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Do you like the idea of skiing more than the actual activity? Are you considering taking up an extreme sport, but need a hit of inspiration before acquiring the mandatory tattoos and safety equipment? Then consider watching BANFF Mountain Film Festival's Radical Reels Tour's that explore environmental, adventure or adventure-related
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Something about this time of year - it makes plaid cool. It makes bagpipes cool. Pale, hairy, muscular men in skirts with no underwear? Too far? Because St. Patrick's Day is this month, Pam and Philip Boulding, the husband and wife foundation of Magical Strings, will bust out the Celtic
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This week I’m going set my usual flirtatiousness aside and dive into a matter that I think needs some attention —something that I’m just as guilty of as so many of you. Buying music online. Now I’m not going to dip into the controversial sides of downloading music. The point I’d like
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Ready for a success story ... in storyform? At 17, Brandon Stogsdill was arrested, tried as an adult for assault with a deadly weapon and sentenced to four years in prison. While in prison, Stogsdill vowed to change. When he was released, Stogsdill enrolled in college and began a career
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How shall we mark the passage from late summer into fall and early winter this year? The choices available to Washingtonians are, as ever, many. Some represent long but enduring traditions that would be a shame to miss. Others represent newcomers to the event calendar lineup. Here are a few
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Do I detect a trend, or is it mere coincidence that for two months in a row A.O.C. Gallery has featured four women artists? The last time it was a quartet of fiber artists. This time it’s printmakers. Good ones, too. The best in this show are Klara Glosova and Betsy
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About two years ago a group of friends were talking about some ideas they’d all been incubating for a number of years. These ideas for Mark, Jennifer, Pamela, and Paul, and two others who weren’t present as we met eventually coalesced into the form of anarchism. The like-thinking group of people
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This week my heart was set on one and only one destination to start off the weekend after all the buzz I’d heard around town: The Red Hot! This is the latest bar to join the Sixth Avenue family, located at 2914 Sixth Ave., Suite B; but don’t expect it to
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Used books reign supreme over new books because there's something to be said for encountering a chocolate stain, a teardrop or a snot smear on random pages, reminding you that you're holding something someone enjoyed before you. Used books are things with histories. At the Friends Lakewood Library's Book Sale
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When Chicago bands need a musician, they call Howard Levy. He can play any instrument and genre, although he prefers the piano and harmonica - and has a special affection for the music of South America, the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Most know Levy as the founding harmonica player
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A gray Sunday in Tacoma was brightened by the Glass Roots Arts Festival, with live artists showing their use of a wide range of media from paint with brush and can to music to glass (natch!) Although not overwhelmed by a throng of festival-goers, the event’s intimate, family-friendly setting provided an
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Glass, all glass and nothing but glass. That seems to be the new focus of the previously misnamed Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art. Yep, MOG got smart and did away with the last part of that heavily ambitious name and simplified its mission to reflect a direction it,
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Still going strong since it began offering services to community newcomers in 1910, Tacoma Community House, 1314 S. “L” St. in Tacoma’s Hilltop district, offers, under one roof, a broad menu of programs and services in basic education, life skills development, employment assistance, multi-lingual assistance and immigration help. It provides
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ARCTIC TALE: See review page 21. The Grand Cinema: Fri-Sun 2:20, 4:45, 6:45, 8:45. Also Sat-Sun noon. Mon-Wed 4:45, 6:45, 8:45. Thurs, Aug. 23 2:20, 4:45, 6:45, 8:45. BECOMING JANE: Fictionalized speculation about a great romance in Jane Austen’s 20th year. The would-be author (Anne Hathaway) meets a handsome lawyer (James McAvoy)
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Arctic Tale “Arctic Tale” journeys to one of the most difficult places on Earth for animals to make a living and shows it growing even more unfriendly. The documentary studies polar bears and walruses in the Arctic as global warming raises temperatures and changes the way they have done business since
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“Superbad” is a four-letter raunch-a-rama with a heart, and an inordinate interest in other key organs. It is autobiographical, I suspect, inspired not just by the lives of the co-writers, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who named the two leads after themselves, but possibly by millions of other teenagers. The
