October 03, 2007: Headlines

Sean Penn's Into the Wild is a journey into the desolate heart of the bush

Posted Wed, Oct 3, 4 p.m.

By Lucy Mohl

A powerful adaptation of the Jon Krakauer book heads deep into the Alaska wilderness and produces a film that is exhilarating and majestic and devastating.

A painful reminder for Seattle in The War

Posted Wed, Oct 3, 3 p.m.

By O. Casey Corr

The big, flawed PBS miniseries has the positive effect of making us consider again how so many accepted an unjust action against Japanese Americans.

Sam Adams will use arts as a major theme in the Portland mayor's race

Posted Wed, Oct 3, 1 p.m.

By Stephen Marc Beaudoin

The energetic city commissioner minces no words about how important the arts should be and how unsustainable the current method of funding has become. He spells out plans for Stumptown in this Crosscut interview.

Purgatory in Tacoma

Posted Wed, Oct 3, 5 a.m.

By Austin Jenkins

An unidentified man from Yemen is being held at the federal Northwest Detention Center and awaits deportation. It could be a long wait. He's in a bureaucratic Catch-22 that requires him to formally request to be deported. Meanwhile, he holds occasional hunger strikes. So who is he? By law, authorities cannot say.

How Sputnik 'beeped' Seattle into the 21st century

Posted Wed, Oct 3, 5 a.m.

By Knute Berger

Fifty years ago, the launch of the first satellite changed the world, but one of the places that felt the impact most was Seattle. Not only did the orbiter alter the city's course, it influenced the generation of world-shapers that includes Bill Gates and Paul Allen.