100 South Mill Avenue

On Behalf Of Matthew Mitchell
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:40 PM
To: eg@montis.com
Subject: Re: Range Life, Valley Art Theatre

Eddie, thanks so much for your help.

We will see you on Wednesday November 5th for lunch. We will drop off free passes to your restaurant either late Monday or early Tuesday, before our screenings.

The films are

On The Road With Judas http://www.ontheroadwithjudas.com/judas_trailer2.html

Registered Sex Offender www.RSOtheMovie.com

In Memory Of My Father http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opDe4YnLDtY

Box Elder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nQtLUo0OkU

I think you’ll enjoy all of them entirely. We just did 300 people in two nights here in West Hollywood, so you should get some solid exposure. I’ll have a copy of the press release for you once we update it with Monti’s sponsorship included. Here is the present one, with info on what our tour is all about.

https://rle.s3.amazonaws.com/fall08/RLE_Press_Release_Phoenix.pdf

Thanks again,
Matt

What seems to be the new, hot trend in healthy eating? Yogurt. In the Chicago market, Berry Chill continues to emerge as a frozen yogurt lover’s dream for healthy meal replacements. The store, which sells chilled yogurt (including lactose-free varieties) with toppings like fresh fruits, nuts and cereals, has capitalized on the “yogurt culture” in light of health concerns among consumers. The growing concept, with two stores downtown and seven more on the way this year along with three suburban units, also plays on the trend toward more wholesome, natural ingredients. On the West and East Coasts, yogurt shops like Cefiore in Southern California and Florida; Pinkberry throughout California and New York; and Red Mango, a South Korean chain that expanded to L.A., the Bay Area and Las Vegas also continue to grow their units.

via Trends and Tidbits – 10/1/2008 – Foodservice Equipment and Supplies

Vote! Do Your Civic Duty (And Get This Damn Election Behind Us)!

Originally uploaded by Michael Monti

This sign in Tombstone says it all.

And if you're looking for some alternatives to trick-or-treating on Oct. 31, check out these activities:

• Tempe High School will hold its annual Homecoming Parade down Mill Ave. starting at 1 p.m. The parade will start at Monti's La Casa Vieja and travel south, ending at the school at 1730 S. Mill Ave. Then, at 7 p.m., the Tempe Buffaloes will play its Homecoming football game against the Arcadia Titans. Tickets to the football game cost $5 for adults and $3 for students with ID. Children 5 and younger are free.

via Halloween activities abound in Tempe

via Lighting up Tempe’s hopes for the future

Originally uploaded by Michael Monti

http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/2008/10/27/20081027sr-ghost1028.html

“Tucson-based paranormal investigators Katie Mullaly and J. Patrick
Ohlde spoke about their work Oct. 22 at the Scottsdale Civic Center
Library.They wrote the book Scare-Izona, A Travel Guide to Arizona’s
Spookiest Spots and run Wailing Bansidhe Investigations
(www.wailingbansidhe.com).

The book provides information on 16 of the state’s most haunted sites.
In the Valley, they include Casey Moore’s Oyster House and Monti’s La
Casa Vieja restaurants, both in Tempe. “

ALSO: On Halloween please watch FOX10 news at 9 p.m. We recentley allowed a group of investigators from the West Coast Ghost and Paranormal Society  ( http://www.wcgaps.com/ )to  spend the night at La Casa Vieja. Their findings will be presented.

http://www.rimag.com/articleXML/LN873761238.html?nid=3458&rid=789908471

Cheesecake Factory, Woodland Hills-based Grill Concepts Inc. and other operators are witnessing dramatic changes in consumer behavior: As the economy worsens, Americans are eating at home to save money.

NPD Group, a market research company, said in its annual “Eating Patterns in America” report that restaurant meals now cost on average about three times what it takes to make a similar meal at home. When people do eat out, they are going to quick-serve and fast-food restaurants more often, according to the NPD report released last week.

via P.F. Changs to shutter 10 Pei Wei restaurants

Something is truly awry in nature. Alan Greenspan has admitted flaws, Starbucks is in decline–and now the midas touch of Pei Wei falters (By the way, other than being of interest to me as evidence of a stumbling economy, I am not troubled by the latter two developments)…perhaps the chains are finally eating eachother; it brings to mind:

       ROSS
 14    And Duncan’s horses—a thing most strange and certain—
 15    Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,
 16    Turn’d wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,
 17    Contending ‘gainst obedience, as they would make
 18    War with mankind.

       Old Man
                                    ’Tis said they eat each other.

       ROSS
 19    They did so, to th’ amazement of mine eyes

“While rising prices and record low consumer confidence drive the French to throw their culinary pride to the wind and embrace le Big Mac, traditional bistros are hurting.”

via Bloomberg.com: Exclusive

Expansion pt II

Originally uploaded by Michael Monti

…and with big sister Sofia