Archive for June, 2007

Authentic but not Typical Mexican Cuisine

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Get on 85th Street north and head west. Keep going past Aurora, past 15th ave, even past 25th ave. Eventually 85th will end, and you can take a windy road right down to Golden Gardens. Instead, turn left, and tucked away behind the Caffe Fiora, you’ll find Cocina Esperanza. It’s worth hunting for.

Be Sure Sin Will Find You Out

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘THE NUMBER 23’ Written by Fernley Phillips Directed by Joel Schumacher Rated R 98 mins. Plenty of films have been made based on comics and graphic novels, so it makes sense that the graphic novel aesthetic has begun to bleed into films that don’t take such materials as their source. Watching The Number […]

Even Better the Second Time

Friday, June 29th, 2007

I have had two occasions to dine at Sazerac now. The first was during a 25 for 25 event. This is Seattle’s bi-annual celebration of local restaurants, offering a three course prix-fixe menu for 25 dollars. I don’t remember much from this first time, except that the food was good, the atmosphere comfortable, the corn-bread […]

Misfiring Line

Friday, June 29th, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘IN THE LINE OF FIRE’ Written by Jeff Maguire Directed by Wolfgang Peterse Rated R 128 mins. I made the mistake of seeing Clint Eastwood’s In the Line of Fire (1993), well after I saw Blood Work (2002). So I found myself continually comparing the former to the latter, when it should have […]

A Spy in the Ointment

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘BREACH’ Written by Adam Mazer and William Rotko Directed by Billy Ray Rated PG-13 110 mins. 2 stars Breach begins with a news reel from 2001, then Attorney General John Ashcroft speaking to the recent arrest of Robert Hanssen, America’s worst spy. Then we see a “two months” earlier blurb, and we meet […]

The Last of the Mohicans Meets The Running Man

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘APOCALYPTO’ Written by Mel Gibson and Farhad Safinia Directed by Mel Gibson Rated R 139 mins. 3 stars I’m half tempted to tell you the ending of Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, but I really don’t have to, since you will probably figure it out for yourself. Mel provides the tried-and-true ancient civilization clichés, (complete […]

I’m A Loser, Baby

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘EAGLE VS SHARK’ Written and directed by Taika Cohen Rated R 93 mins. /> One of the songs in Eagle vs Shark asks us to compare apples and tangerines,(more poetic than oranges) as likely a pair as an eagle and a shark. But the only real difference between Lily and Jerrod is that […]

No Spur to ‘Pick’ the Sides of Intent

Friday, June 8th, 2007

FILM REVIEW: ‘THE PICK OF DESTINY’ Written by Jack Black and Kyle Gass Directed by Liam Lynch Rated R 93 mins. 2 1/2 stars I really wanted to like The Pick of Destiny. I liked the first Tenacious D album, without the benefit of having seen them on HBO or whatever it was. Eventually I […]