Diane Lane and Laura Dern star in this 1981 cult favorite, an avowed influence upon many female rockers (now in…
Turn it up to 11! The original 1984 rockumentary returns, still the best film Rob Reiner has ever made. Thats…
Most female comics are merely outspoken, not confrontational. Thats not the case with Janeane Garofalo. Shes up in peoples faces,…
Dear Uptight Seattleite, I’m up in Port Townsend for the weekend. Is it OK to play the old organ in…
Like vanilla ice cream with a splash of Tabasco, or Barbie with a mohawk, the 138th edition of the Ringling…
Patton Oswalt is like a really cool uncle. By day, he entertains kids with voiceover work (he was the adorable…
Mixed-media painter Liz Tran often stared at the cherry tree withering away outside her Central District home while working on…
Everyone knows that monkey/human interaction is comedy gold (see Bedtime for Bonzo and Ed, starring Matt LeBlanc at his finest)….
Until he won an Oscar for The Pianist, finally earning the respect he craved, Roman Polanski was known more for…
As a girl, photographer Grace Weston played alone in her bedroom, devising life stories for people shed made out of…
Photographers often complain about how boring it is to document weddings and other family celebrations. Many do it to pay…
I thought itd be neat to have these huge insects staring at you while you eat, explains Fremont artist Hansi…
Shopping for a prom dress is either a blissful or stressful experiencemine fell into the latter category. My princess-ball-gown dreams…
My six-month-old Chihuahua suffered the indignity of being stepped on several weeks ago. Pinky cried. The veterinarian told me she…
Since opening, the Olympic Sculpture Park has somehow eclipsed and subsumed the identity of Myrtle Edwards Park, which was established…
Our city’s most famous writer won his first National Book Award for his young adult novel The Absolutely True Diary…
Twenty years after Ron Shelton’s hugely likable baseball comedy came out, Kevin Costner can’t catch a break with Swing Vote,…
Yes, this is the one with Marlene Dietrich as the saloon singer in the Old West (famously parodied by Madeline…
What the hell does it mean? Whatever the hell you want it to mean. Stanley Kubricks 1968 sci-fi classic became…
John Sayles’ 1994 family film is based on an Irish fable about a Selkie, a mythological creature that is part…
