The holidays are over (except for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, of course), so authors are starting to make their way to Seattle again, ready to read excerpts and sign autographs so that you'll be tempted to buy their latest title. Here's a cheat sheet for the week in book tours. more ›

ACT Theatre certainly knows how to get a rise out of us. First came the ominous news in January of 2003 that they needed a million dollars or they were going to close their doors for good. Now they're flat out just trying to freak us out with their current staging of The Woman in Black. The folks at ACT are playing it a little safe, given that this adaptation of Susan Hill's book of the same name has been keeping people looking over their shoulders in London for years. more ›

During Seattlest's formative years in the eighties, we watched an obscenely large quantity of those low-grade horror films the movie studios kept pumping out on a near-weekly basis. Perhaps because of this, we still tend to avoid sleepaway camps, hockey games and people who wear gloves made out of knives. Even though we are older, gainfully employed, and no longer living with our parents, we still have a soft spot for all things scary (except for spiders, which totally wig us out). We were incredibly excited when we heard about the ACT theater putting on a performance of The Woman in Black. This gothic horror story of ghosts, curses, missing people, and lawyers is just the thing to hold us over until the next M. Night Shyamalan movie (forgetting, of course, about The Village, which really sucked). more ›