ICYMI, a recap of 2025 at Cocktails & Crime. And with that said, let's put that godawful 12 months behind us and concentrate on 2026. Happy new year, kids. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-88...

NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. The year, such as it was, in review. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-88...

ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime: Playing catch up with movies from two filmmakers in their 80s, David Cronenberg (THE SHROUDS) and Barry Levinson (THE ALTO KNIGHTS), prompting a jazz tangent. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-87...

NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. Looking at two "old guy" movies - THE SHROUDS and THE ALTO KNIGHTS - after a long, weird year. Then I tenuously tie it into jazz and @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social's book with Billy Hart. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-87...

Edith Head's role in creating this classic look is of course mentioned. www.elle.com/uk/fashion/a...

Marlene Dietrich, born December 27, 1901. Here with Edith Head during production of the Billy Wilder film A FOREIGN AFFAIR (1948). Marlene "hires" Edith and Lillian Frost to find her missing accompanist in the second Lillian and Edith mystery DANGEROUS TO KNOW. (Wilder also cameos.) #BOTD

🧵 1/9 The history of Hollywood's Golden Age is linked with the story of Europeans fleeing the rise of fascism in the 1930s. This is especially true for some of the film composers of that era. None more so than the great Franz Waxman, whose birthday we celebrate today (1906-1967). #filmsky #musicsky

Compliments of the season, kids. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-25...

Happy holidays from the cast of WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954), their festive attire designed by Edith Head!

Love this Robin Givhan piece that asks an important question: When did shopping for clothes stop being fun? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...

Noir City 2026 lineup is out! And it's got all that jazz. www.noircity.com

The loneliness of the studio tour as Hollywood comes apart. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/b...

ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime: new stuff from David Wondrich, Richard Linklater, and Lou Berney, plus the lowdown on THE LOWDOWN. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-86...

NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. A history of cocktails like no other, and a cluster of recommendations weirdly fixated on Oklahoma. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-86...

Noir City Seattle will be held February 13-19, 2026 at SIFF Cinema Downtown 🖤 Produced by Eddie Muller—Film Noir Foundation founder, Turner Classic Movies host, and "Czar of Noir''— this celebration of film noir is a beloved annual event. Passes on sale January 5. More at siff.info/noircitybs.

“Holiday glitter and glamour are the keynotes to Barbara Stanwyck's gold lame dress designed for the Paramount star's personal wardrobe by Edith Head.” Photo by Eugene Robert Richee, 1941.

She's not on Bluesky, but I'm still wishing my fabulous wife and other half of @rpatrickbooks.bsky.social Rosemarie a happy birthday!

Ellen Drew in a publicity still for The Mad Doctor (1941)

Tonight on TCM starting at 8PM E/5PM P, @eddiemuller.bsky.social hosts a night of neo-noir. The classic POINT BLANK (1967), the charming THE LATE SHOW (1977), and the still-batshit-insane PERFORMANCE (1970). #TCMParty

When Edith Head designed this sequinned marvel for Ginger Rogers in 1944, it was the most costly film costume ever made. Worn in the film Lady in the Dark it is a lovely aperitif to my Hollywood Costume lecture with Falmouth Uni Costume Design 2nd years tomorrow #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime: how reading aloud fits into our marriage, why I won't be doing that for a while, and a quiz show movie with a quiz show host. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-85...

NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. A survey of books I've read aloud this year now that circumstances have forced me to stop, plus watching QUIZ SHOW with Ken Jennings. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-85...

Edith Head and Her Miniature Sewing Machine Collection — Robert Cumming, 1977

Fantastic new @tcmtv.bsky.social video of @eddiemuller.bsky.social and @danadelany.bsky.social considering the career of Barbara Stanwyck through her costumes, including several designed by Edith Head. Thanks to the archivists preserving this wardrobe artistry! www.youtube.com/watch?v=luKN...

It was incredibly moving to walk among the Warner’s Archives. You wouldn’t believe the riches! Thank you @tcmtv.bsky.social and @eddiemuller.bsky.social for this rare treat. I’ll talk Barbara Stanwyck any day.

