The Corner: 23rd and Union preview from The Corner on Vimeo. KUOW’s Jenny Asarnow is partnering up with local photojournlist Inye Wokoma in a new project that explores the changing face of the Central District, a community in transition. Check out the trailer for her new interactive radio documentary. From the a press release sent…

In your twenties, you are the master of being cool (if only in your mind!). Then you look in the mirror one day and there is a full-fledged adult staring back at you! You have a career, 2.5 kids, furniture and even a few gray hairs. You can’t help but wonder whether your coolness went the way of…

Phew! After watching 1163 minutes of short films over the course of 7 evenings last week, I am happy to report that my fellow jurors and I were able to choose three winners (and two runners up) for SIFF’s ShortsFest… without too much fist fighting. We began our deliberations last night at 9pm, after the final…

After the recent grueling set of experimental shorts, the batch of short films I watched last night was refreshingly okay! Nothing during the 3 hours of films either sucked outright or made me feel like I was going to have a stroke. Several were quite good, actually. In the “Response Abilities” showcase, I particularly enjoyed…

I like to think of myself as an open minded person. In fact I usually prefer outsider and edgy art to mainstream, traditionally “pretty” things. But “Short in the Dark,” the collection of short films I watched last night (as part of the 100+ I am watching as a SIFF short film juror) caused me to…

I felt like I made some solid progress in my shorts-film-aganza last night. (Click here to learn why I’m attempting to watch 20 hours of shorts in 7 evenings.) I got through the entire Nightmare Factory package (containing seven “disquieting” films), as well as the World of Possibilities series (eight p-p-p “portraits of people and places…

Yesterday afternoon, at the end of the gloriously sunny three-day weekend, I stepped out of SIFF’s Fly Filmmaking Challenge (at which local filmmaker Bao Tran was a standout) and bumped into SIFF artisic director Carl Spence. I mentioned that, as a SIFF jury member (for the short film selections) this year, I was hoping it…

The penguins are on the march!  No, the penguins aren’t staging a protest – they’re celebrating the opening of their new home at the Woodland Park Zoo. The Penguins on the March program will showcase over 60 penguin statues who will strut their stuff around Seattle this summer. About 20 of the little sartorial supermodels were designed…

I attended SIFF’s jam-packed opening at the Paramount last night, which featured a pretty funny British mockumentary (In the Loop), a Mayor’s Award for Lynn Shelton (and her soaring success), and a lot of thankful speeches (perhaps too many…then again, SIFF has a lot of people to thank). I’m told the post-screening party food was fabu but…

In our February issue, we gave readers “Five Reasons NOT to Move to Portland“ (apparently ruffling a few feathers in the process). Always looking for a good debate, we were flattered by the ensuing response from Portland Monthly, which recently published its own retaliatory list with five reasons why Portland “kicks ass”. With both arguments on…

There are three reasons I love the recently opened Occhio coffee shop in SoDo. First, they serve Stumptown Coffee, which is, simply, nectar of the gods. Second–actually, maybe this is first–they are located really close to our office, so where we were previously limited to office coffee or Krispy Kreme’s $.05/cup joe (not sure which…

Local caterer and Pomegranate Bistro owner, Lisa Dupar, received a national nod this month in Modern Bride magazine which called out her culinary talents in its 25 Trendsetters of the Year Awards. Dupar–a quintessential Seattle caterer who has received many accolades from Seattle mag and Seattle Bride–is known for working with couples to create signature…