Author Events T.V. Reed The author of the new biography Robert Cantwell and the Literary Left: A Northwest Writer Reworks…
Don’t play with your food—that may be the most frequent and earliest-recollected directive of childhood. But food is so primal,…
“That’s one of my big points in making any game, creating worlds that people want to spend time in.” -Kevin…
VeeShapeOpening ThisWeek VeeShape VeeShapeThe Congress VeeShapeRuns Fri., Aug. 29–Thurs., Sept. 4 at SIFF Cinema Uptown. Not rated. 122 minutes. VeeShapeBased on…
Friday, Aug. 29 Finding FelaThough he outlived Bob Marley, Fela Kuti never managed to connect with Western ears in the…
VeeShapeStage VeeShapeOpenings & Events VeeShapeBlack Lodge Burlesque Subtitled “Cabaret Inspired by David Lynch,” it also includes comedy, aerial arts, music,…
Recently the grand marshal of Seattle’s Pride Parade, George Takei has become America’s favorite gay uncle. Closeted during his Star…
Closely scripted and choreographed yet disarmingly casual in appearance, Ramon Zurcher’s family portrait is confined mostly to a Berlin apartment…
One of my top picks from SIFF last spring, this movie comes swaddled in spoilers. It’s almost impossible to describe…
It is reassuring to know that even after the zombie plague begins in earnest, a strong vein of Jewish humor…
You get to a certain point in life—40, 50, 70, divorce, the death of a spouse, or your retirement party—when…
Young couples in movies are customarily given obstacles to overcome, but If I Stay seems unnecessarily cruel in its dramatic…
Mexican drug cartels have become Hollywood shorthand for evil—like Indians in the old days, or Nazis after that. On this…
Everything you always suspected about music is true. Scientists can point to the parts of the brain that music stimulates,…
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Melinda Bargreen’s new history of Seattle Opera is about as good as such institution-published, self-congratulatory commemorations can be. Lots of…
VeeShapeOpening ThisWeek VeeShape VeeShapePAlive Inside VeeShapeOpens Fri., Aug. 22 at Varsity. Not rated. 75 minutes. VeeShapeEverything you always suspected about music…
Thursday, Aug. 21 Brian PosehnFor some reason, Posehn is not among the talented roster of comics at Bumbershoot this year….
A dispatch from the frontlines of rural poverty, this documentary follows three boys (and their families) in the small town…
Is the story of The Kill Team singular? That’s the unspoken question that hangs over this award-winning documentary, another artifact…
