The Magnolia Theater presents “Bye Bye Birdie,” and musical comedy that features local students from 5th Grade through 8th Grade.
As the Internet continues to reshape nearly every aspect of our lives, the real estate industry finds itself embracing a number of new practices. Current technologies allow homebuyers and sellers to access more information than ever before.
Rust and Bone helmer Jacques Audiard enjoys a reputation head and shoulders above that of the guys who made The Intouchables, another French import screened in American theaters this year. But that cheerfully manipulative fairy tale about the unlikely bonding between a rich quadriplegic and his earthy Senegalese minder came to mind during Rust and Bone, Audiard's much shrewder film about the rehabilitation of mismatched lovers respectively handicapped by missing limbs and a deficiency of humanity.
The October 2012 session of Framing Pictures is available for online viewing at http://www.seattlechannel.org/videos/video.asp?ID=3411205 Robert Horton, Bruce Reid, and I talk about Shirley Clarke's 1961 Underground movie The Connection, Ted Kotcheff's Aussie landmark Wake in Fright, the Universal Pictures centenary, and the mystique of celluloid vs. digital. This will not be on the exam.
Cut flowers bring the natural world into the house. To provide them, decide if you want to have a separate cutting garden or choose plants that serve as both a source for indoor arrangements a beautiful garden scene.
After 15 months at the helm of The Queen Anne and Magnolia News, Jeff Bond is leaving to take a job with Paradigm Publishing. He will be an editor for Alaska Airlines magazine.
Deadfall is a nifty little noir thriller that showcases solid acting and potent action, all within strikingly visualized winterscapes and interiors. Director Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) gets that when you transplant noir from rain-slicked urban streets to lonely northern snowfields, the change of venue often adds a special frisson to this stylized genre.
Gov. Christine Gregoire visited Our Lady of Fatima Parish School, 3301 W. Dravus St., on Nov. 30 to answer questions from the second- and third-graders in the school library.
Teatro Zinzanni joins the 50th-anniversary celebration of the Seattle World’s Fair with “Return to Paradise,” its first production with a Seattle-specific theme.
Nine local residents have feature roles in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s “Nutcracker,” which runs through Dec. 29 at McCaw Hall.
Movies.MSN.com has posted the results of its annual poll of contributors regarding the year's top films, and once again Kathleen Murphy and I participated. Find it at http://movies.msn.com/movies/year-in-review/top-10-movies/
Here's quick access to Kathleen Murphy's and my contributions to the Movies.MSN feature.
A relentless and shattering masterwork, Amour breaks heart but satisfies soul.
Seattle Opera’s “Madama Butterfly” is a thing of delicate grace and beauty layered over heart-rending passion, much like the geisha for whom the opera is named.