On the one hand I have to give credit to “Lola Versus”—a new indie romantic comedy, directed by Daryl Wein from a screenplay by Wein and Zoe Lister Jones—for at least attempting to feature a story about a young female protagonist learning to embrace being single.
The Queen Anne Historical Society will conduct its annual walking tour of Mount Pleasant Cemetery June 23, starting at 10:00 a.m.
The Seattle Department of Transportation says lane restrictions on Fairview Avenue North will run through June 22; Fairview Avenue North will have one southbound lane restricted 24 hours a day between Aloha and Valley streets.
Americans have less confidence in the quality and safety of their food supply than they’ve had in years, according to a survey by the International Food Information Council (IFIC). In the wake of news reports on mad-cow disease, pink slime and meat glue, today’s consumers are seriously worried about meat products and also, albeit to a lesser extent, about fish and produce.
Despite the seemingly incessant rains, and at times Biblically proportioned deluges, our gardens are luxuriant with fresh growth and blooms.
The Occupy movement has been relatively quiet for some time now — despite the many reasons nowadays to protest big business. While the Occupiers seem preoccupied with banks, other private businesses are taking great advantage of their consumers, as well.
Let’s go into the way-way-way-back machine, shall we? The editorial-page lede of The Seattle Times for Nov. 8, 2011: “The victory of Initiative 1183 is good news for the consumers and taxpayers of Washington.”
I just finished making my husband a delicious love-filled Father’s Day breakfast. I toasted him with a cup of strong coffee for being such a wonderful dad to our children. In a few minutes, our daughters will be here to take their daddy on a daylong adventure. They are lucky. They have a really good father. And they know it.
Recall Yakov Smirnoff, the comedian who imported his jokes about communism to our shores 30 years ago. Gems like: “They pretended to pay us, and we pretended to work.” I want to invite him to Seattle to teach me how to laugh at this stuff.
Adam Shankman’s “Rock of Ages,” based on the Broadway musical written by Chris D’Areinzo, takes us back to Los Angeles in 1987, although it may as well be a dream world dreamt up by aging rock nerds listening to their vintage record collection in their basement.
In the 1950s, there were 4,000 to 5,000 drive-in movie theaters in the United States; at last count, there were less than 365. The desire to watch movies under the stars, however, has not abated. The disappearing drive-ins are being replaced with outdoor movie theaters.
I never thought I would say this about “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” (an adaptation of a bestselling book by Seth Graham Smith) but if it had been longer, I think it would have been better.
“Brave,” the new film from Disney/Pixar—directed by Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman and Steve Purcell—is a welcome return for the famed animation studio, which has made some of the best animated films of all time but which, some would say, faced a bit of a misstep with last year’s “Cars 2.