Our friends over at Longhouse Media found themselves victims of image theft that was used in racist attacks against native youth in Canada. The above image from Longhouse’s award winning film MARCH POINT apeared in a UsedWinnipeg.com ad headlined “Native Extraction Service” with a photograph of three young native boys.The service offered to round up and remove First Nations youth like wild animals, and “relocate them to their habitat.”  The ad read: “Have you ever had the experience of getting

The 8th Annual Emerald City Comicon opens its doors tomorrow morning at 10am at the Washington State Convention Center, which means thousands of comic book/sci-fi/fantasy/horror fans will be taking to the streets of downtown Seattle for the weekend, either dressed in the sweats/ballcap/iconic character t-shirt combo OR poured into some sort of spandexy, pleathery, feathery, codpiecey type of outfit. You have been warned...If I was going to be town, I would definitely be heading to this. I'd interview

It's that time of the year again...when Irish eyes are smiling.
Wednesday March 17, 2010 is St. Partick's Day!

First, the exciting news is that Linda's Tavern, the infamously gay friendly Capitol Hill bar but that typically, for some reason, lacks very many gays, is holding their Fifth Annual Gaelic Gay St. Patrick's Day Party. This is an annual gathering of The Gaelic Gays Fan Club. What a great time to check on this iconic and little hangout for musicians and industry

I’m really looking forward to 45365, a new documentary billed as “perhaps the first rural symphony.”

Directors Bill & Turner Ross just won the Chaz and Roger Ebert Truer than Fiction Award at the Independent Spirit Awards, and the film was earlier been lauded with the Grand Jury Prize at the 2009 South by Southwest Festival.

Seattle PostGlobe says it “captures small town American life in striking cinema verité style that peels away the layers…to reveal a deeper shared experience. Gorgeous.”

(It’s also

Yep, it's the 2nd Thusday of the month so that means it's time for Blitz, the Capitol Hill Arts Walk. Check out works by Corey Lewis at Bauhaus Coffee, Mina Best Loving at Babeland, Dana Peugh at Atlas Clothing, Erik Andrew at Caffe Vita, Stephanie Doll at Retrofit, a Bigfoot group show at ZAPP, Roy Powell and Greg Boudreau at Bluebird Ice Cream/Tea Room and dozens more at locations all over the Hill. You can party at Throwbacks NW/Gallery One which is located at 1205 E Pike St #1D and enjoy their

Seattle is a city of film festivals...the big daddy of SIFF, the LGBT festival in October and dozens of festivals focusing on films from specific regions and ethnic groups. One of the best smaller festivals is the Seattle Jewish Film Festival, now in its 15th year and presented by the American Jewish Council which officially opens Saturday, March 13th at SIFF Cinema at McCaw Hall with the local premier of the Oscar nominated Ajami. The festival continues through March 21st at various venues including

Jacques Audiard’s   "A Prophet" might not have won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, but in its native country it took nine Cesar awards, including Best Picture, Best Director,  Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor.  Although Audiards last picture,   “The Beat My Heart Skipped,” was a disappointing and over-rated remake  of James Toback’s “Fingers,”   this new one is the best  ethnocentric prison movie since “Blood In Blood Out,” Taylor Hackford’s 1993 masterpiece about   Chicano gangs in San Quentin.

“A Prophet” chronicles  the rise to power of Malik el Djebena (Tahar Rahim).  Sentenced to six years in a French prison for assaulting a police officer, the 19-year old Arab boy becomes the right hand man of Corsican gangster Cesar Luciani (Niels Arestrup). By the time of his release, Malik has built  up a nice piece of business for himself on the outside.

This is a tough, bloody, and empathetic  piece of film-making that moves through...

the best corner to keep an eye on in my opinion. 

i’m just a smidge up from 1oth & pike these days, above the strange real estate office across from the comet. 

if you are at caffe vita, i am watching you. and not doing my work. 

teevee. a cap hill bloggers dream office.

It's been rumored for weeks that Conan O'Brien, legally prohibited from working on television for six months following the demise of his stint as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show", would take to the stage for a nationwide tour that would essentially replicate his talk show in a theatrical format. Those rumors came to fruition today with the announcement that Ticketmaster would start selling tickets for his 30 city tour starting at 7am TODAY. Two shows are set for Seattle, April 18th and 19th with

Because it looks like a great line up this year – check it out:

The Cream of Celtic Cinema returns to Seattle!

2010 Irish Reels Film Festival, March 12-14

Now in our twelfth year we are delighted to bring to Seattle a wonderful collection of refreshing and exciting new works in Irish cinema. Screenings will take place at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Art Museum and FREE screenings at the Seattle Center.

