Music
New Music From Black Angels, Usher, Old 97s
The Old 97’s Blame It on Gravity (New West) “He was on her like she was a drug,”…
Arts & Culture
Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story
Shown as a companion piece to Wattstax at NWFF this week, this well packaged documentary is surely bound…
News
An uneducated, Evangelical gun collector with an American flag sticker on the
An uneducated, Evangelical gun collector with an American flag sticker on the back of his country-music-blasting pickup truck,…
Arts & Culture
If Sesame Street depicts early childhood, then Avenue Q depicts your first
If Sesame Street depicts early childhood, then Avenue Q depicts your first apartment. The neighbors are crazy, and…
Arts & Culture
Dungeons and Dragons Game Day
For too long now, the D&D habit has been associated with all things wicked (or just nerdy). But…
Arts & Culture
Worth Remembering
Eva recalls living on the Alaskan coast with her late husband, a fisherman. She used to fillet the…
Arts & Culture
In the Land of the Headhunters
With the entire drama enacted by primitive Indians, per the original poster, there is no way to defend…
Arts & Culture
SIFF: Walt & El Grupo
He mayve been a right-wing, union-busting bastard, but during the late Depression, with his studio in peril and…
Arts & Culture
SIFF: Stalags
In the relatively innocent early 60s, West 42nd Street was a carnival of pinball parlors, freak shows, and,…
Arts & Culture
Northwest Pinball and Gameroom Show
He may not be a pinball wizard or be deaf, dumb, and blind, but true to The Who,…
Arts & Culture
Starving Artists Theater Company is an awfully small organization to have received
Starving Artists Theater Company is an awfully small organization to have received so many critical plauditsits just two…
Arts & Culture
Seattle Storm vs. Detroit Shock
While the Sonics ownership spent its spring dealing half its roster to playoff contenders and trying to hot-foot…
Arts & Culture
STIFF
SIFF schedule not full enough? Unnecessary counterprogramming to the rescue! Now in its fourth year, the Seattle True…
Arts & Culture
Anthony Bourdain
Ever since the appearance of Anthony Bourdains 1999 New Yorker essay describing a clanging, cursing, stress-addling day on…
Arts & Culture
LIz Sheets’ Unbound
As a child growing up near Chicago during the 1930s, Elizabeth Beronich Sheets adored cartoons: Sardines jumped out…
Arts & Culture
Sherman Alexie
Kids, it may be difficult, but you should listen to your parents. Sometimes they know what theyre talking…
Film
SIFF: Week 3 Picks & Pans
Slovenly gays resist gentrification. Iranian trannies overcome Islamic strictures. Cannibalism in the Andes. The first mumblecore horror film.…
Arts & Culture
Opening Nights
Over the River and Through the Woods; The Ten Thousand Things; Until the Last Dog Dies.
Arts & Culture
The Cheapest Way to Get a Buzz (Without Starving Yourself)
Try a tour of Mannys house.