How to Block Party like a kamikaze pilot: day one {Friday, 7/26}
Y'all ready for the solid Block Party they hold every now and then up on that ol' Capitol Hill? It's this weekend, already! I am…
Hannah Arendt: A film about love and the deep cost of civil courage
{Hannah Arendt opened in Seattle on Friday, 7/19, and is screeing at the Landmark Seven Gables Theatre} "Philosophers can't meet deadlines," one editor says to…
SIFF Review: The Otherside
This was an interesting time for director Daniel Torok to do a documentary on underground hip-hop in Seattle. In a strange way, it either seems…
Hobbyist – Hobbyist
The self-titled debut from Chicago, Illinois, duo Hobbyist is a knock out-passionate post-punky protest against all the societal gears that grind women (and men) down…
SIFF Review: The Punk Singer
For those lucky enough to catch Who Put The Bomp?, the sizzling Le Tigre tour documentary shown at SIFF a couple years back, the new…
Revelatory doc on The Source Family at SIFF Cinema Film Center
{The Source Family opens Friday, May 3 at 9 PM at the SIFF Cinema at the Film Center in Seattle Center, 305 Harrison Street, and runs…
Ghetto Moon
This is Solvents' least stylistically ambitious release -- and that is a very good thing. The band hasn't gone purely minimalistic in working with Karl…
Winter rotation: The Transmissionary Six, The Great Um, The Glass Notes, Pissed Jeans, Starflyer 59
The Transmissionary Six, Songs 2002-2012 (Skok) One of my favorite bands ever, The Transmissionary Six, has roots in The Walkabouts (which both TM6 founders Terry Moeller and…
Best Zines of 2012: Cometbus, Mineshaft, The Prince Zine, and more
The volunteer-run, all-ages Vera Project at the Seattle Center recently hosted two Saturday celebrations of arty, musicy, writerly, printerly, poetry, baked sweet-nums creativity and I…
The Burlesque Nutcracker: Have a sizzling, swanky time roasting your chestnuts at the Triple Door
{Land Of The Sweets: The Burlesque Nutcracker 2012 plays at the Triple Door from Friday, December 14, to Wednesday, December 27, 2012. Doors open at…