The most suspenseful scene in Ava DuVernay’s Selma does not depict the dramatic 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, nor…
Whatever else it achieves in offering observations about friendship and love in the modern age, Life Partners is definitive on…
It sounds like something that fell from a branch of the Tarantino tree: Surely a movie promoting itself as an…
Seen during SIFF last spring, this adaptation of Matt Smith’s 1997 stage monologue has three irresistible selling points if you’re…
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Above: Curator and artist Leena Joshi. When over six hundred human beings show up to an arts event, clearly, something…
Civic Rep’s program notes read: “While the playwright suggests a specific time and place for the story, we have chosen…
August saw the tenth anniversary of James Schlesinger’s 2004 Pentagon study of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison. The anniversary was…
Author Events Brandon Sanderson Firefight is his latest fantasy epic. Seattle Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., 386-4636, spl.org. 7 p.m….
Author Events Bellevue Regional Library, 1111 110th Ave. N.E., 425-450-1765, kcls.org. Eagle Harbor Books, 157 Winslow Way E. (Bainbridge Island),…
Openings & Events NOTE: First Thursday is being held on the second Thursday of the month, Jan. 8, owing to…
My preferred circulation path in a museum is counterclockwise, like running on a track. However, that may not be the…
Wednesday, Jan. 7 David Shields & Caleb Powell Have you heard about that controversial James Franco movie? No, not The…
Opening ThisWeek Before I Disappear Opens Fri., Jan. 9 at Sundance Cinemas. Not rated. 93 minutes. A cliche, once struck, can…
I am sure, when Roberto Ando published his novel in 2012, that Italian critics cited Being There and Dave as…
The rustic hotel at the heart of Winter Sleep is a strikingly unfamiliar place: Located somewhere in Turkey’s Anatolian countryside,…
The first minutes of Rocks in My Pockets unfold in standard-issue animation of the European variety: cutesy (yet grown-up) drawings,…
Stage Openings & Events Dear Ruth A reading of Norman Krasna’s 1944 comedy, in which an idealistic teen poses as…
Ongoing • Zack Bent Lean-out, Lean-to is an installation inspired by a chance encounter with a truck canopy in Spokane….
Opening ThisWeek Rocks in My Pockets Opens Fri., Jan. 2 at Sundance Cinemas. Not Rated. 88 minutes. The first minutes of…
