Reminder: this Saturday, November 7th, 11 am - 8 pm, is the Couch Fest Films film festival, a series of films shown in people's living rooms across Fremont, Wallingford, Green Lake, the U District and Ravenna. Each location will have its own genre of short films playing in rotation throughout the day, so hop on a bike and check out a few. We're not sure whether it's cool to help yourself to something from the fridge, though. The map of locations…
We have no idea how this one snuck up on us. We blog about things going on around Wallingford. We keep bees in Wallingford. You'd think someone would have told us that the Meaningful Movies showing this Friday night is entitled "The Last Beekeeper" and will feature UW entomologist Dr. Evan Sugden: Bees are vanishing. Examining the enormity of this loss, Jeremy Simmons' documentary THE LAST BEEKEEPER follows the lives of three commercial beekeepers (from South Carolina, Montana, and Washington) over…
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,…
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…
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…