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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Left-leaning Hollywood has done as much to undermine tolerance in this country as the Christian Right it so often seeks to pillory. The standard romantic comedy cements puritanical views of [...]
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 [...]
Discourse has devolved to the point that I get misty reminiscing about The McLaughlin Group. Oh, the humanity. Ah, the civility. WRONG! Don’t let nostalgia fool you. I won’t. Most [...]
Baseball is the sporting equivalent of radio, ever-present during the summer, it can be appreciated sporadically, yet never be missed when turned off. It’s white noise posed as nostalgic distraction. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I don’t care who sits in the director’s chair as long as she or he knows what they’re doing. Apparently, Hollywood is not so open-minded.. nor open-walleted. Opportunities for filmmakers [...]
