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