Draw your own conclusions.
Sex is a lot like riding a bicycle: It can be fun, it can be a workout and, if you don’t do it right, it can even hurt. But remember, [...]
Suicide isn’t painless. It brings on many changes… more, likely, for the survivors of the dead than the actual victims. Yet despite its societal impact — more than twice as [...]
One person, one vote is an equation meant to ensure our democracy. Only problem is, we assume that each vote is equal, a noble ideal scuttle by gerrymandering, the very [...]
Kim Doyel: Just caught your interview with Eric Liu on Seattle Voices…I want a College of Warren sweatshirt! But that wasn’t all… your little mug popped up in a cameo for [...]
Innovators: “We just Click!” The Magic of Instant Connections With best selling author of Sway, Ori Brafman Hosted by Lara Feltin & Warren Etheredge in Seattle, Washington When: Tuesday, June 15 5:30 PM to [...]
Pulling Focus: A Clear Picture of Today’s Film Industry Join us for the last in our series of panels about the business of film featuring Stephen Gyllenhaal (LOSING ISAIAH, HOMEGROWN, Numb3rs, [...]
On the tv series Millennium, detective Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) solved grisly murders by perceiving the awful acts through the eyes of the killers. He may or may not have [...]
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the author’s illness, this event has been cancelled!!! In Words & Wine events, guests mingle with the author while sipping award-winning wines from Ste. Michelle Wine Estates [...]
June 2, 2010 In recognition of their dedication to improving the health and well-being of the human community, Bastyr University will confer honorary doctoral degrees on Dr. Mehmet Oz and [...]
Economists may not know right from wrong, but they can make startling arguments about pimping, hand-washing and global warming. Thus my delight when hosting Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. [...]
Is the spectacular, recent rise of Atheism due to the imminence of The End Times, President Obama‘s dismissal of faith-based reasoning, or just a hipster phase as insubstantial as the [...]
David Grann The Devil and Sherlock Holmes March 16 Pan Pacific Hotel Doors open at 6, interview begins at 7 Words & Wine: Intimate Evenings with Interesting People continues, as [...]
brought to you by April 15 Anna Lappe DIET FOR A HOT PLANET: The Climate Crisis at the End of your Fork and What You Can Do about it Time: [...]
brought to you by March 9 Kevin Salwen and Hannah Salwen THE POWER OF HALF: One Family’s Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back. Time: 6:30 pm Cost: $35/person [...]
brought to you by February 17 Eric Liu IMAGINATION FIRST: Unlocking the Power of Possibility Time: 6:30 pm Cost: $35/person (includes all appetizers and a copy of the featured book) [...]
January 27 Gretchen Rubin THE HAPPINESS PROJECT: Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle and Generally Have More Fun [...]
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, [...]
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) [...]
. 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Fandom can veer into mania, whether you cheer baseball, football or water polo. If you “bleed purple” for the Vikes or paint your face black and silver like some Bay-area [...]
Workshop: THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW OCTOBER 19, 2009 We’ve all seen them, documentaries built on boring, lifeless interviews. We’ve all read them, profiles that don’t even hint at the [...]
Or: HOW TO GRILL A STAR We’ve all seen them, documentaries built on boring, lifeless interviews. We’ve all read them, profiles that don’t even hint at the motives of the [...]
In America, heavy metal music is blamed for everything from cult killings to teen acne. I think, perhaps, we give too much credit to long-haired head-bangers. Most of them just [...]
It’s not yet Oscar® season and yet there is reason for movie-lovers to rejoice: three solid films a headed your way, one on dvd, one on HBO, one in a [...]
September 17, 2009 Po Bronson NURTURESHOCK: New Thinking About Children Time: 6:30 pm Cost: $35/person (includes all appetizers and a copy of the featured book) Location: NEW VENUE: Hotel Andra [...]
October 2, 2009 Sara Paretsky HARDBALL Time: 6:30 pm Cost: $50/person (includes all wines, appetizers and a copy of the featured book) Where: Pan Pacific Hotel 2125 Terry Avenue, Seattle, [...]
(Click here to watch my interview with Hugh Dancy and Max Mayer.) Romantic comedies thrive on quirk. But in real life, non-conformity doesn’t always charm, more often it distances. People [...]
I watched Bill O’Reilly referee a steel-cage, grudge match/battle-of-wits between Ann Coulter and Al Sharpton and it became apparent, immediately, that both sides were unarmed. While America’s unemployment rates soar, [...]
Rated PG-13 for thematic material, sexual content and language Running time: 98 minutes **PLEASE NOTE: Hugh Dancy and Max Mayer will join Warren Etheredge of The Warren Report for an [...]
