Washington has, for the last 15 or so years, been losing tons of potential motion picture business. Sure, we get the occasional Mad Love, Assassins, or Twin Peaks, but filmmakers find shooting in the Great White North much more affordable. MovieMaker magazine regularly lists cities which are friendly to filmmakers. Seattle often appears on the list, but cities such as New York, Toronto, Vancouver, Austin and Portland are perrenial favorites. These cities offer tax incentives to production companies enabling the filmmakers to more affordably make their films on location. more ›

The troubles only began for travel agents that cater to the pervert set when Vegas's new ad campaign beat them to the punch on the whole "What happens in Thailand stays in Thailand" thing. Now they have Sen. Karen Fraser and Olympia breathing down their necks in the form of Senate Bill 6731 which seeks to curtail the sex tourism industry (which may or may not actually exist, in our opinion). more ›