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Nunce more into this Breach at Seattle Rep
Fine performances are set adrift in three intertwining tales from Katrina.
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Seattle is home to one of the nation's best film critics
A couple of nights ago, I saw There Will Be Blood, [http://www.therewillbeblood.com/] a grim, and undeniably powerful movie about a California oil man. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis. I always measure the power of a movie if I wake up the next day and think about it. And when that happens, I often seek i
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Tim Eyman's great year
You might love to hate him, but the populist initiative king is having a banner year – and even liberals are finding some areas where Eyman's laws are helping. Maybe you should send him a thank-you card.
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Inventions we need, Part 1
Maybe you haven't noticed, but most urban coffee shops have doors that are relatively easy to open when exiting with full hands. Most of the time they have some kind of push-bar thing [http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6145897-description.html] you activate with a shove of your hip.
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No smoking at any speed
Back in the 1960s, Ralph Nader got rid of all the pointy instruments inside cars and nagged automakers [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed] into adding seatbelts. (Mom sold the Corvair.). Next, cops got huffy if you had one little beer open anywhere in the car. (Dad's Saturday errands