| 'Perrier's Bounty' is a ticking time bomb
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From the get-go, the clock is ticking for one Michael McCrea who has found himself up to his neck in debt to the most notorious gangster in all of Dublin, Ireland.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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| Chihuly, KEXP dominate final Fun Forest hearing
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Financial viability and community impact were the biggest concerns expressed in the final public hearing July 7 regarding Seattle Center's Fun Forest South.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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| Indian Days Pow Wow: staying in touch with native culture |
Lub-dub, lub-dub. The drumming sounded like a heartbeat. The vibrant colors of the regalia-special dress worn for the festival-flashed before the audience's eyes when the performers danced.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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| Minus the Bear all warm and fuzzy
In Seattle stop |
One of the hotter bands in the states made a tour stop in Seattle over the weekend and fans were not disappointed.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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| 'Ruined' informs while it entertains
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Audience excitement was palpable at the opening of Lynn Nottage's "Ruined" at Intiman last Friday night. And small wonder. The Broadway hit comes with an impressive pedigree including the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for drama, most of the original award-winning cast intact and even assertions of influencing United Nations policy (UN delegates including Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon attended the initial New York staging.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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| 'Despicable Me' a delight |
So far this year Pixar and DreamWorks have been dominating the animated movie scene with "Toy Story 3," "How to Train Your Dragon" and "Shrek 4." Now Universal Studios delivers its animated film, "Despicable Me."
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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| Horoscope July 14-21 |
Aries (Mar. 20-Apr. 19) You continue to get great perks from rich and expansive Jupiter and super smart Uranus!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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| Inception a surreal caper with a twist |
Buckle your seat belts, filmgoers. Christopher Nolan's "Inception" is going to take you on a thrill ride through exotic locales both real and imagined, bending both time and physics as you accompany expert "extractor" Dom Cobb (Leonard DiCaprio) and his team of specialists.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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| Sorcerer fights without substance |
There are plenty of sorcerer duels in director John Turltetaub's new film "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." In a bathroom, in Chinatown, in a park. Besides sorcerer duels, nothing much else happens. And frankly they get pretty boring and repetitive. Mainly because they consist of one person throwing some sort of energy bolt at someone else and vice versa, until someone runs away.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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| Trivia 7/7 |
1. Holland Road between Silverdale and Bremerton is also known as what?
2. Famed director John Ford won four Best Director Oscars. For what movies did he win these awards?
Thursday, July 08, 2010
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| Horoscope July 7-14 |
Aries (Mar. 20-Apr. 19) You love the new and Sun; 12:42 p.m. you'll have plenty of new understanding! See Cancer.
Thursday, July 08, 2010
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| Deadline 7/7 |
Seattle Shakespeare Company's Free Wooden O performances in the parks begins with Much Ado About Nothing and Othello, July 8-Aug. 1, at parks throughout King and Snohomish. The productions are free and open to the public. You will not need reservations or tickets but we do recommend arriving at least 20 minutes before the start of the show to secure a good spot on the lawn. www.seattleshakespeare.org and 206-733-8222.
Thursday, July 08, 2010
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| Hit play on '[Rec] 2'
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Most of the horror films out there are either covered in gore or are CGI'ed to death. And reliance on one or the other is just overcompensation for a lousy script.
Thursday, July 08, 2010
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| All fired up |
First things first: Run, don't walk, to your nearest bookstore or punch up Amazon ASAP. Buy the Stieg Larsson Millennium Trilogy: "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," "The Girl Who Played with Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest."
Thursday, July 08, 2010
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| Contemporary dance performance to include five premiers |
Seattle's ARC Dance repertory dance company will present its annual Summer Dance at the Center this Thursday through Saturday at the Bagley Wright/Leo K. Theater at the Seattle Center. Five premiers of contemporary dance pieces will make up the performance.
Thursday, July 08, 2010
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| Trivia 6/30 |
1. Of Stanley Kubrick's several films that center on war-time events, one was a hilarious satire, the other has become, to some, the greatest war movie ever made. Name the two films.
2. Name our 4th president?
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
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| Mon Dieu! |
Part Inspector Clouseau, part Austin Powers and James Bond, French super spy Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath is the spitting image of Sean Connery, circa 1965, and is ready to do some damage in Rio.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
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| Diversions 6/30 |
Marking its 20th anniversary Book-It Repertory Theatre presents The Cider House Rules, the famed novel turned play by John Irving. It is the story of orphan Homer Wells' life in a Maine orphanage and his education under the tutelage of Dr. Larch, who delivers not only babies but their mothers, too. The play runs through July 11. Book-It Repertory Theatre is located in the Center House Theatre, at the Seattle Center. The Center House Theatre is on the first floor of the Center House (under the food court, at the opposite end from the Children's Museum). Tickets vary from $15 to $40. For more information visit www.book-it.org or call 206-216-0833.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
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Aries (Mar. 20-Apr. 19) Lights! Camera! Action!, for you this weekend! Good for all things new including making new starts!
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
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| More like, 'I Am Bored' |
The melodrama in "I Am Love" moves so slowly that the dramatic sagas weaved throughout the plot end up feeling unimportant, disinteresting and anticlimactic.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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| Cruise has complicated fun |
As I watched James Mangold's "Knight and Day" I kept thinking to myself where I had seen this before? Then it hit me. The Ashton Kutcher-Katherine Heigl film, "Killers" that came out about two weeks ago. Both have the same concept. A ditsy blonde somehow paired up with a charming man who knows how to use a gun.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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| Horoscope June 23-30 |
Aries (Mar. 20-Apr. 19) The full Moon and eclipse Sat. morning is energizing beyond belief! Your leadership ability is accentuated!
