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Church, Seattle are home to longtime educator

Lyle Watson loves education; Seattle Pacific University hall named after dad

At 97, Seattle's Lyle Watson can still be found in the same place he frequented as a teenage boy, the library.

All fired up

Chapter Two in the Millennium Phenom: 'The Girl Who Played with Fire' is 'terrific'

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."

Hit play on '[Rec] 2'

Modern haunted-house tale twists the imagination

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.

Deadline 7/7

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.

A torrent of toroids

Seattle artist to display new work

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.

Food program for the needy forced to close

Financial strains were too much for the St. Vincent de Paul meal service

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.

Queen Anne High condo owners win large settlement

The owners of the condominiums that comprise the historic former Queen Anne High School building have won a...

Sorcerer fights without substance

Nicholas Cage makes yet another bad film

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.

Inception a surreal caper with a twist

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.

'Despicable Me' a delight

New animated film is both funny and touching

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."

Ooh la la, it's Bastille Day

Day of everything French at Seattle Center is trés bien

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.

Magnolia neighborhood reunion coming this Friday

Steve Lundh is planning a neighborhood reunion...

'Hugo' is Scorsese's excellent love letter to early cinema

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.

Into another dimension

Sci-fi authors to read Saturday at Queen Anne Library

This weekend be prepared for sci-fi, fantasy and the queen - or rather, sci-fi and fantasy at the Queen Anne Library.

The counterculture's new 'it' girl

At 84, Queen Anne's Dorli Rainey is parlaying unexpected fame into support for progressive causes

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.