Enature Russian Bare French Christmas Celebration Direct

Decorations are a spirited collision: matryoshka ornaments painted in Provencal blues, sprigs of juniper tucked into berets, paper snowflakes cut with precision and embroidered with Cyrillic greetings. A choir alternates between solemn Slavic hymns and sprightly French carols, so the night breathes equal parts reverence and mischief. Lanterns cast amber halos on faces flushed from laughter and vodka; champagne pops, spilling silver stars across a tablecloth patterned in folk motifs.

Ed relocated to Austin, TX in 2010 from the Washington D.C. suburbs where he was born and raised. An online film critic since ~2002, Ed has been unable to shake his love of cinema no matter how financially detrimental that passion has been to his bottom line. Ed is the Senior Hospitality Manager at Mobile Loaves & Fishes where he has been the lead of the Community Cinema program since ~2016. Cinapse was co-founded with David Delgado in 2013 and we’ve been discussing and discovering big and small cinema ever since.