Many folks have asked where they can see CITY OF BORDERS which I touted in a recent podcast/interview with its maker, Yun Suh. Sadly, the film does not yet have [...]
Stephan Elliott cheated Death. Could he do it again? The director of THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT survived a ski accident that made the alpine tumble in [...]
Dive down the rabbit hole of social media and you’re bound to encounter two virtual ninnies, Twitter-dee and Twitter-dum. Avatars for the masses, they represent the increasingly popular absurdity of [...]
The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) boasts 268 features. You can’t see them all. Who would want to? (I do. It’s my job.) However, this abundance of options can be [...]
I never thought I’d get to spend a night with Rachel Dratch drinking, laughing and wrestling in salsa. Truth is, I didn’t really. However, I did see SPRING BREAKDOWN in [...]
Maybe Anna Chlumsky needs a little TLC. After all, she is CrazySexyCool. Yup, that Anna Chlumsky. From MY GIRL. Who was fixated with Death. Who wore a mood ring. Who kissed Macaulay Culkin. [...]
July 14, 2009 Mark Caro THE FOIE GRAS WARS: How a 5,000-Year-Old Delicacy Inspired the World’s Fiercest Food Fight Time: 6:30 pm Cost: $45/person Where: Pan Pacific Hotel 2125 Terry [...]
Must I go to Somalia to find a good pirate? Need I recruit Baretta to keep an eye on/out for Jack Sparrow? I am desperately seeking someone — most assuredly [...]
Body blow. Body blow. Body blow. Boom! Upper cut. Chuck Wepner took his beatings like a man, like a brave, yet foolish man with bad vision. In short, like Mr. [...]
It takes a big woman to admit a mistake and Oprah, sporadically, is a very big woman. It takes an honest man to own up to a MILLION LITTLE lies. [...]
God bless, Roger Corman! When will he win an Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at the Oscars®? Perhaps his body of work does not “reflect a consistently high quality of [...]
A critic’s job is akin to a forty-niner’s; both spend their days panning for gold. The veteran reviewer does so in two way: by cherry-picking the best films from amongst [...]
Like this poor, simple USC student interviewing John Cusack, Justice isn’t always swift. Take the case of Dorothy Stang (right), the septuagenarian activist nun who was murdered in Brazil in [...]
Catherine Hardwicke epitomizes hip… minus the attitude. The director — who rocked Baby Jesus, tweaked LORDS OF DOGTOWN and chaperoned Edward and Bella — is a strong-minded artist with a [...]
The old saw goes: Children should be seen, not heard. Some young filmmakers, apparently, have a similar regard for actors. Thus was born Mumblecore? Well, not exactly, but this American [...]
Ricky Martin‘s nuts. I don’t want to live the crazy life, I want to lead THE GOOD LIFE. Thank goodness, the new series — produced by Kim Ricketts Book Events [...]
The phrase “independent film”is tossed about more wildly than Tina Turner was at Ike‘s place; the results almost as damaging. The words are now as meaningless as the musical duo’s [...]
Writing for kids ain’t kid’s play. Scripting family flicks is more difficult than it appears. Most animated movies spend years in development, each character being carefully crafted, each line being [...]
(What’s in a name? If it’s Kaufman, chances are you’re an oddball creative. Consider these crackpot namesakes: Lloyd — the “toxic” founder of Troma Entertainment; Andy — the semi-pro wrestler [...]
Interviewing actors often feels like watching C-Span — you see a lot of grandstanding disconnected from the humanity of others. On occasion, though, I meet a star whose intelligence, humor [...]
Helllllllllooooooo, Health-lovers! Early to bed, early to rise makes a (hu)man healthy, wealthy and wise? Is it all about the Benjamin’s… axiom? Well, as an insomniac, I’ve got the wake-up [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
.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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A team of Dutch smartypants (is the plural smartypantses?) has announced their theory for why we humans are so willing to mimic sheep in our apparent need to conform. Well, [...]
Roman Polanski may be one of filmdom’s most compelling characters; a man who mirrored both Alfred Hitchcock‘s sardonic talent and questionable social skills. Roman also exhibited Fatty Arbuckle‘s notorious lack of restraint [...]
Mickey Rourke pinned a Golden Globe for embodying THE WRESTLER*. Sean Penn, obviously, convinced The Screen Actors Guild to cry over kill’t MILK. If I were deciding this year’s Best Actor Oscar®, [...]
