Direct from Hollywood: Catch a Fire (Philip Noyce): Several theaters, including Pacific Place and Metro. Running with Scissors (Ryan Murphy): Several theaters, including Oak Tree, Meridian 16, and Metro Saw III (Darren Lynn Bousman): Several theaters, including Oak Tree, Pacific Place, and Metro Indies, revivals, and other abominations against the studio system: Bad Taste (Peter Jackson): Central Cinema Blue Velvet (David Lynch): Central Cinema Camp Death (Blood Squad): Grand Illusion Conversations with God (Stephen Simon):......

There is a film by which the love all Seattleites have for the Emerald City can be measured. Can you stomach the whole movie; Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks and a cute kid for 105 minutes? Doubtful. But how long will you watch this TBS mainstay while waiting for the scene where he rows a boat from Lake Union to Alki or just one more shot of The Houseboat's exterior? Five minutes? One commercial break? Two?......

Seattlest first heard the legend of the lost ski resort of Mt. Pilchuck way back in 2004 from a man who cut our hair at Rudy's (which, contrary to what you may have heard, is actually a decent and affordable place to get your hair cut in Seattle). The story goes something like this: Back in the 1950s there was a big push to start up a ski resort on the mountain in question, despite......

Seattlest doesn't normally do the rave thing, and we would never even consider going to Burning Man, but we're kind of curious about the October 15th Internal Combustion event, described as "an underground trance dance gathering at a place like no other," only because where its taking place, that underground tunnel by Stevens Pass, is in fact a place like no other: site of the historic 1910 Stevens Pass avalanche that killed 96 people aboard......

Amazon is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a curious promotion: for a limited time, selected customers will get their booty delivered by none other than a celebrity related to the item ordered. Then--in a twist that could only make us think of those Publisher's Clearing House commercials where the mortified new millionaire answers the door in curlers and a bathrobe--Amazon webcasts the magic moment. So far, the deliveries have resulted in webcasts that pretty......