Music
While planning the first issue of Reverb magazine, a Bumbershoot-focussed pullout in
While planning the first issue of Reverb magazine, a Bumbershoot-focussed pullout in the current issue of Seattle Weekly,…
Music
I had the pleasure of profiling local artist W. Scott Trimble for
I had the pleasure of profiling local artist W. Scott Trimble for last year’s Artopia in Georgetown, where…
Music
Bumbershoot’s visual arts displays have moved from their traditional location in the
Bumbershoot’s visual arts displays have moved from their traditional location in the Northwest Rooms to the Seattle Center…
Music
John KeatleyKeister wants to stop the Portland food-truck invasion.The former Almost Live
John KeatleyKeister wants to stop the Portland food-truck invasion.The former Almost Live host and longtime Seattle funnyman is…
Arts & Culture
Every Day Is Veterans Day
An Eastside author argues for holistic soldiering and homecoming.
Arts & Culture
The Chainsaw and the Easel
In SAM's worthwhile companion shows, a century between them, are two visions of the American landscape.
Film
Salvation Boulevard: When Did James Bond Get Religion?
Back in 2001, George Ratliff made a fine documentary called Hell House, about a Texas evangelical church’s elaborate…
Film
A Not So Still Life: The Fall and Rise of Local Artist Ginny Ruffner
The story of Ginny Ruffner’s cruelly interrupted career—by a brain- and body- damaging 1991 car crash—is well known…
Film
Tabloid: Sex, Celebrity, and Mormons
After veering into politics for his previous couple of documentaries (Standard Operating Procedure, The Fog of War), Errol…
Film
Phase 7: Neighbors Battle Neighbors
Nicolás Goldbart’s Argentine thriller begins on an innocuous note: a young married couple, as if stepped from an…
Film
Pianomania: 88 Keys, Infinite Tones
A courtier, errand boy, master sound technician, and Steinway rep all rolled into one, Stefan Knüpfer has the…
Arts & Culture
Pattern Recognition
Troy Gua takes his pop-culture obsessions to another level. Several of them, actually.
Film
Vincent Wants to Sea: A German Road Movie for the Haldol Generation
Here’s one solution to the high cost of mental-health care: Let the patients steal their shrink’s car and…
