Archive for October, 2009 (26 posts)

  1. BIZNIK INNOVATORS SERIES: Dom Sagolla (140 CHARACTERS)

    BIZNIK INNOVATORS SERIES Dom Sagolla, a Co-creator of Twitter Shares His Style Guide for the Short Form Special Event with author of 140 Characters Hosted by Lara Feltin & Warren Etheredge in Seattle, [...]

  2. The Good Life: Dacher Keltner (BORN TO BE GOOD)

    November 12, 2009 Dacher Keltner BORN TO BE GOOD: The Science of a Meaningful Life Time: 6:30 pm Cost: $35/person (includes all appetizers and a copy of the featured book) [...]

  3. Special Event: SUPERFREAKONOMICS

    . November 2, 2009 Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner SUPERFREAKONOMICS: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance Time: 7 p.m. Host: Warren Etheredge [...]

  4. SLGFF: WEST SIDE STORY SING ALONG

    Many thanks to the rambunctious Rachael B! This film is presented as part of The 14th Annual Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. Got a rocket in your pocket? Tonight, tonight [...]

  5. SLGFF: Homo Emo: Shorts

    Many thanks to the rambunctious Rachael B! This film is presented as part of The 14th Annual Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. Looking for an alternative to gym-toned bodies, flashy [...]

  6. One Night Standup: Drag Queens

    Many thanks to the rambunctious Rachael B! This film is presented as part of The 14th Annual Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. Director: Andrea Meyerson From the director who brought [...]

  7. SLGFF: TRAINING RULES

    Many thanks to the rambunctious Rachael B! This film is presented as part of The 14th Annual Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. Director: Fawn Yacker & Dee Mosbacher In 2005, [...]

  8. SLGFF: COLLEGE BOYS LIVE

    Many thanks to the rambunctious Rachael B! This film is presented as part of The 14th Annual Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. Director: George O’Donnell In a quiet Florida suburb, [...]

  9. SLGFF: THE MAN WHO LOVED YNGVE

    Many thanks to the rambunctious Rachael B! This film is presented as part of The 14th Annual Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. Director: Stian Kristiansen If John Hughes had ever [...]

  10. SLGFF: LOOKING FOR ROMEO

    Many thanks to the rambunctious Rachael B! This film is presented as part of The 14th Annual Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. Director: Arthur Ian Glimpse through the keyhole into [...]

  11. SLGFF: LOKAS

    Many thanks to the rambunctious Rachael B! This film is presented as part of The 14th Annual Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. Dir: Gonzalo Justiano Macho man Charly (Rodrigo [...]

  12. Biznik Innovators Series: Susan Scott (FIERCE LEADERSHIP)

    BIZNIK INNOVATORS SERIES The FIERCE Susan Scott shares a Bold Alternative to the Worst “Best” Practices of Business Today Special Event with author of Fierce Leadership When: Tuesday, November 3 5:30 [...]

  13. D’oh!-de to Roman Polanski

    Bless Calvin Trillin. In verse, he can skewer a news story more succinctly than a thousand Op-Eds. Recently he Nation’s beloved “Deadline Poet” chimed in on the, um, The Roman [...]

  14. MUNYURANGABO is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!?!

    See a movie. Support a good cause. My friend (and terrifically talented screen/writer) Sonya Lea has helped organize a benefit screening of MUNYUNRANGABO, this Saturday, October 17th at The Grand [...]

  15. MORE THAN A GAME… It’s a contest giveaway!

    Truth is: I ain’t got game. Hate to admit it, but when I dunk my greatest concern is whether the cookie will crumble in the milk. (That’s wack… and not [...]

  16. CITY OF BORDERS crosses borders

    I have been touting CITY OF BORDERS ever since seeing it at SIFF this summer and interviewing the documentary’s delightful and fearless director, Yun Suh. Consequently, I have received many [...]

  17. The Munge Movement revisited?

    A couple of years ago, I tried coining a phrase to capture the essence of Seattle’s resurgent filmmaking scene. I call it: The Munge Movement. (Munge being part movies, part [...]

  18. The Good Life w/ C. Marina Marchese (HONEYBEE)

    October 27, 2009 C. Marina Marchese HONEYBEE: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper Time: 6:30 pm Cost: $35/person (includes all appetizers and a copy of the featured book) Location: Tom Douglas’ [...]

  19. Preview: LAW ABIDING CITIZEN

    Rated R. Running time:  108 minutes. Directed by: F. Gary Gray Written by: Kurt Wimmer Cast: Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Bruce McGill, Colm Meaney, Leslie Bibb, Michael Irby, Regina Hall, [...]

  20. Meet Denis O’Hare. See AN ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK

    The Warren Report does all it can for the lesbian and gay cause, whether championing universal marital rights or suggesting a new acronym for the community. Imagine if they simply [...]

  21. Bus A Move: Joe Metro shillizzles for public transizzle

    The Swedes award their Nobel Prizes. The Stranger anoints Seattle’s geniuses. This year, the alt-weekly deemed Zia Mohajerjasbi — say that one time fast — to be the city’s most [...]

  22. I Wanna Be A Cowboy: Lesson #5

    ALL THE RAGE The Cowboys went the distance, but the journey sure was rocky. In overtime, they edged the Chiefs, 26-20, in the least publicly convincing win since Bush beat [...]

  23. CH-CH-CHANGES

    The winds of Change have been blowing for quite some time. Now, they’re approaching gale force. And while many flee for cover, most likely, they still will not be safe. [...]

  24. I Wanna Be A Cowboy: Lesson #4

    THE SHAME GAME It is easier to find ways to lose than win. And, over the past couple of seasons, it often seems Jason Garrett has stuffed the Cowboys playbook [...]

  25. The journey of THE 39 STEPS begins with one…

    It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken. It takes a tougher man to tenderize Hitchcock. Steely scriptor Patrick Barlow has pounded and punched up THE 39 STEPS, transforming [...]

  26. Them’s good eats?

    If Americans came with user-care manuals, the section on feeding would be reduced to a sidebar… 1) Open mouth; 2) Shovel in crap. Heck, my friends spend more time, money and consideration [...]