Big film news this weekend will surely gravitate towards the San Diego Comic-Con and the hotly anticipated opening of Captain America: The First Avenger, but that doesn't mean you grumpy, comic-book-hating cinephiles are out of options. more ›

Editor's note: Seattlest writer Alex Hudson braved one local haunted house and lives to tell the tale. more ›

BLOCK PARTY: Yep, it's this weekend. Jesus Lizard, Sonic Youth, yadda, yadda, yadda. It's a big deal, go watch a concert in the street. Changes to the layout of the party are being hyped as solving the extended misery problem that virtually everyone who's ever been to the Block Party over the last couple years has complained about, so please some let us know if you can actually move once you're on the inside. Fri. doors 3 p.m., Sat. doors 1 p.m. // Capitol Hill Block Party // 12th Ave. & E. Pike St. // tix $23 per day, $42 for both more ›

Seattle-born and Mercer Island-bred, Burnett’s the kind of guy you want making movies—He’s genuinely in the business for the love of it, but he still possesses enough savvy to endure amidst the industry rat race. And when you ask him about screening his horror movie The Hills Run Red at the Seattle International Film Festival, he’s pretty much over the moon. more ›

This reminder courtesy of Seattlest's favorite Port Orchard cartoonist Pat Moriarity: more ›