Arts & Culture

Book Review

Sordid City: The Half-Told Saga of Seattle’s Elusive Vice King

Rick Anderson tells some great tales in ‘Seattle Vice.’ But he coulda done more.

11/23/2010 By Eric Scigliano

Books & Talks

4 Q’s for Billy Collins

The former U.S. poet laureate wouldn’t mind owning a frame shop. Or working at an airport.

11/23/2010 By Olivia Margoshes

Comedy

Who Will Be Seattle’s Next Top Comic?

Drew Barth? Billy Wayne Davis? A guy from…Portland?!

11/23/2010 By Lindsey Hall

Ticket Alert

Sasquatch! Music Fest Adds Fourth Day; Foo Fighters to Headline

Yes, we’re already thinking about Memorial Day weekend.

11/22/2010 By Laura Dannen

Film Reviews

Busy Bees Collapse; Aasif Mandvi Does Kitchen Duty.

‘The Colony’ and ’Today’s Special’ promise much, but the proof of the pudding is….

11/19/2010 By Eric Scigliano

Film Reviews

Bromance in Rome and on the Road in SIFF’s New Italian Cinema Fest

Clichés, corn, and a gritty, poetic fable of the new post-immigration Italy.

11/19/2010 By Eric Scigliano

Film Review

Fighting a Man’s War in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part One

The seventh installment in the HP series is its most mature—and its best.

11/19/2010 By Laura Dannen

Sports

Hail King Felix! Mariners’ Hernandez Wins AL Cy Young

And then there was a rainbow over Safeco. (We’re not kidding.)

11/18/2010 By Laura Dannen

The Weekend Starts...Now.

Met Picks: Mezzo Lunatico, Lady Gaga Dance-Off and ‘Harry Potter 7’

Top 10 things to do this weekend.

11/18/2010 By Laura Dannen

Gift Ideas

Holiday Gift Guide, Part 1: Books Signed by Famous People

Is your sister a big fan of Tom Douglas? Then we know the perfect gift.

11/18/2010 By Hilary Meyerson

Article

Pigskin Perp

Seattle Times reporters Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry, from their book, Scoreboard, Baby, about the thug-riddled 2000 Huskies’ championship-winning football team.

11/18/2010

Article

The Facebook Comic

You don’t publish graphic novels—and allegedly not pay your artists—without making a few enemies.

11/18/2010

Article

The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.

11/18/2010

Visual Art

Wang Huaiqing: "The Painter’s Painter"

The contemporary Chinese artist eschews politics in his first solo exhibit in the US.

11/17/2010 By Clancey Denis

Parties

Take our Mayor. Please, Take our Mayor.

The News Council makes merry at the expense of five obliging hizzoners.

11/17/2010 By Eric Scigliano

Books & Talks

Funny Ladies: Nora Ephron and Lauren Weedman

Men aren’t the only ones who can make jokes about bald spots.

11/17/2010 By Laura Dannen

Article

Greenback Gifts

Have yourself a mercenary little Christmas.

11/17/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Seattle in the News

Seattleite to Star in New NBC Sitcom

Plus: Former Intiman director Bart Sher debuts his new Broadway musical.

11/16/2010 By Laura Dannen