Le retour du vin de rhubarbe

D'un coup d'oeil expert, Michel Moine, 70 ans, inspecte les brassées de rhubarbe fraîchement récoltées dans un champ à côté de l'exploitation familiale à Xertigny (Vosges) : « Elle est belle ! », s'enthousiasme le patriarche qui a relancé le vin de rhubarbe dans les années 1980.

Trois décennies plus tard, ses deux fils quinquagénaires et ses petits-enfants veillent sur la production de la plante potagère, aux bâtons rouge carmin à l'extérieur et verts à l'intérieur, arrivée « par hasard » dans la ferme des Moine.

- La Presse

Dany Tremblay: l'improbable héros du barbecue

Il y a moins de trois ans, Dany Tremblay se contentait de cuire des boulettes de boeuf haché sur son gril au gaz. Or, après le premier BBQ Camp, à l'automne 2016, il s'est découvert une passion dévorante. Cinquième l'an dernier dans la catégorie barbecue aux World Food Championships, en Alabama, Dany veut cette année percer le top 50 au monde et devenir le meilleur pit master du Canada. Récit.

- La Presse

Comment étancher une soif tropicale

En attendant la première canicule, faisons nos provisions. La Witbier aux oranges entières de la toute jeune microbrasserie Echo Session Ales et la Sour Avec à l’ananas de La Memphré ont en commun d’être très désaltérantes, subtilement fruitées et surtout faibles en alcool — à boire en pintes lorsqu’il fait chaud, sans remords ni gueule de bois !

Le mystère de la bière rousse

Ce sont des questions existentielles que nous posait récemment un assoiffé collègue à propos de ce qu’on appelle très évasivement la bière rousse. En brasse-t-on encore ? En boit-on encore ? À ces deux questions-là, Éloi Deit, de la Brasserie Dunham, et Antoine Bernatchez, de la microbrasserie La Souche, répondent par l’affirmative. Ne reste plus qu’à élucider le mystère des origines de cette bière qui, selon les mots de Rose Ouellette, que Molson avait recrutée pour « mousser » les ventes de sa propre rousse, « ‘est douce » !

- Le Devoir

You Can Check into this Motel California, but You Can Never Leave

I just got a postcard (fine, it was an email) from my favourite motel in the world, to say that they’ve opened a brand new Hicksville location! Do you remember my road trip through California back in the summer of 14? Well if you don’t, you should probably see the trailer park motel I stayed in while passing through Joshua Tree. It was pretty much the coolest place I’ve ever stayed. And now it looks like I need to plan a California road trip part deux so I can live it up at the Hicksville Pines in Idyllwild, California…

- Messy Nessy Chic

Lust Never Sleeps Two new books on sex and power

This work comes across as the tedious provocations of a man desperate for any negative attention he can get. “Women, asked to describe the best sexual experience of their lives, almost always mention an exceedingly brief thing they had decades ago with a near-convict,” he declares. Upon viewing scads of hacked celebrity nudes from 2014’s The Fappening, he is filled with “relief”: “these women are as sad and afraid and shy—above all, shy—about sex as we are,” he writes, hiding behind highly dubious collectivity. “The shape of a high-end sports car’s rear end is meant to replicate a bubble-butted woman’s,” he asserts, and “pink is associated with girls because it’s the color of their pussies; blue is associated with boys because it’s the color of the veins in their cocks.” Life is too short to indulge such rapturous dilettantism. Even immortals would roll their eyes.

Lili Boisvert’s most radical moment comes when she acknowledges certain pleasures granted to women that are usually denied to straight men, such as reveling in being lusted after and having “eyes glued to their bodies.” Many feminists would hold the party line that such thrills are unremitting burdens, or inherently degrading, but not Boisvert. “We can concede the injustice,” she writes. “Men do not have access to this power.” And with this concession, she touches on a vital element of the magnanimous chauvinist’s psyche. Men have for centuries told themselves that their obsession with women’s bodies is the real gendered injustice, that women are allowed to be parasitical because we’re sexually indispensable, and if men were (objectively, biologically) beautiful, or if women liked sex as much as men do, they would be the pampered gender. Mailer’s diagnosis still fits (who would know better than he?): “In the profound pussy envy of men there is the simple even sentimental suspicion that it is easy to be a woman—one need merely lie back and all Heaven will come into the cunt.” Many tenacious and deeply felt fantasies ride on this conviction, not only those pertaining to sex but those that prop up gender essentialism, misogyny, male supremacy—entire worldviews. True liberation is to be an idol: a “worshipped” object free from obligation, a valuable piece of property expected only to please the eye.

- Bookforum

Ovidie : «On a intégré l’idée que la jouissance ne peut se faire que dans la domination»

De la pornographie militante aux documentaires féministes, Ovidie a réalisé de nombreux films - le dernier en date, Là où les putains n’existent pas, a reçu le prix Amnesty International au festival de Thessalonique (Grèce). Elle y dénonce l’acharnement de l’Etat suédois dans la lutte contre la prostitution. Ovidie a un temps promu l’empowerment des femmes par le sexe. Elle en est «un peu revenue», a écrit des livres, dont le pionnier Porno Manifesto (Flammarion, 2002), dans lequel elle défendait, face aux conceptions rétrogrades, un cinéma pornographique militant et émancipateur.

