Arts & Culture
Foul Lines
Murder and basketball inspired this locally raised author's memoir of segregated Seattle.
Film
The 10 Best Films of 2010
1. The irony of The Social Network is that its creators, director David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin,…
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On a trial basis, beginning with this week’s engagement of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s
On a trial basis, beginning with this week’s engagement of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno, Northwest Film Forum and nearby…
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Walt Disney StudiosWilde as the cyber-dream of every 12-year-old boy gamer.The Dinner:
Walt Disney StudiosWilde as the cyber-dream of every 12-year-old boy gamer.The Dinner: Chicken Pad Thai at Jamjuree (509…
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Farewell to the fish.Now that the sign has come down, Lower Queen
Farewell to the fish.Now that the sign has come down, Lower Queen Anne residents are forced to admit…
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Alamar: Father and Son Consider the Cycles of Life
Divorce sucks, especially when there are kids involved. Yet Pedro González-Rubio takes a lyrical view of a father…
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Colony: Something’s Wrong Inside the Hive
The documentary crowd is catching up to colony collapse disorder, which some estimate has wiped out one-third of…
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Danny Boyle Talks About 127 Hours
After earning an Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire, director Danny Boyle was well aware that the true story of…
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Waste Land: Making Trash Into Art
Warning lights should flash anytime an artist ventures among the Third World’s poor and dispossessed. Pose a peasant…
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Jolene: E.L. Doctorows B-List Sexual Picaresque
Just because you co-founded SIFF doesn’t mean you should be directing movies. Back in ’96, Dan Ireland had…
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Representational Pictures/Sony Pictures ClassicsToo little, too late? Feds Paulson, Bernanke, and Geithner
Representational Pictures/Sony Pictures ClassicsToo little, too late? Feds Paulson, Bernanke, and Geithner (L-R) wouldn’ t be interviewed.The Dinner:…
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I Am Secretly an Important Man: Recalling the Late Local Poet Steven Jesse Bernstein
You worry about a guy who worshipped William S. Burroughs, and Steven Jesse Bernstein clearly made his friends…
Music
We get all kinds of strange promotional items in the mail. But
We get all kinds of strange promotional items in the mail. But this one pictured above? Who was…
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Nowhere Boy: Listen to the Beatles’ Early Albums Instead
John Lennon’s teen years are the focus of this very clumsy melodrama by Sam Taylor-Wood. Its few virtues—Liverpool…