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SIFF Week 1: Picks & Pans

Also Tonight: Avatar Young Blaze and Araab Muzik Celebrate Danny Darko at HG Lodge

​Still young, the Estonia-born, Central District-repping, Los Angeles-residing Avatar Young Blaze has been both wildly prolific and steadily improving. And on his latest project, Danny Darko, there are still weed anthems ("Smoke Somethin''), gun tracks ("Kalashnikov"), and the same ear for top ... More >>

What Is "Real" Gangsta Rap? Avatar Young Blaze Will Make You Question Your Assumptions

Avatar Young Blaze has quite the background: born in Estonia, the Russian emcee lived and banged in Seattle's Central District and attended Garfield High before moving to Los Angeles, his current home, at the beginning of the year. And with three mixtapes out in the last nine months, his drive is r ... More >>

SIFF Week 3: 30 New Picks & Pans

Avatar Young Blaze has quite the background: born in Estonia, the Russian emcee lived and banged in Seattle's Central District and attended Garfield High before moving to Los Angeles, his current home, at the beginning of the year. And with three mixtapes out in the last nine months, his drive is r ... More >>

The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events

Avatar Young Blaze has quite the background: born in Estonia, the Russian emcee lived and banged in Seattle's Central District and attended Garfield High before moving to Los Angeles, his current home, at the beginning of the year. And with three mixtapes out in the last nine months, his drive is r ... More >>

Disco and Atomic War

Avatar Young Blaze has quite the background: born in Estonia, the Russian emcee lived and banged in Seattle's Central District and attended Garfield High before moving to Los Angeles, his current home, at the beginning of the year. And with three mixtapes out in the last nine months, his drive is r ... More >>

David Copperfield Seeks to Make Lacey Carroll's Rape-Related Lawsuit Disappear

Copperfield and a newer model - Merily Jurna of Estonia​He made a train and the Statue of Liberty disappear. For his next feat, David Copperfield is attempting to make a lawsuit vanish in the midst of a Seattle courtroom. Having already scored a recent legal victory in the suit brought by a ... More >>

Last Night: More Than Fifty Grammy Award Winners Perform In The Same Room On The Same Night. Who Wins?

Phoenix Chorale​ If you believe that record sales equals music relevancy, then you may think that classical music - which accounted for less than three percent of all record sales in 2009 - needs to be locked up in some museum archive along with the dinosaur bones. However, if you listened ... More >>

Parallel Lines

Documentary director goes looking for his dead father, creates self-portrait in the process.

SIFF 2002 Films: A-J

Documentary director goes looking for his dead father, creates self-portrait in the process.