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The Return of the Player

Griffin Mill is back, with dot-com dreams eclipsing his Hollywood ambitions.

Bad behavior: Borat!

Arts & Culture

Fall Film

SEPTEMBER 1–20 The GI screens the entire ALEXANDRIA TRILOGY by Egyptian director Yousef Chahine, equally a portrait of…

The plaza on Second Avenue:  It "was not designed to expand."

News

Stonewalled

What happens when a war memorial runs out of space for the newly deceased?

Room

Film

Room

Runs at Northwest Film Forum, Tues., Oct. 3–Thurs., Oct. 5. Not rated. 75 minutes.

Film

The Ground Truth

Opens at Metro, Fri., Sept. 15. Rated R. 78 minutes.

Frank Rich

Arts & Culture

Fall Books

Dates and venues subject to change.When not otherwise specified, venue info is at end of list. Call to…

All puffed out and no place to go: Zig Zag patrons ponder where to dispose of their cancer sticks.

News

See More Butts

Thanks to the smoking ban, city sidewalks are littered with cigarettes. Whose job is it to clean them…

Michel Gondry

Film

Michel Gondry

On his handmade The Science of Sleep.

Standing watch, Raban distrusts the very idea of perspective.

Arts & Culture

Surveillance

Jonathan Raban's less-than-explosive post-9/11 novel.

Allende (left) with Pablo Neruda.

Film

Salvador Allende

Runs at Northwest Film Forum, Fri., Sept. 15–Thurs., Sept. 21. Not rated. 100 minutes.

Film

The Guatemalan Handshake

Runs at Grand Illusion, Fri., Feb. 9–Thurs., Feb. 15. Not rated. 96 minutes.

Tales of the Rat Fink

Film

Tales of the Rat Fink

Runs at Grand Illusion, Fri., Sept. 22– Wed., Sept. 27. Not rated. 78 minutes.

Zarina, in a Roma portrait from 2001.

Arts & Culture

Ghetto Pride

Northwest photographer Andrew Miksys captures the outcasts of Eastern Europe.

Bagge collects his works.

Arts & Culture

Spring Books Picks

Sherman Alexie, poetry, and basketball.

Film

The Ghosts of Christmases Past

Holiday Movie Season '06 brings a slew of retreads and one futuristic triumph.

Li kicks imperialist ass.

Film

Jet Li’s Fearless

Opens at Metro and other theaters, Fri., Sept. 22. Rated PG-13. 126 minutes.

More interesting for what it says than how it says it, this

Film

More interesting for what it says than how it says it, this

More interesting for what it says than how it says it, this documentary about the Motion Picture Association…

News

Midterm Muddle

How can we feel good about the election results when all our old certainties have suddenly been cast…

Film

Six More Tens

Other critics from Seattle Weekly sister publications weigh in with their Top 10 lists.

Jeopardy champ and newbie Seattleite Ken Jennings.

Arts & Culture

New Brain on the Block

Jeopardy! genius Ken Jennings moves to the smartest city in America: Seattle.