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Thursday, June 25th, 2009 NOVELLA CARPENTER and FARM CITY: THE EDUCATION OF AN URBAN FARMER Location: Tom Douglas’ Palace Ballroom 2100 5th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121 (map) Time: 6:30 p.m. [...]
May 21, 2009 MARIEL HEMINGWAY author of MARIEL’S KITCHEN: SIMPLE INGREDIENTS FOR A DELICIOUS AND SATISFYING LIFE Location: Tom Douglas’ Palace Ballroom 2100 5th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121 (map) Time: [...]
Thursday, MAY 7th, 2009 WINIFRED GALLAGHER Author of RAPT: ATTENTION AND THE FOCUSED LIFE Location: Tom Douglas’ Palace Ballroom 2100 5th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121 (map) Time: 6:30 p.m. • Cost: $25 [...]
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 NINA PLANCK author of REAL FOOD FOR MOTHER AND BABY Location: Tom Douglas’ Palace Ballroom 2100 5th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121 (map) Time: 6:30 p.m. • Cost: $25 [...]
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 DR. STUART BROWN author of Play: HOW IT SHAPES OUR BRAINS, OPENS THE IMAGINATION, AND SHAPES THE SOUL Location: Tom [...]
The path to Truth often zig-zags… especially in the movies. GOMORRAH is a fictional film based on a non-fiction book based on Italy’s very real crime syndicate, the Camorra. Winner [...]
I’ll know we’re truly in a recession when Mexico starts patrolling our shared border looking for Americans sneaking across seeking factory work. Of course, that may not be too far [...]
Monday, June 15th, 2009 @ 6:30 pm The Pan Pacific Hotel, 2125 Terry Avenue, SEATTLE, WA 98121 Cost: $45/person Andre Dubus III The Garden of Last Days To purchase tickets by [...]
Thursday, June 11th, 2009 @ 6:30 pm Pan Pacific Hotel, 2125 Terry Avenue, SEATTLE, WA 98121 Cost: $45/person To purchase tickets by email: contact us, by phone: 206-632-2419, or purchase online Michael [...]
Saturday, May 16th, 2009 @ 6:30 pm The Pan Pacific Hotel, 2125 Terry Avenue, SEATTLE, 98121 Ruth Reichl Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way [...]
Tuesday, March 3rd @ 7:00 pm The Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd, PORTLAND, OR 97212 *Please check in with Allied’s ambassador, Rob.** Set in the insular world of [...]
Saturday, March 7th, 2009 @ Noon The Grand Illusion, 1403 NE 50th St, SEATTLE **Screenwriter Joe Piscatella will join Warren Etheredge for an exclusive and animated post-show conversation about the [...]
Who knew? Calvin Trillin has a following more committed than the devotees of the Reverend Jim Jones. When I hosted The Nation‘s “deadline poet” at Words & Wine earlier this [...]
Revamp the Oscars® all you like, it’s still an awards show. And, like any other trophy-trek, it will be long, bloated, tedious and… disappointing. This year’s Academy production sported some [...]
The Suffragists struggled mightily to earn women the right to vote. The fight continues to get women on the ballot to vote for. Despite the fact the United States’ population [...]
Warren joins Calvin Trillin at The Pan Pacific Hotel in Seattle to discuss his latest opus, frost-bitten Jews, and the beauty of language.
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 @ 7:00 pm Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave, SEATTLE Many thanks to fellow Cowboys fan, Clint B, and Seattle’s True Independent Film Festival STIFF Nights [...]
April 10th, 2009 @ 6:30 pm Pan Pacific Hotel, 2125 Terry Avenue, SEATTLE Cost: $45/person TO PURCHASE TICKETS by email: contact us by phone: 206-632-2419 or purchase online David Benioff [...]
Star power is usually associated with single-named celebrities and actors who can drive tent-poles faster than John Henry on a Red Bull binge. We accord mega-wattage to those luminaries whose [...]
Harvey Milk learned his lesson: You’ve got to give them Hope. Apparently, Barack Obama was listening; apparently, Danny Boyle cribbed his notes. Obama co-opted Hope as a one-word campaign slogan. [...]
