Food Tidbits

Carina Cellars’ yearly winemaker dinner is just around the corner. Literally. On February 24, Chef Patrick Rand of Patrick’s Side Street Cafe will present a menu expertly paired with several Carina wines. The event begins with a reception at the Carina tasting room, just up the street from Patrick’s. Fri., Feb. 24: reception

Cinematic Challenge

Adorned in wool-lined ranch coats and armed with mascot sheep, the KTYD Morning Show crew converged on the Fiesta Five Theater for its “Brokeback Challenge” last Monday.

First Looks

Imagine Me & You (94 mins.; R: language, sex) Reviewed on page TK. Plaza de Oro When a Stranger Calls

Love Book

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and lovers everywhere can get an extra helping hand in expressing their love and thoughts about their significant others with the release of the new book I Love You Because…

Screenings

Brice de Nice (98 mins.; R: language, sexual content) Magic Lantern Films presents this French film about a surfer searching

A Charmingly Missed Opportunity

Besides the fact that the star-crossed lovers in Imagine Me &You are two uncommonly pretty women (instead of one uncommonly pretty woman and one uncommonly charming man), this British film is just like every other romantic comedy: well-meaning characters blindsided by love, a “destined” romance escalating at a breakneck pace, and dramatic music at all the appropriate moments. And as such, it’s pretty good.

Now Showing

Big Momma’s House 2 (99 mins.; PG-13: sexual humor, drug reference) In this comedic sequel, Martin Lawrence jumps back into

Driving Forces

Over the course of Rear View Mirror, a dance performance the subtitle of which states that “objects may be closer

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