Last Wednesday, May 30, two shootings in areas not normally associated with violent crimes — the multiple murders at Cafe Racer and a shooting in a parking lot next to Town Hall — shook the city.
This test will look a little trickier than average. Not only are there multiple choices, but there are multiple questions. But don’t worry: One answer fits all.
With “Moonrise Kingdom,” director Wes Anderson has crafted a truly different movie that looks and feels unlike anything else that has come out so far this year. Which is always welcome in this age of remakes, sequels and endless superhero franchises.
Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus,” is as large (in shear scale) and ambitious as Christopher Nolan’s, 2010 mind blower “Inception,” and like that movie it provides themes and provokes questions but it doesn’t necessarily answer them, or at least answer them clearly.
Driving long distances on congested roads is part of the daily grind for millions of Americans. Commuting between the home in the suburbs and the workplace downtown has been a common phenomenon since the 50s and 60s and the hassle has only become worse ever since.
Most people voted for Initiative 1183 because they wanted three things: more access, more selection and cheaper prices. At this point, the only thing they are getting is more access.
Though last week’s weather felt more like middle March than the run up to summer, both the Queen Anne and Magnolia Farmers markets, which opened Thursday and Saturday respectively, got off to auspicious starts beneath dry skies.
It all happened last night. I was sitting alone in a restaurant. A man asked to join me. “No, thank you,” I said, kindly.
Moving from Chicago, we had lived in our new house in southern California for only a few months and were still the new guys on the block. This was back in 1956, I was only 10 and the whole post-war westward movement was still only in its beginning stages, as if it hadn’t been going on since the mid-1800s.
Grammy-award nominated Jennifer Knapp will appear at two venues in Queen Anne.
Adam Shankman’s “Rock of Ages,” based on the Broadway musical written by Chris D’Areinzo, takes us back to Los Angeles in 1987.
“Hysteria,” Tanya Wexler’s cheeky period comedy, is about the creation of the ever-popular sex toy known as the vibrator. Seriously. Yeah, I know right? Even the movie itself seems a little surprised by its topic.