It took filmmaker Jennifer Fox four years, seventeen countries, and 1,600 hours of footage (which she whittled down to 6 hours of film) to fully cover the cross-cultural confusion of modern womanhood. The project didn't start out that high-minded; Jennifer was dating two men and not entirely happy with either, which led to an identity crisis that inspired her travels exploring what it means to be a woman today. The result is her sweeping,......

Now that whoredom is all over the news, won't somebody think of the children? On Saturday, April 19th at 10am local time in select movie theaters nationwide, the highly popular BRATZ dolls star in their first animated musical BRATZ: Girlz Really Rock, featuring 8 new songs and a new character in a one-day special event. BRATZ: Girlz Really Rock shows girls that winning sometimes isn’t everything. Although the Bratz get wrapped up in the......

Iphigenia in Aulis @ Washington Ensemble Theatre 8pm Thurs-Mon, through June 11; Tickets $18 general/$10 students, seniors Ellen McLaughlin's "meditation on feminism," Iphigenia and Other Daughters is an adaptation of three Greek plays. (The Chamber Theater just did the complete version, as it happens.) WET has taken the portion based on Iphigenia in Aulis (a 5-page section), and created a 50-minute performance. (We suspected it was a feminist reading because none of the men......

A website entitled "People Against Fundamentalism" is setting up a direct action against the Seattle megachurch Mars Hill for December 3rd at 11am outside their Ballard campus to protest the preachings of Mars Hill pastor Mark Driscoll. There is a certain...passion to the website's descriptions of Mark and his attitudes towards women, as you can see here: 'Preaching' may be too staid of a term. He [Mark Driscoll] has been relishing in his misogyny, rolling......

Last week when Salon came to town to check in on the Ballard megachurch Mars Hill there was a lot of commenting here and elsewhere, both condemning the church and inviting non-believers to attend a service. The proprietress at the local Electrolicious blog took them up on it and went to Mars Hill this Sunday, and today Seattlest sits down with the resulting post for a chat. So, what first got you excited about attending......