Bay Area theater summer news and updates
There is still plenty to do even with the summer slowdown in Theater as Clint alluded to yesterday in the weekly digest. Here are…
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Alfa Dutch beer: Refreshments for a sunny San Jose day
A little break from wine tasting. Never tried this Dutch one before (from Alfa Brewery in the Netherlands), but have a few tee’d up for…
Weekly digest #24/#25: The fish never did jump in the boat
Best line from last week: “The fish never did jump in the boat.” That was Jeffrey Goodman referring to an expression he had heard when…
Interview with Jeffrey Goodman, Director of ‘The Last Lullaby’ starring Tom Sizemore
Jeffrey Goodman sat down with Clint for an in-depth discussion about film-making, the business and, of course, his very well received Indie film, The Last…
Timothy Hutton’s best performance was in this movie…
I thought I’d write in again (how are you?) with what I consider to be a “true story” movie that stands the test of time.…
Twitter and revolution, natural partners in Iranian up-rising
It’s hard not to be amazed what is happening in Iran, on multiple counts. One is the up-rising of the youth that has quickly spread…
Life is a highway: Mexico counters recession with $1.6B in infrastructure improvements
How much infrastructure improvement does $1.6B US buy? If you’re Mexico, it means a whole bunch of new highways and, more importantly, possibly one way…
2006 Château Haut-Sorillon Bordeaux Supérieur, France (84 pts, $7.99)
As usual with some of these wines, I taste, and then if it's not exactly lighting the world on fire, I decant over night. Why…
BlackBerry Tour, aptly named, to be available on Sprint and Verizon
To say the SmartPhone market is white-hot would be an understatement. Profit margins may be a different matter, however, as the number of models increase,…
Soon-to-be parents look for home in ‘Away We Go’, find laughs, hippies, destiny
It’s hard to watch Maya Rudolph (Verona De Tessant) in a movie and not laugh. Her face reminds me of so many Saturday Night Live…