By Matt Olsen

Gentle reader, allow me to suggest that you are like most people (and by employing the modifier “most” I can feel fairly confident that you are) so that, were I to tell you that last year...MORE

By Jonathan Lawson

Two new titles stand out as key works for helping readers think critically about the news media and its role in our democracy: “The Problem of the Media: US Communication Politics in the 21st Century” by media scholar Robert McChesney, and “Democracy Now!” co-host Amy Goodman’s “The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers and the Media That Love Them.”...MORE

By Michael Wilde

The reason I hate gay films can be distilled to one single fact: they aren’t made for gay people. They’re made for straight people. Gay films do not reflect the gay community but an image of the gay community as seen from the outside. How many times have I sat through dialogue where characters discuss what it’s like to be gay for no apparent reason whatsoever? ...MORE

Who would play you in a movie and why?...MORE

The Seattle Drinking Directory
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The Portland Drinking Directory
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By Miranda Pinero

“I just can’t stand kids.” Yeah, me neither. But there is a cure, friend. It’s so simple as to seem unlikely but it really, truly works. And it’s free, sort of...MORE