Monday, January 22, 2018

JANUARY, YOU START THE YEAR OFF FINE

Check out the January issue of Phoenix Magazine...


...for my "Four Corners" column on new and new-ish Valley eateries. If you scroll down a bit in the "Where to Eat" section, you'll also find my five favorite restaurants for 2017, in keeping with what is described, not inaccurately, as my "yen for greasy spoons and indie ethnic fare," including Casa de Falafel, the best falafel in the Valley, served out of a Peoria Shell station...

Google reminds us that today is the birthday of Sergei Eisenstein. Check out this scene from Strike (1925) in which a cool old steam fire pumper is misused disgracefully against the people: Proof that this sort of thing didn't start with Birmingham in the '60s.

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