Posts Tagged With: words & wine (36 posts)

  1. Words & Wine: Peter Mayle (THE VINTAGE CAPER)

    PLEASE NOTE: Due to the author’s illness, this event has been cancelled!!! In Words & Wine events, guests mingle with the author while sipping award-winning wines from Ste. Michelle Wine Estates [...]

  2. The Devil and Sharon Stone?

    Commercials for Law & Order have long trumpeted the series’ affinity for stories “ripped from today’s headlines” and, normally, there is little reason to object other than the obvious creative [...]

  3. The Skinny on The Big Short

    In Words & Wine events, guests mingle with the author while sipping award-winning wines from Ste. Michelle Wine Estates and enjoying savory nibbles prepared by Seastar Restaurant & Raw Bar. For [...]

  4. Words & Wine: Michael Lewis (THE BIG SHORT)

    In Words & Wine events, guests mingle with the author while sipping award-winning wines from Ste. Michelle Wine Estates and enjoying savory nibbles prepared by Seastar Restaurant & Raw Bar. For [...]

  5. Words & Wine: David Grann (THE DEVIL AND SHERLOCK HOLMES)

    David Grann The Devil and Sherlock Holmes March 16 Pan Pacific Hotel Doors open at 6, interview begins at 7 Words & Wine: Intimate Evenings with Interesting People continues, as [...]

  6. Words & Wine: Sir Ken Robinson (THE ELEMENT)

    January 14: Sir Ken Robinson THE ELEMENT Time: 6:30 p.m. Cost: $50 per person (includes all appetizers, wine, and a copy of the featured book) Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, 2125 Terry [...]

  7. A message from Kim Ricketts…

    And now a word from our sponsor? Well, my colleague would be more accurate. Kim Ricketts — of Kim Ricketts Book Events — is not only one of Seattle’s most [...]

  8. Words & Wine: Sara Peretsky (HARDBALL)

    October 2, 2009 Sara Paretsky HARDBALL Time: 6:30 pm  Cost: $50/person (includes all wines, appetizers and a copy of the featured book) Where: Pan Pacific Hotel 2125 Terry Avenue, Seattle, [...]

  9. Words & Wine: Frank Bruni (BORN ROUND)

    September 11, 2009 Frank Bruni BORN ROUND: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater Time: 6:30 pm  Cost: $50/person (includes all wines, appetizers and a copy of the featured book) [...]

  10. This Dad’s Life? (video blog)

    Dads come in all shapes and sizes, full of crullers and weed. They can be negligent or deadbeat, abandoning or abusive. Perhaps, a few, even turn out well. Of course [...]

  11. Words & Wine: Mark Caro (THE FOIE GRAS WARS)

    July 14, 2009 Mark Caro THE FOIE GRAS WARS: How a 5,000-Year-Old Delicacy Inspired the World’s Fiercest Food Fight Time: 6:30 pm  Cost: $45/person Where: Pan Pacific Hotel  2125 Terry [...]

  12. Oprah’s Bright Shiny Mourning?

    It takes a big woman to admit a mistake and Oprah, sporadically, is a very big woman. It takes an honest man to own up to a MILLION LITTLE lies. [...]

  13. Who’s afraid of the big bad WOLVERINE?

    Fox is huffing and puffing because you, dear movie-lovers, blew the house for X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE. (Pigs!) The studio is convinced that early, pirated downloads of the movie will topple [...]

  14. Straw polls and cinnamon rolls? The Warren Report hits 100!

    Think big. Start Small. Stand tall.  Who knew when this journey began many months ago that the President of the United States would  go on television to celebrate this historic [...]

  15. Words & Wine: Steven Rinella – American Buffalo

    Warren join Steven Rinella on stage at the Pan Pacific Hotel to discuss how tough the buffalo really is, how to save the buffalo, and what it means to truly [...]

  16. Words & Wine: David Benioff – City of Thieves

    David Benioff joins Warren for another evening of Words & Wine where they measure the importance of talent, place a friendly wager, and stress the importance of bowel movements.

  17. Come meet WOLVERINE scribe and best-selling novelist David Benioff!

    Accomplished opera singers dream of being pop stars. Professional football players long to hit the links with Tiger Woods. Hollywood screenwriters wish they’d earned their ducats and made their names [...]

  18. Real men eat buffalo, dammit!

    James Garner is a metrosexual. Hard to believe, I know, considering the maverick actor shilled for beef — “Real food for real people!” — and survived quadruple by-pass surgery after [...]

