Curtains up

The 10th Annual Aurora Asian Film Festival (try saying that five times fast) is officially under way on a culturally packed weekend in town. Do you have your ticket?

Things kicked off tonight with "Journey From The Fall" and continue through Sunday. Be sure to pick up a copy of our special section on the festivities, or click the link to our online coverage on the lefthand navigation bar of this very site.

You'll find an overview of the events, as well as reviews of many of the movies on the bill. Shameless self promotion: I thoroughly enjoyed the festival's closing film, "Buddha's Lost Children." The quality of the photography, as well as the editing together of a year's worth of footage into a 97-minute feature, work as well or better than most documentaries, regardless of topic.

I'll go ahead and introduce a semi-regular feature to Sliced Bread:

Toast

A Sliced Bread Toast goes to all those amazing students who recently took part in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. California's Evan O'Dorney is your 2007 champion, correctly spelling "serrefine."

The thing is, O'Dorney apparently likes math much more than spelling. Pressed by Stuart Scott on the telecast on whether he likes spelling more now that he's won, the 13-year-old seems to shrug off the fact he just won more than $40,000 in prizes as if it were nothing.

But I'll forgive him for not playing up his emotions for the cameras and the ESPN maven. I doubt I could have rattled off "p-a-p-p-a-r-d-e-l-l-e" (large fettuccine) at age 13.