Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2003
As is noted in the 2003 Lesbian and Gay Film Festival catalog, it's been a big year for the gays. We can legally make whoopee…
Seattle Fringe Theatre Festival 2003
Did you know the first fringe theatre festival happened in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the late 1940s? Theatre companies who hadn't been asked to participate in…
Kim Richey
Kim Richey is a tough {but fascinating} nut to crack. A songwriting darling in Nashville for years {provider of tunes for the likes of Trisha…
Topdog/Underdog
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks is one of only four African-American women to have had a play produced on Broadway. She was the very first African-American woman…
One Reel Film Festival
I've attended the last three years' One Reel Film Festivals, and this was the first that didn't prove completely underwhelming. (Maybe that's because I only…
Lost in Translation and Matchstick Men
Let the Oscar® season commence. Here we have two wonderful movies, both opening September 12 at a Landmark Theatre near you, both concerning a platonic…
Friday Night
If you've seen Beau Travail, and especially if you like boys, you're probably well aware that director Claire Denis is a fantastic sensualist. Her masterpiece…
Blue/Orange and The Goat
Blue/Orange "You're naïve, and you're beginning to get on my wick", 7/25-8/24, Intiman Theatre An enigmatic London psychiatric patient (utterly fantastic Sylvester Foday Kamara) claims…
The Magdalene Sisters
When we first meet Bernadette (fantastic Nora-Jane Noone), two young girls are competing over which will have the privilege of brushing her lovely dark hair…
Swimming Pool
François Ozon is not a household name in the United States, and probably never will be. But I'm here to tell you that the eclectic…