AltWeeklies Wire
Seattle Director Trips Through Mongolianew
Brian Short's ambitious documentary All My Love has no narration, no plot, and little more structure than its three themed movements. It also has the power to compel your visual surrender.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
01-07-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: All My Love, Brain Short
Seattle's E-Waste Conundrumnew
Our new state e-waste law won't go into effect for another year. It's a complicated scheme in which industry will take back its wares, at no cost to the consumer, via the Washington Material Management and Financing Authority.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
01-07-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Why Seattleites Are Picketing in the Writers' Strikenew
Because they want to get back to writing your after-work specials.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
01-07-2008 |
Movies
'Honey and Clover': Another Art School Confidentialnew
Honey and Clover is a live-action manga adaptation set in a college dorm full of silent longing and artistic insecurity.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
12-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Honey and Clover, Masahiro Takada
Acid Casualties Perseverenew
Every musical-footnote band eventually gets the documentary it deserves, and this ragged, affectionate chronicle suits the forgotten acid-folk curio combo the Holy Modal Rounders whose screechy "If You Want to Be a Bird" somehow made it onto the Easy Rider soundtrack.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-21-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Bound to Lose, Holy Modal Rounders
Ski Biz Bets It'll Beat Global Warmingnew
While scientists predict brown mountainsides, the "big three" ski areas that serve Seattle are all in varying stages of expansion and investment.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-21-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
The Road to London, 2012new
Mike Sayenko is part of a new youth infusion in the marathon.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-21-2007 |
Sports
Tags: Olympics, sports & fitness
Meet Jayne Ann Krentz, Seattle's Best-Selling Authornew
Apart from her obvious productivity, her sales also derive from a willingness to change and adapt old romance genres, which she sees as key to the industry's resurgence.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-12-2007 |
Books
Warren Miller: Think Global, Ski Local?new
This year's snow flick seems even more dissonant in our melting modern age.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-12-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
The Fabio Business Finds Itself Short on Diversitynew
As far as black romance writers go, Edwina Martin-Arnold is about the only game in town.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-12-2007 |
Books
Hip-Hop Hungarians Threaten President Bushnew
Since, outside of South Park, cartoons and politics generally don't mix, The District is a bold, vulgar treat, full of hip-hop serenades, dancing Russian hookers, international intrigue, and all manner of goofs on the ghetto culture we've exported so successfully to the Wild East.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Aron Gauder, The District
'Apart From That': Like Cassavetes in Skagit Countynew
The film makes a jumbled democracy of its rustic players; refreshingly, there's not a mumbling hipster among them.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-02-2007 |
Reviews
Houston, We Have an Environmental Problemnew
The twist on this familiar astronaut story is that it's a post-Al Gore doc, itself in the shadow of An Inconvenient Truth.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
09-25-2007 |
Reviews
Jennifer Worick: Seattle's Busiest Author?new
Worick has little patience for authors trying to crank out the Great American Novel; she's too busy getting published — about 20 books, by her count, over the past half-dozen years.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
09-25-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
World-Champ Pole Vaulter Gets No Recognition at Homenew
Perhaps a gold in Beijing would get Brad Walker some Seattle love.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
09-25-2007 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
