The term Krautrock is itself a latter-day appellation, taken from a track on a 1973 album by the band Faust.
Women's Work A tasting of the work done by American women cheesemakers and women winemakers from several countries will be held on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Appellation Wine and Spirits, 156 10th Avenue (20th Street): $60 from 212 463-950000.
Fortunately for wine lovers, the Bordeaux Tourism Office (12, cours du 30 Juillet; 33-5-56-00-66-00; www.busdeaux-tripssme.com) provides dApril 1s toips (April 1 to Nov. 15) to the key appellations, including St.-Émilion (Wednesday and Sunday), Graves and Sauternes (Friday) and the Médoc (Thursday and Saturday).
Coming up soon — this Friday through Sunday — Wine and Fire Weekend Celebration in the Santa Rita Hills appellation of Santa Barbara County.
A free tasting of wines with food from Cookshop will be held on Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Appellation Wine & Spirits, 156 Tenth Avenue (20th Street).
Several Wall Street power brokers are taking that appellation quite literally these days.
The most astonishing thing about "Daddy Day Care," a comedy that would have to work harder even to justify the appellation uninspired, is that a kick in the groin is now a joke for toddlers.
The appellation hai-kara, referring to the high collars favored by Victorian fashions of the day, conveyed the curiosity, affection and esteem the Japanese reserved for all things Western.
She pored through old files and transcripts, searched out aging Klansmen and probed into the intimate connections between the lions of industry -- the Big Mules of Birmingham, Ala., whom she used to see every day at the exclusive Mountain Brook Club -- and the underworld of racist thugs who gave Birmingham the appellation of Bombingham.
FitzGerald's just glad that he's no longer thought of as a practitioner of the genre, and despite his distrust of the application of the appellation to records that have as much in common with something like Round Two's "New Day" as I do to David Gandy, he's not surprised by how these things work.
(Pareles) ★ SPOON (Tuesday) Led by Britt Daniel, one of the best songwriters ever to get stuck with the meaningless appellation "indie," Spoon accomplishes a lot with a little.
