Opening ThisWeek PAmour Fou Runs Fri., April 24–Thurs., April 30 at Grand Illusion. Not rated. 96 minutes. In November 1811, in…
You’d never know it today, but the present Trinity Nightclub on Occidental Avenue South (near Yesler) once housed the 90-seat…
Thursday, April 23 Spectrum Dance Theater Ever since the debut of Carl Orff’s Carmina burana in the 1930s, choreographers have…
Back in 2009, Argentine filmmaker Lisandro Alonso came to Seattle for a retrospective of his still-young career, including his new…
The Manic Pixie Dream Girl label has become a tired, overused trope in a tired, overused genre in which a…
No one is harder on the press, and less forgiving of ethical transgressions, than the press itself. Fabricating journalists like…
Much as you and I will want to admire the great Brazilian humanist photographer Sebastiao Salgado, such creatures have a…
Ah, yes, the campus rape movie that none of us wants to see. Credit the excellent muckracking documentarian Kirby Dick…
Gordon Gekko in the desert Southwest. There’s really no other way to describe this sparse but ultimately rather silly B-movie…
Even if you have an allergic reaction to dramatic re-enactments in documentary films—and I confess I get itchy during them—1971…
Author Events Bellevue Regional Library, 1111 110th Ave. N.E., 425-450-1765, kcls.org. Eagle Harbor Books, 157 Winslow Way E. (Bainbridge Island),…
There’s something about the 19th-century ballets choreographed by Marius Petipa (1818–1910) that calls for excess. The old stories handed down…
For musicians, the rewards of bringing a new piece into the world have to be reconciled with the extra rehearsal…
Author Events Atticus Lish Paul Constant talks to him about his debut novel, Preparation for the Next Life. University Book…
Opening ThisWeek Backcountry Runs Fri., April 17–Thurs., April 23 at Grand Illusion. Not rated. 92 minutes. See, this is why I…
When Daniel Clowes’ David Boring was published in 2000, it looked for a while as if the graphic novel had…
Wednesday, April 15 Bill Plympton Appearing at tonight’s screening of Cheatin’, the veteran animator is famous for hand-drawing every frame…
There are movies about good dogs (Lassie, Benji, etc.) and bad dogs (Cujo, White Dog, and so on), but it’s…
