This grilled broccoli will be your child's new favorite vegetable
Incredibly, Edibly Broccoli—Seriously
Inside Out is Hiding an Inside Message to the Film Industry
Inside Out is about the movie theater industry and includes a stark reminder about what happens if the industry doesn't explore all genres equally. This realization led me to an immediate question burning in my mind: Am I high?
Grilling Tri-Tip is Easy *IF* You Follow These Directions
Ten steps to make a wow-worthy tri-tip for your summer cookout, fall tailgate, or winter holiday party American meat lovers like to romanticize tri-tip roast as an invention of California butchers, but it’s been a popular cut of the cow for long before it gained fame in Palm Springs, Oakland, or Santa Maria. The Spanish... Continue Reading →
Mmm… Chicken Noodle Soup
This week is cold. Superman's breath cold. Edmund Fitzgerald wreckage at the bottom of Lake Superior cold. It's the kind of cold that makes you swear that old soccer knee injury is squeaking like a rusty wheel. The kind of cold that you cannot escape from... unless you attack it from within. Chicken noodle soup... Continue Reading →
A Christmas Story Deadline
For me, Christmas officially ends each year with the last scene in A Christmas Story. The parents are sitting by the Christmas tree, enjoying a drink, as the snow flutters down through the window. It's that calming last breath of Christmas before TBS dumps six episodes of Big Bang Theory on us. Television news producers... Continue Reading →
The Greatest Non-Christmas Movie Set During Christmas *Is Not* Die Hard
Every December for the past decade or so, I've read, overheard, and even argued in debates about the greatest non-Christmas movies set during Christmas. A few challengers are tossed around, like Gremlins, Harry Potter, and Trading Places. Almost always everyone zeroes-in on Die Hard. It's hard to disagree. Die Hard is a badass movie. It's... Continue Reading →
Oh Baby, You’re in Danger!
Kids are a lot of work. This Halloween I saw a mom taking her three kids, who were all under age four, trick-or-treating along Fremont Street in Portland. I nearly passed out in exhaustion from the mere sight of her effort. My wife and I took our daughter out for the same event and the... Continue Reading →
Up Your Sauce Game
I never ate tomato sauce of any kind as a kid. The reason: Onions are disgusting... and poisonous to my body. They're in everything, including tomato sauces. Just about any sauc-ianado will tell you onions are a key ingredient. I disagree. Because I cannot eat onions, I have spent the last two decades making my... Continue Reading →
Make It A Screamin’, Streamin’ Halloween
The kids are in bed. You opened that bottle of barrel-aged pumpkin ale from your beer cellar. And you're all cozy on the couch with the dog on your lap. Then you spend the next 40 minutes going through apps searching for the right movie before giving up and going to bed. Don't let that... Continue Reading →
The Most Horrifying Movie Openings Ever! (a.k.a. did they just kill off Drew Barrymore?)
Just in time for Halloween, here's my latest entry for HorrorNews.net. I looked into the movie scenes that do more than set a scary tone -- they are terrifying in their own right. You could end the movie right then and there, and be pleasantly chilled. One of my entries is actually not in the... Continue Reading →
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