A day late, but after expressing my love for this city yesterday, I just had to share:
“I Can’t Give You Anything But Love” - A Preservation Hall Jazz Band and New Orleans Bingo! Show video Valentine, as sung by Clint Maedgen, with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Featuring Fleur de Tease, The Camel Toe Lady-Steppers […]

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I’ve mentioned my love of Current TV’s viewer-generated content here a few times before: first when they aired a piece about Wardrobe_Remix and then when the Noisician Coalition got featured on TV.
Well, now my indie-film director boyfriend has started uploading some of his very own videos to Current’s website. The first two pieces are […]

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Happy Holidays from NOLA, ya’ll!

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On Friday night I went with a co-worker to see the New Orleans Bingo! Show. She’d never seen it before, and afterwards she couldn’t stop raving about how great it was. I first wrote about it here, in the early days of this blog. This show never fails to make me remember all […]

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I just got an update on the new indie craft documentary, Handmade Nation, from director Faythe Levine. She’s currently in editing mode and is pushing to have a rough cut of the film done by this winter to start entering it into film festivals. The other big news is that she’s also working […]

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My favorite daily eco-friendly email newsletter, Ideal Bite, has announced that they’ll be running a whole week of Eco-Pet tips, which will take place July 23-27. Just sign up by July 20 to make sure you get the whole week’s worth of tips. Pretty cool if you’re trying to green your lifestyle and […]

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I spent part of last night watching The Green on the Sundance Channel. It’s a new regular series of programming dedicated to environmental issues. Some of the stuff they had on last night (which I think was a repeat of programs aired earlier in the week) was really interesting. They profiled a […]

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If you’re located in the Mid-West, and looking for quick weekend trip this summer, consider saving those vacation days until August 24-25th. The Dark Carnival Film Festival will be premiering at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater here in Bloomington, Indiana.
The Dark Carnival Film Festival is quickly becoming a week-long international horror film festival. The event […]

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If you’ve got about 8 minutes or so to kill sometime this weekend, I recommend you check out the brand new sneak preview of the indie craft documentary that Faythe Levine and Micaela O’herlihy have been working so hard on for the past year or so. I can’t wait to see the full documentary, […]

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Check it out: documentary filmmaker Jeremy Campbell of ten18films has just announced an amazing holiday sale. He’s offering DVDs of Hexing A Hurricane for only $5 on his website, now through December 18. Five bucks, folks! This is a great stocking stuffer idea.
Jeremy quoted my previous review of the film in the […]

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