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Your Live Music Bets for the Weekend of December 19 through December 21

Tony Kay — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:19:21 +0000

It’s less than a week before Santa does the Down-The-Chimney Shimmy, so the fact that there are some seriously cool holiday-themed live shows going on this weekend should come as no surprise. What may surprise you (and what will surely make your live music choices true agony for the next three days) is how many great … Continue reading →

Why Scarecrow Video needs to be preserved

Chris Burlingame — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:13:30 +0000

Sometime yesterday or early this morning, Scarecrow Video achieved their $100,000 goal on Kickstarter, with four weeks to go in the campaign. It only took about a week to get there. The project is for Scarecrow to transition from a video store into a nonprofit. (Full disclosure, I was one of the earliest backers of … Continue reading →

SunBreak Music Ed Unleashes Sci-Fi Mayhem at Scarecrow Video Saturday!

Tony Kay — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 01:18:51 +0000

Enclosed, please find your cordial invitation to watch a melting radioactive cannibal eat people’s faces off, at one of the world’s great movie meccas this Saturday, for free. Yours truly hits the Scarecrow Video Screening Room at 8:00 p.m. that evening to co-host Reel to Real Dementia Movie Night with veteran podcaster and festival programmer … Continue reading →

Wish Scarecrow Video a Happy Birthday This Weekend

Tony Kay — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 16:32:35 +0000

I’m watching Sergio Corbucci’s Spaghetti Western Django as I write this. The image of Franco Nero in the title role, dragging a coffin along a dirt road as his bright blue eyes glitter, fills my TV screen. The recent struggles of Seattle’s much-loved film mecca Scarecrow Video have been widely documented by the local press, … Continue reading →

This Week’s DVD Releases

Audrey — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 05:45:38 +0000

The films coming out on DVD right now are pretty fair, all things considered. Some Oscar nominees, some blockbusters, and a whole lot of TV on DVD.

This Week’s DVD Releases

Audrey — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:45:27 +0000

This week's big release is Black Swan, which y'all know I did not think deserved all the accolades and awards. My issues with the film are myriad, but to keep it simple, I'd quote the Thermals and say it's "hardly art, hardly garbage," in that the film is too trashy to be high art and too artsy to be a campy ballet romp.