Charles Mudede
The Stranger
Seattle, WA, United States
Contact Charles
Discover and connect with journalists and influencers around the world, save time on email research, monitor the news, and more.
| Recent: |
|
| Past: |
|
Past articles by Charles:
Billionaires Are Losing Money to Put Tech Workers in Their Place—Who Will Win This Struggle?
Billionaires are losing money to put tech workers in their place—who will win this struggle? → Read More
Seattle Is Back from the Brink of Dying?
Maybe what's reviving Third and Pine is not less poverty. → Read More
The Madness of Nationalism Celebrated at the World Cup
Just something to think about while you watch soccer this weekend. → Read More
Seattle Is the Anti-Fashion Capital of the World
We're just too practical to be too stylish. → Read More
Andor Is Simply the Greatest TV Show of 2022
Now that there are only three episodes left of Andor, I can confidently claim that it is the best TV series of 2022, and the best thing to ever appear in a universe that began in 1977 with an unexpected blockbuster, Star Wars. (It's now called Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope—the future can indeed change the past.) I will go so far as to say that Andor is the fullest and maybe even the final… → Read More
Why Gen X Sucks
My generation is too flaky about unions. → Read More
How Grace Jones Made Me a Marxist
Grace Jones turned me into a Marxist. → Read More
Queen Latifah's End of the Road Is a Horror Movie about MAGA Country
Watch this movie to see exactly how city people see Trump’s people. → Read More
Hong Sang-soo Makes Another Agreeable Film About Hong Sang-soo
The prolific South Korean director keeps making the same movie, and I keep watching and enjoying it. → Read More
Rent Is Skyrocketing for Kent's Space Companies
A 90% increase in 4 years? Now that's inflation. → Read More
Everybody Loves Beau Travail
On occasion of Beau Travail's screening at The Beacon on Sunday, what follows are all of the reviews and comments The Stranger has reverently placed at the feet of this exceptional film for over two decades. → Read More
Stranger Suggests: The Return of Former 206 Poet and Rapper Rajnii Eddins at Wa Na Wari
When Rajnii Eddins moved from Seattle to Vermont 12 years ago, I felt that this city had lost a big part of its culture. His mother, Randee Eddins, founded the African American Writers Alliance, an organization I became involved with during the first half of the 1990s. When I taught literature to high school students at Seattle Central College in the second half of the 1990s, the best mind in… → Read More
What You Should See at the 2022 Seattle International Film Festival
Here's a big-ass list that keeps getting bigger. → Read More
The Freedom Convoy in Vancouver, BC This Weekend Was the Stuff of Nightmares
What do these white people really want? The truth is they do not know. → Read More
A Piece of Art to Sit Inside of on a Sunny Day
James Turrell's Light Reign inspires deep thoughts. → Read More
The Mystery of The Grand Illusion Is Finally Solved
Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion is, of course, up there with films like Citizen Kane, M, The Godfather, Third Man, and so on. Though made only two years before Germany launched the Second World War, it's about the First World War and mostly set in a German prisoner-of-war camp. The film stars the great Austrian-American director/actor Erich von Stroheim, who plays a German aristocrat,… → Read More
Dimitriou's Jazz Alley Was a World-Class Institution Long Before Seattle Became a World-Class City
Here are three major shows happening at Jazz Alley in April. → Read More
Slog AM: Boeing Is All Sad About the Crash in China, Republican Claims Black Supreme Court Nominee Is Soft on Child Porn, Expect a Fake Spring Today
A note on the students who yesterday protested the premature termination of Washington's mask mandate: What it revealed is how the right always in the end gets what it wants. In this case, it is getting its beloved necroeconomics, or, put another way, a society that explicitly places the value of life below the endless accumulation of value in the form of capital. All that mainstream Dems did… → Read More
The United States Should Have a Turkey on Its Great Seal
Just think about it. We did while reading The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird. → Read More
A Top Pick This Week: Watch Eve's Bayou on 35mm Film This Thursday
The three great black films of the 1990s are, in this order: To Sleep with Anger from Charles Burnett, One False Move from Carl Franklin, and Eve’s Bayou from Kasi Lemmons. The first and third are family dramas, the second is neo-noir. All have almost nothing to do with an issue that, for good reason, is important to most black directors: race relations. In the case of Eve’s Bayou, which is set… → Read More