2B - Thursday, October 27, 2011
The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com
FOOD* WARS
Each week, one Ann Arbor staple menu item becomes a
battlefield as Daily Arts editors butt heads over
which restaurant makes it best.
APPLE CIDERh
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ALEX NEMETH & SON
Ann Arbor Farmer's Market
315 Detroit Street
An apple cider is only as good as its
"tang," and Alex Nemeth's refreshing
beverage has taken the strategy to heart.
As the essence of autumn incarnate, the
cider is immediately brisk, but its latent
sweetness allows it to round out smooth-
ly. Most importantly, it stays true to the
flavor of the fruit, making it the closest
you can come to sipping an apple.
TASTEE APPLE CIDER
White Market
609 East William Street
Tastee's strong apple twang - rather on
the sour side of sweet, a rabidburst of flavor
- can be hard to handle. For those who per-
sist, who drink slowly and let the taste lin-
ger, perhaps roll each sip around the tongue
and absorb every nuance, the sinful apple
touch can be just enough to alter percep-
tions about such a complex drink. But at the
end oftthe day, Tastee is an acquired taste.
HY'S CIDER MILL
People's Food Co-op
215 North Fourth Street
True, this People's Food Co-Op creation
isn't all local (pasteurization is a require-
ment, and many A2 farmers don't pasteur-
ize their goods), but the mini-mountains
of sugar dissolved in every sip more than
make up for the faux pas in sustainabil-
ity. But does excessive carb content really
a cider make? In the end, Hy's cider tastes
more like apple pie than a real beverage.
MEIJER BRAND APPLE CIDER
Meijer
3145 Ann Arbor-Saline Road
Drinking apple cider from Meijer is
like that hopeful reunion with an old
high school friend who has done nothing
for the past 10 years except live in his par-
ents' basement and visciously compete
with 10 year olds at World oftWarcraft. In
short, a disappointment. Sugary eupho-
ria quickly devolves to a bland excuse for
cider - like the friend who lets us down.
B-Side Buzz
Nick Harp
English lecturer
How do you feel about astronomy?
Astronomy's actually the only class I ever failed in college. I got a
big fat F in my transcript thanks to astronomy.
Where do you stand with apple cider?
I have important thoughts on apple cider, and here are my
thoughts as follows: Apple cider is delicious. However, apple cider
must not be pasteurized. If you want good apple cider, you must
find a place that is able to make it unpasteurized.
Isn't that kind of dangerous?
There is some risk, but if there's something worth dying for, it must
be good apple cider.
Excerpts are taken from the B-Side Buzz video,
which can be found on MichiganDaily.com.
Interview by Jeff Woarniak
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And the winner is: Alex Nemeth & Son
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Whedon and an unexpected film
adaptation of 'Much Ado'
* A2SO: This orchestra can sure
sell Beethoven
Shave and a haircut: Explore the
Church Street Barber Shop
Marcel curls, drop-waisted
dresses, top hat n' tails, pearls
galore. These are the elements
contained in
the divine
trailer at
"The Art- TheArtist
ist," a silent The Weinstein
film lovingly Company
fashioned
by Michel
Hazanavicius ("Mes amis") as
a tender homage to the Roaring
Twenties.
Yeah, it's weird that a film in
the 2010s would dare strip away
all the extras that make movies
what they are - i.e. voice, color,
CGI, explosions, Megan Fox,
etc. - but "The Artist" is styled
with such finesse it's difficult to
find much fault with the absence.
Its lack of sound doesn't even
feel gimmicky, just necessary.
There's a scene where the doe-
eyed heroine glides effortlessly
with a coatrack and suit in tow,
Benny Goodman trumpeting
jubilantly in the background. It's
Angelina Jolie is known for
her beauty on screen. But in the
December release "In the Land
of Blood and
Honey," she
puts herself
behind the Inte n
camera and
takes on the of Blood
role of writer/ and Honey
director.
"In the GK
Land of Blood
and Honey" revolves around
the Bosnian war and a budding
but forbidden romance between
a Bosnian woman and a Ser-
bian man that springs up in the
middle of it. The film is primar-
ily concerned with looking for
beauty in the midst of a time of
great horror, which is a noble
undertaking and certainly is
in line with Jolie's humanitar-
ian work. However, it's a pretty
big undertaking for a first time
director. Whether or not she can
handle the density of the subject
matter remains tobe seen.
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Judging from the trailer cinematography - this isn't an things working for it. Then
alone, it actually seems like action packed thriller at all. "In again, it's easy to throw togeth-
Jolie has a grip on the sub- the Land of Blood and Honey" er some of the best moments of
ject matter. The trailer melds has also started to generate a a movie with some soft piano
violence with the love story little bit of Oscar buzz, so the music.
seamlessly through delicate movie must have some good -EMILYBOUDREAU
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