Here’s an earnest new comedy of hybrid parentage: Dwayne J. Clark, a local businessman, is the newbie fictionalizing his past…
The spectacle is what’s been hyped about Seattle Opera’s production of Handel’s Semele, but the music is why you shouldn’t…
Outraged by the Bush administration, the Iraq War, the Patriot Act, Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, etc., Sam Shepard hastily composed this…
A beloved old neighbor, who occupies a rent-controlled apartment in a valuable Brooklyn brownstone, suddenly drops dead. Perhaps because she…
Though a relatively gentle homefront comedy, John Boorman’s 1987 Hope and Glory advanced the revisionist argument that—to uncomprehending children, at…
As a Western shot by a Danish crew in South Africa, The Salvation already has a hodgepodge air about it….
Funny and bizarre enough to attract a cult following, Buzzard is also off-putting enough to keep its micro-indie cred. I…
Thursday, March 5 Cheryl Strayed If you write a bestseller that becomes the first pick for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0,…
Author Events Mark Adams Meet Me in Atlantis details his experiences tracking down and talking to Atlantis obsessives. Elliott Bay…
Openings & Events daya astor and carolyn gracz The artists present work under the rubrics Quotidian Urban Geometry and Perspective….
Opening ThisWeek PBuzzard Runs Fri., March 6–Thurs., March 12 at Grand Illusion. Not rated. 87 minutes. Funny and bizarre enough to…
Opening Nights The God of Hell Stone Soup Theatre, 4029 Stone Way N., 633-1883, stonesouptheatre.org. $15–$25. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. plus 4…
ThisWeek’s PickList Wednesday, March 4 Kyle Abraham Plenty of interesting dances aren’t about anything in particular, but they aren’t by Abraham….
We’re preparing for March 8.” With that, Seattle Sounders head coach Sigi Schmid asserted his team’s focus on the anticipated…
A good con-artist movie isn’t that much different from a good con. It’s all about distraction and sleight of hand,…
It didn’t cop the Oscar on Sunday, but the good news is a few hundred million people have now heard…
She comes from the land of the ice and snow. We first meet Hera as a 12-year-old on an Icelandic…
As I write this, the memory is fresh of Julianne Moore winning her Oscar—finally!—for mentally perishing in About Alice. It’s…
If you are already a fan of Samuel Fuller’s uncompromising pulp cinema, you’ll be delighted by this new documentary tour…
Stage Openings & Events Avenue Q (School Edition) From what I remember of this show, a version with the diciest…
