Public art generally falls into two categories: 1) massive and durable enough to withstand the elements (and vandals and graffiti…
At any given backyard barbecue, you’ll meet scores of Northwest climbers who’ve done Rainier and McKinley, some who’ve bagged Everest,…
To its credit, this is an inconclusive, narrowly focused biopic sure to confound fans of Jimi Hendrix. It forgoes his…
Yes, this is a movie nominally inspired by the old ’80s TV show. And yes, it’s essentially a Liam Neeson…
Why is this film not being released at Christmas? The sacred tradition of Jews and Chinese food and going to…
This is the kind of movie that congratulates itself for casting a comedienne in a dramatic role and a straight…
On an institutional level, the Northwest arts and culture scene is booming like Amazon. Tacoma Art Museum is opening a…
You get the sense that filmmaker Shaun Scott can’t stop talking about history, yet he also wants to shift the…
A few short years ago, Domingo Martinez had the wolf at the door. His graphic-design clients were disappearing. The newspaper…
There’s a built-in audience for the latest collaboration between Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, given the widespread arthouse affection for…
Alan Hruska’s adaptation of his stage comedy has as its heroine a New York fiction editor, Nellie (Amy McAllister), whose…
Career on the skids, unable to remember his lines, performing some kind of Broadway abridgement of Jane Eyre, a bloated,…
At Guantanamo, we know, inmates are denied few possessions other than Korans and writing paper. Sharp objects are certainly not…
A deliberate affront to good taste and conventional notions of feminine hygiene: That’s how to describe both the heroine of…
In interviews, the actor Ben Mendelsohn has said that he was once typecast as a handsome young bloke while working…
Just as the Seahawks begin their season this week, here’s a profile of an outspoken black man from the generation…
As the living memory of World War II nears its end, fresh Hollywood treatments of the war also seem to…
Bumbershoot’s visual arts exhibits are distributed over two locations this year: Fisher Pavilion (with a separate tent outside); and what’s…
Yes, you would like a second helping. Director Michael Winterbottom and his two stars, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, aren’t…
Michael Fassbender is in there somewhere. The Irish-German star of Shame and the X-Men movies spends most of this unlikely…
