Doug Cranmer, one of the Northwest Coast’s most significant artists, isn’t a well-known name in these parts, but he is a name to be reckoned with north of the borde
Joss Whedon’s “The Avengers” is not only the first Marvel movie to feature all of the key members of the famed comic-book superhero team (Captain America, Hulk, Iron Man, etc.) but is also the first Marvel movie that feels like a complete movie instead of a piece.
Dreams of freedom and adventure: For most people, they remain just that — dreams. For certain others, like Wendy Hinman and Garth Wilcox, such dreams are the stuff life is.
Deputy Mayor Darryl Smith, 49, has had much experience to help him connect with Seattle citizens. Raised in New Jersey in a family infused with jazz, he studied acting at a prestigious San Francisco drama school and came to Seattle in the early ‘90s to be an actor. But when he needed a way to pay the bills, he became a real estate agent and...
Since it’s formal launch in summer 2010, Mayor Mike McGinn’s Seattle Nightlife Initiative has had one goal: to keep the citizens and streets of Seattle safer in late-night districts...
A pair of Queen Anne residents well known in the theater world have teamed up for a staged reading of “Dark Farce,” a satiric look at humanity’s continuous struggle with violence.
Two books that might have escaped notice this holiday season are worth doubling back for...
For the last 38 years, Rainier Beach artist Mary Magenta has painted images of various parks and published them into calendars...
Before the proverbial “summer reading” season sets in — days when Proust and Joyce can’t go to the beach — the News checked in with Magnolia’s Bookstore and Queen Anne Books to see what their customers are reading.
Even now, 18 years after arriving in the Washington state Senate, Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D-Seattle), says rising to speak from the Senate floor is no small thing. “I still get a little nervous,” she allowed.
Bringing “The Eye of the Storm” to the screen involved the reunion of a filmmaking “family,” a brilliant bevy of old Oz hands from that heady era of filmmaking hailed as the Australian New Wave.
Ronald Belford Scott, known to the world as Bon Scott, emigrated with his family from Scotland to Australia in 1956 at age 10. He found two fellow Scottish immigrants in the Young brothers, Malcolm and Angus, joined the band they’d started, AC/DC (known as “Acca Dacca” in Australia), and conquered the world, touring and blowing people’s minds (not to mention ears) from 1974 until his messy death from alcohol in 1980.
Gallery owner and art historian David Martin has waged a decades-long crusade to give neglected artists...