Fantastic new @tcmtv.bsky.social video of @eddiemuller.bsky.social and @danadelany.bsky.social considering the career of Barbara Stanwyck through her costumes, including several designed by Edith Head. Thanks to the archivists preserving this wardrobe artistry! www.youtube.com/watch?v=luKN...

DANNY! crimereads.com/danny-devito...

Maria Riva, an actress and author who was the only child of Marlene Dietrich, whose bombshell biography of her mother explored the terrible cost of her fame, died on Wednesday. She was 100. nyti.ms/4qGku18

ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime, an Elmore Leonard bio leads me back to some of his early stuff, with a surprising amount of material about Fresca. Plus, drinking around Chicago. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-84...

Kim Novak for Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock in a dress by Edith Head (1958)

NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. A biography of Elmore Leonard sends me back to early work by Dutch, and to my complicated history with Fresca. Also, I drink Midwestern style. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-84...

Most of these cocktails will be in A HELL OF A DRINK, my upcoming book with Chris Elford, and you can get them at Navy Strength through this weekend.

Took the whole month, but I drank my way through the entire Nightmare on Wall Street menu at @navystrengthseattle. Pictured: the Roman Ritual, inspired by THE OMEN, and the Dream Warrior, based obviously on NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3.

BORN ON THIS DATE. Edith Head, born October 28, 1897. Seen here in a photo from 1937, the year the first Lillian Frost & Edith Head mystery DESIGN FOR DYING (2016) is set.

BLUE MOON is a captivating, small miracle of a movie. It's even more astonishing to watch Ethan Hawke's revelatory turn as Lorenz Hart while in the midst of his polar-opposite performance in FX's THE LOWDOWN.

ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime: everything you'd want to know about the new horror movie cocktail book I'm writing with Chris Elford, plus why you should watch RELAY with Riz Ahmed and more. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-83...

NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME! The full story on the horror-movie-inspired cocktail book I'm writing with world-class bartender Chris Elford, plus the best movie thriller of the year so far and more. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-83...

The Room 237, Chris Elford's cocktail inspired by THE SHINING. Now at Navy Strength Seattle and soon to be in our book A HELL OF A DRINK.

Me and @vpkeenan.bsky.social enjoying some horror movie inspired cocktails at Navy Strength. His is "Cleaners of the Rotten" inspired by When Evil Lurks and mine is a non-alcoholic "Samara's Cup" based on the American remake of The Ring. Recipe book coming soon, so stay tuned...

SOME PERSONAL NEWS! Cannot wait to get A HELL OF A DRINK out there in 2027. Chris Elford is a dear friend and a genius bartender. His horror movie inspired cocktails are fantastic. Every Sasquatch book is gorgeous. Halloween will never be the same again!

SIFF and Seattle Central have mutually decided to end our current lease at the Egyptian. We are so grateful to Seattle Central for their partnership over the years, and to all who have come to a film or event at SIFF Cinema Egyptian. Read more at siff.info/siffegynews-bsky.

Hit opening weekend at Navy Strength's annual Halloween pop-up Nightmare on Wall Street in Seattle. Had fantastic cocktails inspired by CANDYMAN (1992/2021) and THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991). Also, this may be related to a book project I may be announcing shortly.

ICYMI at Cocktails and Crime, a look at the 40th anniversary restoration of BRAZIL, the movie that broke my brain when I was a kid and is newly relevant today. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-82...

Worn #onthisday in 1981 by fashion models from Nordstrom department store in Seattle, WA, posing in winter casual wear (L) and outdoor gear (R). Seattle has historically been a sportswear industry incubator, spawning brands from Eddie Bauer to REI, Filson, Outdoor Research, and Tommy Bahama. #OTD

NEW COCKTAILS AND CRIME. On revisiting a movie from my youth that's now all too relevant, and on what changes and what stays the same. Also, music documentaries. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-82...

The simply incomparable Robert Redford (1936-2025) ❤️

Edith Head's name comes up more than once. www.vogue.com/article/most...

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