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Welcome New Sponsor: Scarecrow Video

Regular readers will know how we feel about national chains: food, coffee, clothing, whatever. By focusing on "top sellers", they destroy diversity. If you're a movie buff, you're lucky to have Scarecrow Video (5030 Roosevelt Way NE), one of the largest independent video stores in the country, in strolling distance. And we're lucky to have them as our newest sponsor. There's a million things we love about Scarecrow, but let's take one obvious one: their main section is organized by director,…

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Couch Fest Films

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Wandering from house to house, watching movies in the living rooms of perfect strangers? We must have died and gone to heaven. Celebrating its second annual year in 2009, Couch Fest Films is a cozy shorts film fest hosted in people's houses. During Couch Fest Films, lovers of film can sit shoulder to shoulder watching short films while stuffing their faces with the snacks they thought they had to sneak in. On Saturday, November 7th, 2009, each Couch Fest Films house…

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Veer towards Wallingford

Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies, a weekly screening of socially relevant movies followed by discussion led by people relevant to the film, is back after its summer hiatus. The fall season kicks off this Friday night at 7 pm with Veer, the award-winning documentary about alt-bike culture: Veer explores America’s fast-growing bicycling culture by profiling five people whose lives are inextricably tied to bicycling and the bike-centric social groups they belong to. Portland filmmakers, Greg Fredette & Jason Turner, follow…

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