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The Zero Film Festival is a smart and timely idea. The touring film series is exclusively dedicated to showing self financed, zero-budget s...

I spent 24 hours in Olympia. I initially headed down to participate in Housing & Homeless Advocacy Day , an annual event staged by a coa...

The Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami recently made the controversial decision to travel to Israel to accept the Jerusalem Prize for liter...

Today is the birthday of French poet & novelist Raymond Queneau , born Feb. 21, 1903. The endlessly fascinating and self-contradictory Q...

Plenty to talk about when it comes to hip-hop. Tonight, Feb. 19, the Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas presents "The Black F...

The White Center neighborhood, aka. 'Rat City', is one step ahead of the rest of Seattle when it comes to making the most of the re...

A splendid little film, perfectly appropriate for anyone currently reading this blog. And you know who you are. By British animator Johnny K...

I offer as exhibit A, this poem by Philip Larkin. Annus Mirabilis Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late fo...

Exactly 90 years ago this week, the city of Seattle held the first city-wide labor action or “general strike” in American history. The strik...

Down in Portland, this Thursday marks the start of the sixth annual Mini-Bike Winter , a five-day festival of bike games and competitions, b...

I'm of two minds regarding Argentine singer/songwriter Juana Molina . There are times when I can't get enough of her hypnotic musing...

Seanjohn Walsh is a local treasure - an actor, performance artist and theatrical jack-of-all trades who has set fire to Seattle-area stages...

It's another sad day for rock and roll. Aren't they all? Lux Interior died today . The Cramps lead singer was a genre unto himself....

The Josephine is an awesome little gig palace and nightclub, hidden away at 608 NW 65th st. in Ballard behind an obscure street level faca...

While traveling in Europe this winter, with an eye open for interesting graffiti, I kept noticing the work of one street artist in particul...

Once again I was asked to be the media coordinator for the annual One Night Count of the Homeless in King County. The Count is quite an im...

John Updike died today . What a drag. I've been reading his novels all my life, and am also a fan of his poems , his essays ...the man w...

Guillermo E. Brown is headed to Seattle as a guest of the Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas for a series of shows and presentati...

Some good news in Friday's New York Times . "A team of Swedish and Danish researchers tracked coffee consumption in a group of 1,40...

Way back in 2007, Seattle's Northwest Film Forum commissioned local musical duo Miles and Karina to compose a new score for The Adven...