mmmm… at Market Restaurant, downtown Raleigh, what a nice little secret!
fire-roasted poblano chile stuffed with vegan chorizo and summer vegetable ratatouille, deep fried in tempura batter and served over pinto beans and rice with a salsa roja…
We seem to watch a Woody Allen movie every other week or so, and almost always love them – OK, we recently fell asleep on a late late night of watching “Life and Death” but fortunately woke up in time to nearly vomit with laughter at the ending scene (no spoilers allowed, sorry). ...
1080p is a beautiful thing. This was an interesting character study with an action movie injected in bits into the middle. As in the-director-of-300 beautiful-physics-in-slomo action. I didn’t follow the original, and I’m not burned out on the ‘conflicted hero’ theme...
I often say Gibson is my favorite author, when I’m not saying Vonnegut is. This one didn’t disappoint. He takes you away to a future-feeling present with tight smart prose, and several interwoven plot lines with his as-always cool-as-ice characters. ...
If you don’t know what TED Talks are, they are 15-minute talks on Really Important and Inspiring Topics, meant to quickly educate and inspire you. They have been going on for quite a while. Bill Gates famously released mosquitos at one talk, and explained his plan for extracting energy from...
Ben Kinsgley rocks, yes yes yes yes yes yes yes. I can never pass up a thick-cockney-slurred ganster flick (as in “Heafrow”). Unkle’s soundtrack does a great job of throbbing and rumbling underneath the movie, keeping the cords of tension tight as the main cast awaits Ben’s...
Yeah, it’s a romantic comedy, but it has teeth. Lots of ‘em. And lots of kitchy nods to the great 50′s classics like The Seven Year Itch. Sleeper of the summer! ...
Here’s the 17 pounds of food we ate tonight… ...
Owen, take some time off. We can’t get enough of you, but that’s our problem. We love you, man. ...