Julia Roberts

Larry Crowne: Tom Hanks Loses His Job. Julia Roberts Does Her Angry Thing Again

Pamela Madsen

Skip the Praying and the Loving

​ The Dinner: Daal maharani at Jewel of India (4735 University Way N.E.) The Movie: Eat Pray Love at the Meridian. Eat Pray Love is like that friend who won't stop showing you vacation photos. For the first five minutes, you're mildly engaged--hey, there's that famous landscape/building/ster ... More >>

Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Free Cupcakes, Free Cheeseburgers and The Best Restaurant in the World

​So, did you manage to score your free cupcakes from the new Eastside location of Cupcake Royale yesterday? Well you might've been able to if you'd read this here blog with a little more frequency. And if you were reading carefully, you might also have figured out how to get some free cheeseb ... More >>

Greatest Hits and What You Missed: A Picture is Worth a Whole Lot of Words

This dude is never going to win this staring contest...​So this week was a bit scattered. We had news coming in from all quarters of the restaurants business and the wider world of food, but while, in some weeks, a kind of theme naturally emerges (like barbecue or take-out food or terrible thi ... More >>

Bottomfeeder: The Power of One

Merchants Cafe restores power to Pioneer Square.

The Merchants Cafe Restores Power to Pioneer Square

Celina KareivaGeorge Wendt's right inside, eating salty eggs and knocking back beer for breakfast.​An early-morning power breakfast in a hallowed downtown restaurant is Michael Douglas with slicked-back hair and a cell phone the size of a dust buster glued to his ear, barking out orders to a f ... More >>

Today in Sex: Quit Marketing to My Ovaries

​I am usually quite happy to have been born female. I like boobies, sparkly makeup and being able to sing in the same key as Madonna. But there are times when it's . . . not embarrassing, exactly, but a bit of a liability. Like the time I was mistaken for a member of a hootin', hollerin' bache ... More >>

Bring It On

​I am usually quite happy to have been born female. I like boobies, sparkly makeup and being able to sing in the same key as Madonna. But there are times when it's . . . not embarrassing, exactly, but a bit of a liability. Like the time I was mistaken for a member of a hootin', hollerin' bache ... More >>

Valentine's Day: Too Many Stars, Not Enough Heart

​I am usually quite happy to have been born female. I like boobies, sparkly makeup and being able to sing in the same key as Madonna. But there are times when it's . . . not embarrassing, exactly, but a bit of a liability. Like the time I was mistaken for a member of a hootin', hollerin' bache ... More >>

PICK Duplicity: Julia Roberts and Clive Owen Bring Their A-Game

​I am usually quite happy to have been born female. I like boobies, sparkly makeup and being able to sing in the same key as Madonna. But there are times when it's . . . not embarrassing, exactly, but a bit of a liability. Like the time I was mistaken for a member of a hootin', hollerin' bache ... More >>

First Call: Obamarama at the Pink Door

First Call is a weekly Voracious feature in which our writers walk into a bar and ask the bartender to make us his or her favorite drink. Today's didn't exactly roll that way. But we went with it. And yes, we payid for all our drinks on this assignment. Barkeep: Chiara Pierotti Year at Current Gig: ... More >>

Hanford's Oil Strike

First Call is a weekly Voracious feature in which our writers walk into a bar and ask the bartender to make us his or her favorite drink. Today's didn't exactly roll that way. But we went with it. And yes, we payid for all our drinks on this assignment. Barkeep: Chiara Pierotti Year at Current Gig: ... More >>

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl: Little miss, minus the sunshine

First Call is a weekly Voracious feature in which our writers walk into a bar and ask the bartender to make us his or her favorite drink. Today's didn't exactly roll that way. But we went with it. And yes, we payid for all our drinks on this assignment. Barkeep: Chiara Pierotti Year at Current Gig: ... More >>

Scum Also Rises

Publicity, self-promotion, and integrity: How do you think Miley Cyrus got where she did?

Publicity, promotion, integrity, and selling out to the man.

Publicity, self-promotion, and integrity: How do you think Miley Cyrus got where she did?

SBFY Part One: Red Mango

Publicity, self-promotion, and integrity: How do you think Miley Cyrus got where she did?

Tuesday 2/20

Publicity, self-promotion, and integrity: How do you think Miley Cyrus got where she did?

The Ant Bully

Opens at Metro and others, Fri., July 28. Rated PG. 89 minutes.

2005 Media Follies!

Opens at Metro and others, Fri., July 28. Rated PG. 89 minutes.

Rick Anderson's 2004

It was the year of the Rainier Bear, the flu-vaccine 'shortage,' Ichiro, Bill O'Reilly's 'falafel thing,' and, of course, the re-recount.

Murder and Masks

Almodóvar takes a plunge into film noir, where false identities mean more than the criminal truth.

Gentlemen's Games

George Clooney and his crooked company arrive to save us from all those serious holiday movies. For once, it's a treat to hand over your wallet.

Four to Tango

Two couples, multiple infidelities, and countless lies: The math doesn't add up in Mike Nichols' latest male-female equation.

Good News From Up North

The Toronto Film Festival had choice pickings this month. Now if only SIFF can cherry-pick its prize titles next spring.

An Open Letter to Courtney Love

Believe it or not, there are people who want her to make it.

Gabbing It All

Julia Roberts as avatar of fourth-wave feminism? Hardly.

Mind Games

A madcap paean to the missed 'potential' of Gong Show creator Chuck Barris.

Baby's Got Back Story

Amazingly, J.Lo manages to keep it real in this vapid, maid-to-order date movie.

Dining Calendar

Amazingly, J.Lo manages to keep it real in this vapid, maid-to-order date movie.

Hollywood Confidential

Soderbergh gives an avant-garde spin to familiar material.

House of cards

A bunch of jokers play their winning hand.

The flicks of fall

Remember—all dates are subject to change.

Shadows

Do they see dead people?

Who?

Bogus critic debunked.

Thermal dynamics

Previewing the sticky floors of summer cinema.

Strip tease

Techie does Vegas; stripper reveals nothing.

Rule of the gamers

While other tech sectors flail, the gaming industry thrives—and still strives to innovate.

The Culture Bunker

While other tech sectors flail, the gaming industry thrives—and still strives to innovate.

Me Myself I

'Sliding Doors' meets 'Married With Children.'

Erin Brockovich

Julia Roberts fights for justice, shows cleavage.

I love typing! How to get the Administrative Assistant job of your dreams.

Julia Roberts fights for justice, shows cleavage.

Badda-bing

Hugh Grant gives a surprisingly punchy performance.

Crowning (re)touch

File this one under "guilty pleasures."

Something old

After 10 years, Julia Roberts is still just a pretty woman.

Notting hams

An implausible, and implausibly charming, tale.

Venus Envy

Some timely, surprising tonics to the rescue.

Mommies dearest

Some timely, surprising tonics to the rescue.

Caveat surfor

Some timely, surprising tonics to the rescue.

Cherry Pop

Stick it out