Happy Friday!!

This is the end

Le Bonne Soupe's last day? Can anyone confirm/deny?

look at me pretending it's Friday

I am totally in denial about the Hub closing.  I had gotten so used to it being around to host rad show after rad show.  I can't believe it.  Thanks so much to Rick and others who had put so much hard work into it.  I know there were multiple factors involved.  Seems like the reason the Loft could last so long was Soriano's hard work and the fact that Peter owns the building.

But the Dreamdate/Croissants/Wrong Words show is still happening in Davis, address listed below.

This Movies on a Big Screen movie sounds really good.  I remember tripping out on the VHS cover as a kid. It's actually giving me goosebumps to look at it right now.

Sunday, May 1
7:30 PM
Admission: $5.00
Movies on a Big Screen at The Guild
2828 35th St, Sacramento, CA

The Quiet Earth

This New Zealand indie from 1985 features the great Bruno Lawrence as Zac, a scientist who awakes one day to find that all people have vanished from the face of the Earth due to a global experiment going awry. Zac's mind slowly deteriorates due to the solitude until he stumbles upon another survivor, Joanne (Alison Routledge), and later a Maori (Peter Smith) named Api. The three band together and slowly realize that the forces unleashed by the experiment are destined to happen again.

I'm hungry

Here's the vendor list for the Sacto MoFo on Saturday.  I hope to try Roli Roti.  I think my aversion to waiting in lines might be a problem.  The people who organized this have done an amazing job. Don't forget to bring some food or a baby item for the Sacramento food bank.

OFFICIAL VENDOR LIST
~local trucks~
Miniburger Truck - mini-burgers, tots, fries
Drewski's Hot Rod - pumped up grilled cheese sandwiches, tacos, tots, fries
Mama Kim's
Leaven & Earth - assorted sandwiches
La Piedad - tacos
Chando's Tacos - tacos and burritos

~SF trucks~
Chairman Bao - pork belly, braised pork, sesame chicken, and crispy tofu buns
Roli Roti - porchetta sandwiches and roasted potatoes.
Hapa SF - sisig pork in tacos or plates, lumpia, adobo
Seoul on Wheels
Spencer on the Go - escargot lollipops, lobster cappuccino, braised lamb cheeks, chocolate pudding
Southern Sandwich - BBQ pulled pork, brisket, chicken, beans, salad
Curry Up Now - deconstructed samosa, tikka masala burrito, kathi roti

~other trucks~
Whole Foods - assorted sausages and hot dogs
General Jim's - Philly steak, grilled chicken sandwiches, garlic and chili fries, corndogs

~other vendors~
Chocolate Fish Coffee - drip coffee to order and iced coffees
Yogurtagogo/Freshii - assorted yogurt cups, salads, wraps
The Pizza Company - pizza slices
Emma's Tamales - variety of tamales
Esther's Cupcakes - variety of flavored cupcakes
Fat Face - variety of popsicles

wha?

I was gonna post about the show at The Hub on Saturday.  If I believed in God I would pray this it's still happening.  For my other two wishes I'd ask for a bunch more wishes.  Oh wait, that's a genie, not God.  Same diff.

Dreamdate, The Croissants and Wrong Words.  Dreamdate is finally headlining a show! Now if English Singles can headline another show that would be great. Except maybe there won't be any more shows.

NOOOOOO!!!!

NOOOOOOO!!!!!

thanks, Marcella

First off, that Bill Cunningham event was off the chain.  I think everyone can agree on that.  I'm sure it's cross-linked on every fashion blog in Sac if you wanna see pictures.

 The Lao New Year event at Cal Expo was pretty good.  Not nearly as flamboyant or crowded as Hmong New Year.  I was glad I got in free - it costs 12 bucks!  There were not enough food vendors and the wait at most of them was at least an hour.  I will not wait in line that long for any food, so I may have missed the best food.

 This is chicken larb.  It had skin, gizzards, and meat chopped up fine, mixed with a hefty dose of lemongrass and chopped chilies.  Larb is like the best poverty food: you could  put almost anything there but it's seasoned so well that it doesn't matter.  It can really stretch a little bit of meat, which I think was the point, traditionally.We got two different papaya salads.

 This was at the chicken larb booth, and it looked so good we had to go for it.  Cherry tomatoes, peanuts, and tamarind!

This was the first papaya salad I had., under that chopped cabbage.  It was hotter and fishier than the other one. That's a Lao sausage.  They are shorter and juicier than Hmong sausages, but both types totally taste like lemongrass.

 Deep-fried chicken wings

This is a dessert called kanom klok.  When I tried to order it, I was told by the harried teen manning the booth that there would be at least a 15 minute wait (turned out to be more like 30 minutes) so I knew I had ordered the right stuff.  It tasted like tapioca pudding with coconut milk mixed in, and then fried in these cast iron pans specially designed to make half spheres.  Served piping hot and kind of charred on the outside.  Delicious!  

While I waited I watched the papaya eating contest.  It was kind of weak because no one could eat their portion of papaya salad in the allotted five minutes.  However, as the young Lao dudes scarfed it down to the blared soundtrack of lil Wayne and "teach me how to dougie" I couldn't help but think that about  what a uniquely American scene I was witnessing.  U.S.A! U.S.A.!

Here's a dude grillin' it up

Easter lunch post after the jump!

Lao New Year-get yer Lao sausage on

Just found out about this: A Lao New Year's Festival at Cal Expo tomorrow.  There is going to be a papaya salad eating contest! I don't even want to think about the intestinal consequences of that.

right now!

