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Cartoon by Steve Artley.

Our View: A law as breakable as an egg

Times Staff
9/2/2010

Apparently city zoning laws are only laws if the Department of Planning and Zoning feels like enforcing them. more

Lyles-Crouch school during segregation

9/2/2010

Fifteen years after Parker-Gray School opened in 1920, another school opened to alleviate crowding of Alexandria’s black students during segregation. more

My View: Retail activity in Old Town is not a function of cheap parking

Chris Hubbard
9/2/2010

As Old Town residents scramble on weekday evenings to compete with visitors for street parking, one wonders why residents who pay for parking are competing for parking with visitors?  more

This week's 'toon

Steve Artley
8/31/2010

Down the yellow brick road. more

My View | Tired of demagoguery

Denise Dunbar
8/26/2010

A recent Nats game was delayed because a handful of people thought making a political statement — and that was the last straw for me. more

OUR VIEW: Time for new measure of educational success

Times Staff
8/26/2010

Testing against national norms is a one size fits all approach: by this measure, all students in each grade are expected to attain a certain level of knowledge by a ... more

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Malbec and Me

Malbec is a red varietal wine I have customarily approached with caution. I've tended to view it as a ubiquitous, serviceable and affordable red, but rarely inspiring. The grape is a traditional Bordeaux blending variety ~ typically playing third or fourth fiddle in Bordeaux reds, if included at all; has long been produced as a single varietal wine in Cahors, a small, unsung winegrowing region in southwestern France; and occasionally appears in Meritage blends from California. Practically speaking, though, most of us know Malbec best as the signature red wine of Argentina, where the vines flourish in the shadow of the majestic Andes Mountains and whence the wine flows in burgeoning abundance.