The San Francisco International Film Festival is well underway, and several new films have been added to the slate for next week. Read about the latest additions to the schedule here. Continue reading
Lemon-Basil Mojito and Cucumber Spritzers: Recipes from The Forest Feast
Erin Gleeson’s beautiful new book, The Forest Feast, offers her take on refreshing drinks using several ingredients from the garden. Featured here are two cocktail recipes we recommend trying yourself (click on each image to see a full-size version of each recipe). See her three food recipes in the next column.
Meals with Meredith: Dinner with Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller, directors of THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR: SATAN CAME TO EDEN at La Urbana in San Francisco
by Meredith Brody
Releasing a movie is always a hectic business, but especially so when you’re the producer-directors of an independently produced documentary and are willing to travel with your film. I managed to sit down for dinner with Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller in San Francisco on a Monday night between two trips to Los Angeles to promote their intriguing new documentary THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR: SATAN CAME TO EDEN.
Festival Guide: The 57th San Francisco International Film Festival: Audience Tested
by Gary Meyer
The world comes to San Francisco for the next two weeks through the lens of the 57th San Francisco International Film Festival, April 24-May 8, 2014.
Food Films at the San Francisco International Film Festival
There is a very good selection of movies at this year’s SF Int’l. Film Festival around issues of food and drink. We’ve compiled a starter list for you here: Continue reading
Sippin’ Cider in Berkeley
by Alex “Cider Monger” Fortin
This Saturday, April 26, from 12-6pm in downtown Berkeley, will be the first Cider Summit in California. Already an annual celebration of cider in Chicago, Seattle and Portland, finally the Bay Area will get a taste of what so many people in North America are rediscovering: hard cider. Before my days as cider judge and writer, one of my first experiences with real cider was at the Cider Summit in Seattle.
Watermelon Salad, Polka-Dot Focaccia & Beer-Battered Artichoke Hearts: Recipes from The Forest Feast
Food photographer and watercolor painter Erin Gleeson made her dream a reality when she left New York City and moved into a tiny cabin in a California forest in order to be closer to nature. Her latest project is The Forest Feast, part cookbook and part art book. Most of the book’s 100 wholly vegetarian recipes call for only three or four ingredients and require very few steps, resulting in dishes that are fresh, wholesome, delicious, and stunning. Featured here are three recipes we recommend trying in your own kitchen (click on each image to see full-size versions).
The $11 Billion Year: From Sundance to the Oscars, an Inside Look at the Changing Hollywood System
Using her new book The $11 Billion Year as a starting point, film critic/reporter Anne Thompson will moderate a spirited discussion about the future of the film industry as part of the 57th San Francisco International Film Festival, April 24-May 8, 2014. ” Jonathan Marlow, Co-Founder & Chief Content Office of Fandor, Gary Meyer, Senior Curator of the Telluride Film Festival and Founder of Eat Drink Films, and Noah Cowen, Executive Director of the San Francisco Film Society, will be joining Anne for the salon “The $11 Billion Year” on May 5, 2014 at 3:45 PM at the Sundance Kabuki Theater. A book signing will follow the salon. For more information, click here. Read an excerpt from the book below.
May 3, 8:00 PM: Broadway to Hollywood and All That Jazz
Beginning in the late 1920s, there was a subtle shift in the jazz repertoire as combos and big bands began to perform and record songs from the Broadway stage and Hollywood musical. To be sure, tunes based on the blues, older jazz forms (ragtime, quadrilles, etc.), and original compositions continued to be an important part of the jazz “book.” Still, the Great American Songbook grew in ever-increasing importance where the jazz repertoire was concerned.