Holy crap, I forgot.  Liv is about to take to the airwaves on "Insight" about the Bill Cunningham movie.  Stream here:

Ye OIde Davis Beer Shoppe

You know the drill-Bill Cunningham doc. at the Crest tonight.  8 pm for the movie, festivities start at 630.  

The Davis Beer Shoppe is already popping off after just about a month in business, and they deserve it.  It's a great new place.  It's a shame we don't have something like it in Sac--yet!

This guy is pouring me an Upright Four.  They keep most or all of the the beer they have cold, so you can drink it in-house with only a dollar corkage added.

Bucket list item

I just interviewed Neil Hamburger! AND  he mentioned chooz-a-pasta-pick-a-sauce.  He's playing May 6th at the Comedy Spot in Sac.  Look for the interview in the SNR.

I'm just trying to get my space together

Here's my writeup of the movie tomorrow in the SNR.  Don't forget, advance tix on sale at Phono Select and ten percent off merchandise with purchase.

Woah, I just upgraded to the new blogger so that I could add "after the jump" posts (I know, gettin' fancy) and it's kind of blowing my  mind.  Course my mind is easily blown. I like that you can move pictures around more easily. 

Add caption, eh blogger? OK, I got this at the Davis Beer Shoppe

Using the Brew Awareness logo always reminds me of MK, who designed it.  Which reminds me that I found out that he's in a new band in LA, and that his bandmate played teenaged John Locke on Lost!  That's so L.A.!  

So  yeah this is the Upright Brewing Four, I think it was ten bucks at the Davis Beer Shoppe, great, food-friendly beer. Lemony with a nice, dry finish.  If you care about beer, take a gander at this write-up in the K and L newsletter (scroll down for the write-up, he talks about all three beers Upright makes) by Bryan Brick, a dude with super good taste.

And with that, here's my first after the jump!

Happy 4/20!

And it's a happy 4/20 indeed because:
smiller got his license!
AND, we're going to the Grateful Dead Movie event tonight at Downtown Plaza. 7:30. Never before seen interviews with Jerry. Better by your tickets in advance or you'll need a miracle to get in.

Speaking of advance tickets, the dudes at Phono Select wanted me to say that they'll give a 10 percent discount on music if you come in to buy advance tickets for the Bill Cunningham screening to benefit Verge Center for the Arts on Friday. So go in, get a ticket, and buy a record. I just got the new Sonny and the Sunsets LP and it's excellent. Liv said the tickets are selling quick, so maybe think about picking a couple up.

The Pledge

Lance C. is hosting the TinHouse podcast! Hmm...I haven't read any Karen Russell so I'll probably have to wait and read something before I listen to this. I have been reading some Durrenmatt novels (including the one pictured above) which are deliciously trashy. I recommend The Pledge or Traps. Don't buy the hideous movie tie-in edition of The Pledge. Check Beers for a nice copy?

countdown to Friday, Friday gotta get down on Friday

all right, now we're starting the countdown to this Fridays showing of Bill Cunningham New York at the Crest. It's part of the Crest and Verge Center for the Arts quarterly film screening series, so some of the proceeds go to benefit the Verge. Your 15 bucks will get you into the trunk sale beforehand, starting at 630, which has lots of local sellers including Bows and Arrows, Thunderhorse, and other local designers. Also, Hailey Bop is Djing, so have a brew and listen to her way-out tunes. Then, the wonderful, wonderful film is at 8. Afterwards, a panel discussion with some local fashion bloggers including Citizen Rosebud and Juniper James.

Even the trailer makes me tear up!

Here's Iris Apfel, who is in the film because Bill Cunningham always photographs her. Pretty badass.Movies are more fun if you don't read too much about them, however, almost every review of this film has been stellar. Here's one from the Times.

Wow, high praise indeed. Here's a little excerpt from the review that doesn't give anything away:

In an essay in The New York Review of Books shortly after J. D. Salinger’s death, Michael Greenberg described Salinger’s characters as being what Tolstoy called “aristocrats of the spirit” whose “quest is for an almost impossible purity that drives them away from the workaday world, toward a dangerous, self-burying seclusion.” Mr. Cunningham could easily be the eighth Glass sibling, and the other seven would be glad to have him.

chkchkchk

This is pretty awesome. Why are people still trippin' on Nic's shorts? He basically predated the trend but now lots of dudes are wearing shorts this short. Or is that just wishful thinking on my part?

this one is good, too. they kill it at the end.

and I love this! Dan Barnes take note: the bass player is Shannon Sossysyaman's sister

yeah!

I love Burger Records!!!

Between Two Buns: The Burger Records Story from Jack Sample on Vimeo.

why?

What does a girl have to do to find footage of Brewer and Shipley on Top of The Pops? They played "people love each other"-a favorite of mine. I refuse to believe that in the entire internet, which contains such wonders as women having relations with German shepherds, and an entire website of people with Steve Buscemi's eyes photoshopped onto their faces, that no one has uploaded this clip. I don't know if I want to live in a world where that's true.

like, 1945 dude

oh man, this typo made it into the print edition of the Bee about a burglary at Grebitus and Sons:

He said the last break-in at a downtown Grebitus store happened in like 1945 when a cat burglar cut a hole in the roof of the store, then at 1108 J Street. The burglar came down a rope ladder and blew the safe.

Read more: http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2011/04/downtown-jewelr.html#ixzz1JX0fVn00

sad!

oh my got this is so sac (ha, I meant to write "sad" but I wrote "sac")



does anyone have a link to the highlights that they played after this