Category: festivals
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WFF day three
Last Train Home told the incredible story of migrant workers in China who have left their farming communities to find jobs making exportable products in urban factories. Every year, 130 million of them travel home to visit their families and celebrate the Chinese new year. The scenes of thousands of travelers stampeding through the gates Read.
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WFF day two
The Topp Twins was a fun, heartwarming documentary about a couple of farm girls from New Zealand who grew up to become pop-folk singers, talented actors and comedians, successful fighters for civil rights and powerful activists for the country’s anti-nuclear fight. They threw in a generous helping of loving warmth from the bosom of the Read.
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WFF day one
Last night was the first night (but not, for some reason, the “opening night”) of the Wisconsin Film Festival. We had tickets to see Fathers and Guns and OSS 117: Lost In Rio, a pair of comedies. I don’t see how you can go wrong starting off with a laugh. Fathers and Guns was sort Read.
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ticketed
We had such a good time on our outing to the Wisconsin Film Fest last year that My Darling B and I took time off from work this year so we could see even more films … if we could get the tickets, which tend to sell out rather quickly, some of them within hours Read.
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guy night
I had to come up with something quick and easy to serve for guy night because I had to have plenty of time to perform a minor plumbing unblockage on the pipe that the kitchen sink drains into. When it’s blocked all the goop backs up and pools in the basement sink. It’s pretty gross. Read.
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she & I
This is yours truly, and My Darling B, at the first annual Beer and Cheese Festival sponsored by the Isthmus. I managed somehow to snap this photo of us one-handed after drinking beer for three hours. You might infer from this that we were sober and steady-handed. Appearances can be deceiving. The Isthmus is a Read.
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GTMW09
We’re just back from the Great Taste of the Midwest, the pre-eminent beer festival in the nation, where we sampled fifty different beers from thirty-five different breweries in Wisconsin and surrounding states, although some of the brewers came from as far away as Kentucky. There were quite a few brewers from Kentucky, actually. I wonder Read.
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GTMW08 roundup
Apparently alarmed at the recurrent references to stopping by the liquor store for the weekly beer tasting, my Mom shot me an e-mail asking if My Darling B and I were on the cusp of joining Alcoholics Anonymous. Well, guess what, Mom? We both spent yesterday afternoon (from one o’clock until six, to be absolutely Read.
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GTMW08 score tickets
Yesterday we took a break from grilling our dinner by stopping at the Harmony Bar on the way home and chowing down on wonderfully greasy, cheese-covered hamburgers, but since we were home for dinner tonight I went right back out to the Weber and started a fire big, hot fire to grill the very same Read.
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GTMW07 names
The good people who brew beer for a living have a tradition of dreaming up the goofiest names possible for their potions. Featured at this year’s Great Taste of the Midwest were brews such as Dirty Helen Ale, Discombobulation Celebration, and Under the Kilt Heavy. For the people who like to drink beer, giving them Read.
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