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Gambit Weekly

05.24.05

COVER STORY

Student Counsel
Two years after the shooting at John McDonogh Senior High, students want people to know: We're not what you see on the news.
By Allen Johnson Jr

Painful Reminders
Experts support students' concerns about media coverage of school shootings.
By Allen Johnson Jr

NEWS & VIEWS

Letters
Our readers respond

Commentary
The price of lost freedom

"Presidential Material"
Attorney and activist Annie Spell endured death threats and the loss of a Girl Scout troop on her way to becoming one of the country's few white NAACP branch presidents.
By Frank Etheridge

Penny Post
Andrei Codrescu on Houston's Orange Show Art Car Parade

Politics
Clancy DuBos on the new assessor for District 6

Bouquets and Brickbats
They get what they deserve.

FEATURES

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The Wine Edition

Bottle Up and Go
When bringing your own wine into restaurants, following proper etiquette will help keep good will flowing.
By Brenda Maitland

Summer Sippers
A look at some of the more promising wines of the season
By Brenda Maitland

Un-Corked!
New trends in the industry seek alternative methods of packaging and sealing fine wines.
By Brenda Maitland

Girlz in the Vineyard
A brief history of women in the wine industry, from 1805 France to present-day Napa Valley
By Lesley Tolar McHardy

Holistic Grapes
Mendocino is an organic mecca, but some wineries worry that being green hurts sales.
By Taylor Eason

Vocabulary of the Vine
How to speak wine-geek
By Taylor Eason

WIne's World
In Mondovino, filmmaker and former sommelier Jonathan Nossiter finds culture, corruption, danger and hope in the bottom of a wine glass.
By Tamara Wieder

Ultimate Shopper
Kandace Power Graves on keepsake boxes
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