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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| Diversions 6/23 |
Marking its 20th anniversary Book-It Repertory Theatre presents The Cider House Rules, the famed novel turned play by John Irving. It is the story of orphan Homer Wells' life in a Maine orphanage and his education under the tutelage of Dr. Larch, who delivers not only babies but their mothers, too. The play runs through July 11. Book-It Repertory Theatre is located in the Center House Theatre, at the Seattle Center. The Center House Theatre is on the first floor of the Center House (under the food court, at the opposite end from the Children's Museum). Tickets vary from $15 to $40. For more information visit www.book-it.org or call 206-216-0833.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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| 'Cider House Rules' revival apropos |
Revivals are rife in theater recently, often with no rhyme or reason beyond their money- making potential. An exception is Book-It Repertory Theatre's revival of "The Cider House Rules." Peter Parnell's adaptation of the John Irving novel was a groundbreaker for the theater as its first dramatization of a full-length novel and for the national critical acclaim the play garnered for Book-It from the initial 1997 production at the Seattle Rep. More praise came from a run at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. What more appropriate celebration of Book-It's 20th anniversary season than a production of the play that put them on the national theater map.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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| A-Team is fun, but silly |
When the "A-Team" TV series came out in the early 1980s, it was treated with a sense of humor.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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Aries (Mar. 20-Apr. 19) A super dynamic weekend for you! Lots of sizzle and sweetness! You shine!
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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| Diversions 6/16 |
Marking its 20th anniversary Book-It Repertory Theatre presents The Cider House Rules, the famed novel turned play by John Irving.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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| SIFF Emerging Master No. 3 |
When it comes to cinema, for some of us (not naming names here), the terms "Russian" and "lugubrious" tend to be interchangeable. So encountering a movie like "Hipsters" is either liberating or deeply unsettling to one's core values. This rollicking musical comedy, or comedy with lotsa music, is a hoot.
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
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| Evolution in fast pace |
Vincenzo Natali's newest film "Splice" has an interesting concept: the idea of splicing the DNA of two species to create a hybrid. It's not an impossible notion. It does fall apart in a couple of places, but Natali's execution of the film makes it worthwhile. And its complex idea is fairly easy to understand.
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
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| Notes on the final week by Richard T. Jameson and Kathleen Murphy |
"Protektor" (Marek Najbrt, Czech Republic/Germany, 2009; 98 mins.)
The World War II years remain an inexhaustible source of dramatic material, and as our culture grows ever more amnesiac, it's probably salutary that filmmakers keep trying to find ways into the period.
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
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| Horoscope June 9-16 |
Aries (Mar. 20-Apr. 19) Jupiter has passed Uranus (June 8th), adding momentum to and increasing your good luck!
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
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| Diversions 6/9 |
Marking its 20th anniversary Book-It Repertory Theatre presents The Cider House Rules, the famed novel turned play by John Irving. It is the story of orphan Homer Wells' life in a Maine orphanage and his education under the tutelage of Dr. Larch, who delivers not only babies but their mothers, too. The play runs from June 9 throught July 11. Book-It Repertory Theatre is located in the Center House Theatre, at the Seattle Center. The Center House Theatre is on the first floor of the Center House (under the food court, at the opposite end from the Children's Museum). Tickets vary from $15 to $40. For more information visit www.book-it.org or call 206-216-0833.
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
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| Sue Elliott appointed education director at Seattle Opera |
Seattle Opera's Executive Director Kelly Tweeddale announced this week that the company has appointed Sue Elliott as its new director of education.
Elliott begins July 12. Perry Lorenzo, Seattle Opera's director of education from 1992 to 2009, died Dec. 19, 2009.
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
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| Morning to screen June 5-6 |
Directed by Seattle native Joseph Mitacek, "Morning" tells the story of a young married couple and their attempts to deal with an unthinkable tragedy.
Thursday, June 03, 2010
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| Book signing today at Magnolia's Bookstore |
Glenn Rockowitz will read from and sign his book, "Rodeo in Joliet" from 7-9 p.m. today at Magnolia's Bookstore in Magnolia Village.
Thursday, June 03, 2010
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| Trivia 6/2 |
In Long Beach, Wash., one of the more unusual destinations is Marsh's Free Museum. In addition to exhibits such as a freeze-dried cat and a one-eyed lamb, is its most famous exhibit, which is pictured on bumper stickers and billboards. What is it?
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
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| Magnolia kid can play
Oboist keeps winning awards |
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
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| No longer Down Under
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Among the trio of directors crowned as Emerging Masters by the 2010 Seattle International Film Festival, Australian Ana Kokkinos' seems a mite premature. On the evidence of the three Kokkinos films I've seen - "Head On," "Blessed" and "The Book of Revelation" (not in SIFF but available at Scarecrow) - this onetime lawyer turned filmmaker is a long way off from joining the masterly company of fellow Aussie directors Jane Campion and Gillian Armstrong.
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
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| SIFFtings III |
"Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo" (Jessica Oreck, USA, 2009; 91 mins.)
Buried in this all-over-the-map meditation on Japan's fascination with insects are lovely, nearly mystical moments.
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
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| Horoscope June 2-9 |
Aries (Mar. 20-Apr. 19) Jupiter goes into your sign June 6th adding even more good luck to your life!
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
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