Every year the Academy Awards gives out Oscars to short filmmakers, and every year a lot of people in the audience scratch their heads, because they've never seen or heard of most of the nominees.

Rachel Sandell is an experienced editor and proofreader with a love for language and storytelling. A graduate of the creative writing MFA program, The Rainier Writing Workshop, she is the author of ...

Anime’s influence on Western animation runs deep, stretching back as far as the 1980s. Ever since Japanese animated shows found their way onto Western TV sets, the appetite for anime has grown ...