If there is a god, why is there no Martin Miller’s gin at The High Bar? Sam Mulvey of “Ask An Athiest” helps Warren tackle the great imponderables.
I like to imagine that on his days off, Stephen Hawking likes to talk about micro-brews and midget mud-wrestling, really anything but black holes, quantum physics or how to speak [...]
I AM Thursday, February 24th, 2011 @ 7PM Landmark Harvard Exit (807 E Roy st, Seattle, WA 98102) * PLEASE NOTE: If you would like to see this preview of [...]
Some folks think I’m a film snob. Bless my friends and fellow film-lovers who know I love cheese more than Speedy Gonzales. Today, my very special thanks to feral-child-turned-filmmaker Sean [...]
Folks who feel like killing themselves are going to have to find a different landmark to leap from. The Washington State Transportation Department has finally installed a 9-foot suicide prevention [...]
CEDAR RAPIDS Wednesday, February 16, 2011 @ 7:00pm Regal Cinemas Meridian 16 1501 7th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 Directed by: Miguel Arteta Written by: Phil Johnston Produced by: Alexander Payne, [...]
Jeannie Yandel spins quite the yarn for Warren at The High Bar. She loves to tell a story and helps those who wish to tell theirs better. On this episode, [...]
If we could escape our pasts, would we have any hope for the future? At several junctures in my life, I have felt compelled to “start over,” sometimes geographically by [...]
Often, the best advice comes from the least expected sources. Years ago, I hosted a Seattle preview screening of LITTLE CHILDREN with special guest, Todd Field, the director. I was [...]
THE KING’S SPEECH suffers from an impediment almost as damaging as King George VI‘s; that is, the movie stammers, it has many grand ideas, yet an inability to convey them [...]
This may be Roger Ebert’s best review in years, it reads more like the confession of the lovelorn than movie criticism and yet it still comes across as a spot-on [...]
Faced with devastating news, I always wonder whether to run away or wallow. As much as I enjoy escapism, however, typically, I opt for immersion, a cinematic implosion therapy, choosing [...]
Okay, can we just all agree now to give next year’s SAG Ensemble Award to the cast of PEEP WORLD? I don’t care if the movie doesn’t live up to [...]
This year’s Oscar® nominations didn’t piss me off nearly as much as in prior seasons; there aren’t too many awful inclusions and relatively few glaring omissions. (I hope the latter [...]
Far be it for me to distinguish between graffiti and Art; I’ll leave such bourgeois nit-picking to the critics and, worse, the collectors. Indeed the only reason I mention it [...]