Archive for September, 2010

Give TV Back to the Professionals

(Sep 23, 2010) As you may have guessed by now, I dislike Swedish TV. Who watches broadcast TV?  Not me. Certainly not after Anna Book seems to ...

An Alley Evolved

(Sep 23, 2010) Darwin Cafe is tucked in an alley between Bryant and Brannan streets in SOMA. It’s a brand new addition to the side street...

Portland Food Carts Make Experimenting easy!

(Sep 22, 2010) Never had Vietnamese food? Traditional Thai? Indian? Polish? Lebanese? Japanese? From turkey chili to fried fish, from kebabs to d...

Facebook Invades My Memory

(Sep 22, 2010) I understand that by consenting to interact with Facebook I open my life up to other internet dwellers; the few hundred or so peo...

Still Thinking About Moonlight Mile

(Sep 22, 2010) I was surprised never to have heard of this film as it came out so many years ago. Moonlight Mile stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Ben, w...

A Treasure Trove of Summer Jams

(Sep 21, 2010) TeenBeat Records, the sorely underrated label of gloriously odd indie bands, celebrates its twenty-sixth year of awesomeness thi...

The Runaways Made Me Want to Glam it Up. Hard.

(Sep 20, 2010) The story of the young Joan Jett and sultry yet inexperienced Cherie Curry is explored in The Runaways. It was difficult to envis...

It’s All in the Backpack

(Sep 20, 2010) Messenger bags were never quite my thing, so I’m thankful backpacks are now worn beyond the schoolyard. But how to pick the bes...

Don Draper is Boring

(Sep 20, 2010) I’m not going to lie. Season 4 of Mad Men is boring so far. Don Draper has become such a cliché. I can’t believe this serie...

Cute summer parties

(Sep 18, 2010) Block Party in Warsaw – fascinated by New York block parties, a few guys from Warsaw started block parties in one-off lo...

Mary and Max is Not to Be Missed

(Sep 17, 2010) Mary and Max is the story of a lonely little girl named Mary. Mary lives in Melbourne with her drunken mother and a father who sp...

The Divine Promise of Fall

(Sep 17, 2010) After living in Austin for four year, I’m both sad and pleased to say that I’m moving back to attend graduate school ...

Polish + Organic

(Sep 17, 2010) Ye Goode Foode is a new organic eatery on Krucza St. Healthy and cheap! ul. Krucza 16/22 ...

Chicken, waffles and dumplings

(Sep 16, 2010) I have two places on my lunch list, neither truly new, but for me, new. Due to office location and my ridiculous work time-tabl...

Multi-talented Areta Szpura

(Sep 16, 2010)   Modest and genuinely interested in fashion, Areta Szpura, hasn’t put a lot of work to make her blog look great. It’s jus...