The House of Gordon

Winston-Salem's art house theatre a/perture beckons yet again, this time for the Atom Egoyan film Chloe . Gorgeous Julianne Moore frets ...

Honestly, on a day off, there's an absolute way I enjoy unwinding and detaching myself from reality: an afternoon in a darkened theater ...

Hit up a/perture for another arty film. Tonight? The German film The White Ribbon . Black and white, subtitled, and a 2 & 1/2 hour mi...

OK, I'll admit that generally the musical genre does NOTHING for me. But being a rabid Oscars fan, I was intrigued by the Best Actor no...

John Hodgman + They Might Be Giants / Weird Al Yankovic. Work out this equation and you get Jonathan Coulton . Witty lyrics, but not clowni...

OK, so on a whim over this past weekend, I realize Eric Clapton will be in concert Monday night in Raleigh. Had no clue. And it so happens ...

Best Picture. It won. The Hurt Locker . Stunning film. Commented on these very pages in August 2009: http://thehouseofgordon.blogspot.co...

Greensboro, NC. Harris Teeter grocery store. Friendly Center shopping center. Saturday, March 6, 2010. My vision blurs due to tears of jo...

Friday night I traveled over to Raleigh on the campus of NC State to see a gorgeous and up-and-coming bassist: Esperanza Spalding. Esperaza...

Thursday, Triad Stage night! Another evening using the season pass. People tire of hearing me blather on and on, but I will continue to sc...

This past Thursday was another brew day. This time, it's an adventure into brewing days of yore. A proper Märzen was the recipe and th...

I'm super behind on posting here (shocking). But suffice to say I spent a good chunk of time at a/perture cinema recently. My upcoming...

My beloved Great Lakes Brewing Co. is making its introduction into the North Carolina market. O! The joy! (I'll see you in Winston-Sa...

The homebrew bug hit yet again, mainly to get through these final extract-based recipes to start to dive head first into "all-grain...

What a fun Mardi Gras I just had! For whatever reason, instead of partying in his home of New Orleans, Harry Connick, Jr. was on tour and ...

Time to brew again. On Valentine's Day. I swear it was an act of coincidence, but the style brewed on this day of romance and love was...

In a fit of local music appreciation, I hit up two local bands in two local venues: Amelia's Mechanics on Friday at The Blind Tiger, and...

There is nothing I can really say here that would make sense unless you had consumed a frankly voluminous amount of hallucinogens. Wow. Th...

Movies at a/perture cinema in downtown Winston-Salem do not hang around long. There are just two theaters and so many independent films ou...

The snow was a-comin' this weekend, and my day off for the week was Thursday. It was 58 degrees outside. BREW DAY! The next in line f...

Filmmakers the Coen Brothers are at it again. This time with a study on a lowly Jewish professor in suburban Minnesota who is just trying t...

Another evening of independent cinema at Winston-Salem's a/perture cinema . Last time it was a film from Belgium, and now...Spain: Pedr...

OK, I told you that the posts here would be quite sporadic from now on. But some gentle readers are not on Teh Facebook portion of Teh Inte...

My first venture over to the new a/perture cinema in downtown Winston-Salem occurred tonight. The inaugural Gordon showing? A Belgian sto...

If you live ANYWHERE near Winston-Salem, NC and you enjoy film, you owe it to yourself and to the arts community to go to the new a/perture ...

Had a day off recently and quite thoroughly enjoyed sitting in a dark theater with crazy 3-D glasses on for over 2 & 1/2 hours. I fell ...