Memoirist, poet and essayist Patricia Hampl has won Image magazine’s ninth annual Denise Levertov Award, named after one of the 20th century’s leading poets who lived the last years of her life in Seattle.
At 27, Magnolia resident Kacey Kroeger suffered a massive brain injury in an auto accident. But instead of acquiescing to a life of self-pity and lowered expectations, Kroeger turned her experience into something that would help hundreds of people.
Fisher Broadcasting Seattle has announced the promotion of KOMO-TV and KUNS-TV Vice President-General Sales Manager Janene Drafs to the position of Vice President-Station Manager, effective immediately.
QT's first new movie in three years, Django Unchained, occasions a career tribute from Kathleen Murphy. And like Django, she doesn't miss.
We should have seen it coming. Parental Guidance director Andy Fickman's previous family farce was You Again, which this writer called "totally, inanely, numbingly awful.... From the evidence on screen, [Fickman's] directorial skills might serve to mount a mediocre high school play." Now this hack is back, gifting us with another DOA comedy. Pity anyone who heads out on Christmas Day to take in Parental Guidance, billed as cheery comedy about the clash between old-school and contemporary child-rearing, with heartwarming lessons to be learned by three generations of one fractured family. Parents and children blessed with an iota of gray matter or taste will storm the ticket booth demanding refunds. The only people sitting still for this overlong ordeal will be those brainwashed by bad TV sitcoms into yukking on cue at lowbrow comedy and cardboard clowns. Your cue is http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-critic-reviews/parental-guidance.3/#Review_0
The Seattle International Film Festival is upon us once again, and nothing can be done about it.
Bryan Ohno is hoping to reverse the downward spiral of homelessness with a soaring sculpture in Lake Union Park.
It's that moment-out-of-time again. You know the drill. And if you don't, you can still click "Read More."
Can't come up with a single reason to recommend this leaden excuse for an eco-thriller, which one Damian Lee claims to have written and directed. Pitting corporate bad guys against saintly Third Worlders, A Dark Truth wears a bleeding heart on its sleeve, a designer appliqué of empty liberal platitudes.
I have been remiss. This gallery feature went up at movies.MSN.com more than a week ago, but I was away attending the Third Wilmette Cabin Fever Film Festival and separated from my password for posting at Straight Shooting. (Thanks, however, to Sean Axmaker for seeing that it got linked to at Parallax View.)
The opening sequence is the best part of Ridley Scott's 2012 movie Prometheus: a world (ours) coming into being. That's how virtually all of Scott's 1977 feature debut seemed. I'm told its Blu-ray is about to "street," so here's my reaction at the dawn of the new age. Oh ... the picture at left is in black and white. The movie emphatically is not.
Best Pictures we have known; a non-scientific catalog
For an Oscar year in which several big awards were foregone conclusions, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences soiree this past Sunday included its share of surprises. It also featured an equable, perhaps accidental, distribution of the prizes among a range of movies. When we consider how set the Hollywood community appeared to be on anointing the sixth-best nominee as best picture, it's gratifying that 2012 won't go down in Oscar history as a sweep year.
Sunshine from Polynesia will be performing two dance shows on Saturday, May 26th to benefit the Donie Memorial Pet Clinic which serves homeless and low income pet owners.
The green light has been given by Seattle Parks and Recreation for the installation of the controversial five-stone sculpture in Counterbalance Park.