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Our favo(u)rite British music mags are in especially fine Snob form this month. In Mojo, David Fricke, actually an American rock writer with an awesome Marky Ramone ’do, describes the sound of vintage Blondie as “a knockout combination of hot candy and pop-art vision, powered by the drumming of Clem Burke and iced with the peppermint-Kraftwerk keyboards of Jimmy Destri.” Nice one, David! Though if it’s “hot candy,” why are the Kraftwerk peppermints so icy?
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Tchelistcheff, André. Russian-born, Toulouse-Lautrec-sized enologist (1901-1994) and leading light of the ascendant Napa Valley of the post-Prohibition era. Summoned to California from his adopted France in 1938 by Georges de Latour, the French owner of Beaulieu Vineyards in Rutherford, California, Tchelistcheff used his expertise to cultivate the state’s first superior Cabernet Sauvignons, and remained with the winemaker for some 40 years. For all his loyalty to Beaulieu, Tchelistcheff also blazed a trail for today’s “flying winemakers,” having started a sideline as a handsomely compensated consultant when MICHEL ROLLAND was still suckling at the teet in Libourne. Read more from the Wine Snob's Dictionary » 
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