The Buzz: Siciliano’s Market News & Notes

By Steve Siciliano When I was very young I was afraid of the dark. Now, over fifty years later, I must admit that I can’t precisely...

By Steve Siciliano Sometimes when I look at the sky I imagine that I’m gazing at a painting. It could be a painting of a clear summer...

By Steve Siciliano The other day when Barb and I were at Founders one of the bartenders mentioned that he recently sent some folks our...

By Steve Siciliano When I opened the shed door our dog Ellie Mae shot past me and began hunting. I share the space in that old shed with...

The title of today's post is a tribute to the great Levon Helm, who passed away last week; it's also a fitting lead-in to the boss'...

By Steve Siciliano I grew up on the lower west side of Grand Rapids where a house on Hovey between Lane and Marion was the center of my...

By Steve Siciliano “Sure is a nice morning,” I commented yesterday to the old fella who had come into the store for some wine making...

“Us folks here in the South start the morning off slow,” he said. “And then we taper off the rest of the day.”

It is said that Savannah, Georgia is the most haunted city in America.

Perhaps no style of wine more than sherry owes its development to happenstance.

While there are many fine port style wines made throughout the world, the wines that can legally be called Porto are produced only in Port

By Steve Siciliano If I was an artist I would try to capture the colors on canvas—the golden light from the lowering October sun...

In which the holiest--and most crotchety--of all Buzz contributors upends further mistruths about his kind (angels), but first accuses...

By Steve Siciliano As a result of having to look for ways to occupy my down time during my recent convalescence after hip replacement...

By Steve Siciliano I have never been someone who slides into a funk because of the weather but as I get older the idea of wintering in a...

Apparently Siciliano's still has friends in high places. Very high places. Dear readers of the Buzz, Those who have read my previous...

By Harry Winston Last week while driving up Michigan Street hill on the way to visit Steve after his hip surgery, I admired the...

By Steve Sicilliano Mid-August is a bittersweet time for me. There is the poignancy from realizing that the bulk of the summer is in the...

Sometime yesterday the most infallible of all Buzz contributors, Sagnessagiel the Angel, appeared at the home of Steve "the boss man"...

By Steve Siciliano Been laying low lately. I have this little place, a hut really, on a lake up north and it’s there where I go whenever...