Posts by FoodNerd

Over at Eat All About It, Rebekah Denn reports that barring additional problems with construction or the King County health department, the Swinery will finally open in West Seattle tomorrow, featuring not just bacon but house-made sausages and other cured meats, deli sandwiches, and (praise heaven!) Hudson Valley foie gras. In a throw-down to foie [...]

“Live at the Film Forum,” a yearlong series that will integrate film with live performances, kicks off tonight with the locally-produced Bridging Wounds, which utilizes original music, movement and animation to explore the connection between words and perception. Tonight’s film forum show is Bridging Wounds’ Seattle premiere. Some of Seattle’s best dancers will perform. Runs [...]

I’m pretty sure someone at Central Cinema is psychic—or perhaps they were just following the news about Patrick Swayze’s cancer battle. Either way, they’ve been running a Patrick Swayze tribute since Sunday with a candlelight sing-along.  Swayze left us yesterday afternoon, taking a lot of sexy with him. Dirty Dancing, then Roadhouse.  Tonight.  7pm. Today’s [...]

It’s a great weekend for movies.  SIFF Cinema is back from summer break with You, The Living, a personal favorite from SIFF 2008.  Central Cinema is having a Michael Jackson sing-along tribute with videos and costumes (prize for the biggest MJ fan).  The Grand Illusion is in the thick of Washington Grown, a local film [...]

If I were going to a movie theater tonight, it would obviously be the Northwest Film Forum where it’s Soul Nite and they’re playing soul videos.  It’s DJ’ed by guys from the Emerald City Soul Club, it’s pure pleasure for your eyes, ears, and legs. Tonight, Northwest Film Forum, 8pm.

Melvin Van Peebles is a big deal.  He’s most famous for Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, which pioneered a form of Black independent cinema that, in 1971, met an explosive mix of censorship and acclaim. Peebles is back, and he’s in Seattle tonight to introduce his latest film, Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha (2008), which will play at [...]

A while back, I posted about the great web site The Auteurs, a film discussion, viewing, and networking site.  Today, they’ve made a very exciting announcement. The Auteurs is part of distribution for 24h Berlin, an incredible film project. On September 5, 2008, 400 people in 80 teams fanned out all over Berlin to capture [...]

Mondays are half-price night at Northwest Film Forum. And tonight Monday, NWFF members can get in free to Arid Lands, which won Best Film at last year’s Local Sightings Film Festival. Grant Aaker and Josh Wallaert’s locally-produced 2007 documentary looks at local issue: The Columbia Basin in the context of its history as a Cold [...]

Increasingly, I’m starting to think that Michael Pollan is letting fame get to his head. He’s a smart person with a tendency to just open his mouth and say boneheaded things. First, he blamed our lousy diets on feminism . Today, he denounces the boycott on Whole Foods, which I wrote about favorably here . [...]

Hundreds of thousands of people in the streets; tens of thousands of Buddhist monks leading the way; loudspeakers, chants, tear gas; approaching riot police; a lone cameraman in a pale blue button-down shirt and khaki shorts, filming the events. Someone approaches him, fires a shot, and he pitches forward to the ground.  He was a [...]

Before The Departed, there was Goodfellas.  Before Goodfellas, there was Raging Bull.  Before Raging Bull, there was Taxi Driver and Mean Streets. But way before that, there was The Big Shave. Tonight’s your last chance to catch a program of five short films by Martin Scorsese, one of the great American directors to emerge from [...]

You really can’t lose with the Metro Classics series.  Tonight:  The 1938 Robin Hood with Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland. If you haven’t seen this early Technicolor picture, you may recognize chunks of it from Mel Brooks’s Robin Hood:  Men in Tights, which borrows from this and the Kevin Costner version in equal measure. [...]

Photo via Foodista . In the traditional stone soup story, a stranger arrives in town and tricks the villagers into feeding him by boiling a stone in a pot of water and calling it "stone soup." As each of the villagers adds ingredients, the plain water is gradually transformed into a delicious soup. The story [...]

I know I’ve been harping on this for awhile , but now it’s here: I got to see Inglourious Basterds last night. Old QT did not disappoint. It’s impeccably shot and even better cast, with Martin Wuttke—greatest German stage actor of all time—pitch-perfect as a raving, slavering, hideously pig-eyed Hitler. See it at The Big [...]

Hundreds of people rolled in on two wheels for Northwest Film Forum’s 4th Annual Bike-In (think drive-in, but with bikes) at Cal Anderson Park last night. From commuters to Dead Baby daredevils, a vast spokey spread of viewers collected for local bands, snarky drive-in themed shorts and Jacques Tati’s Jour de Fete. Refreshments are my [...]