Oscar Mash-up @ KZSC on Tuesday Feb. 12
Tune in to Bruce Bratton's juicy Universal Grapevine program, next Tuesday—February 12, at 7:30 and you'll get to hear me and film critic Lisa Jensen go boca a boca with Bruce about our Oscar picks, and favorite films of 2012. That's KZSC 88.1 FM. The gloves are...
O’mei—an enduring culinary gem
I have loved O'mei for over 25 years, and as of last week I still love this low-key house of brilliant flavor combinations, culinary creativity and seasonally-changing menus. Winter seems to fire the creative juices of O'mei cooks, who have come up with a whole new...
Tramonti Time!
Yes, this new, lively, friendly pizza parlor does make very delicious pizzas. But they also offer appealing salads, such as the Santa Croce (shown right), which comes to your table absolutely overflowing with argula, kale, purple radicchio, carrots, celery, even...
Zero Dark Thirty
Set aside the debate about whether or not this film endorses the use of torture as an enhanced interrogation tool. There are other issues plaguing this film by director Kathryn Bigelow, and they primarily involve the curiously empty—or at least vaguely...
Les Miserables
Musicals affect me something like dry martinis. The more I consume, the weaker my inhibitions become. In the end, against my critical instincts and even my good sense, I succumb. I cave in. I cry. Which is what I did starting with the very first note of "I Dreamed a...
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.