Don't Miss Shows Thru The Weekend! Eighteen Individual Eyes, Can You Imagine?, The Tripwires, and Bat Country
My ass is sore from SIFF, damn it! I need to get up and move around a bit! And not just between theaters either. Hmm,…
SIFF Double Take: 2 for the environment tonight – Sushi & Revenge {6/8}
It's been a great year for documentaries at the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival. I just saw probably one of my favorites of the year,…
SIFF Take: Vampire
{Vampire screens at SIFF on Wednesday, June 1, 6:30pm and Thursday, June 2, 4pm at the Egyptian; and again on Sunday, June 5, 8:30pm at…
SIFF Take: Surrogate Valentine
Goh is San Francisco musician Goh Nakamura, and he is living the life you are, your comrades, or your indie singer-songwriter heroes are. Creating songs…
Beauty Parlor: hey, all you pretty things! {new record review column}
I'm going to start this new "album round up" for Three Imaginary Girls with the above recent You Tube video for Sean Rowe's "Jonathan": (1.)…
SIFF Preview: Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
Usually "outsider art" begins consensually. Sometimes people find a certain enjoyable quality about something crafted by people a bit off the grid, perhaps in a…
Bumbershoot 2011: May 31st is the last time to get the $29 Any Day Pass; and just announced: Grant Lee Buffalo
{Bumbershoot photo: Erik Clineschmidt Photography} One Reel, the talented folks behind putting on Bumbershoot, is reminding festival goers this year that the deadline for the…
Helplessness Blues
Say you're trapped. By illness, by isolation. When I was an asthmatic kid, trapped in my parents' trailer on hot, pollen-piled summer days, the best…
Imaginary Interview: Tomten talk about headlining the High Dive {4/28}, the Vera Project {5/13} & more
For those out of the loop, Tomten is a Seattle band that enchanted the judges this year at the EMP Sound Off! finals. So much…
Come see my live interview w/Steve Ignorant of legendary punk band Crass tomorrow night {4/26} at The Comet
You should come to my (absolutely free, though 21+) live interview with Steve Ignorant tomorrow night (April 26) at The Comet starting at 6 pm…