Match Point
"I'd rather be lucky than good." I'm sure that many of you had the same experience I had: sitting in a movie theater, watching the…
"Yeti #3"
A recurring conversation I've had with many people in the past few years has been, "Hey, where the hell's the new "Yeti?" We were speaking…
Best Films of 2005
A look back at the gayest, most mysterious cinema year ever I love that Brokeback Mountain is making such a hard gallop into the public…
Rock & Roll Archaeologist
Buy It!{Sasquatch Books}Peter Blecha is a native of Seattle and is primarily responsible for collecting the "artifacts" for the museum portion of the controversial and…
Spiral-Bound
Buy It!{Top Shelf Productions} Animal crackers are the characters in this beautiful, sad, and terrifically drawn B&W graphic novel about infatuation, secrecy, utopian dreams, and fears…
Holiday Curtain Call
In 2001, when I was still relatively new to this city, I made one of my first visits to the Seattle Rep to see their…
Blab! #16
Buy It!{Fantagraphics} It comes out once a year, it's edited by a French dude, and it has featured new work by Mark Ryden and Joe…
The King
Buy It!{Top Shelf Productions}Remember me? I used to live for music. Remember me? I brought your groceries in. — Leonard Cohen, "First We Take Manhattan"…
Pride & Prejudice
Director Joe Wright took at least a medium-sized risk tackling the latest big screen version of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Not only is it…
Mid-Fall Curtain Call
Autumn chugs along, and so does the local theater season. My latest round of adventures therein got a most auspicious start last Monday with The…