How many times have you seen this poster at the video store?! I’ve seen it a million freaking times and I always dismissed it as some kind of weird 90s scifi comedy. But I stumbled on it again on Netflix the other night and was surprised to discover that it’s actually a fantastic documentary...
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Last night we went to see “Love in the City,” at the San Francisco Film Society, an Italian film of short vignettes exploring the “raw! revealing! shocking!” realities of love in Roma in the early 1950s: abandonment, suicide, death, lust and loss. Including shorts by Antonioni and Fellini, like most classic Italian films of...
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Meeting someone at a party………..wow. Who doesn’t love those flirt-across-the-room moments? Making out in the bathroom? Someone passing out before anything really that great happens? But it’s still a blast! The third installment of party scenes from Mallory’s favorite films are up on Where the Lovely Things Are! Peep her other World Party Day...
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Mallory of Where the Lovely Things Are has done it again with her collection of food & drink-related party scenes from her favorite movies! No party is complete without gratuitous shots and accidental spillages…or pies to the face! Don’t miss her first post of movie scenes and stay tuned for even more next week….World...
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Day 2 of World Party Day tutorials takes us over to Where the Lovely Things Are, where Mallory does an incredible job of telling us “how to throw a party” via classic movies, including some of my personal favorites, Mrs. Doubtfire and Romeo + Juliet! Check it out, it will make you nostalgic for these...
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I AM SO EXCITED to share the next BIG THINGS project with you guys…. we are teaming up with the party experts at The Adventure School & Australian crafter-extraordinaire, Kitiya Palaskas, to throw the ultimate synchronized world-wide celebration for WORLD PARTY DAY on APRIL 3 2012! We asked friends from around the globe to come up with brilliant new ideas...
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max was all FIRM handshake and BIG smiles when we met in the fall, a charming guy with an incredibly flattering enthusiasm about BIG THINGS. we met at dose market in chicago via his partner, the absolutely lovely dosette, jessica herman. as one of the internet’s most style-savvy male bloggers, his blog, all plaid out, has esquire, the wall street...
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there are a lot of words that come to mind when i think about martin luther king: dreams, civil rights, anti-war, non-violence, PEACE! whether or not you believe in the conspiracy theories surrounding his assassination (that the mafia & government killed him….), his death was a blow all of us. in april 1968, the...
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well, people. it’s official- i’m on film!!! the launch party for victor solomon‘s tell your friends to get with my friends was last thursday at viz cinema in japantown. lots of friends gathered and sipped champagne and snacked on bite-sized goodies from black jet bakery (the blondies were my fave) before we watched the...
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victor solomon has created a series of short films documenting a day in the life of different movers and shakers in the bay area…including me!!! im so flattered and excited to be a part of this project (and just a teensy tinsy bit nerrrvoussss….). appropriately titled “tellyourfriendstogetwithmyfriends,” the film also features my partner nicolás...
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