Ron Howard made a SPLASH with the Tom Hanks-Daryl Hannah fish-out-of-her-mind tale. NIGHT SHIFT and GRAND THEFT AUTO are entertaining as well, if not particularly taxing, mentally. However, since the [...]
There are many things I DOUBT about John Patrick Shanley‘s adaptation of his own play. Did he do it justice? Would Cherry Jones have been even better than Meryl Streep? [...]
Truth may be stranger than fiction, but stranger still are the Academy’s annual choices for Best Documentary. How can anyone explain Oscars® failure to even recognize films such as GRIZZLY [...]
Warrens sits down with Olivia Thirlby (Juno) to talk about her love of New York Pizza, the benefits of therapy, and why Sir Ben is so great. http://www.sonyclassics.com/thewackness/ [display_podcast]
I’d like to teach the world to sing. No, no, I wouldn’t. That would take a long time and I can’t stand tone-deaf people… including myself. (Yup, I can no [...]
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. It’s a lesson as old as the Bible, cited as recently as SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. And while I curse the Oscars® for their [...]
Warren sits with Jon and Josh to discuss the Independent Spirit Award nominated film where they explore issues surrounding Sir Ben Kingsley, their tenuous economy, and the truth behind The [...]
Must we respect the dead? Heck, I’m not even sold on the living. When assessing Oscar® odds, must we automatically succumb to the notion that the dead guy deserves the [...]
Every year, a movie slips through the cracks faster than a greased-up Lara Flynn Boyle can slip through the eye of a needle. In 2007, it was Karen Moncrieff‘s THE [...]
Saturday, February 21st @ 12:05pm The Henry Art Gallery, 15th Ave NE & 41st St — on the UW Campus, SEATTLE Written and directed by: Jonathan Levine* *Nominated [...]
If we’re willing to accept the animated Robin Williams in dramatic roles, why can’t we abide animation in dramatic competition. Pixar has been making some of Hollywood’s best films for [...]
Every year, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences stages their glitzy award show. The Oscars® aren’t just the culmination of an extremely expensive, industry-wide popularity contest, they are [...]
Some distributors release films with all the fanfare of a fly’s funeral. Others hoard titles like Mia Farrow stockpiling her adoptive rainbow coalition. And then there are those, like the [...]
Warren chats with Matthew Lillard in the Seattle garage at Slamdance in regards to Matthew’s latest film, the power of the critic, and why it is not always an honor [...]
Terence Stamp insists Craig Sheffer masturbate. How can you properly love another, if you can’t properly love yourself, the sex therapist inquires rhetorically. Maybe the unorthodox shrink is onto something, [...]
Some folks call me a film snob. I don’t deign speak to them. Truth is, I love a commercial, Hollywood flick as long as it is properly executed. (In the [...]
.Warren catches Mary Elizabeth Ellis for a brief chat at Slamdance. Where they discuss the warm reception of the film at Slamdance, the myopic view o Hollywood, and why kids [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day, Movie- lovers! Unlike Santa, I am incapable of light-speed and thus cannot make to each and every house to deliver bon-bons and smoooches. So instead, I open [...]
If you must paraphrase FORREST GUMP, please consider: ”Love is like a box of chocolates.” Sadly, most Americans have undiscriminating sweet teeth, content to snack on milk chocolate, the cocoa [...]
Could it be? A movie based on a board game without actual characters? CLUE was one thing, not a good thing, but… CANDYLAND? Yes, Hasbro‘s has-been tyke time-filler is being [...]
Thursday, March 26th, 2009 @ 6:30pm Pan Pacific Hotel, 2125 Terry Avenue, SEATTLE Cost: $45/person For reservations, please call 206-632-2419 or buy online Steven Rinella is the author of The [...]
Once upon a time, the world was flat… and so was our water; it was just tap with flamboyant aspirations. Thanks to some adventurous, thoughtful souls though, we know the [...]
