Viva La Cola!

Founded in January 2009, PubliCola is a blog about Seattle written by journalists who are dedicated to non-partisan, original daily reporting that prioritizes a balanced approach to news. Started by longtime local editor and award-winning reporter Josh Feit, PubliCola is the first online-only news site in state history to get media credentials to cover the state capitol.

PubliCola was off and running. In June 2009, PubliCola hired another award-winning journalist, super-sourced Seattle city hall reporter Erica C. Barnett.

People were afraid that blogging would change journalism. Instead, we believe journalism can change blogging. Twenty-first century journalism may look and feel different, and yes Erica isn't afraid to get cranky, but we're committed to making sure online news still delivers independent, reliable, even-keeled coverage. And most of all, we're committed to making sure the coverage sparks honest civic debate.

Bringing you cola for the people, PubliCola is named after Publius Valerius PubliCola, the alias for the authors of the Federalist Papers—the original bloggers.

The first online-only news site in state history to get media credentials to cover the state capitol and Seattle city hall, PubliCola has been called a “must-read” by the Seattle Post Intelligencer and a hot “New Media Mover and Shaker” by Seattle Magazine—which also cited our own Erica C. Barnett as the city's No. 1 news nerd.

You Really Can't Lose

You really can’t lose with the Metro Classics series.  Tonight:  The 1938 Robin Hood with Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland.

If you haven’t seen this early Technicolor picture, you may recognize chunks of it from Mel Brooks’s Robin Hood:  Men in Tights, which borrows from this and the Kevin Costner version in equal measure.

Errol Flynn as Robin Hood

Errol Flynn as Robin Hood

Swoon!


  • http://unclevinny.wordpress.com/ Uncle Vinny

    Fabulous trivia that I learned from IMDB a while ago: In this version of Robin Hood, Olivia de Havilland’s horse later had his name changed from Golden Cloud to Trigger. Yes, that Trigger!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigger_%28horse%29

  • http://unclevinny.wordpress.com Uncle Vinny

    Fabulous trivia that I learned from IMDB a while ago: In this version of Robin Hood, Olivia de Havilland’s horse later had his name changed from Golden Cloud to Trigger. Yes, that Trigger!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigger_%28horse%29

  • http://unclevinny.wordpress.com/ Uncle Vinny

    Ugh, I need an editor. That sentence is CRAP.

  • http://unclevinny.wordpress.com/ Uncle Vinny

    Ugh, I need an editor. That sentence is CRAP.

  • http://unclevinny.wordpress.com Uncle Vinny

    Ugh, I need an editor. That sentence is CRAP.

  • http://www.dorsolplants.com/ Dorsol Plants

    This is such a good movie, if you haven’t you should see it!

    There so few good renditions of the Robin Hood story…I’m hoping to see another one with the new one coming out with Russell Crowe

  • http://www.dorsolplants.com/ Dorsol Plants

    This is such a good movie, if you haven’t you should see it!

    There so few good renditions of the Robin Hood story…I’m hoping to see another one with the new one coming out with Russell Crowe

  • http://www.dorsolplants.com Dorsol Plants

    This is such a good movie, if you haven’t you should see it!

    There so few good renditions of the Robin Hood story…I’m hoping to see another one with the new one coming out with Russell Crowe