2007-05-16

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2007-05-16 07:39 am

Food Wednesdays

A Good Appetite
Giving Morels the Caviar Treatment
By MELISSA CLARK

AS anyone with a hard-core shopping habit knows, there’s a moment after you’ve zeroed in on your object of desire when all reason ebbs. It doesn’t matter that those strappy sandals are a little too tight, a little too high-heeled and a lot too expensive. A euphoric cloud obscures common sense, especially if they’re on sale.

I can attain a similar state of mind while shopping for dinner, and recently I did. In the produce aisle was a basket of plump, velvety morels, the first of the season. They were spore-ishly seductive: their matte, furrowed skin was taut, their fragrance fresh and earthy, like a rainy walk in the woods. So what if the bill for the half pound I checked out with was $30? Their season is all too fleeting (from May to mid-June). And besides, I rationalized, cooking morels at home is cheaper than going out for them. More

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2007-05-16 04:13 pm

Shorts?

MAY CINEMA LOUNGE POISED FOR GREATNESS
TONIGHT!! Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 @ Bryant-Lake Bowl - 7pm - FREE
Look out, people. This is gonna be a good one. It's the third
Wednesday of the month already, and that means more hard-hitting
(that's closed-fist!) independent short films from Twin Cities
filmmakers - it's the CINEMA LOUNGE!! This is how we do: we screen
a bunch of local, indie shorts, then bring the filmmakers up onstage
to find out what makes 'em tick. Then everyone heads out to the bar
to schmooze & make nice over cocktails. It's a winning combination
that just wouldn't happen without these filmmakers:

SleepyEye "Buzzkill"

John Fleetham "Shut It Down!"

Matt Olsen
& Eric Nigg "The Stalker"

Dawn Mikkelson "The Red Tail" (trailer)

Rick Fuller "Tim Buckley - My Fleeting House"
Koerner, Ray, & Glover - "Blues,
Rags, & Hollers"
(dvd trailers)

For more details, visit
<http://www.ifpmn.org/lounge.html>www.ifpmn.org/lounge.html
via TREO
Larry