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No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

The state of online media is such a bummer, I sometimes think: who cares? Then, I read something so smart and so funny and so uniquely the product of this compromised but generative space, that I remember: I care!
This, by @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social, is a tour de force. defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…

No good art comes from greed: defector.com/taylor-swift...

i wrote about The Life of a Showgirl

Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them. Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.

NEW: Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them. by @ashleyhiruko.bsky.social @kuow.org

Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them. Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.

NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.

By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.

the hardest part of living in Portland is having your house burn down every single night and then having to rebuild it during the day. the amount of money i spend just in drywall is insane.

California governor says Trump is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the Trump administration is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the Trump administration is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon.

California governor says Trump is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the Trump administration is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon.

BREAKING: Gov. Newsom says Trump is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon after a judge blocked his Portland troop deployment plan.

Katie Wilson’s Seattle mayor race: What to know about Harrell’s rival A policy-minded advocate for left-wing causes, Katie Wilson shrugged off the idea she might be better suited for a City Council seat, instead aiming for mayor.

Katie Wilson’s Seattle mayor race: What to know about Harrell’s rival

Text from a story in The Seattle Times about the state of SIFF that reads: And because distributors for big movies often demand “clean screens” — requiring no other movie be shown during the run — this meant that even if a release wasn’t doing well, SIFF was often stuck with it for weeks. “We were consistently dropping something that wasn’t working and replacing it with something that wasn’t working,” said Ben Redder, the former manager for the Downtown. He was one of nine staff members who were laid off in June. “There was no acknowledgment of that until it was way too late.” In a statement, a SIFF spokesperson said, “SIFF Cinema Downtown is still a relatively new venue for SIFF and in many ways we are still discovering what will and won’t draw audiences to this screen,” noting that this was part of taking creative risks and bringing expansive programming to its audience. Redder and nine other former and current staff said they care deeply for SIFF and want the new theater to succeed. But they felt “overly optimistic” goals for the Downtown — which they acknowledged was tricky to operate and program — didn’t set the theater up for success.

Hey all, thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts! So programming a space like Cinerama/Downtown was something I wanted to definitely drill down on as much as possible, here is why a dud of a film like Jurassic World: Rebirth might play for several weeks at the loss of a buzzy film like Superman

SIFF bought an iconic Seattle movie theater in 2023. Did it pay off? When Seattle International Film Festival purchased the Cinerama movie theater in 2023, cinephiles cheered. Has the blockbuster purchase been a box office hit?

If you have anything you'd like to share on this story or the state of SIFF, my email is chase.hutchinson.writer@gmail.com

www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

SIFF bought an iconic Seattle movie theater in 2023. Did it pay off? When Seattle International Film Festival purchased the Cinerama movie theater in 2023, cinephiles cheered. Has the blockbuster purchase been a box office hit?

When Seattle International Film Festival purchased the Cinerama movie theater in 2023, cinephiles cheered. Has the blockbuster purchase been a box office hit?

Harris Dickinson’s directorial debut is a devastating, delicate drama with Frank Dillane giving an all-time great performance I haven't been able to shake since I saw it. Go see it October 3 so we can talk about its stunning ending 📽️

Read my full review:
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With Urchin, Harris Dickinson announces himself as a gutsy new filmmaker – review The British actor hasn’t wasted his cinematic education, and there are shades of many of his past collaborators – including Steve McQueen and Joanna Hogg – in this striking social-realist drama

harris dickinson’s directorial debut URCHIN is exactly the kind of gutsy, thoughtful, studied work you want from an actor stepping behind the lens

SIFF Cinema Downtown is shown Dec. 14, 2023, from the seventh floor of the Warwick hotel. It's dark but the lights from the theater shine bright. Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

NEW: SIFF acquired the Cinerama last year to much fanfare. Now, after layoffs this summer, leadership acknowledges it was overly optimistic about how it'd perform. Moving forward, how can SIFF writ large survive and thrive? 📽️

My story with Margo Vansynghel: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

SIFF bought an iconic Seattle movie theater in 2023. Did it pay off? When Seattle International Film Festival purchased the Cinerama movie theater in 2023, cinephiles cheered. Has the blockbuster purchase been a box office hit?

