have anything else you want to say? Is it over? Excerpts are taken from the B-Side Buzz video, which can be found on MichiganDaily.com. Interview by Leah Burgin I 4 And the winner is: Zingerman's SINGLE REVIEW EPISODE REVIEW 40 If there's one conclusion to be drawn after listening to Drake's "Club Paradise," it's this: Drizzy is a little homesick. Keep- W ing on with aub Paradise the heavy lyricism, Drake absence of hooks and Young Money atmospheric R&B road that Take Care seems to be cruising down, "Club Para- dise" is another self-conscious diatribe about Drake's internal wrestle with fame andthe colos- sal expectations of his sopho- more album. A burner, not a banger ("Over" or "Forever"this is not), it's debatable whether it will ever see the light of day on, the radio. Drooling Drake fans expecting the next "Best I Ever Had"will be a little stumped. Over a spare 808 and some "Breaking Bad" is known for gruesome intensity and diaboli- cal plotting, building intricate story struc- tures that lead to jaw-on-the- floor climaxes. "End limes" As the series wraps its Breaking Bad penultimate season, these AMC characteris- tics move it to new extremes, burning bridges as its creators set up its last chapter. We've seen chemistry teach- er-turned-meth cooker Wal- ter White (Bryan Cranston, "Drive") shatter his relation- ship with assistant Jesse Pink- man (Aaron Paul, "Big Love"), losing him to their sociopath boss, drug distributor Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito, "Rabbit Hole"). White, who's worthless to Fring now that Pinkman can 6 6. moody electronic undercur- rents, Drake raps diary-style about everything from keep- ing promises to his mother, to knowing strippers' real names, to fucking up the "double-cheek kiss" at Fashion Week. 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