Last chance to do something good in 2007

The next time someone tells you that booze doesn't make the world a better place, you just tell them to go listen to Corrine Bailey Rae and her remix of "Like A Star" at the wonderfully titled website www.generouspour.com. The seasonal website for Clos du Bois Wines has lovely traditonal holiday recipes for things like, um, "stoned crab cobbler with coconut" (what, are we pre-gaming for New Year's at Jimmy Buffett's beach hut?) and "Hot Italian Sausage Stuffing" (I'm pretty sure that's the gay porn version of "Roman Holiday"). Anyway, the website, which will be up through today, has a free download of "Like A Star" by Grammy nominee Rae and every time someone downloads it, Clos du Bois will donate $1 to Share Our Strength, a non-profit working against hunger and poverty in the U.S. It sounds like booze-company guilt to us, and wouldn't Amy Winehouse have been a better choice here for so many reasons? As for the music: The song is pretty much played out and the remix here is a fairly glossy affair but it is also free and unobjectionable as a dinner-party fare. So pass the potatoes...

--Geoff Boucher