Warren joins Steven Johnson at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Seattle to discuss his latest book. They chat about coffee’s ability to increase one’s mental faculties, the creation of soda [...]
Don’t be fooled, your best bet this week is to skip the big names. Go straight for Courtney Hunt‘s FROZEN RIVER. (Read my review here.) As for the hot-shots… Oliver [...]
Forget MONSTERS VS. ALIENS, I’m loading up on garlic cloves, shotguns, battle axes, silver bullets and water(?) to survive The Warren Report‘s looming showdown with… Howard McCain. And, you can fight [...]
It’s an honor just to be nominated, but it must be oh-so-in-your-face-sweet to take home the award, yes? Now, you too, can snag a prize. Four lucky, and attentive!, folks [...]
For six years, I served as the Curator of the 1 Reel Film Festival at Bumbershoot. It was a wonderful gig, even if I forced myself to watch between 1,500 [...]
Arguing over who is the best 007 is a Bonding experience. Most opt for Sean Connery — because, really, that is the only sensible choice — though there are those [...]
Jumping rope ain’t child’s play. The game has evolved to sport and may soon earn Olympic categorization. Helen Hood Scheer‘s hyper-documentary JUMP! chronicles one year (2006) in the nationwide efforts [...]
Monday, February 9th, 2009 @ 6:00 PM Varsity Theatre, 4329 University Way NE, SEATTLE Rated R for strong crude and sexual content, nudity, pervasive language and some drug use. MISS MARCH tells the [...]
Hunter S. Thompson: genius journalist or crackpot mudslinger? Watch Oscar®-winner Alex Gibney‘s trippy documentary, GONZO: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. Then question what you see, consider [...]
A horse is a horse of course, of course unless the horse… is beloved by a little girl and all that stands between a smarmy conniver and his unearned inheritance. [...]
Many thanks to the bodacious Betsy C and Intention Media! Thursday, February 19th, 2009 @ 6:15pm Capitol Theater, 206 5th Ave SE, OLYMPIA Tickets: $6 for Olympia Film Society Members/$8 [...]
For a country quickly emerging as a global super-power, China remains an odd mix of rural impoverishment and consumerist aspirations. The country’s filmmakers, both constrained and inspired by looming state [...]
Many thanks to the affluent Amy D and Washington FilmWorks Saturday, February 21st @ 12:05pm The Henry Art Gallery, 15th Ave NE & 41st St — on the UW Campus, [...]
Many thanks to the delightful Dewdrop! Thursday, March 5th @ 7pm The Harvard Exit, 807 E Roy St, SEATTLE This film has been rated R for pervasive language including [...]
Many thanks to the delightful Dewdrop! Tuesday, March 3rd @ 7pm AMC Loews Alderwood Mall 16, 18733 33rd Ave W, LYNNWOOD This film has been rated R for pervasive language [...]
Many thanks to the delightful Dewdrop! Wednesday, February 18th @ 7pm AMC Uptown Cinemas, 511 Queen Anne Ave N, SEATTLE This film has been rated R for pervasive language including crude [...]
Warren sits down with Oscar Winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Darkside) to discuss the unique perspective of Hunter S. Thompson, why it’s ever good to suddenly see lizards, and [...]
In today’s politics, Hope is trendy; Cynicism remains prudent. Given the gloomy economic forecast, we must remember to look beyond the bottom lines and evaluate those figures etched in prophet-margins. [...]
Politics make for strange bedfellows. Working together, The Warren Report, Kim Ricketts Book Events and FUSE inspired strange bard-fellows with the first Progressive Poetry contest in celebration of Calvin Trillin‘s [...]
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 @ 7pm AMC Pacific Place Cinemas, 600 Pine Street, SEATTLE **Please check in with The Warren Report ambassador, the affable Neil S!** Rated R for [...]
I couldn’t a been a contender, but I am a great admirer of THE CONTENDER, Rod Lurie‘s prescient, yet sordid spin on women in power and the prurient politicking their [...]
Warren joins Rod Lurie on stage after a screening of his film The Contender where they discuss the merits of sticking to your principles, the difficulties of getting a film [...]
