Watch This: War and Peace

Making Leo Tolstoy’s great novel War and Peace into a film must have been a daunting task and undertaking, especially in 1956 when this film was made. Watching it now, in 2015, I can appreciate the massive scope of work and production that went into the grand sets and scenes. The film script had to...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

December 3, 2014

Watch This: Guilty by Suspicion

Guilty by Suspicion. By suspicion only… and yet guilty. Can you imagine? A realistic look at a terrible time for many Americans. This film is about the true happenings of Hollywood during the 1950’s when the Un-American Committee was ruled by McCarthy and going through their anti-communist mania. It is the best film on this...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

Tres-Bohemes-Vanocka-Czech-Braided-Bread

November 26, 2014

Making Vánočka – Czech Sweet Braided Bread

For some reason, the holidays always remind me of home (home being Prague). Maybe it’s because I associate the delicious foods with my grandmother who was always baking at this time of year. Thankfully, Jillian Greer has come to visit and she shared her awesome recipe for making Vánočka, a traditional Czech Sweet Braided Bread from her awesome...

LIFESTYLE, Recipes

November 19, 2014

Watch This: The Graduate

Dustin Hoffman became a star playing in The Graduate, His character, Benjamin Braddock, is a 21 year old young man who has just finished college and is back at his parents house in California. Unsure of his future and knowing that he does not want to be like his parents, he spends the film avoiding...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

November 12, 2014

Mach 2 in the Concorde

What is the Concorde? Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde is a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger jet airliner. It featured a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound at Mach 2.04, with seating for 92 to 128 passengers. Taking its first flight in 1969, the Concorde entered into commercial service in 1976 and continued flights for 27 years until...

PLACES, Traveling in Style

November 5, 2014

Watch This: Midnight in Paris

Midnight in Paris is beautiful film opens with a three minute postcard styled montage of Paris, showing the iconic tourist sites filmed with a filter so colorful it almost makes the scenes look like a painting. The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence....

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

October 31, 2014

Watch This: Flawless with De Niro

In Flawless, we get to watch Robert De Niro, a hardened New York cop, become best friends with a drag queen. What? In this surprisingly delightful film we meet Walter Koontz (De Niro) who plays a police officer / hero who has a stroke which partially paralyzes his one side. He loses his ability to...

ENTERTAINMENT, Movies

October 22, 2014

Seamus Mullen’s Hero Food

I have a growing collection of cookbooks and when I was at the local library shop and saw this large and thick book with the strong man carrying a bushel of peaches on the cover, it caught my eye. I have to confess, getting a gorgeous and color filled, high quality $35 cookbook for only...

Books, ENTERTAINMENT

October 15, 2014

Jillian Greer Makes Chocolate Pumpkin Cake

A spiced up pumpkin cake is the perfect, moist treat for fall and even classic pumpkin pie will need to learn how to share the spotlight when you have this festive cake on your dessert table. It looks like a lot of work but it’s not and besides – it’s totally worth it. Autumn is upon us again...

LIFESTYLE, Recipes