What's on tap for your Wednesday? A movie about mountains? A stirring evening with Tom Brokaw? It's all here. more ›

Just because the closure of the viaduct is in effect doesn't mean one should avoid going to the West Seattle neighborhood. Jenise Silva compiles five of the best reasons to head out to our city's neighbor to the West. more ›

We said it before and we'll say it again: the teenager has come into it's own. This year's 16th annual Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival has had some of the strongest programs we can remember, and is truly establishing itself as a can't-miss event. The week has included plenty of entertaining flicks, along with several poignant documentaries chronicling the AIDS epidemic including The Grove and We're Still Here. more ›

This week, City Arts Fest came out of the gates with a big bang, with no fewer than 40 events and shows to choose from. We were disappointed to only get to take in six or so, but until self cloning becomes real, we're just going to have to pace ourselves. Regardless of what you've already got on tap tonight, though, you'll want to make time to get to On the Boards for an evening of mind-melting performances by some of the area's most exceptional multimedia talent. more ›

We were in the crowd at Fred Wildlife Refuge, shamelessly shaking it to her 80s hits, and couldn't have been happier to be on-hand with the hundreds of festival goers who streamed in after the screening of Dirty Girl at the Egyptian. The crowd seemed to enjoy chatting film and fashion while noshing on PoDog and partaking in lubricants from Menage Trois. more ›

Swedish hospital is laying off 150 people, Gregoire has called an emergency legislative session, and a search warrant for a fetus. Oh, and that Tacoma teachers' strike? It's finally over. more ›

This is America, and in America we like things to be oversized, bold and classic. Think glittering cityscapes packed with enormous skyscrapers and billboards. Or the Grand Canyon’s grandiose formations. Or Texas…um… just in general. Americans are suckers for all things larger than life, which is why Seattleites should rejoice about the upcoming Cinerama Big Screen 70mm Film Festival. more ›

Winter comes early to Seattle. The acclaimed snowboarding film Art of Flight premieres tonight at McCaw Hall. more ›

For most of us Seattlites Bumbershoot is one more indication of summer being in full swing and fall looming just around the corner. To some it may also be another annoying festival taking over downtown during the scant amount of beautiful days we have in this city. Then there are those who excitedly look forward to the musical event of the season, buy their tickets early and start acting weirdly giddy in the few days leading up to Labor Day weekend. Most likely you fit on the fringes of several of these categories, as do we. more ›

Have you ever been sitting around listening to your classic seventies LPs and wish there were something new in the world of disco? Something fresh and exciting where you could throw on your platform fish-bowl boots and hit the town a la Tony Manero? Well, my friend, you have hit the jackpot today. more ›

One of our favorite local acts is fast on their way to the big time. The first stop? The big screen. more ›

This weekend you have the chance to be the most human you can be by catching a screening of A Not So Still Life, a documentary about Ruffner’s world-renowned art, recovery from a near-fatal car accident and philosophy. The film premiered at the 2010 Seattle International Film Festival, won the audience award for Best Documentary and will play at SIFF Cinema. more ›

You probably don't need Seattlest to tell you that, this weekend, Harry Potter is going to make an amount of money so gargantuan that lesser blockbusters will cling to it for warmth. That being said, there are a lot of other exciting, unwizardly things going on in two-dimensional spaces all throughout Seattle. Every week, this column will highlight some intriguing films from local theaters with a more daring or iconoclastic outlook to their programming. more ›

Local filmmaker Chris Diani, who likes sweater vests and grilled cheese sandwiches, is making a screwball comedy about furries! We talked to him about his Kickstarter campaign for Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits. more ›

Start your morning with some of the stories everyone's been talking about, including the Mercer Mess and those magnificent Ms. more ›

Wednesday night music and film lovers alike shuffled into the Triple Door to experience a once in a lifetime performance. SIFF asked Damien to take part in their festival and he was immediately intrigued. They wanted him to play music to accompany a film and he agreed with one stipulation: the films he played with would be directed by the Russian-born French film maker Dimitri Kirsanoff. Like any normal eighteen year old boy, Jurado was entranced by the macabre and beautiful avant garde films Kirsanoff had created (we're just kidding, no eighteen year old boy loves those; which is what makes Damien the unique and wonderful person he is). more ›