Our guest of honor will be the Right Honorable Desmond Guinness  (yes, relative to

well, it’s about gosh darn time a place opens that lets me get my buzz on pre happy hour besides the oh-so-fancy bimbo’s….a girl can only eat so many sub-par burritos. (xoxo) but we gots ourselves another little gem to serve us lunch, or something like it, with our morning beers. unicorn, the bar we have so sinfully neglected to mention, is now open starting at noon for corn dogs, booze and the whole shabang. fucking sweet. that is one less block i have to struggle down to find some grub. and i’

The Balagan Theatre has been on a roll this season with its ambitious mix of contemporary and classical works in a massive ten show season. They scored big with last month's production of "Trout Stanley" which earned rave reviews from everyone in town (including me) and here's hoping the trend continues with tomorrow night's opening of their new production, Rolin Jones "The Jammer" a 1950's set comedy set in the world of roller derby. The play itself has earned good reviews since its premiere at

Gold: Before Woodstock. Beyond Reality (Grand Illusion, March 12-18)

Forget about “Easy Rider,” “Psych-Out,” and “ Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.”   For an authentic dose of psychedelic sunshine, accept nothing less than the marvelously incoherent “Gold: Before Woodstock. Beyond Reality.” Connoisseurs of the weird, epicureans of the flesh, and archeologists of hippie lore will find infinite delights in this lost treasure from 1968. Others may see nothing but a trainload of naked freaks set loose in a forest where a handful of part-time television actors, dressed as politicians, discuss issues of public morality.

The sex scenes, which run the gamut from    innocent skinny-dipping to  Calabanish group gropes in the mud, must have been the primary marketing lure of the film when it was finally released in London in 1972, but its more tingling  pleasures are the anthropological   images of hippies in their natural habitat  set to hitherto unreleased music by artists that...

Seattle Film Guide March 12-18

Opening this Week

A ProphetBill White reviews it for the Seattle PostGlobe

Green Zone  When is Jason Bourne not Jason Bourne?  When he is Roy Miller.

Our Family Wedding  When you marry someone, you also marry their family.  Apparently, thre are people who do not yet know this. 

Remember Me  "wondering if the movie will ever end"  Nick Pinkerton, The Weekly

She's Out of My League     "30% romance and 70% comedy"  Megan Selling, The Stranger

Good Guy One of those movies that shows up uninvited and leaves before anybody knows it was there.

Limited Runs

The Most Dangerous Man in America (Varsity, March 12-18)  Bill White reviews it for the Seattle PostGlobe

Gold(Grand Illusion, March 12-18)   Bill White reviews it for the Seattle PostGlobe

Leonard Cohen Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 (NWFF, March 12-13)   Bill White reviews it for the Seattle PostGlobe

45365(NWFF, March 12-18) “Meticulously balancing...

What started online four years ago as a "We Are the Web" viral campaign but now turned international phenomenon, Leslie & and LY's make a special visit to Seattle to perform at Chop Suey on Thursday March 11, 2010. Glittery frontwoman Leslie Hall, with her newest album Back2Back Palz, is spreading her bedazzling debauchery across the US of A. Joining them is Christopher The Conquered with their newest release You're Gonna Glow In the Dark and also Queerbait featuring Gina Young formerly of Team

Former child star actor and 80's heartthrob Corey Haim has died at age 38, apparently from an accidental drug overdose according to the Internets. So much will be spoken of the whats, whys and hows over the next 24 hours. One of his most famous roles was as Sam in the 1987 movie Lost Boys and the following year he appeared in the movie License to Drive with frequent co-star Corey Feldman.

Haim struggled with drug addiction for several years. In a 2007 interview with the Sun newspaper he was quoted

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Queers Go Contra Dancing @ Phinney Neighborhood Center 7pm.

Cuff Country @ Cuff - Country Western Dancing - 7:15-10:30pm.
Lesson: East Coast Swing & "Tush Push" walkthrough.

Cuff Complex<

Abbas Kiarostami calls for his former assistant Jafar Panahi’s release.

More over at the NY Times Lede.

It's back....Seattle's beloved Moisture Festival, delighting audiences for the last seven years and relieving the dreary dulldrums of late winter/early spring returns for a month long series of performances in multiple locations across the metro area on March 11th. The festival begins at ACT in the beautiful Falls Theatre with a combination of family friendly varietè shows on March 11th and 14th and adult oriented burlesque shows sandwiched between on the 12th and 13th. Both shows are equally entertaining;

DISH! An All-Ages Queer Variety Show is this Sunday March 14, 2010 and supports the film project 'heart breaks open' and Lifelong AIDS Alliance with drag kings and queens, burlesque performers, musicians, comedians and spoken word artists.

Audiences will be graced with performances by The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Belinda Carroll, Miss Cherry Tart, David Coppafeel, Angel Itenchi, Ilvs Strauss, EmpeROAR Fabulous and many more.

'heart breaks open' is a multi-platform project that will be used

for far too long, we have used our investigative journalism skills to patrol your profiles, whether they’re flickr, myspace or facebook for embarrassing photobooth strips to be used for photobooth tuesday.

while we love nothing more than snickering at your drunken expressions or marveling at those pouted puckers, it’s come time when we confess that y’all have stopped sending us strips to post and we’re sick of resulting to our sneaky ways. ok, that and it’s technically illegal (fair use/copyright

The Solo Performance Festival - SPF #4 continues through the month of March and tonight it features Lisa Koch in "Demonstrate the Place of My Abode" on March 9, 12, 17 and 30. The show consists of stories of a funny father, the music he inspired, and a quirky look at life and death. Lisa Koch is one-half of loony sketch-comedy duo, Dos Fallopia (Ham for the Holidays, My Breasts Are Out of Control), and is an alumnus of cult quartet Venus Envy (I'll Be A Homo for Xmas).

And also tonight only, March

Intrepid financier and Hurt Locker co-producer Nicolas Chartier