Surrogates: Error. Error. Error.
Surrogates opened in Seattle today, Friday September 25th and is playing at the Metro and Meridian 16. The background is set up for you in…
Fame 1980 vs. Fame 2009
Fame opens in Seattle on Friday, September 25th at AMC Pacific Place & the Metro. I admit it: the Fame 2009 previews tugged my girly…
Live Nude Elf: A Carrie Bradshaw for malcontents and the elvish
She's a young woman in the big city writing a column about sex. She learns a lot with her friends, goes through scandalous relationships and…
McSweeney's New Fiction at Bumbershoot
This panel was of great interest to me since getting fiction published through McSweeney’s would be a dream come true, so even just hearing this…
The Year of Magical Thinking at the Intiman Theater
Joan Didion is not the most empathetic of writers. In her studies of the 1960s and 70s, Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, she…
Our Noise: The Story Of Merge Records to be released September 22nd
Warning: This is an ecstatic early plug for the upcoming fan-dream book, Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label that Got Big…
Audio Oasis: An Imaginary Treatise on Sound
You know Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Dan Deacon and other great indie innovators are getting textural and contextual inspiration from somewhere other than what's reviewed…
Michael Muhammad Knight is the Muslim punk Salinger
A Shi'ite skinhead and his female punk-hippie partner in crime abduct a movie star to threaten Hollywood into making films in which Muslims don't all…
SIFF 2009: Family Picture Show
My latest SIFF adventure was extra special for me because it was my son’s very first movie in a movie theater. We went to see…
SIFF 2009
The 35th annual Seattle International Film Festival is unraveling itself starting TODAY (Thursday, May 21) and TIG's team of ChrisB, imaginary embracey, Roxie Rider and…