Everett Rummage fails to connect with Beat Takeshi Kitano's latest gory gangster opus. more ›

The opening ceremonies have come and gone, and between the films and the parties, SIFF has shown us a great time this weekend. But it's time to get down to business. Today marks the start of the first full week of the festival, so I hope you've done your stretches. This is what we're looking forward to in the coming week. more ›

Remember the selfish grumbling in those SIFF picks about how badly I wanted to see a trailer for Miranda July's The Future? Well, it's here! It's finally here! more ›

It's easy to forget how overwhelming SIFF is. But with 441 films from 74 countries, it's easy to fall into a black hole of trailers, directors and descriptions, spending hours and hours poring through that year's lineup--in some cases, even more time then you will actually spend attending the festival. We hope that these picks will help as you wade through this year's cavalcade of solid choices. more ›

Last Thursday one of the most imaginative musicians that we’ve seen or heard performed at Chop Suey. He goes by the name Pogo and uses classic films as a base, mixing in his own music with the dialog and scenes to create something new. This is evident in Wishery, a remix of Disney’s Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs. more ›

When we checked the Oscar nominations last week, we were as surprised as anyone to see the four nominations for indie favorite Winter's Bone. more ›

News on the A.W.A.R.D. Show! $10,000 grand prize winner, Oscar nominations with local ties, the Fleet Foxes sophomore album release and the Mary Poppins musical. more ›

The Room is a film that has been exploding in popularity over the last couple years. Central Cinema has been screening the film on a regular basis, it's been covered here at Seattlest and there is even a Rocky Horror-style guide to watching the film with an audience (hint: bring lot of plastic spoons). Its popularity is based on one thing: the film is terrible. However, it's so sincere that you can't help but stick with it. And this weekend, you can experience all the wonder that is The Room with the film's writer, director and star Tommy Wiseau. more ›

Hell on Wheels will be screening tomorrow, May 6 at Central Cinema and Friday, May 7 at Capitol Theatre in Olympia. Full event details below. more ›

Have you ever looked at past Academy Award nominees and wondered what the hell happened? This is your year! The 20/20 Awards are this weekend. The 20/20 Awards goes back 20 years and reexamines the Academy Awards with the advantage of time, perspective and history. They describe themselves as "the only honors that wait 20 years to see how the works fare under the cold, hard scrutiny of Time, and how the works have truly affected the culture at large." more ›

Fans of Significant Cinema take note! The Criterion Collection has begun streaming their films on Hulu. Up now are the first six films in the Zatoich: The Blind Swordsman series. More are coming. Sorry to our Canadian readers -- the films are available only in the United States. more ›

For the film history crowd, the show of the night is at Northwest Film Forum, where tonight's showing of Rebel Without a Cause will be introduced by the film's screenwriter, Stewart Stern. And if that's not good enough for you... well, that just seems kind of ungracious -- but you can still get more Stern tomorrow when NWFF hosts an afternoon of discussion with him. Tickets here. more ›

In other cult film news, Monty Python and The Holy Grail will be at Central Cinema tomorrow and Sunday night, and only the most Jonestownian devotees need apply for these very special, supremely dorky, "Quote-Along" performances. That’s right, folks--for once, you can jabber along with every eminently quotable line of this flick, and no one in earshot will beg you to please for the love of God shut up. You’re among friends. more ›

It's probably not much of an overstatement to say that Army of Darkness is the Greatest Movie That Ever Was or Ever Will Be. It's scary, it's action packed, it's funny as hell, and it stars Bruce Campbell in the role that made his career. Seriously, for a number of guys of a certain age, this is the movie that made Bruce Campbell what Gary Cooper and Steve McQueen were to generations before ours--the very epitome of masculinity, the embodiment of dudeliness on celluloid. more ›