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Above: Author Ernest Hemingway hard at work. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons) Miniseries review: "Hemingway," directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novice, narrated by Peter Coyote, featuring the voice...

(Photo/West Coast Entertainment) Like most people, I’ve only rarely been lucky enough to attend a stage show in New York. Not only are the tickets expensive, they’re hard to score. M...

Above: The Kingfish Inn on Orcas Island. (Photo/Kingfish via Facebook) I’ve written several blog posts discussing the effects that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on business. And I’ve fo...

(Photo/Spokesman-Review) In one way or another, coping with the COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on pretty much everyone. It’s been especially hard on small businesses, those mom-and-pop opera...

Nearly all of the writing that I’ve done over the years has been non-fiction. Most of it has been journalism, either reporting or feature stories or – since 1984 – film criticism. ...

Above: Adarsh Gourav (far right) stars as an ambitious man in the Oscar-nominated Netflix film "The White Tiger." (Photo/Netflix) Movie review: "The White Tiger," directed by Ra...

Above: Bob Odenkirk stars in the action/revenge movie "Nobody." (Photo/Universal Pictures) If you know the name Bob Odenkirk at all, it’s likely because of his comedy chops. Once a ...

Above: "That Thing You Did!" is available for streaming on Amazon Prime. (Photo/20th Century Fox) My first real look at the business of advertising came in the early 1970s when I read a b...

Above: "The Good Lord Bird," starring Ethan Hawke, will screen as part of the 2021 Sun Valley Film Festival. (Photo/Showtime) Here’s another reminder that the Seattle International ...

(Photo/Full Moon Features) Most movie fans face an obvious question at least once: What is your favorite movie? When I was in graduate school, one of my professors in a film class asked us to li...

Above: A recreated scene from the three-part Netflix documentary "Murder Among the Mormons" (Photo: Netflix) Miniseries review: "Murder Among the Mormons," directed by...

Those who regularly attend film festivals know that Seattle’s annual movie orgy, the Seattle International Film Festival, is something special. Dating back to 1976, the festival attracts film...

Above: Bellingham poet Rena Priest is Washinton State's newly appointed poet laureate. (Photo: Hillary Cagey/Crosscut) And so Washington State has a new poet laureate. Rena Priest, a me...

It always seems that times of crises lead to a specific kind of monster movie. For example, in 1933 – four years after the infamous stock market crash and well into the Great Depression &ndas...