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Philly Spotlight: Chinatown Izakaya – YAKITORI BOY and other Philly Highlights
This week’s invite came from Philly PR Girl in celebration of the 8th Anniversary of YAKITORI BOY 211 N. 11th Street (11th & Race). The establishment is called an Izakaya, which is the equivalent of a pub, in Japan. Different from a bar in that emphasis is put on ordering food to accompany your cocktails. Wikipedia says Izakaya: is a compound word consisting of “i” (to stay) and “sakaya” (sake shop), indicating that izakaya originated from sake shops that allowed customers to sit on the premises to drink. Yakitori Boy Celebration 12/2/2015 Gorgeous ladies: Media Maven Deja Monēē (lf) and Explore Philly Editor, Cassie Helper (rt.) in red. Cassie graciously granted me…
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Empire Season 2 RECAP: Ep 5 Be True / Ep 6 A High Hope for a Low Heaven / Ep 7 True Love Never / Ep 8 My Bad Parts / Ep 9 Sinned Against / Ep 10 Et tu, Brute
Empire Season 2, Episode 7, 8, 9 &10 The busy life of a film, food and events blogger means you can’t always be home to watch your favorite shows. So I missed doing an individual post on each of the last 4 episodes of EMPIRE, but you can be damn sure I watched them all on Demand. I think what plays out best on the show is Cookie’s relationship with her sons. She really knows how to talk to, handle and reach each one on their own terms; and in turn they look to her for approval. She’s come a long way from those first few months out of prison…
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Food and Film: STUDIO MOVIE GRILL Review / Quick The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 Review
A Quick "The Hunger Games" Bottom Line: Kinda glad to be done with this franchise, if it wasn't for Jennifer Lawrence they would have lost me after the 2nd one. I've never been invested in her choice of Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) or Gale (Liam Hemsworth) and President Snow (Donald Sutherland) has been dying inside, spitting up blood since before the games begun, so really all they needed to do was wait out the inevitable and then more easily stage a coup...
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Set in the 50’s Flicks: BROOKLYN and TRUMBO
Quick Look at 2 Period Movies In Theaters Thanksgiving Weekend BROOKLYN & TRUMBO By Tinsel &Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay Thought I’d do a combined post on these two movies as both have single word titles, are set post-WWII, and both have strong leads torn between what’s comfortable and taking risks. BROOKLYN stars Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, Grand Budapest Hotel) as Eilis a young Irish woman who can’t find decent work in their small town of Enniscorthy, so her older sister who treats her almost like a daughter, even though they both live at home with a loving mother, arranges for her passage to America through a priest in New York…
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Spotlight on: SPOTLIGHT MOVIE
Spotlight Movie Journalism At Its Best By Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay I’m trying to recall what I felt January of 2002 when the story broke about the Sexual Abuse Scandal of the Catholic Church. I seem to recall not being very surprised. The idea that hundreds of priests not only molested and defiled thousands of children who trusted them, but that the Catholic Church right up to the Vatican would cover it all up for decades, should have seemed unbelievable; but I remember just thinking, I’m glad this has finally come to light. Not that I had any first, second or third hand knowledge of any of…