Prolifique, elle décortique méthodiquement le processus de construction de nos fantasmes, notamment dans une bande dessinée (Libres ! Delcourt, 2017) ou alerte les parents des dangers qu’encourent leurs enfants, soumis de plus en plus jeunes à la vision de contenus hard sur le Net (A un clic du pire, Anne Carrière, 2018). Lucide, elle constate : le patriarcat ne va pas «cramer de [son] vivant» tout en se félicitant des avancées qu’a permis #MeToo et en poursuivant la lutte, en bonne combattante libertaire. Si Ovidie s’intéresse au sexe, c’est essentiellement pour ce qu’il nous dit d’une société dont elle dénonce la misogynie structurelle.

- Libération

Born in 1980, Ovidie was an 18 year-old student of philosophy when she decided to enter the world of pornography as an actress. From the start of her career, the media developed an interest in the adult film star considered to be an ´intellectual´.In 2001, she directed her first erotic film, "Orgy in Black", for which she was awarded the Hot D´Or for best screenplay. With this recognition, she became the youngest porn director in movie history.Shortly thereafter, Ovidie directed her second feature film, "Lilith", which was praised by the entire profession as well as by many ´traditional´ journalists and film reviews.Today, Ovidie is directing adult movies and writes many sex guides in order to improve adult sexual education. A partisan of safe sex, she insists on the use of condoms during her film scenes. In April 2008, she took the helm of the production department of French Lover TV.

- Lust Cinema

Vivian Maier: Lost Photographs Of 1950s New York

Found after her death, Vivian Maier’s photographs capture New York City in motion.

Two years before Vivian Maier died in 2009 at age 83, 30,000 of her negatives were bought at a Chicago thrift auction by former estate agent John Maloof. He was writing a book on Chicago history. Maier had been unable to pay the rental on a storage locker. So 100,000 of her unseen negatives housed in hundreds of boxes and undeveloped films were sold.

- Design You Trust

Corner Shops and Cathedrals Get Equal Attention in Zhifang Shi’s Travel Watercolors

Using a combination of watercolor and ink, Zhifang Shi creates vignettes of the places he encounters in his worldwide travels. The Shanghai-based artist works en plein air, painting atop a portable palette to document storefronts, architectural features, boats, and trolley cars. Washes of color add depth and movement to Shi’s loose, gestural contour lines, and his focus on points of entry and modes of transit invites the viewer into the artist’s world. You can keep up with Shi’s wide-ranging travels and resulting urban sketches on Instagram.

- Colossal

How to live forever: meet the extreme life-extensionists

Some sleep on electromagnetic mats, others pop up to 150 pills a day. But are ‘life extensionists’ any closer to finding the key to longevity? Alex Moshakis meets some of the people determined to become immortal.

- The Guardian

10 Reasons To Believe Humans Came From Outer Space

No one is saying that Homo sapiens climbed out of their spaceships fully formed on planet Earth one day. We obviously spent a lot of time evolving on Earth.

However, scientists have difficulty tracing our most distant origins—that is, our basic building blocks. Even though it sounds straight out of a science fiction movie, it’s hypothesized that life, including human life, initially came from outer space. That’s right, aliens may be our ancestors.

Panspermia, the transfer of viable organisms between planets, is considered a serious hypothesis by planetary scientists. It seems utterly bizarre, but this idea is so highly regarded in the scientific community that it’s being funded by NASA, MIT, and Harvard, to name a few.

- Listverse

The Unsolved Mystery of the Malibu Creek Murder

When a man was killed in Malibu Creek State Park last summer while camping with his two young daughters, it sent the placid Southern California community into hysterics—spawning amateur sleuths, conspiracy theories, and public paranoia. Was it related to a rash of unsolved incidents in the area? But while the tragedy’s aftermath publicly played out like a new season of Serial, there was also a family left picking up the pieces after a seemingly random act of violence. This is a story about what happens when lightning strikes in the most chilling manner imaginable.

- GQ

Derrière la porte : l'avis de la maîtresse

Nathalie a 48 ans. Une vie occupée. Des responsabilités. Et, à l'occasion, des amants. Parfois célibataires, parfois mariés. Mais attention : toutes les maîtresses ne sont pas des voleuses de maris, nuance-t-elle. Explications.

Elle nous a écrit il y a quelques semaines, en réaction à un témoignage touchant (troublant) d'une femme « trompée », à répétition du surcroît. Une femme trahie. Meurtrie. Le texte l'a touchée à plusieurs égards, notamment parce qu'elle est de l'autre côté du miroir, comme on dit. « J'ai été de l'autre côté, celui de la maîtresse... Disons que j'ai une vision complémentaire de l'histoire. »

- La Presse

Bunny Yeager : The Brilliant Selfies

Was Bunny Yeager the original bunny girl? Born Eleanor Linnea Yeager in Pittsburgh, PA in 1929, Bunny died in 2014 in Miami, Florida. Her pin-ups – notably of the hymned Bettie Page who Bunny ‘discovered’ in 1954 when Irving Klaw’s fetish model who’d illustrated the guide to striptease was looking for new angles and a way in to Hugh Hefner’s Playboy – hark back to an era when less was more and gender roles were binary and starched hard.