Filmmaking is an immodest proposal; on average, less successful than conventional marriage and open to as much scorn as same-sex unions. Filmmaking’s “commitment ceremony” lasts weeks rather than a single [...]
Helllllloooooooo, Movie-lovers! In nature, Adaptation is tantamount to survival. In Hollywood, adaptation can be paramount to a filmmaker’s success. The ability to translate others’ words from other sources into the [...]
[center]TWR Interview David Strathairn shares the SENSATION[/center] Ease equals Elegance. Great actors are often undervalued, for their performances appear deceptively simple. Nowadays, [b]Spencer Tracy[/b] rarely receives the accolades his more [...]
You needn’t be wealthy to make movies, but you ought to be talent-rich. [b]Mark and Jay Duplass[/b] have enjoyed financial success in tangential ends of the film industry, but only [...]
Opera. Broadway. Ballet. Reports of their deaths may be greatly exaggerated, but beyond New York, few celebrate these aged Arts. Though Film recently turned one hundred, the relatively young medium [...]
Vivifying ROBOT STORIES There is a fifth dimension, between sight and sound, between narrative features and documentaries, between the pit of studios’ fears and the obvious interests of the audience. [...]
Americans may know how to celebrate, but few know how to mourn. Most ignore Death or elevate it, ever so briefly, to Greek tragic status. Too few appreciate the gradations [...]
The Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 ensures that public facilities be accessible to all. However, there is no law that compels filmmakers to provide audiences similar equality. Film is [...]
Writer/director Alex Smith clarifies THE SLAUGHTER RULE Identical cousins dress alike, walk alike, they even talk alike … or so proved Patty Duke. Nowadays, however, you`ll find that [...]
Director Catherine Harwicke turns THIRTEEN Sorry, Mr. Rogers … it WAS a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Nowadays, kids, on their way to and from school, encounter more low-lifes [...]
TheWarrenReport TWR INTERVIEW Writer/director Mark Decena gives us the straight DOPAMINE What`s love got to do, got to do with it? Over time, a second-hand notion`s evolved [...]
TheWarrenReport TWR INTERVIEW Director AJ Schnack tackles GIGANTIC issues Martin Scorsese and Jonathan Demme crafted great concert films; THE LAST WALTZ and STOP MAKING SENSE, respectively. Shooting an award-worthy [...]
Actor James Urbaniak basks in AMERICAN SPLENDOR No doubt about it, you know James Urbaniak when you see him. And once you have, his appearances—in character—become indelible. Whether sniffin` [...]
LEVITY`s Ed Solomon lightens up (Part 2) WARREN: Why thank Pat Boone? Did his music change your life? How Pat Boone Saved My House (and, oh, yeah, my movie). By [...]
TheWarrenReport EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW! LEVITY`s Ed Solomon lightens up TheWarrenReport adheres to a simple dictum: Smarter audiences make better movies. Of course, the converse is also true: Better movies make [...]
TheWarrenReport TWR INTERVIEW Alan Rudolph investigates S*X Forget the chicken and the egg. Others are more concerned, simply, with which—or who—came first. (Ah, the perils of pleasure-seeking!) [...]
TheWarrenReport TWR INTERVIEW Morrie Warshawski shakes THE MONEY TREE** SHOW ME THE MONEY……. Pretty please? When raising funds, indie filmmakers ought to emulate Cuba Gooding Jr.`s [...]
Scott Hamilton Kennedy: From OUR TOWN to your town Theater isn`t dead. It`s, merely, been hijacked by the elite. As presidential candidates construct platforms creakier than Phyllis Diller in [...]
TheWarrenReport EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW! Director Jordan Melamed diagnosed as MANIC Hollywood is often faulted for its reliance on formula. However, many indies should receive the same knock. Without the visuals, [...]
TheWarrenReport EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW! Director Stephen Kijak succumbs to CINEMANIA he lights are off, but you`re not home. Your mind is not your own. Your feet stick, your body shakes… [...]
TheWarrenReport TWR INTERVIEW Director Don Coscarelli (un)wraps BUBBA HO-TEP ult cinema induces idle worship. Many midnight movie-goers prove as discriminating as Frank Zappa naming his kids. As long [...]
Lisa Loomer: Screenwriter, Interrupted Lisa Loomer skips between mediums as easily and carefree as Richard Simmons working a Psychic Hotline phone bank. Unlike the diminutive, hot-panted health nut, however, Ms. [...]
TheWarrenReport TWR INTERVIEW The Requa Brothers chart THE FLATS M. Night Shyamalan`s Philadelphia is intrinsic to his story-telling. Through his lens, the City of Brotherly Love evolves [...]
