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Seattle Jewish Film Festival
Published 7:00am Wednesday, March 14, 2007Give us a festival—any festival, please!—to avoid Norbit and The Number 23. Read more
Joni on Ice
Published 7:00am Wednesday, March 14, 2007Frida Hyvönen brings Laurel Canyon to the Swedes. Read more
Modest Mouse
Published 7:00am Wednesday, March 14, 2007Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Epic) Modest Mouse are a wonderfully wonky band. I’ve always likened them to an untamed ... Read more
The Namesake
Published 7:00am Wednesday, March 14, 2007Bengali immigrant tale transcends its book-club origins. Read more
Bloc Party Weaves Dystopian Nightmares on Silent Followup
Published 8:00am Tuesday, March 6, 2007Bloc Party’s terrific 2005 debut, Silent Alarm, celebrated the now: twitchy guitars and madcap rhythms inside pithy, spartan tunes that hit like your stimulant of ... Read more
Oliver Stone and Russell Crowe Compete to See Who Can Suck the Most
Published 8:00am Tuesday, March 6, 2007Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut Warner Bros., $24.98 Alexander, released and just as quickly dismissed in 2004, remains three years later the film that haunts ... Read more
Toxic Tadpole Attacks in The Host!
Published 8:00am Tuesday, March 6, 2007From Korea's U.S.-polluted sewers, a box-office monster shall arise. Read more
Blood, Lust, and Legacies
Published 8:00am Tuesday, March 6, 2007Two-man one-act plus five by Williams equals two must-sees. Read more
Too Bad: The Sequel
Published 8:00am Tuesday, March 6, 2007Last week was the first of a two-part piece on Bad Theater. I’ll confess that this week I’ve lost some of my heart in writing ... Read more
Dog Days
Published 8:00am Tuesday, March 6, 2007On a beach in Spain, a stray becomes a muse for Sweden's El Perro del Mar. Read more
Astral Works
Published 8:00am Tuesday, March 6, 2007Seattle opera stars align. Read more
A Cruise Not Fit for a Queen
Published 8:00am Tuesday, March 6, 2007But there was that cab-driving, tour-giving, reggae-spinning Belize native. Read more
Whitey Keeps the Stalls Clean and IDs Honest
Published 8:00am Tuesday, March 6, 2007Not many would know a ubiquitous security guard by the name of Josh Myrick. But chances are, they’ve crossed paths with him. The good-natured, afroed ... Read more
White Hype
Published 8:00am Tuesday, March 6, 2007The triumphant return of Virginia rap duo Clipse yields an insurgence of Caucasian fans. Read more
The Media-Overload Inspirations of Fujiya & Miyagi
Published 8:00am Tuesday, March 6, 2007“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are,” wrote Anaïs Nin. Even if the marketers weren’t watching, there would still ... Read more
In an internal memo divulged last week, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz fretted
Published 8:00am Monday, March 5, 2007In an internal memo divulged last week, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz fretted about “stores that no longer have the soul of the past,” citing automatic ... Read more
The Science of Make Believe Shows
Published 8:00am Tuesday, February 27, 2007After being ousted from their posts as bookers at all-ages venue the Paradox by the Mars Hill Church, Alicia Blake and Liz Martin didn’t stay ... Read more
Voulez-vous, uh, you know?
Published 8:00am Tuesday, February 27, 2007Who's afraid of a little French-language pop? Read more
Small Apologies
Published 8:00am Tuesday, February 27, 2007The problem with'new music' marketing:too much diffidence. Read more
Bad Theater
Published 8:00am Tuesday, February 27, 2007Why is bad theater so bad? Or to put it another way: Why does the prospect of bad theater raise such fear, and the experience ... Read more