Today was a big day for cancellations: Pacino, road closures, probably the Windows phone and probably free entrance to state parks. more ›

Yes Virginia, life will go on after the snow stops falling. If you're capable of thinking past the Snowpacalypse/ Snowmageddon '08, not to mention the upcoming holidays, make plans to go to SIFF Cinema sometime soon. Sure, even SIFF is closed tonight due to weather, but tomorrow they'll be back in business to kick off their two-week run of Francis Ford Coppola's masterpieces The Godfather and The Godfather II. (We also refuse to acknowledge that a third film was ever made.) Consider it a very merry mafia Christmas present from SIFF. more ›

The Community Theatre is staging performances of three Raymond Carver short stories, What's in Alaska?, Fat and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Centre in West Seattle. Seattlest attended the Friday night performance and can attest that the actors all did a serviceable job of capturing the dramatic awkwardness and tension that fascinated Carver so much. His minimalistic work about shy ordinary people feeling passive and acquiescent doesn't offer aspiring Al Pacino types many opportunities for projectile scene chewing, which is generally a good thing, except for the generally depressing and underwhelming afterglow of wimpy victimhood that envelops you like a bad after taste. more ›

As reported on the slog earlier, eclectic zine/book/underground comix shop Confounded Books will be closing forever Saturday April 29th, with shared retail-mate Wall of Sound expanding to take up the soon to be vacated space. In its seven year history, Confounded has changed ownership once and moved twice, from Fremont, to Belltown and then finally to Capitol Hill. Seattlest's sense of the store's history was foggy enough to merit contacting Confounded owner and operator Brad Beshaw for some help with the chronology. more ›

Seattlest made a quick stop at Glo’s diner on Capitol Hill this first weekend of May to enjoy the hipster eatery’s third exhibition of weird comics art by local cartoonist and regular Stranger illustrator David Lasky, best known to comic book nerds as one-half of the creative team behind the award nominated (but not winning) comic book series Urban Hipster. more ›