Lynn Shelton got some love in the New York Times yesterday. The newspaper of record reports that Your Sister’s Sister, which will open SIFF this year, is “her most sophisticated” film yet.

If you have been reading The Stranger for a couple years, you’re probably sick of hearing about Lynn Shelton, who won a Stranger Genius Award in 2008. But there are a lot great details in the NYT piece: that she was inspired to go into feature films in part by seeing Claire Denis at Northwest Film Forum in 2003; that she learned how to raise money for film projects with a book called Shaking the Money Tree; and that she recently returned “a sack of DVDs by Ingmar Bergman and Woody Allen” to Scarecrow Video. Read the whole thing here.

Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer...