What's on tap for your Tuesday? Comedy, "Tommy" (live!), and enough film to fill your life. more ›

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Bernard-Henri Levy occupies a position in France roughly comparable to...well, we don't have anyone like him. Rock star Bono comes close. Jon Stewart, maybe, except that BHL writes his own material. Sporting an unruly haircut, clad in the requisite uniform (black shirt, black blazer), he's a familiar figure on French TV, the embodiment of the Public Intellectual. Atlantic Monthly sent him on a year-long assignment to retrace the intellectual journey taken by de Tocqueville; the resulting tome, American Vertigo, has just been published, and BHL came to Seattle as part of the book tour. more ›

The other evening Seattlest went to see Funny Ha-Ha at the Northwest Film Forum, not quite knowing what to expect. We can get like that. It's best to just let us go. more ›

Well, it's certainly no Brew and View, but The Big Picture, Seattle's upscale movie theater-cum-bar suits us just fine. The self-described "boutique meeting and event facility" is located on 1st Ave. in Belltown, but last Friday, they opened an additional venue. This one's on the Eastside in Redmond Town Center (on the second level, across from Macy's). So after a long hard day working at Microsoft, or after a long hard day protesting Microsoft, you can head over there for a film and a drink in some of the comfiest theater seats in town. more ›