Happy Black Friday! Let the games begin. more ›

Jan Fabre may be direct, but he's not didactic. In , which played last weekend at On the Boards, he avoids becoming just another European leftist railing against capitalism and instead delivers a nearly two-hour exploration of the fear and loathing that underlies Western liberal capitalist society. Starting with proposition that consumerism is a form of autoeroticism--that it's masturbation, basically--his theatre troupe Troubleyn delves deep into the anxiety and self-loathing of people who consume to self-realize. more ›

Busiest shopping day of the year, nexus of downtown Seattle commerce, the hard core of the retail core: Westlake Mall. And what do we have? Well, people doing their holiday shopping, of course. And getting ready for the ceremonial lighting of the Christmas Tree. But who are those spoilsports with the signs, already? Ah, that would be the protesters, the anarchists, the enemies of the public good. So nicely dressed, too. So polite, so well-groomed. Those signs, what do they say? Down with the capitalist state? No, the signs are actually encouraging commerce. "Buy More Stuff," they implore. "Hurry," they urge. more ›

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