The Leschi Business Association and Leschi Community Council will present local artists, craftspeople and businesses at the fourth-annual Art Walk and Street Fair.
The Interagency Academy is Seattle’s biggest secret: an alternative, nurturing public high school for students who are dealing with hard life issues and need extra support.
James Ponsoldt’s “The End of the Tour” is about author David Foster Wallace, a truly brilliant writer hindered by his inability to climb out of his mind.
Despite the typical political friction accompanying local primaries, there’s something all five District 3 candidates can agree on: the city’s hunger for affordable housing.
Every year, taxpayers in Seattle pay for millions of dollars of emergency medical care for people who have been shot. It’s time for the gun industry to chip in to help defray these costs.
After an overturned fish truck on state Route 99 caused a nine-hour citywide traffic jam last March, Mayor Ed Murray and other city officials adamantly defended the city’s slow response. The national experts, whom Murray commissioned to study the incident response, came up with a different conclusion.
I wouldn’t want to be in Ethan Hunt’s shoes. In Christopher McQuarrie’s fun, over-the-top “Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation,” Hunt (played again by Tom Cruise) puts himself in a number of high-stress, gutsy situations.
In “Irrational Man,” Woody Allen turns Fyodor Dostoevsky’s dense philosophical novel “Crime and Punishment” into a light, modern-day murder mystery/romance.
While watching National Lampoon’s “Vacation” (starring Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo as Clark and Ellen Griswold, respectively) did you ever think to yourself: “Gee, I wonder what it would be like if their son Rusty was grown up and took his own family on a road trip to Wally World?” Neither did I.
Kyle Patrick Alverez’s alarming, uncomfortable “The Stanford Prison Experiment” is about the psychology behind the abuse of power: What kinds of situations make seemingly normal people turn cruel?
The city certainly got itself into a mess when it instituted its ordinance requiring Seattle Public Utilities customers to separate their compost from their garbage.
In terms of narrative, “Southpaw” plays things safe. However, as far as bright spots go, “Southpaw” has Jake Gyllenhaal, and what a bright spot he is.
