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Maritime Music from The Magnetic Field's Stephin Merritt: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea at the Paramount Tonight

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Published June 9, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.

Stephin Merritt at Town Hall, March 2008 (courtesy of houseoftomorrow.com) If you’ve spent any time in the presence of Stephin Merritt, you’ve most likely learned that the man behind cult-favorite The Magnetic Fields is about as warm (and conversational) as a giant squid ... For fans of Merritt’s musical stylings and/or epic tales about giant squids, tonight’s your dream come true as the curmudgeonly mastermind will be performing the score to the 1916 silent classic 20,000 Leagues

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Get Lost at This Year's Bumbershoot's Literary Series

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Published June 25, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

The 2009 Festival’s literary arts lineup includes: ... David Cross / S.E. Hinton / Melvin Van Peebles / Writers of LOST: Carlton Cuse, Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz / McSweeney’s New Fiction / Christian Lander’s Stuff White People Like / The Enablers Have Spoken and You’re Fine with Spencer Moody / Zak Smith / Tom Douglas / Manic D / Youth Speaks Seattle w/ Staceyann Chin & Prometheus Brown (Geo of Blue Scholars) / Jessica Anthony / Bill Cotter / Ross Simonini / iLL-Literacy / Seattle

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Joe Dallesandro Was in Town Last Week

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Published June 17, 2009 at 5:30 p.m.
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For the next seven years Joe Dallesandro served as Paul Morrissey’s muse. The former juvenile delinquent never studied acting: He played hustlers and drug addicts with semi-improvised naturalness partly borne of personal experience (he freely admitted to turning tricks in real life on the streets of New York). Nor did he spend a single second working out: That physique—perfectly-toned, with the faintest hint of androgyny in his sculpted features—just was. He was the first man on American

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Fremont moviemaker wins at SIFF

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Published June 8, 2009 at 3:31 p.m.

Fremont movie-maker Martin Fossum has won an award at the Seattle International Film Festival for the Seattle Times’ 2009 3-Minute Masterpiece. The film, “Interstice” is a study of walkways and water at the Ballard Locks. The film was shot in sequence on Super8 film and there was no post-production editing. Fossum was one of nine [ ... ] ...

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Short film on Ballard Locks wins award at SIFF

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Published June 8, 2009 at 3:22 p.m.

Fremont movie-maker Martin Fossum has won an award at the Seattle International Film Festival for the Seattle Times’ 2009 3-Minute Masterpiece. The film, “Interstice” is a study of walkways and water at the Ballard Locks. The film was shot in sequence on Super8 film and there was no post-production editing. Fossum was one of nine [ ... ] ...

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Yes, Even More Bumbershoot Artists Announced

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Published May 28, 2009 at 3:15 p.m.

Bumbershoot's 2009 lineup features Pacific Northwest Ballet; a special presentation by PS122, New York’s world-renowned presenter of experimental and alternative performance; the 1 Reel Film Festival: a weekend-long series of film shorts curated by Seattle International Film Festival; The Goldberg Variations; and a one-of-a-kind literary program including groundbreaking Young Adult novelist S.E. Hinton, David Cross (with his new book I Drink For A Reason ), a poetry reading curated by

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"Ein, Zwei...Die!" Nazi Zombies @ SIFF

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Published May 21, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.

Special to Seattlest: Tony Kay, B-movie evangelist and photojournalist--check out his photo essay, Neighborhood Metamorphosis. Since Tony is a unique item, we've kept him first person ... Some people wax nostalgic over a familiar old song. Others get misty-eyed when they hold a soft, comfy childhood quilt. Me, I get warm-fuzzies from Nazi zombies ... The SS-affiliated undead were a staple on drive-in screens back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, from Ken Wiederhorn's compact and enjoyable 1977

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SIFF Knows Their Audience

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Published May 20, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
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Just saw this over at Publicola, and it's awesome--the Seattle International Film Festival has developed an iPhone app, iSIFF. You can use it the SIFFter service on it, check venue info, even buy tickets! There's also their Twitter feed. Oh, and we should point out--tomorrow night's the grand opening gala, $50 for non-subscribers. Click here to launch iTunes at the iSIFF page, or just search on your phone ...

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Film festival in West Seattle: SIFF’s Admiral schedule goes public

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Published May 7, 2009 at 2:08 p.m.

As we reported last month, the Seattle International Film Festival is coming to West Seattle for the first time, with films at the Admiral Theater June 5th-11th. The schedule’s been made public today; see it here — note that the list of 25 movies includes, appropriately enough, one called “The Admiral.” The SIFF citywide box [ ... ] ...

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Can't Miss It: Thursday

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Published April 23, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.
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"Art Is All Around Us" by Seattlest Flickr pool superstar Grundlepuck ... ELECTIONEERING : Do you make all your voting decisions based on the enthusiastic support of aging rock musicians? If so, tonight's your night, with the likes of Krist Novoselic, Dave Dederer, and Kim Thayil turning out at the Croc to support the electoral efforts of Dow Constantine to become the new King County Exec. Music will be provided, and there's a special VIP treatment if you can cough up $100 for a donation ... 7

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