This book's subtitle touts it as the "The Be-all, End-all Party Guide, from Barefoot to Black Tie", and at over 250 pages and 100 recipes it delivers on its promise. Tons of fun, creative and innovative ideas abound from charcoal vs. gas grilling, smoking, skewering, stir-grilling, cocktail suggestions, music selections, and table settings. Chapters are divided into appetizers, entrées, sides and salads, and desserts. You'll be able to have fun grilling and still have time to enjoy your guests if you follow the recipes and suggestions in this book!

Nominated for a James Beard Foundation Book Award and winner of a National Barbecue Association Award of Excellence, this book is not just for vegetarians but anyone who wants to grill up some veggies and spice up side dishes with leafy green variety. Lessons on using a vegetable grill rack and a grill-wok are informative and essential to bringing out the best flavor in your vegetables. In the over 200 recipes included, you'll learn how to grill up veggie quesadillas, falafel, and garlic, tomatoes, and sweet peppers to add to a grilled pasta. There are even recipes for grilled deserts like grilled pears with chocolate sauce! Yum!

Winner of the Julia Child Cookbook Award, Steven Raichlen's The Barbecue! Bible has been the go-to source for outdoor cooking novices and experts alike for the past 15 years. Got questions on what wood to use, how long should you marinate meat, indirect or direct heat grilling methods, and what temperature should certain foods be cooked? You'll find all of those answers and more in this book! More than 500 recipes are collected, from essentials like burgers, chicken, and ribs, to spice rubs and sauce preparation, and all manner of side dishes and desserts that can be prepared on an open flame. Tons of how-to's and lots of pictures to help illustrate techniques as well. Get Grillin'!

So what do you do when you have friends or family coming over to your party and they won't be able to eat a burger because they are vegan? You get this book! Lots of simple and delicious recipes using fresh homemade ingredients and seasonings to please the palette of any vegan diet, like homemade vegan burgers, bbq tofu, tempeh satay, and veggie kebabs. Some of the dishes have fun names too like Seventh Inning Stretch "Tacos", Tattooed Watermelon Salad, King Wasabi Marinade, and Party on South Peach Salsa. So slide that meat to the side and give some vegan cooking a try!

I'm not quite sure who Mr. Boston is (maybe a relative to Mr. Peanut?), but he knows some great recipes for mixing up a cool, tasty drink on a hot summer day! The summer "classics" are indeed all here: Mojitos, Mint Juleps, Mai-Tai's, Margaritas, and Shandys (beer + lemonade). There are also recipes for some lesser-known drinks with names like the Velvet Rosa (champagne, rum, peach schnapps and cranberry juice!), Tropical White Sangria, and Brazilian Raspberry Rickey. With more than 100 drink recipes, both alcoholic and non-alcholic, there's definitely drinks for everyone's taste! Don't forget to stock up on lots of ice!

The very definition of a "cult classic," Alex Cox’s Repo Man ups the weird factor by mashing together sci-fi, comedy, action, Reagan-era politics, consumerism, nuclear war, punk rock, and... car repossession in desolate downtown L.A. Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez play off each other like the Odd Couple version of a buddy cop flick, both with enough quotable lines to last a lifetime ("The life of a Repo Man is always intense!"). Special features include a restored digital transfer of the film approved by the director, new audio commentaries and interviews with cast and crew, and a booklet featuring essays an amazingly illustrated production history by Cox. Lastly, this movie was produced by Mike Nesmith of The Monkees!

One of the classic creatures of the '50s sci fi and horror movie boom, The Blob is a gooey, gelatinous being from another world that crash lands in a small town in Pennsylvania (Phoenixville, represent!) and basically runs... er, slimes amok. Only one man in town can stay cool enough to save everyone, the "King of Cool" himself, Steve McQueen! It should be noted that another cool character wrote the groovy theme song for this film, legendary composer Burt Bacharach. Special features include a high-def digital restoration of the film, audio commentary with director Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., the theatrical trailer, and Blobabilia!, a gallery of stills, posters, and props from the movie. This movie is so loved, the town of Phoenixville holds a Blobfest every year to celebrate!

David Cronenberg's Videodrome is a surreal sci-fi horror film about a cable access video feed showing extreme scenes of sex and violence that when watched not only takes over your mind, but also transforms your body (sometimes in grotesque fashion, a theme through most of Cronenberg's films). But is it real or is it all a hallucination? And who's behind the "Videodrome" signal? The mystery and madness draw Max Renn (James Woods) into a global conspiracy to find out. Years later, the film has become eerily prophetic with its social commentary on media. Special features include a high-def transfer of the unrated version of the film, audio commentaries with the director and stars James Woods and Deborah Harry, a documentary on Rick Baker's groundbreaking video and prosthetic makeup effects, and photo galleries featuring rare behind-the-scenes production photos. "Long Live The New Flesh!"

The very essence of D.I.Y., no-budget filmmaking, Slacker takes the viewer on a weird trip through an underground scene of artists, musicians, poets, and all around bohemians in Austin, Texas during the alternative heyday of the early '90s. There's really no plot in this movie, per se, but more a bunch of quirky vignettes featuring crazy characters that weave a larger narrative. Director / writer / producer Richard Linklater shot the film on 16mm for a mere $3,000, helping to launch the prolific independent film movement of the time. Special features include audio commentaries with Linklater and members of the cast and crew, casting tape “auditions” from the over one-hundred-member cast, a copy of the "script", and information about the Austin Film Society.

This highly entertaining and inventive film from Wes Anderson is a coming-of-age drama that plays like a slapstick comedy, and vice-versa. Private school student Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) is a legend in his own time--at least in his own mind. He's on the verge of getting expelled from school, until he meets a cantankerous millionaire (the hilarious Bill Murray), falls in love with a school teacher twice his age (Olivia Williams), and writes his magnum opus (yet completely and inappropriately over the top) play based on Vietnam, "Heaven and Hell". The soundtrack to the film, full of British Invasion-flavored garage rock, totally compliments the teenage loudness and adolescent awkwardness of its protagonist. Special features include a director’s cut of the film, audio commentary featuring the director, co-writer Owen Wilson, and actor Jason Schwartzman, a "making-of" documentary, audition footage, and Anderson’s hand-drawn storyboards for the film.