Year: 2012
-

NBC’s Fashion Star Premiere Episode
Tuesday, March 13th brought the premiere of NBC’s new reality show, Fashion Star. Seattle is represented by not one, but two designers on Fashion Star. Lizzie Parker, who sells her line out of her boutique in Kirkland and Lisa Vian Hunter who has a lovely…
-

Printer’s Devil Theater’s Torso: An Unpredictable Yet Simple Fixation
By a stroke of luck, or serendipity, Seattle theatrical landscape is graced with the smart work of its women playwrights, actors and artists. Printer’s Devil’s Torso is a grand addition to those offerings.
-

Nicky’s Family: The Untold Story of “the British Schindler”
I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t been dreading the inevitability of a Holocaust film coming up on my docket for this year’s Seattle Jewish Film Festival. Having read the synopsis for Nicky’s Family, I was looking forward to the screening in theory but…
-

Lark Eden at Theater Schmeater: Earnest, Simple, and Touching Drama
John Allis talks about Lark Eden, a simple, straightforward tale told through the letters of three southern women which is being produced now at Theater Schmeater.
-

BOOST Dance Festival: A Showcase of Seattle’s Diversity
Dancers face the very same challenges as theater groups. Rehearsal space, performance space, support funding and so on. But quite unlike their counterparts in the theater, dancers tend to gather together out of necessity and fix their problems from within. Marlo Martin rose to a…
-
Friend or Foe? My So-Called Enemy Humanizes the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
My So-called Enemy is a new documentary that just played at the SJFF that explores if it is possible for teenage girls across the Israeli/Palestine divide to form lasting friendships after spending just nine days together at a camp. Not only is it possible, but…
-

Mabul at SJFF: Sometimes You Need a Good Flood
Dikla Tuchman talks about Mabul, the opening film at the Seattle Jewish Film Festival.
-

Hollow Earth Radio and Nonsequitur bring trio improvisation to the Chapel
In improvisation, duos are a sort of conversation. Big bands are something like a game of follow the leader. In a sense, improvising trios are a combination of both. They retain much of the conversational intimacy of a duo through a kind of shared leadership…
-

A Dumb Place
In retrospect, agreeing Mary’s suggestion had not been a particularly bright idea. And she now realized the idea was never hers in the first place. In the past three hours Brenda had gone over the sequence of events and was now fully aware of how…
