Seattle Met Magazine’s Style Editor Declares Film Festival in a Box A Classic Gift

Laura Cassidy reports:

“Inside the pizza-box like packaging, a themed film fest of indie flicks awaits. Zombies, maybe? Love stories? Documentaries, anyone? Watch ’em, discuss ’em, call one the best, one the worst, bond over your hatred of the villain, stay up all night dissecting the plot lines. Like a middle school counselor intent on you sharing your feelings, IndieFlix wants to get you talking about stories and characters. It’s the flip-side of the fun factor, the dinner-and-a-movie thing’s higher calling.”

Thank you Laura for your spot-on style.

AOL's Shopping Editor Picks IndieFlix " Film Festival in a Box" Game as One of the Holiday's Best Quirky Gifts

Click on blog title above to read the editor's top picks. And thank you Gina Nguyen of Aol.

The game is available at lots of great shops like Santa Monica's Fred Segal and Seattle's University Bookstore plus online at Drugstore.com and more.

Not a Bad Day: when you get to design ads with images like this

Random Acts of PR Kindness: Got Ink for Seattle Wine Shop

It's always fun sharing the love! I enjoyed tipping Wine Spectator magazine off on the great shop Portalis in Ballard. Now read the article BEYOND THE GLASS that resulted (by clicking blog title above).

Thank you Sharon McDonnell, as always. And congrats to Portalis.

Best Chefs, Dana Tough and Brian McCracken, Demo Their Technique for Star Chefs

Video - Fried Béarnaise StarChefs.com

Take a look at the Chefs of Spur in Seattle, Dana Tough and Brian McCracken, who will walk you through the making of their Fried Bernaise on Beef Carpaccio with micro mustard. Great work Chefs!

November's Seattle Mag Includes Designer Rosanna Bowle's Book on Its Must List

Thank you Rachel et all for including tableware designer Rosanna's book in your "Nest: Seattle Magazine’s November 2010 Must List". We so apreciate it!

It read, “With its foul weather and fowl focus, November calls for feathering your nest. Prep for the holidays with local dishware queen Rosanna Bowles’ new entertaining tome, Coming Home: A Seasonal Guide to Creating Family Traditions (Stewart Tabori & Chang, $27.50), a season-by-season guide to family gatherings complete with tabletop inspirations, tips for creating traditions and Bowles’ home recipes, including a killer caramel pie.”

The 9.2 Million Readers of Cooking Light Magazine Learn About Spur "On the Forefront of the Food Revolution"

Phenomenol. That's what it's like to crack open that new issue of Cooking Light magazine and see Chefs Dana Tough and Brian McCracken's culinary philosophy laid out for more than NINE MILLION food lovers. Described as "standing at the forefront of the food revolution in Seattle" Chef Tough states, "With the scene we have here now, there's no room for mediocre food."

Thank you to writer Jason Sheehan for interviewing Spur (www.spurseattle.com) for the story, "Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner in Seattle." To read all six pages you'll have to pick up a copy of the November issue. But to read the portion on Spur, click on over to the Spur blog and check it out by clicking on the blog title above.