The Seattle International Film Festival starts May 24. All 405 films. Tickets are on sale to members right now; hoi polloi, this Sunday. New this year is that if you buy a multi-ticket package, you can then order tickets online to the specific films you want to see. That is thanks to POP, who do SIFF's website. We learned this at the SIFF press launch yesterday, in their new digs in McCaw Hall. We went......

Yes, a real pie is baked onstage during the performance. We'd call it a gimmick, but the theatre was crammed with moms and daughters for whom pie-making, apparently, inspired the same kind of emotion as going for it on 4th and 2 with 1:12 left to play. The flour-sifting, butter-chopping, dough-rolling, and pan-trimming met with hoots, gasps, sighs, and chuckles. It may be a homespun metaphor, but who can say no to pie? Not......

Quarterly, the Filmmakers Saloon (which features drinking, as opposed to the Screenwriters Salon, which doesn't) meets up at the Northwest Film Forum to obsess over film trivia en masse, instead of, you know, blogging about it. Seattlest noticed that Thursday night's panel discussion was about the grim reality of mediocrity, so we decided to attend to see what level of introspective honesty might be displayed. After all, considered as a single case, anyone might be......

In between obsessively checking their progress in various NCAA tournament pools, here's how Seattlest types will spend their weekends. David S. will be watching college basketball. And planning this year's family camping trip. Editor Dan will spend all weekend working on his Enemies List, but he may take a break at dusk on Saturday to drive down to Green Lake and run over rabbits with his car. Matt Silvie may or may not make it......