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Category Archives: Drink
Contrast, Context, and Core Memory: A Trip to Paris, Part Two
by Cari Borja
“I believe if there’s any kind of God it wouldn’t be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there’s any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. I know, it’s almost impossible to succeed, but who cares, really? The answer must be in the attempt.”
—Celine, Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise (1995) Continue reading
Down the Hatch: “American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition,” the Turf, and the Scofflaw
by Vince Keenan
“Prohibition? They tried that in the movies and it didn’t work.”
—Homer Simpson Continue reading
The Beautiful Unknown: A Trip to Paris, Part One
Shaken & Stirred: Strawberry Margarita, the Red and the Black, Spring’s Arrow—and PREDESTINATION
Here there be spoilers.
If we start talking about time travel—jotting little notes on cocktail napkins and trying to visualize what must be a clusterfuck of a temporal highway interchange—then we’ll never get anything done. Continue reading
Hollywood & Wine: Screening Room Meets Tasting Room at New Film Series in Marin
by David Templeton
Cinematic history is crammed with films in which, at one moment or another, someone talks about wine, shops for wine, or actually drinks wine — or in the case of the Creature in Young Frankenstein , just tries to drink wine (“A toast . . . to a long friendship!” Crash!). Continue reading
“Weddings” From YOU SUCK AT DRINKING by Matthew Latkiewicz
There aren’t many scenarios in your life when you will encounter a true open bar—your office holiday party maybe, some art and culture events if you run in those circles, a party at Kanye West’s house—which is what makes weddings so damn awesome. Continue reading
Raise Your Glass: An Appreciative Look at Matthew Latkiewicz’s YOU SUCK AT DRINKING
by Risa Nye
Over the last ten years, Matthew Latkiewicz been offering eager readers his hard-won knowledge about drinking through his humor writing for McSweeney’s and New York magazine’s Grub Street. Continue reading
Eat, Drink, Watch: Food Films at the 58th San Francisco International Film Festival
by Gary Meyer
The number of food films being made should not come as a surprise. PBS started the trend of cooking shows long ago and is still a leader in them, but now we have the Food Network, Cooking Channel, Food Matters TV and more offering 24 hours a day of programing about things to eat. Movies with food themes have spanned the history of cinema, but it wasn’t until Babette’s Feast , Like Water For Chocolate , Tampopo , Big Night and others became box office successes that we started to see a genre develop. And the number of documentaries about food has exploded. Continue reading
Shaken & Stirred: The Spring Petal—In Praise of Manners (Well, Most of the Time)
Manners. Maketh. Us. Bearable. Continue reading
