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Don't Quit Your Day Job

These days, commercial production  is a mini-movie industry. To hear Tony Fulgham tell it, he and his creative team at World Famous Inc. spent much of March huffing paint. “At one point we all came in and were like, ‘Everyone’s feeling kind of sick today. Do we all have...

Life In Pictures

After 13 years of filmmaking in Seattle, Megan Griffiths has made more than a career out of movies. At the Film Forum in Tribeca, a line winds out of the lobby and spills onto the sidewalk, the very tail of twilight dissolving into an inky blue Manhattan skyline. It’s...

The Long, Unlikely Road to Austin

Dayna Hanson’s Improvement Club premieres at SXSW. It’s a warm Saturday evening in  Austin and the first week of SXSW is underway. This is the indie movie portion of the famous indie music festival, and a strong Northwest contingent is at the Alamo Ritz Theater,...

Scenic Driver

Rachel Ravitch transforms natural materials into big statements. WHO Rachel Ravitch, the 27-year-old architectural designer, accessories artist and entrepreneur who does it all. Ravitch is a Pacific Northwest girl who grew up near Tacoma and studied architecture and visual...

May in print

Sound Bites

JourneyQuest cinematographer Jeremy Mackie, screenwriter...

45 Days in Seattle Film

Behind the Scenes from Feb. 16 to March 31

So You Wanna Write a Screenplay

Do you know how?

The Death of Fun

Making a documentary about the last days of a beloved punk-rock...

Get ‘Em While They’re Young

Last weekend a group of 125 people gathered backstage at Seattle Repertory Theatre...

Q&A

Stories vs Jokes: Q&A with Moth StorySLAM winner Doug Gale

Doug Gale has been kicking around the local comedy scene for over ten years. He was...

Review

SIFF Assessments: 'Alive and Well' and 'Scrapper'

Alive and Well It’s a little after 6 pm on Wednesday, May 22 and Seattle-based...

Tweets

Tweets of the Week

Seattle's funniest tweets this week. This week's batch is gettin' pithy with it....

At Large

Pocket Theater Is Happening

Clayton Weller launched the Pocket Theater Project on Kickstarter on April 27; it...

Multimedia

Why Washington needs the "Dance Tax"

In this video, I explain why the 'Dance Tax' is crucial to preserving our way of...

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Fear & Laughing at the Open Mic

March 25, 2013

A veteran comic ventures into the soul-crushing trenches of stand-up comedy. It’s an hour after sunset at C.C. Attle’s, a bear bar on Capitol Hill. A group of mostly straight, white, male comics mill about, hovering near the free nacho bar, waiting for the open mic to begin. The room’s...