Getting kids to save and spend money wisely isn’t always easy in a world where toys, new gadgets and iPods are constantly emptying their piggy banks. But some Seattle elementary schools are taking steps to change this.
Once older people were considered wise because of their life experiences and the knowledge gained over a long life. But that is changing because of the speed at which the world is now evolving.
Lasse Halstrom’s “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen” is a wonderfully good spirited movie about wonderfully good spirited people coming together over something as simple as the sport of salmon fishing. The picture is so upbeat and the actors have a certain pep to their step and eagerness in their line readings. Its humor isn’t the least bit offensive, which is surprising considering how hard it is to make a comedy these days without resorting to vulgar, offensive jokes.
Darrell Drew has run the Magnolia Summerfest Children’s and Seafair Parade for 38 years. The low-key Drew, in charge of a thousand moving pieces, has it pretty well figured out.
The July 17 traffic pile-up on Elliott Avenue just east of the Magnolia Bridge took the life of a 56-year-old woman whose car, a 1998 Subaru Outback, was among those hit by a 2006 Jeep SUV that had crossed the centerline.
While regular physical activity has long been regarded as an important component of healthy aging, its impact on mental health has remained less explored – until now. Several new studies (http://www.alz.org/aaic/sun_1030amct_physical_activity.asp) on the role of exercise for the prevention of mental decline in older adults have been presented at this year’s Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in Vancouver, Canada.
This article appeared in Movietone News #50, an issue largely devoted to articles about writer-director Sam Fuller, whom the Seattle Film Society had brought to town in May 1976.
Seattle Schools Interim Superintendent Susan Enfield named Dr. Neil Gerrans the permanent principal at Lawton Elementary on March 23.
eorge F. Cotterill, mayor of the City of Seattle in 1912, was a founding member of the Queen City Road Club and was involved in surveying and designing a 25-mile bike path system in the late 1800s and early1900s that laid the ground work for the city’s future boulevard system (including Magnolia Boulevard).
Let’s get past the barking and right to the wagging: If you’re a dog and you live in Seattle, you’ve got it pretty good. With 11 off-leash dog parks, countless of fellow doggy friends and masters who will pamper you with treats galore, you have no reason to whine.
It's mean season again—a Presidential election year with inanity in full cry—and time to haul out an old review of a 1986 movie I may never have heard anyone speak of in the years since, or seen programmed on TV. There was a DVD release, so if you're curious, maybe you can do something about it. (These days I kinda like Richard Gere. Yes, and moreover I think Robert Pattinson is quite good in Cosmopolis. Is my life coming unstuck or what?) —RTJ
Yet another late-in-life triumph for Frank Langella, and a promising directorial debut for young Jake Schreier. Kathleen Murphy testifies ... and wishes she'd had the wordcount leeway to salute Langella's world-class, shamefully Oscar-neglected turn in Starting Out in the Evening a few years ago.
Maybe it was me, maybe it was just the world, but I can't recall a movie year that felt as out-of-kilter as 1985. Before it had reached its midpoint, I was already in a position to put together a respectable Ten Best list. However, most of the titles on that list represented unfinished business from 1984. And as 1985 wore on, few among the brand-new films made credible bids to stand alongside them. Cool kids to the left are Richard Edson, Eszter Balint, and John Lurie in Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise. That film had been named Best Picture of 1984 by the National Society of Film Critics.
Has Young Mr. Lincoln—the first cardinal masterpiece of director John Ford's career, and the finest film of that epochal Hollywood year 1939—been neglected because people fear it's a stodgy history lesson?