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Casablanca, a facebook screening

Yeah, you read that correctly: Warner Bros. Digital Distribution is screening the legendary film “Casablanca” – which critic Leonard Maltin calls “the best Hollywood movie of all time,” starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman and winner of three Academy Awards®, including Best Picture (1944)—directly on facebook.com/CasablancaTheMovie on Wednesday, May 16 at 7p ET and 7p PT. Watching the…

Teaser: Get Lost in Loudoun

I mentioned in Feel Good Friday that I went off on a press trip, to Loudoun County, Virginia. While I work on compiling all the photos and notes from the trip, you can check out the fun new web show Loudoun produced called Get Lost in Loudoun. It’s funny, the majority of the cast is…

Austin: All You Need to Know About Austin Film Festival

Austin Film Fest is this weekend! Here’s your primer, starting TOMORROW! Gala The 9th Annual Film and Food Gala is tomorrow, Wednesday, Oct 19th at the Driskill Hotel and is co-chaired by actress Alexis Bledel (LOVE her from “Gilmore Girls,” Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and Sin City) and writer/director Ryan Piers Williams. The Gala benefits the Young Filmmakers…

What’s Your Number?

I just finished reading The Blind Side, the book behind one of my all-time favorite movies. I also recently read I Don’t Know How She Does It in preparation of wanting to see the new SJP movie of the same name, and now I want to read What’s Your Number/20 Times a Lady (the former…

Winners! for Forks Over Knives

I’m glad so many of you entered to win tix to the advanced screening of Forks Over Knives and are interested in health! If you didn’t win, the film opens to the public May 13 at the Arbor, so I still encourage you to go. Without further ado, chosen by random number generator, the five…

Austin: Giveaway! Tix to Advance Screening of Forks Over Knives

“The answer is so simple it’s criminal: people starting to take responsibility for their health.” This trailer is for FORKS OVER KNIVES, a film examining the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods*. *You know that…

Austin: Choose Your Documentary: Taxes or Music?

As I just paid an inconveniently large sum of money to the government in the form of taxes, I particularly advise you to drop by The Blanton tomorrow night for a showing of the documentary “An Inconvenient Tax.” The documentary sheds light on one of America’s messiest problems — a fundamentally broken tax code that…

See ya at Sectionals!

OK, that’s not true, I’ll mainly be seeing myself at Sectionals … but I did go ahead and compete in the first WOD. It’ll only get harder from here as I have to film myself doing the WODs … in my “normal” commercial gym … awkward! But nonetheless, I am committed. http://games.crossfit.com/ My first go at…

11 Rules to Live by for SXSW 2011

1. SXSW Interactive is my fave. It’s a little quieter, it’s a lot more networking, and it has as much or more free stuff than film or music. 2. See a SXSW Film. It’s cheap and worth waiting in line to see big name premieres. 3. SXSW Music exhausts me. The easiest thing to do…