An Alaska Airlines flight was forced to return to Portland, Oregon, on Friday, after a window on the Boeing blew off midflight.

The 2024 Bainbridge Island Film Festival runs from November 7-10. by Charles Mudede

If catastrophe strikes on Tuesday, and all you can see is four years of gloom and more gloom, then it might be the right time to take a ferry to Bainbridge for two reasons. One, the November-colored waters of Elliott Bay will match and maybe even soothe your mood. (One thing you can always depend on is the love misery has for company.) Two, there is a festival, Bainbridge Film Festival, which features a superb distraction, the comedy Micro Budget.  Directed by Morgan Evans, who has worked for The Onion, the film cannot be praised for originality but for getting the most out of a concept that really should have no gas left in it: The mockumentary.

The plot: An Iowan, Terry (Patrick Noth), decides to relocate to LA to make a movie that can only be, when completed, unspeakably bad. His wife is very pregnant, he doesn't have enough money, and the sun has never shined on his imagination. He hires actors who have many rungs to climb before they come anywhere close to the D List, and the production moves from one absurdity to the next. 

During the filming process, the pregnant wife suffers, the actors suffer, and the members of the production team work without disguising their contempt. All, including the cousin shooting the documentary, are caught in the fantasy of a madman who should have kept his desires in the lowest drawer of his office desk.

We have been there and seen all of that. And yet, Micro Budget, is actually funny and, once in a while, reaches a region that can be called brilliant (particularly in the moments when the director attempts to meet what he imagines to be the woke standards of Hollywood). The film also has a priceless cameo. One you will never expect in a million years.

It's worth watching even if a catastrophe is averted on November 6.

The 2024 Bainbridge Island Film Festival runs from November 7-10.

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While many were focused on the race for the White House, Inland Northwest contests were also largely decided on Tuesday night. With at least 31,000 ballots remaining to be counted, Spokane County voter turnout hovered around 56% of registered voters as of Tuesday, which is significantly lower than expected in a presidential election…

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We at the Inlander remain committed to keeping people informed and connected during the coronavirus outbreak, supporting our readers and local businesses in the ways we always have. We have experienced some disruption in where we distribute papers, but we're stocking and restocking thousands of copies at local Rosauers, Super 1, URM Cash & Carry, Yoke's, Albertson's and Safeway stores, plus Papa Murphy's locations, My Fresh Basket and more…

As a general rule, if you start spray-painting Riverfront Park, Riverfront Park gets mad at you…

Super Sparkle is returning to say au revoir…

While there's always an impressive power hearing a full symphony fill a room with sound, there's a stirring subtlety that can only be achieved via classic music on a smaller scale.  That's a sonic itch that the Spokane String Quartet is always happy to scratch. Before the Spokane String Quartet takes the stage at The Fox this Sunday for a program featuring special guest pianist Archie Chen, we caught up with violinist Amanda Howard-Phillips—who has played with the quartet since 2011 and  is also second violin in the Spokane Symphony — to chat about the communal expression of string quartet music, SSQ's upcoming shows, and the unique place the group occupies in Spokane…

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When Tina Berkett moved from New York City to Los Angeles in 2007, she immediately noticed the West Coast's creative spirit…

Though a sign on Washington State Route 129 points you in the right direction, driving the nearly 12 miles along Cloverland Road to arrive at the Cloverland Garage in Asotin County can make you feel like you're, well, chasing ghosts…

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As early settlers flocked to the American West to extract the land's rich resources, small towns spread across the landscape…

Like the main characters of his latest book, author and journalist Nate Schweber is shaped by his upbringing in the Western United States…

It starts raining just as two trucks hauling juvenile salmon arrive near the end of a gravel road at Chief Joseph Dam in the Central Washington town of Bridgeport on Friday, May 6…

Chris Bovey's new shop on Garland Avenue isn't technically open on Tuesday, but it's too enjoyably warm and sunny on a late September afternoon to keep the roll-up door along the sidewalk closed…

Don van Lierop had a problem…

Allan didn't know it was fentanyl…

Earlier this week, Spokane County Commissioner Chris Jordan presented a draft ordinance that could allow the county to sell surplus land at a discount so it can be used for affordable housing…

On Meagan Glubrecht's right forearm is an unmistakable tattoo…

Angella Southerly believes that a single act of kindness, no matter how small, has the power to change someone's life…

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Based on the strength of my first listen to the album-titled opening track from Jóhann Jóhannsson's new Fordlandia, I was ready to launch it far up my often-morphing "best of 2008" list. When the woodwind curls of "Melodia (I)" followed, I was wooed even further. Following the more epic IBM 1401 - A User's Manual and Virðulegu Forsetar, Fordlandia is much more straightforward and concise, with what is essentially three separate suites of music that are largely broken down into more digestible pieces.

Co-released on Time Lag and Indian Queen Records, & Hope Still is the debut album from one Silent Land Time Machine, a one-man recording project of a fellow from Texas who has managed to teach himself how to play a lot of different instruments and build up a beguiling little album with some crafty layering and subtle shifts in sound that call to mind a ton of different artists but doesn't really sound like any one of them in particular.

The musician behind 2007's 'Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall' will stream his digital performance from Capitol Studios in Los Angeles where he is joined by Kristin Chenoweth and Renee Zellweger.

Moseley Road Baths receives money from Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage.

50 reasons why the region is a global centre of innovation.

The Midlands Racing Club are holding their Grand National Preview on Tuesday

Olympians Geraint Thomas and Steven Burke attended the Black Country University Technical College’s ‘Accelerate Live’ event last weekend, inspiring students to learn about science and engineering.

A lesson from history.

Ice Age relic to be focus of attention thanks to work of local geologist.

Former England captain launches sport and education initiative.

Aim to boost central government help for devolved region.

Call assessor featured in NHS anniversary pictures.

Black Sabbath’s heavy metal bench used by global debt-climate protesters.

Fire fighters from Highgate, Kings Norton, Ladywood and Northfield fire stations are taking on a job like no other

How to succeed at buy to let.

Green ecommerce brand aims to provide environmentally friendly fashion.

The Midlands Media Awards is this year to take place at The Holte Suite, Aston Villa FC’s prestigious hospitality centre.

Peter Lowe, Managing Editor of Sky News, is to be chairman of the judging panel for this year’s Midlands Media Awards, shortlisted nominations for which will be announced on Monday, May 13.

Les Reid, of the Coventry Telegraph, has been nominated for four categories at this year’s Awards, which are being held next month.

A Year 13 student from Birmingham Ormiston Academy (BOA) has secured a role with international news network, Russia Today.

Richard Lutz saunters through a little path of heaven in the changing weather.  

Tony Fitzpatrick reports from north of the border on Brexit and a sense of loss.

Aston station adoption planting project helps local people grow.