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Macbeth: Crockett and Tubbs Meet the Scottish Play
There’s nothing so difficult or novel about restaging Shakespeare in modern dress—just add cell phones and iPods, button-snap…
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SIFF Week Four: Picks & Pans
Alien Autopsy In the long history of fine Fox Network programming, the 1995 special Alien Autopsy: (Fact or…
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SIFF 2007: Week Three: Picks and Pans
Alive Russia’s been producing some interesting movies about its disastrous military intervention in Chechnya (as we’ll soon be…
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SIFF News: Local Filmmakers Try to Crack Hollywood
Most of us locals merely attend SIFF to watch movies. A few actually get to see their own…
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SIFF News: Seattle Filmmakers Outsourced to India!
“We’re both fighting that push to go to L.A.,” says John Jeffcoat of himself and his writing partner,…
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SIFF Week Two: Picks and Pans
Angel-A What if you took It’s a Wonderful Life and replaced George Bailey with a scruffy Parisian con…
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SIFF Week One: Picks and Pans
Aachi & Ssipak Is Aachi & Ssipak a good movie? Not really. Is it awesome and worthwhile in…
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The King of Kong: Old-School Arcade Gamers Go to War
Axed from his engineering job at Boeing on the day he signed a new mortgage, Steve Wiebe could’ve…
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SIFF Hides Son of Rambow, Its Gala Opener, From Nasty Critics
Why give a Sundance success the Snakes on a Plane treatment?
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Zoo: Tabloid Tale Turns Into Mushy Plea for Tolerance
Bestiality is the determinedly nonsnickering subject of Robinson Devor’s strenuously aestheticized treatment of the infamous 2005 Enumclaw Horse-Sex…
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Peruvian Princess Takes Charge of Her Destiny in Madeinusa
A 14-year-old Indian princess in the high Peruvian altaplana, “Madeinusa”—yes, that’s her allegorical name—is ripe for the plucking.…
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It appeared on the Seattle waterfront about three weeks ago, with one
It appeared on the Seattle waterfront about three weeks ago, with one of those garish yellow signs you…
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“I was banking on the Sculpture Park to pull people in,” says
“I was banking on the Sculpture Park to pull people in,” says Uptown Espresso owner and founder Dow…
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Artist Utopia Spoiled by Legal Dispute in the old Rainier Plant
A lockout and lawsuit may be brewing.
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I’m not suggesting you dump your Amazon.com stock just yet, but a
I’m not suggesting you dump your Amazon.com stock just yet, but a Sunday report in the L.A. Times…
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The Uptown neighborhood, aka LQA, exemplifies what might be called the restaurant
The Uptown neighborhood, aka LQA, exemplifies what might be called the restaurant concentrator effect. One good eatery–or even…
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Much has been written, and much more will be written, about the
Much has been written, and much more will be written, about the city’s new $240 million Bicycle Master…