Stunning weather, the sound of music and the smell of food greeted well over 1,000 people Friday afternoon and evening, July 6, at Metropolitan Market’s “appreciation” party in the parking lot of the upper Queen Anne store, which closes today Wednesday, July 11.
For one night only, seven animators will bring to life a seven-minute “Exquisite Corpse” film for the Pioneer Square Art Walk on Thursday, March 1.
Seattle Shakespeare Company’s “Pygmalion” opens with a song from the 1964 movie version of “My Fair Lady”, cut off by playwright George Bernard Shaw (A. Bryan Humphrey) striding onstage shaking his head in annoyance. This opening not only sets the playful tone maintained throughout this delightful production
The only thing Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh’s new movie “Act of Valor” has going for it is realism. It’s about the Navy Seals, so real, active Navy Seals are used in the film as opposed to actors.
“Rampart” is a movie that has so much going for it that you wish it would be better. The director, Oren Moverman (“The Messenger”) has gathered a number of parts that would seem ideal in making a good, old-fashioned crime noir picture.
Now that Seattle’s new waterfront Wheel is up and running, there are a couple of new spots nearby worth checking out. Among them, the new Seafood Cafe at Elliott’s Oyster House.
This summer GreenStage will put on two Shakespeare productions in Discovery Park. “Henry VIII” will be performed on July 29 at 3 p.m. and “The Taming of the Shrew” on August 5 at 3 p.m.
Sometimes it takes a partnership to make a book. A pair of recent books, in which the University of Washington Press partnered with other entities, enriches local history and art history.
“A Cat in Paris”—a new French animation film directed by Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol—is a delightful little movie, showing that the animated films made by other countries (including Studio Ghibli’s “The Secret World Of Arrietty” and Aardman Studio’s “The Pirates: Band of Misfits”) have been continually upstaging the animated movies made in this country so far this year.
The residents along Perkins Lane don’t have to be reminded that there is still a month left in Seattle’s landslide season.
Dmitry and Marina Molla aren’t exactly sold on the caucus style of political discourse. The young Queen Anne couple who are immigrants from Soviet countries, attended the Republican caucus at the downtown Labor Temple on March 3 and left decidedly unimpressed.
Mary Lou Dickerson, a Democrat who has represented the 36th District since 1994, has grown so frustrated with Olympia that she’s decided to not seek re-election this fall and, instead, spend more time in her painting studio.
Robert Louis Stevenson, one of three famous, late-19th-century European dropouts, wrote of his self-exile in the South Seas: “But I was now escaped out of the shadow of the Roman Empire….”
“John Carter,” the latest Disney fantasy adventure, is a film epic on every level. Not just because of its massive size (actors, costumes, pounds of makeup, sets, special effects, use of CGI, etc.) and not just because of its massive budget ($250 million!) but also because of its massive amount of creativity and ideas. To those who watched the awful, awful trailers and thought “John Carter” looked like “Prince of Persia” with mythical creatures, I say take another look.
These days it’s hard to find a really good genre horror film. Like the western, horror has been done so many times that it’s exceedingly difficult to make a fresh looking scary movie. For a little while the only way you could make a new horror film and have it actually be scary was by making a “found footage” film like “Cloverfield” or “Paranormal Activity” but even that form is now overused and stale.