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Culinary Catch Up – MARRAKESH
I went to this incredibly fun Moroccan restaurant with a group of Couch Surfers, the restaurant is called Marrakesh, located just off of South Street (517 Leithgow Street), a 30 year-old business, family owned and operated. The ambiance and size of the establishment is how you'd imagine the tent interior of a wealthy Sheik in the middle of an Oasis. ..
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Commentary – EVERYTHING MUST GO
Everyone wants to talk about the fact that Will Ferrell has done a film that's such a departure from his comic origins. But I don't really get all the fuss; it's common knowledge that comedy is far more difficult to do than drama and that behind every funny man, lurks a Pagliacci.
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Game Over Series (Sun Center Studios)
I really want to be a part of Sun Center Studios (Alston, PA) but they don’t appear to be hiring yet. I’ve tried to make several in roads. Ideally, I want to be Sun Center Studio’s Official Blogger – interviewing the filmmakers, actors and crews on the lot, taking photos, keeping the public up-to-date on all the happenings at this premier sound stage facility. Owner, Jeff Rotwitt plans to make the studios a big tourist destination with tours, upscale chain restaurants,shopping etc.. like a mini-city just outside Center City Philadelphia. With all that, the Sun Center website will require a full-time blogger, and that blogger is going to be me!…
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Have you checked out Tinsel & Tine’s Silver Sites?
Team Jasmine Kaloudis Yoga (Museum of Art), benefiting Living Beyond Breast Cancer I’d like to draw your attention away from film and food for a moment and ask that you take notice of Tinsel & Tine’s “Silver Sites” listed at the bottom of my last post on the page (scroll down). This is where I link to businesses, people, places and sites that are doing good works, are spiritual in nature, connected to Philly, or all of the above, like Synergy by Jasmine Yoga. I’m going to try my hand (arms, feet, legs torso) at yoga again. I gave it up for about 6 months because I was feeling everything…
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BRIDESMAIDS
SNL wacky woman, Kristen Wiig has co-written a surprisingly textured humorous tale of woe. Directed by: Paul Feig Bridesmaids mixes a crazy cast of characters, laughter and heart to create a pleasing pre-summer bouquet of comedy. Life began crumbling for pastry chef, Annie when her bakery stopped making her dough ($$). Soon after closing the shop, her boyfriend leaves her, she’s forced to moved in with her mother, and finds herself in a degrading – no friends, just benefits relationship with a self-inflated prick (Jon Hamm). Now on top of everything, she’s got to muster up money, energy and enthusiasm for her best friend from childhood, Lillian (Mya Rudolph) who’s…
