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NORDSTROM STOCK is tanking, down some 33 percent since last April, with 2000’s dismal fourth quarter profits and…
Film
The Sit-Down
Here for SIFF this spring, John Sayles discussed the origins of Sunshine State. Seattle Weekly: Mary Steenburgen’s character…
Film
Spellbound: Kids Grapple With the Alphabet
Or, Revenge of the Nerds. The octet of eight-graders whom we follow to the 1999 National Spelling Bee…
Film
Lucky Bounce
How a neophyte Seattle director stumbled into making a surefire, lump-in-your-throat sports documentary. But would you give up…
Arts & Culture
No Great Shakes
Science, drama, travelogue—there's a jumble of themes in this quake book that would be more solid told separately.
Film
History and Lessons
The balance is starting to shift, or should, between musty old Holocaust movies and present-day Jewish reality on-screen.
Film
Half Full
Despite all its extravagant praise, this midlife-crisis movie leaves an empty feeling: Is that all there is?
Film
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Dieting
Size 6 to size 4? Not a problem. But this career girl is more interested in working to…
Arts & Culture
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dead some six decades, the creator of Sherlock Holmes still ranks as one of the most read and…
News
24 Things we’re glad we didn’t do
Esperanto crossword puzzles. Use David Brewster’s original name for the paper, Seattle Fortnightly. Accept illegally harvested human kidney…