Subject: Alfre Woodard

• The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events

  April 15, 2009

• Take the Lead

  Opens at Metro and others, Fri., April 7. Rated PG-13. 108 minutes.

  April 5, 2006

• Graceful Desperation

  March 22, 2006

• The Ballad of Jack and Rose

  March 30, 2005

• Love and Basketball

  April 19, 2000

• She knows why the caged bird sings

  December 23, 1998

• Slavery's children

  October 14, 1998

• Fall Arts Preview

  September 9, 1998

• Your Weekend Art-Geek Advisory

  Get your geek on tonight at Third Place in Bothell. That's what our Laura Onstot says... FRIDAY: Garth Sundem I was on the college debate team. I spent the last three months' worth of Friday nights, not in a miniskirt and halter top in Belltown, but parked on the couch watching the Sci Fi Channel. (Battlestar Galactica frakin' rules!) I sing in a choir that performs early Renaissance music. I speak a bit of elvish and own Final Fantasy Tactics for the Game Boy Advance. A generation ago, this wo

  April 17, 2009

• Late Review: American Violet

  This film just played the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, but the distributor waffled on giving it a release date. Surprise! It's opening today at the Meridian. Our writer Melissa Anderson saw it; here's her review: A docudrama with a good heart but a heavy hand, American Violet isn't shrinking. Changing the real names of the people and town involved, the third film by Tim Disney (Walt's grand-nephew) recounts the true story of Dee (Nicole Beharie), a young African-American sing

  May 1, 2009