Hurricane Katrinas third anniversary roughly coincided with the Republican and Democratic national conventions. If the two presidential candidates havent talked…
Seattle artist Noah Grussgott is playing with two very different sets of signifiers in his mixed-media installation What Goes Around…
Unlike Nick Jainas first release of 2008, Wool (which was recorded in parts, then assembled later), his new effort, A…
Hes a complicated man. In the 1971 blaxploitation classic, Richard Roundtrees turtleneck-wearing spade detective is certainly bad, and an undisputed…
The 70s psych-rock bandwagon sure has been getting crowded lately, what with all the Black Angels and Spindrifts and Brightblack…
Paul Allen already has a robot section in his vanity sci-fi museumR2D2, posters from Metropolis and The Terminator, Cylon costumes…
Whats your spirit animal? In her series of diptych oil paintings, Northwest artist Karen Hackenberg posits a strange human-animal kinship….
The Brooklyn Bridge is every photographers invitation to cliché, and Michael Kenna does not escape that trap in his worthwhile…
Dear Uptight Seattleite, I’m over at my neighbor’s place, watching his cat. Would it be unethical for me to copy…
So maybe sometime as a kid, or maybe an adult, youre watching a Christmas special about the birth of Jesus….
Selected images from the book Beasts! Vol. 2 (Fantagraphics, $34.99) remain on view. The 90 illustrations in the second Beasts!…
Dear Uptight Seattleite, I’m wandering around in a daze, fluttering from task to task, and unable to focus on anything….
Only a certain type of man can unblinkingly order a quad shot soy latte with extra foam and two Splendas….
Ira Eduardovna was only 10 when her family emigrated from the collapsing Russia to Israel, where Saddam Husseins Scud missiles…
Remember the Chavez! That was the freighter that rammed the old West Seattle Bridge in 1978, leading to massive traffic…
1946, meet 2008. Times are tough in Frank Capras Its a Wonderful Life (screening through Thurs., Dec. 25). Banks are…
The general consensus on Gossip Girl is that its terrible. The New York Post hailed it as a nasty piece…
If Low and My Bloody Valentine could mate, their offspring would sound like Seattle six-piece Panda & Angel. The best…
Writing about the new Pretenders album invites all sorts of Thomas Wolfe references. In 1984, Chrissie Hynde looked homeward and…
So I guess Hitler didnt see this movie. From 1938, Sergei Eisensteins patriotic anthem Alexander Nevsky is basically a warning…