  19. Words & Wine: Andre Dubus III

    Monday, June 15th, 2009 @ 6:30 pm The Pan Pacific Hotel, 2125 Terry Avenue, SEATTLE, WA 98121 Cost: $45/person Andre Dubus III The Garden of Last Days To purchase tickets by [...]

  20. Words & Wine: Michael Lewis

    Thursday, June 11th, 2009 @ 6:30 pm Pan Pacific Hotel, 2125 Terry Avenue, SEATTLE, WA 98121 Cost: $45/person To purchase tickets by email: contact us, by phone: 206-632-2419, or purchase online Michael [...]

  21. Words & Wine: Ruth Reichl

    Saturday, May 16th, 2009  @ 6:30 pm The Pan Pacific Hotel, 2125 Terry Avenue, SEATTLE, 98121 Ruth Reichl Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way [...]

  22. Chillin’ and Swillin’ with Calvin Trillin

    Who knew? Calvin Trillin has a following more committed than the devotees of the Reverend Jim Jones. When I hosted The Nation‘s “deadline poet” at Words & Wine earlier this [...]

  23. Words&Wine: Calvin Trillin – Deciding the Decider

    Warren joins Calvin Trillin at The Pan Pacific Hotel in Seattle to discuss his latest opus, frost-bitten Jews, and the beauty of language.

  24. Words & Wine: David Benioff (CITY OF THIEVES)

    April 10th, 2009 @ 6:30 pm Pan Pacific Hotel, 2125 Terry Avenue, SEATTLE   Cost: $45/person TO PURCHASE TICKETS by email: contact us by phone: 206-632-2419  or purchase online   David Benioff [...]

  25. Words & Wine: Steven Rinella (AMERICAN BUFFALO)

    Thursday, March 26th, 2009 @ 6:30pm Pan Pacific Hotel, 2125 Terry Avenue, SEATTLE Cost: $45/person For reservations, please call 206-632-2419 or buy online   Steven Rinella is the author of The [...]

  26. Joseph Priestley passes gas; does not collect $200

    Once upon a time, the world was flat… and so was our water; it was just tap with flamboyant aspirations. Thanks to some adventurous, thoughtful souls though, we know the [...]

  27. Words&Wine: Steven Johnson – The Invention of Air

    Warren joins Steven Johnson at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Seattle to discuss his latest book. They chat about coffee’s ability to increase one’s mental faculties, the creation of soda [...]

  28. Everyone’s a winner! Calvin Trillin meets The Progressive Poet

    Politics make for strange bedfellows. Working together, The Warren Report, Kim Ricketts Book Events and FUSE inspired strange bard-fellows with the first Progressive Poetry contest in celebration of Calvin Trillin‘s [...]

  29. Kim Ricketts loves her some Calvin Trillin!

    And now, a brief mash note from Kim Ricketts celebrating our next guest at Words & Wine: Calvin Trillin… Well, Words & Wine kicked off in January with Steven Johnson, [...]

  30. Everyone’s a Winner!… Calvin Trillin

    The Progressive Poet  A political poetry contest Let your inner political bard out! Think you have what it takes to be Washington’s State’s first political poet laureate? Well bring on [...]

  31. Words & Wine: Sandra Tsing Loh – Mother on Fire: A True Motherf%#$@ Story About Parenting!

    Warren joins Sandra Tsing Loh at the W Hotel in Seattle to discuss her latest book Mother on Fire: A True Motherf%#$@ Story About Parenting!. Together they explore the need [...]

  32. Words & Wine: Francine Prose – Golden Grove

    Warren sits down with Francine Prose to discuss her style of writing, the evolution of her work, and the power of Tourette’s.

  33. Words & Wine: Ethan Canin – America, America

    Warren join Ethan Canin at the W hotel in Seattle for Words & Wine, where they discuss reality reflecting fiction, the real truth of politics, and why writing is more [...]

  34. Words & Wine: Salman Rushdie – The Enchantress of Florence

    Warren sits down with Salman Rushdie at the W Hotel in Seattle to discuss his latest book The Enchantress of Florence. Warren probe Salman on the similarity of differences, the [...]

  35. Words & Wine: James Frey – Bright Shiny Morning

    Warren sits down with James Frey at the W hotel in Seattle for the latest in the Words & Wine series, where they discuss the hesitancy to include facts in [...]

  36. Words & Wine: Vincent Bugliosi – The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

    Warren sits down with Vincent Bugliosi at the W Hotel in Seattle to discuss the mental acuity of George W. Bush, the jurisdiction necessary to try him for murder, and [...]