By C.J. Hirschfield
(May 17, 2023)
On July 14, 2015, Hank Aaron, Sandy Koufax, Willie Mays and Johnny Bench took to the field together at Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game, where they were recognized as the greatest living ballplayers.
By Geneva Anderson
(May 12, 2023)
When it comes to Asian-focused cinema, nothing beats the Bay Area’s CAAMFest. The 11-day festival, which prides itself on culturally relevant stories that you won’t see anywhere else, offers 55 events grouped under film, music, food, and ideas. For the first time since 2019, CAAMfest will be a fully in-person experience and the programming reflects the reality that people have been changed by the pandemic; that they think, feel and engage differently. Browse the program and let yourself be moved by the call to gather and “to lift each other up after in the audacity of our stories.”
Chef Hanif Sadr’s recipe for Zeitun Parvedeh, a northern Iranian marinated olive dish which is one the most loved and popular Iranian mezzes.
As we approach the exciting special screening of Pandora’s Box starring Louise Brooks at the Paramount Theater, Saturday, May 6, 2023, EatDrinkFilms brings you an international collection of posters, ephemera, documentaries and other fascinating treasures related to G.W Pabst’s restored masterpiece.
by Thomas Gladysz
(Updated May 8, 2023 to inclde photos from the May 6th performance)
On Saturday, May 6, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival is set to screen Pandora’s Box at the Paramount theater in Oakland. This legendary silent film, which stars Louise Brooks as Lulu, can rightly be described as a Bay Area favorite. In fact, as exhibition records suggest, Pandora’s Box has been screened more often in the San Francisco Bay Area than anywhere else in the United States.
“Six California Kitchens is the quintessential California cookbook, with farm-to-table recipes and stories from Sally Schmitt, the pioneering female chef and original founder of the French Laundry.
Sally Schmitt opened The French Laundry in Yountville in 1978 and designed her menus around local, seasonal ingredients—a novel concept at the time.