The Lighthouse International Film Festival lineup has been announced and I’m definitely psyched for the movies. Unfortunately I’ll be working the event and may miss out on seeing some of these great films. You can purchase individual tickets but your best bet is to buy an All Access Pass – that gets you into all the movies, the parties (who doesn’t want to party with professional arm wrestlers?) and the Breakfast with Filmmakers on Saturday and Sunday morning.

Three from Sundance:

Big Fan
The Missing Person
The End of the Line

Two from Tribeca:

The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
Maria of Zabbalen

Two from SXSW:

Pulling John
Made in China

If you’re at the festival, be sure to say hi to me and Deanna – we’ll be there representing OrangeYouGlad (and well, enjoying the sun, the beach and the movies!)

In celebration of Francis Bacon’s 100th birthday, the Met is hosting a special exhibit from May 20th – August 16th.

“The first major exhibition in New York in twenty years devoted to one of the most compelling painters of the twentieth century, Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective features some 130 works–sixty-five paintings and as many archival items from public and private collections from around the world–that span the entirety of the artist’s full and celebrated career.”

A new joint opened up in our neck of the woods – Olga’s On Smith. Finally a place to get a coffee right on our block! Olga’s serves up healthy, kosher, and delicious fare, in a really nice and elegantly simple little storefront just up the street. (401 smith). There are a number of vegan, dairy free and/or gluten-free items.

I’ve been hitting them up for breakfast and lunch lately and I have a few favorites from their menu. Namely the Israeli couscous salad with mint (pictured below), the vegetarian lasagna and my favorite of favorites the pan fried eggplant in a pita with vegan dill sauce (also shown below). Unfortunately I’ve also become helplessly addicted to their Hungarian raspberry shortbread. Why shortbread? why did you have to come into my life?

eggplant sandwich. Going to get one today. YUM!

Brooklyn born Dom DeLuise has passed away. There will be sad faces at the Comedy Club poker game tonight.