Draw your own conclusions.
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I don’t get nervous. I speak with stars. I speak with smarties. I speak with thousands. I don’t get nervous. I speak with authors and artists I greatly admire — [...]
Statistics regarding child abuse and neglect in this country are staggering and these heinous crimes are certainly under-reported. Then, when we remind ourselves that these numbers represents actual children and [...]
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If everyone’s a critic, why do so few get paid for the gig? Is it a thankless task or one that’s becoming irrelevant in the alleged information age? One of [...]
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Window-shopping is one of the most enjoyable elements of the holiday season; family is one of the most trying. Window-shopping, whether for in-laws, off-spring or oneself, offers the promise of [...]
Getting your groove on may be as easy as learning your ABCs, but as we now know, literacy rates in this country are dropping faster than Rick Perry‘s poll numbers. [...]
Mike Daisey has a bone to pick with Steve Jobs.* Doesn’t matter that, recently, the latter resigned his role at Apple. Mike still believes there are serious ethical, if not [...]
Yes, Steve Jobs was a genius… but not a saint. Let his death remind us how much more corporations still could do to help mankind rather than simply benefit from [...]
What’s music to my ears, may be noise to yours. The space between cacophony and symphony is the field in which MacArthur genius grant recipient, Trimpin, has been frolicking for [...]
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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, [...]
Mike Daisey has a bone to pick with Steve Jobs. Doesn’t matter that, recently, the latter resigned his role at Apple. Mike still believes there are serious ethical, if not [...]
Marshall McLuhan famously instructed: “The medium is the message.” However, if you read Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man on-line, you might have already forgotten the phrase and its implications. [...]
When Matthew Lillard (aka Shaggy) visits The High Bar, he’s in front of the camera where we are accustomed to seeing him as in films such as SCREAM, SLC PUNK [...]
I have seen THE FUTURE and it promises an intense, celebratory awards season for its filmmaker/star, the multi-versatile and uniquely-appealing, Miranda July. Join us at The High Bar on August [...]
If I could travel back in time, I would urge more folks to see MOON, Duncan Jones‘ debut, hard sci-fi feature that melded the cinematic sensibilities of Peter Hyams and Tarkovsky. MOON is [...]
You spin me right round, baby, right round, like an independent record label, baby! Visqueen‘s pitch-perfect and patter-perfected rock goddess, Rachel Flotard, visits The High Bar, to raise a toast [...]
A Jew and a black guy walk into a bar… And that’s just the beginning of today’s story. Join Warren Etheredge and Brian McDonald at The High Bar as they [...]
You’ve got to love a Booker Prize winner who can joke about Samuel Coleridge, bowel cancer and the mispronunciation of chutzpah over drinks at The High Bar. Howard Jacobson (The [...]
Is Maria Menounos the female James Franco? That is, might she be the world’s best multi-tasker, not worst Oscar® host? In addition to her jobs on camera, Maria manages a [...]
In the age of social media, how do we know who are true friends are? Monica Guzman Preston is a beloved pioneer in the fields of new media and on-line [...]
Incredibly, a third of the budget for the next James Bond movie will be provided by product placement. Morgan Spurlock can top that. POM Wonderful Presents THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER [...]
I know, you weren’t expecting life lessons from the man who made ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE, but listen to Tom Shadyac. He had it all according to industry standards then [...]
If I could travel back in time, I would urge more folks to see MOON, Duncan Jones‘ debut, hard sci-fi feature that melded the cinematic sensibilities of Peter Hyams and [...]
Game over, man? Far from it. The video game business has quickly surpassed Hollywood as a profit generator and emerging medium for greatest audience investment. But can the story-tellers keep [...]
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 [...]
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Suicide is painless? Debatable. Arguing the merits and perils of self-termination with The Stranger’s Brendan Kiley? Priceless. Join us at The High Bar for a spirited debate about society’s wavering [...]
Now that gays & lesbians can officially die for love of country, could we please let them vow “til Death do us part” for love of one another? What do [...]
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Big change starts small. Or so filmmaker/poet Stephen Gyllenhaal believes. Join me at The High Bar as we debate grassroots politics, tea parties and the one-minute monorail. Then, write in [...]
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 [...]
Marriage isn’t for the faint of heart. It takes strength, courage and love to take the wedding vow and honor that commitment. I know. I failed. (Though someday, I may [...]
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 [...]
