At 97, Seattle's Lyle Watson can still be found in the same place he frequented as a teenage boy, the library.
First things first: Run, don't walk, to your nearest bookstore or punch up Amazon ASAP. Buy the Stieg Larsson Millennium Trilogy: "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," "The Girl Who Played with Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest."
Most of the horror films out there are either covered in gore or are CGI'ed to death. And reliance on one or the other is just overcompensation for a lousy script.
Seattle Shakespeare Company's Free Wooden O performances in the parks begins with Much Ado About Nothing and Othello, July 8-Aug. 1, at parks throughout King and Snohomish. The productions are free and open to the public. You will not need reservations or tickets but we do recommend arriving at least 20 minutes before the start of the show to secure a good spot on the lawn. www.seattleshakespeare.org and 206-733-8222.
Michael Schultheis, who describes his acrylic paintings as "a visual fugue of geometry," wasn't always an artist. In fact, he was as far away from an artist as you could get: a computer software engineer at Microsoft.
A homeless man at the door of Saint Vincent de Paul’s meal center in Lower Queen Anne waved goodbye as he carried away his hot breakfast and sack lunch, just as he had for years. Yet just a week before Thanksgiving, he’ll now have to find another place to help him get through rough times. The St. Vincent meal program, which for many years has been run out of a building owned by Queen Anne’s Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Parish, served its final meals last Friday, Nov. 18.
The owners of the condominiums that comprise the historic former Queen Anne High School building have won a...
There are plenty of sorcerer duels in director John Turltetaub's new film "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." In a bathroom, in Chinatown, in a park. Besides sorcerer duels, nothing much else happens. And frankly they get pretty boring and repetitive. Mainly because they consist of one person throwing some sort of energy bolt at someone else and vice versa, until someone runs away.
Buckle your seat belts, filmgoers. Christopher Nolan's "Inception" is going to take you on a thrill ride through exotic locales both real and imagined, bending both time and physics as you accompany expert "extractor" Dom Cobb (Leonard DiCaprio) and his team of specialists.
So far this year Pixar and DreamWorks have been dominating the animated movie scene with "Toy Story 3," "How to Train Your Dragon" and "Shrek 4." Now Universal Studios delivers its animated film, "Despicable Me."
Seattle Center's annual Bastille Day Festival Sunday was upstaged for part of the day - a large-screen television nearby cast the World Cup soccer finale between The Netherlands and Spain.
Steve Lundh is planning a neighborhood reunion...
To call “Hugo” great would be an understatement. It’s not great; it’s a living, breathing enchanted entity from start to finish. It’s a wild adventure, as well as Scorsese’s love letter to early cinema. And it’s the best use of 3D and CGI this entire year.
This weekend be prepared for sci-fi, fantasy and the queen - or rather, sci-fi and fantasy at the Queen Anne Library.
Standing no more than 5 feet tall, Dorli Rainey, the mild-mannered 84-year-old grandmother and longtime activist for progressive causes, has found herself in the very unexpected position of being one of the faces for the international “Occupy” movement.