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 I 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 4 J4 And the winner is: Alex Nemeth & Son 4 * A Shakespearean secret: Joss 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. 0 0 -H., 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 a