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The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events

Anthony Bourdain

Feds Say Portland "Child Foundation" Funneled Millions to Iran

Image via​Granted it's a little vague, but Child Foundation sounds like a perfectly respectable name for a nonprofit international aid organization. After all, who doesn't want to help children? But according to federal prosecutors, the Portland-based group was responsible for illegally sendin ... More >>

SIFF Week 4: 15 New Picks & Pans

Image via​Granted it's a little vague, but Child Foundation sounds like a perfectly respectable name for a nonprofit international aid organization. After all, who doesn't want to help children? But according to federal prosecutors, the Portland-based group was responsible for illegally sendin ... More >>

American Radical: A Jew Takes Issue With Israel

Image via​Granted it's a little vague, but Child Foundation sounds like a perfectly respectable name for a nonprofit international aid organization. After all, who doesn't want to help children? But according to federal prosecutors, the Portland-based group was responsible for illegally sendin ... More >>

Who Can Resist Rahm Emmanuel?

Those rugged cheekbones, those chiseled abs, that  air of danger (don't make him mad! he once bent a Katyusha rocket with his bare hands and used it to hogtie a Hezbollah fighter!). Who can resist him? Not Dategirl.

An Oscar Winner in Seattle

Those rugged cheekbones, those chiseled abs, that  air of danger (don't make him mad! he once bent a Katyusha rocket with his bare hands and used it to hogtie a Hezbollah fighter!). Who can resist him? Not Dategirl.

SIFF: Week 3 Picks & Pans

Slovenly gays resist gentrification. Iranian trannies overcome Islamic strictures. Cannibalism in the Andes. The first mumblecore horror film. See our SIFF Guide 2008 for more.

Rambo: Sly Stallone as National Icon

Slovenly gays resist gentrification. Iranian trannies overcome Islamic strictures. Cannibalism in the Andes. The first mumblecore horror film. See our SIFF Guide 2008 for more.

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

Runs at Varsity, Fri., Feb. 2–Thurs., Feb. 8. Not rated. 86 minutes.

McGavick: Good for the Jews?

Runs at Varsity, Fri., Feb. 2–Thurs., Feb. 8. Not rated. 86 minutes.

The Cult of the Suicide Bomber plus reissues of Double Indemnity and Kicking & Screaming.

The dangers of foreign oil dependency the dangers of Barbara Stanwyck are compared.

Filmmaker in Exile

A director explains how she escaped Iran to screen her first movie at Bumbershoot.

A Mission to Kill Jews

A director explains how she escaped Iran to screen her first movie at Bumbershoot.

Lies Per Gallon

The damning petro-thriller Syriana rambles like an SUV on a Sunday drive.

Today's Domino Theory

The damning petro-thriller Syriana rambles like an SUV on a Sunday drive.

Throwing Stones

Palestinian suffering is seen through a cracked lens.

Letters to the Editor

We received an extraordinary number of letters about last week's cover story on the crisis in the Middle East. Some are printed in the paper, and many more appear only on our Web site below. The letters are largely run in their entirety; any factual information they contain has n ... More >>

Mayhem and mercy

New action heroes for a new kind of war.