Yeager was the woman photographer in a man’s world. Often she stayed in the picture, her presence asserting command over the scene and offering sororal guidance to her “girls”. Yeager’s spirited women were not simply an opening into someone’s fantasy.

- Flashbak

Sex is Not a Commodity I “Sell” to Men in Exchange for Worth

I was taught that men took something when we had sex but I’ve resisted. should be no surprise that sex confused me growing up. Ever since I realized I would someday have it (around puberty), I was bombarded with contradicting messages. On one hand, I was told women wanted sex very much. I was shown this through imagery almost everywhere I looked. Red lips, big breasts, shiny hair, fluttering eyelashes. Female sexuality was used to sell almost everything, and even as an adolescent I understood this. I was taught that the female desires and is desired. I read article after article in my teen magazines about females and their sexual wants and urges. Women were pleasure-seeking creatures — this, if I could believe what I saw in the fashion magazines.

- Medium

An 81-year Harvard Study Says Staying Happy and Mentally Sharp Boils Down to 1 Thing

The key to a happy life is easy to overlook. Ahh, the pursuit of happiness. So many voices in the chorus telling us how to master it. There are psychology-based tricks to happiness, watch-outs for what kills happiness, even equations for happiness.

Despite all the sources of inspiration on the topic, it's hard not to take notice of an authoritative, 81-year-long study conducted by the big brains at Harvard University. Known as the Harvard Study of Adult Development, it is one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies in history.

Started in 1938, the Harvard study has been seeking to answer one question: What keeps us happiest as we go through life? The research started by tracking the lives of 724 men. Any original study participants left are now in their 90s, so now the study is examining the lives of 2,000 children of these men. This just might go on longer than The Simpsons.

- Inc

When Photos Looked Like Paintings: Dreamy Landscape Photographs Taken By Leonard Misonne

Belgian photographer Leonard Misonne (1870-1943) trained as an engineer before discovering photography. Raised in Gilly, Belgium, the photographer traveled throughout his homeland and beyond to capture the landscape and people of Europe in the Pictorialist style.

Photographs, characterized by soft, painterly scenes, were created through alternative printing processes that utilize materials such as oil and gum bichromate. The Pictorialist movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries sought to elevate photography to the level of other fine arts such as painting and sculpture.

- Design you Trust

The French Town on the Edge of a Giant Hole

On the lip of a lush cliff in Aveyron hides a place exempt from logic. Granted we’re not scientifically inclined, but there has to be some kind of sorcery bubbling under the bedrock of Bozouls, the ancient French village that’s been teetering on the edge of a massive hole – without totally crumbling in on itself – for about 1,000 years.

- Messy Nessy Chic

Underground Photos From New York’s Seediest Years

Miron Zownir captures the provocative energy and aggressive hedonism of the city in the 80s.

Hailed by Terry Southern as the "Poet of Radical Photography," Miron Zownir took up photography in the late 1970s when he arrived in West Berlin. Moved by the spirit of punk, Zownir embraced the utopian vision of anarchy and nihilistic self-destruction that flourished openly on the streets and in the sex clubs, drug dens, and nightlife of West Berlin and London.

- Vice

Inside ‘Black Mirror’s’ First Porn Episode: ‘It’s a Sexual Playground’

Co-creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones dish on the Anthony Mackie-starring Season 5 premiere ‘Striking Vipers,’ which explores the intersection of porn and gaming.

On June 5, Netflix will debut the fifth season of its acclaimed dystopian series Black Mirror. And the first of its three episodes, titled “Striking Vipers,” boldly goes where no Black Mirror episode has gone before: the world of porn. Although, in true Black Mirror fashion, not in the way you’d think.

- The Daily Beast

«Punkovino», à la rencontre des rebelles du vin naturel

Au plus près du raisin, la web-série documentaire en dix courts épisodes d'Arte est une galerie de portraits de vignerons anarchistes rythmée par des illustrations musicales signées Usé ou Flavien Berger.

Ils cultivent leurs vignes avec un engrais au guano de chauve-souris, font fermenter leur raisin en l’enterrant dans des grandes jarres en terre cuite, ou produisent leurs vins en communauté dans des caves troglodytiques : Punkovino, web-série d’Arte en dix épisodes de sept minutes, est une galerie de portraits de «mavericks» qui ne jurent que par le vin naturel. Dans des courts reportages enivrés, sans sulfites, la journaliste Tina Meyer part à la rencontre de ces vignerons «do-it-yourself», de la Géorgie à Majorque en passant par l’Anjou.

- Libération / Arte