The setting is the wartime precipice of 1938; the synthesizer score is distinctly 1983. When he finally adapted Junichiro Tanizakis…
From Das Racist and Hull to Lights and Chali 2na.
Seven years. That’s how long it has been since the Huskies defeated the Ducks in a game of football, the…
Looking forward to Wild Flag, Black Star, The Field, and more.
Night of the Living Dead (1968) came out of nowhere, or to be more precise, Pittsburgh, and turned into the…
FRIDAY 11/4 Film: Woman in Green Eric Rohmer‘s 1986 masterpiece Le Rayon Vert (aka The Green Ray) delivers an absorbing,…
Hard at work on his eighth novel, the Deadwood author still packs a punch.
FRIDAY 10/28 Books: Reconnaissance, War, Tragedy The tallest peak in the world has inspired a mountain of books, and Wade Davis…
From Thelonious Monster to Harry and the Potters.
Over the past three months, local and federal law-enforcement agencies arrested 53 people, confiscated 68 firearms, and seized a combined…
Centuries of frank sensuality in song.
Department of Energy scientists allege catastrophic mismanagement of the costliest environmental cleanup in world history.
From Avram Fefer to Mariachi El Bronx.
As the Bay Area sculptor Michael Cooper explains in a companion video, he’s a near-exact contemporary of George Lucas. Growing…
Earlier this week, we reported that CleanScapes–Seattle’s brash, eco-minded upstart in the trash-hauling business–is merging with a San Francisco company…
Blackie, Chad VanGaalen, and the start of Earshot Jazz Fest.
Why the answer to this “war” is a tatted-up ex-con named Mr. Buzzard.
St. Vincent, The Long Winters, and a killer chicken-fried steak.
WEDNESDAY 10/5 Books/Stage: Dr. Lizardo Chances are you think of him as a killer: the Emmy-winning kind who enlivened Dexter…
Texas’ governor paints a pretty portrait of his state. Pretty inaccurate, that is.
