Email Author Brian Miller

Awards

• 2008 - Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards/Society of Professional Journalists Region 10, published December 19, 2007

  "The SW Treatment"

• 2008 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published November 7, 2007

  "Fantasy Island"

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2011 Stories by Brian Miller

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  COVER STORY

  Holiday Film Guide 2011: The Multiplex Menagerie

  published December 21, 2011

  Which are you more excited to see this Christmas weekend: the horse, the dragon, the zoo, or Snowy (Tintin's faithful terrier)? The answer, as... More >>

• The 10 Best Movies Seen in Seattle

  published December 21, 2011

  Too much time at my desk (and in museums and galleries), not enough time in screening rooms. The usual excuses, I know, for a lazy local film... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Robert Downey Jr. Sees Every Detail in My Fish & Chips

  published Dec 16, 2011

  The Dinner: Fish & Chips, at Red Robin (Pier 55). The Movie: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, at Pacific Place (600 Pine St.). The Screenplate: The Sherlock Holmes detective stories are an entire... More >>

• The Fussy Eye: Chair of Nails

  published December 14, 2011

  Pedaling up Jackson, I never make the light at 23rd, which has given me many occasions to examine Talking Chair,... More >>

• Visual Arts: Ghosts of Japantown

  published December 14, 2011

  Six hundred miles southeast of Seattle, where they'd previously lived in the same small enclave, a photographer and two painters met again.... More >>

• The Fussy Eye: Famous Names

  published December 7, 2011

  There was a time when Annie Leibovitz filled the pages of Rolling Stone with backstage photos of her rock-star... More >>

• Seducing Charlie Barker: Yet Another Midlife-Crisis Movie

  published November 30, 2011

  An arrogant, struggling actor leaves his wife for a sexy, unstable younger woman, which would be a perfectly serviceable starting point for... More >>

• Visual Arts: The Chic of the New

  published November 30, 2011

  Remember your very first day in an office? Was it dreary, terrifying, or exciting in a new grown-up's "I'm actually wearing a tie/nylons to... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  George Clooney's Sunny Grief Odyssey Includes Dinner in Wallingford

  published Nov 25, 2011

  The Dinner: Mahi Mahi, at Hawaiian Breeze (1719 N. 45th St.). The Movie: The Descendants, at Guild 45th (2115 N. 45th St.) The Screenplate: The holy grail of this Dinner & a Movie column is to perfe... More >>

• Isaac Layman at the Frye

  published November 23, 2011

  In his first solo museum show, photographer Isaac Layman is both hugely ambitious and hugely constrained. In about two dozen... More >>

• The Descendants: George Clooney As Reluctant Parent

  published November 23, 2011

  Because it's a total star turn for George Clooney, and because it's been seven years since director Alexander Payne's Sideways, and... More >>

• Paid to Do Nothing

  published November 16, 2011

  Shop-window galleries generally don't work for me. There needs to be one big, prominent work to stop a pedestrian long enough for an earnest... More >>

• The Henry's Two Big Fall Shows

  published November 16, 2011

  Apart from his evident governing intelligence, the Dutch artist himself is hardly present in "Videowatercolors: Carel Balth Among His... More >>

• The Fussy Eye: Raising the Roof

  published November 9, 2011

  At the September opening for Phoenix artists Jay Atherton and Cy Keener's installation... More >>

• We Were Here: Recalling the Early AIDS Crisis in San Fran

  published November 9, 2011

  During the early '80s, the Bay Area was initially slow to recognize the "gay cancer" that, one subject recalls in the documentary We Were... More >>

• General Orders No. 9: Not Quite an Elegy to the South

  published November 9, 2011

  Sometimes a documentary can be too clear—too many experts, too many graphics, too many pins in the butterfly. Previously seen here at... More >>

• Opening Nights: Double Indemnity

  published November 2, 2011

  Behind every great film, there's a mediocre book. Or sometimes a fantastic play. And sucky movies also get made from classics of literature.... More >>

• 3: A German Love Triangle With a DNA Twist

  published November 2, 2011

  Tom Tykwer's new romantic triangle is a comedy with a genetic premise. One of its Berlin trio is a scientist who runs a gene-splicing company,... More >>

• From Seattle Weekly to Texas in the '80s

  published Oct 28, 2011

  Back in the day, Domingo Martinez was a funny, witty colleague at Seattle Weekly, but one who didn't actually write for the paper. Instead, he worked in the production department, designing ads, but a... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Johnny Depp Drinks With the Ghost of Hunter S. Thompson

  published Oct 28, 2011

  The Dinner: Pechugas de Pollo, at La Isla (2320 N.W. Market St.). The Movie: The Rum Diary, at SIFF Cinema at the Uptown (511 Queen Anne Ave. N.). The Screenplate: Is it possible to have a man-crush... More >>

• The Fussy Eye: Touch or Don't Touch?

  published October 26, 2011

  "We all have our tchotchkes," explained Massachusetts artist Andrew Witkin at the recent opening of his somewhat abstruse show... More >>

• Mayor McGinn Stars, Sort of, at SIFF's Uptown Reopening

  published Oct 21, 2011

  Standing outside the ticket booth, flanked by balloons, Mayor Mike McGinn was one of the demi-celebrities attending SIFF's gala reopening of the Uptown last night. SIFF even rented klieg lights to cel... More >>

• The Fussy Eye: Adding Up the Years

  published October 19, 2011

  Time coils upon itself like a ribbon, nested on the floor in a steel fire pit, arrayed in a seamless paper spiral like a mandala. What are... More >>

• Visual Arts: SAM's Scrambled Survey of Asian Art

  published October 19, 2011

  Hey, wait a minute; did I wander into the wrong museum? Up the escalators, past Cai Guo-Qiang's nine LED-pierced Ford Tauruses suspended from... More >>

• David Guterson's Ed King

  published October 12, 2011

  If you're going to borrow, borrow big. Back when he was teaching English at Bainbridge High School, before his 1994 breakthrough novel,... More >>