The Best Theater I have seen lately: Batboy, the Musical, about the half-bat half-human creature of Weekly World News fame.
The Best Movie I have seen lately:
Marwencol, at the Seattle Independtant Film Festival, a movie about a man who copes with the loss of all memories from his previous life by lovingly creating in 1/6 scale a fictional Belgian village during WWII and custom painted people based on people in his life.
The Best Thing I have Read lately: A fictional commentary track to The Fellowship of the Ring with Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn.