Maggie Smith

SIFF Week 1: Picks and Pans

Your Arts & Goats Weekend Planner

​It's a gorgeous weekend, and that can mean only one thing: Drive to Puyallup and see the goats! We're talking about the Puyallup Fair, and Lauren Lynch supplies a preview: This year's Puyallup Fair begins Western style with a cattle drive through downtown. (No, there aren't ordinarily cows i ... More >>

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​It's a gorgeous weekend, and that can mean only one thing: Drive to Puyallup and see the goats! We're talking about the Puyallup Fair, and Lauren Lynch supplies a preview: This year's Puyallup Fair begins Western style with a cattle drive through downtown. (No, there aren't ordinarily cows i ... More >>

DVDs of the Week

Andrew Bujalski's Mutual Appreciation and other new releases.

Nov. 1-8, 2006

A week of calamities: The Cold War, the Iraq War, and Katrina all over again.

Oct. 13-19, 2006

Hedwig, depressed Swedes, and a wandering Dutch architect in Africa.

Keeping Mum

Opens at Seven Gables, Fri., Sept. 29. Rated R. 90 minutes.

Hogwarts and Hormones

The dancing lessons are as scary as the dragons for our pubescent wizards.

Kontroll

Also: Ladies in Lavender, Layer Cake, The Longest Yard, Madagascar, Mad Hot Ballroom, 3-Iron, and We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen.

The Set-Up

Warner Home Video, $19.97

The Day After Tomorrow, and Other Releases

Warner Home Video, $19.97

Gosford Park

Warner Home Video, $19.97

Steel magnolias

Southern belles reveal grit and grievances.

The ruling class

Servants and masters cross boundaries in echt whodunit.

Great expectations

Dickens, Tolkien, and George Lucas are the fathers to this precocious orphan.