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1 October 2014, 7:00pmFacebook Twitter
Please join us for Karen Karbo’s novel, The Diamond Lane, book launch party at Broadway Books! Refreshments will be served.
8 October 2014, 6:00pmFacebook Twitter
Hey Portland, you’re up! The A.V. Club is coming to visit, and we’re once again bringing Basil Hayden’s Bourbon with us. On October 8, we’ll be at Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider where we’ll host an evening of mingling, cocktails, and food. Luminaries from Portland’s lit scene, including Travis Meyer from Poor Claudia Publishing and Liz Crain from Hawthorne Books, will be hanging out, as will The A.V. Club’s Assistant Editor Andrea Battleground.
We’ll have small bites, and feature Portland-inspired Basil Hayden’s Bourbon cocktails. It’s all part of The A.V. Club’s and Basil Hayden’s This Is My… event series celebrating the best of local craftmakers and their art. Learn more about and RSVP for our upcoming Portland event and view the videos from our previous events—right here.
Buy tickets here.
9 October 2014, 4:00pmFacebook Twitter
Award-winning authors Tobias Wolff, Karen Joy Fowler, and Andrew Lam are just a few of the notable guests coming to UC Santa Cruz for the Fall 2014 Living Writers Series.
The series kicks off on October 9 with Ariel Gore, author of eight books and founder of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine Hip Mama. Gore’s latest book, The End of Eve, chronicles the years spent caring for her dying mother. This memoir has been described as “Terms of Endearment” meets “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”
10 October 2014, Facebook Twitter
Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere has been selected for the Kansas International Film Festival!
The Kansas International Film Festival (KIFF) stands alone as a movie purist’s delight, focusing on documentary, narrative, and animated independent films. Founded in 2001 as a non-profit organization, KIFF attracts local, regional, and national work, recognizing visiting filmmakers and screen personalities, and increasing public awareness of independent and classic cinema as a cultural, economic, and educational asset.
10 October 2014, 7:00pmFacebook Twitter
Dave Janetta’s adaptation of Poe Ballantine’s memoir, Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, screens at Buffalo International Film Festival.
10 October 2014, 8:00pmFacebook Twitter
Dave Jannetta directs the documentary Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, an adaptation of Poe Ballantine’s true crime memoir. He will be in attendence for this screening.
15 October 2014, 7:30pmFacebook Twitter
In How to Cook Everything Fast (Houghton Mifflin), Mark Bittman’s updated must-have culinary reference, he shows how to make 2,000 innovative recipes that are delicious, varied, made from scratch, and ready in anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes. Bittman will be joined in conversation by Liz Crain, author of Food Lover’s Guide to Portland. This event is sponsored by Edible Portland.
17 October 2014, 6:30pmFacebook Twitter
The screening schedule for the Hot Springs Documentary Festival is as follows:
October 17, 2014; 6:45 PM
Cinema 1
Followed by book signing
Dave Jannetta & Poe Ballantine in attendance
October 19, 2014; 12:30 PM
Hot Spring Documentary Festival
Cinema 2
21 October 2014, 2:30pmFacebook Twitter
Philly native Dave Jannetta directs the documentary Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, an adaptation of Poe Ballantine’s true crime memoir. He will be in attendence for all three screenings:
October 24, 2014; 4:40 PM
Philadelphia Film Festival
Roxy A
October 26, 2014; 4:40 PM
Philadelphia Film Festival
Roxy B
The festival runs through Oct. 26. Purchase tickets at http://www.filmadelphia.org/festival or at the box office in the PFS Roxy Theater at. 2023 Sansom St. More info: 267-239-2941.
24 October 2014, 7:30pmFacebook Twitter
Please join Karen Karbo reading from her novel The Diamond Lane at Powell’s Books!
29 October 2014, 7:00pmFacebook Twitter
Mastering My Mistakes in the Kitchen (Ecco) is an uproarious, inspiring cookbook from Dana Cowin, the longtime editor-in-chief of Food & Wine magazine. Cowin spills the secret of her culinary ineptitude while learning — finally — to cook side-by-side with some of the greatest chefs working today. Cowin will be joined in conversation by Liz Crain, author of Food Lover’s Guide to Portland.
31 October 2014, 7:00pmFacebook Twitter
The screening schedule for the Eagle Theater in Chadron is as follows:
October 31 - November 6, 2014
Fri, Oct 31st: 7:15PM & 9:15PM
Sat, Nov 1st: 7:15PM & 9:15PM
Sun, Nov 2nd: 2:00PM & 7:15PM
Mon-Thurs, Nov 3rd-6th: 7:15PM
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