I've been waiting for this article.

Text from a story in The Seattle Times about the state of SIFF that reads: During the layoffs earlier this year, leadership halved the nonprofit’s programming and marketing teams, who are most responsible for getting people into theaters. At the time, nonprofit management told staff it would move away from resource-intensive special events and repertory film series (older movies past their initial release, like a series of Studio Ghibli movies). But several retrospectives at Downtown — Akira Kurosawa, “Star Wars” and Paul Thomas Anderson — performed well this past August and September, a SIFF spokesperson said, so these types of repertory screenings will “remain an important part of the programming mix at Downtown.” The question remains how a thinner staff will be able to continue to program those series — and how SIFF will be able to balance those with major releases.

Thanks for reading! No word on the 70mm festival, though wanted to make sure to get as much info as I could about repertory screenings (these are the re-showings of classics you mentioned) and here's the current status of that.

SIFF bought an iconic Seattle movie theater in 2023. Did it pay off? When Seattle International Film Festival purchased the Cinerama movie theater in 2023, cinephiles cheered. Has the blockbuster purchase been a box office hit?

If you have anything you'd like to share on this story or the state of SIFF, my email is chase.hutchinson.writer@gmail.com

www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

SIFF Cinema Downtown is shown Dec. 14, 2023, from the seventh floor of the Warwick hotel. It's dark but the lights from the theater shine bright. Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

NEW: SIFF acquired the Cinerama last year to much fanfare. Now, after layoffs this summer, leadership acknowledges it was overly optimistic about how it'd perform. Moving forward, how can SIFF writ large survive and thrive? 📽️

My story with Margo Vansynghel: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

Wrote about The Smashing Machine (or How the Rock Learned to Lose) for 4Columns 4columns.org/loayza-beatr...

i had an opinion about the new tswift record after all
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Hamas said on Friday that it had agreed to release all of the Israeli hostages held in Gaza as well as the bodies of those who had died, in response to the peace proposal introduced by President Trump earlier this week. nyti.ms/4o6SuSA

guys it’s so crazy that Twin Peaks aired on television

Kate Hudson (left) and Elizabeth Moss (right) look into a mirror with pensive expressions in a still from the film THE SHELL.

SHELL: While it lives in the shadow of THE SUBSTANCE, stand by what I wrote last year on this Kate Hudson and Elisabeth Moss film and why horror cinema can be a big tent. The finale especially made me much less crabby. It's now streaming on VOD 📽️

My review: www.thewrap.com/shell-review...

Donate to Support Cascade PBS journalists after online newsroom axed, organized by Isabella Breda On Monday, Sept. 22, Cascade PBS announced that it would be s… Isabella Breda needs your support for Support Cascade PBS journalists after online newsroom axed

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We’ve been bargaining with @cascadepbs.bsky.social since they announced layoffs last week, fighting for more severance for our members as they head into a brutal journalism job market. So far the company has refused to offer more than a week of severance beyond their contractual requirement.

I scored the only solo print interview Daniel Day-Lewis has given in nearly a decade! And he was candid and thoughtful about every single thing you’d want to know: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/m...

Yeah, unfortunately a film that got unceremoniously dumped on streaming, but hope you have a good time with it!

The Ice Tower movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert This is not so much a film you watch as one you wake up from, shivering.

Color me dazzled by Lucile Hadžihalilović's THE ICE TOWER, an unsettling hall-of-mirrors meditation on enchantment in the blinding lights of idolatry, cinema, and fantasy. One of the most dreamily arresting films you will see this year. My four-star review for @ebertvoices.bsky.social: