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All Arts and Entertainment Stories |
Running With Scissors skewers psychiatry, genres, but loses focus
By Lorelei Quenzer, A&E Writer
Running With Scissors
Directed by Ryan Murphy
Starring Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Evan Rachel Wood, Joseph Fiennes, Jill Clayburgh, Gwyneth Paltrow
Opens today
Annette Bening has perfected the art of crazy. Is it living with Warren? It's as if Bening has taken the narcissism that more
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Men in Dance Festival delivers a warm, welcoming and unpretentious experience
welcoming and unpretentious experience
By E. Joyce Glasgow
SGN A&E Writer
Men in Dance Festival 2006
October 13-15 & 20-22
Velocity Dance Studio
I attended the second weekend of
performances at the Men in Dance
Festival and arrived to a warm,
welcoming and unpretentio more
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SEATTLE'S 2006 LGBT FILM FESTIVAL
A Love to Hide is a haunting, gut-wrenching, and heart-breaking love story
by Nevin Jefferson
SGN A&E Writer
A Love to Hide (Un amour à taire)
In French with English Subtitles
102 minutes
Cast: Bruno Todeschini, Charlotte De
Turckheim, Jeremie Renier, Louise
Monot, Michel Jonasz
Direct more
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Book Marks
by Richard Labonte -
SGN Contributing Writer
Death of a Department Chair, by Lynn C. Miller.
Terrace Books, 242 pages, $24.95 paper.
Institutional egos clash, political correctness
abounds, well-educated Lesbians get
it on with much lust, and a bloodied body
turns up in the Ivory Towe more
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Roll Bounce: An author's obsession with national women's roller derby
by Jim Provenzano
SGN A&E Writer
Tim Patten has been obsessed with roller
derby for as long as he can recall. The first
time he watched games on TV, he wanted to
be a part of it, and took up roller skating soon
after. Whenever roller derby tournaments toured near his childhood home in Wisconsin,
he begged his parents to take him. more
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Cullum brings tour full circle Seattle
by Lorelei Quenzer - SGN A&E Writer Jamie Cullum
October 20 at the Paramount Theatre It was nearly full circle for British jazz sensation Jamie Cullum, who began his tour in Seattle back in March of this year. That show, at the Moore, was sold out; this show, at a bigger venue (the Paramount) was n more
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Escape from the routine - the Kirov Orchestra at Benaroya Hall
by Rod Parke
SGN A&E Writer
Love it or hate it. There wasn't much
middle ground as pianist Alexander Toradze
put his stamp on a warhorse, Tchaikovsky's
.Piano Concerto No. 1.' The opening bars
were most impressive. The gutsy horns and
a very broad tempo shook hands with the
enormous tone from the Steinway, giving us
everything I drea more
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The War Tapes - A moving documentary of 3 soldiers in Iraq, and the stereotypes come toppling down . . .
The War Tapes: A moving documentary of 3 soldiers in Iraq
by Derich Mantonela
SGN A&E Writer
Opens Friday at the Varsity
Deborah Scranton’s angle on the Iraq War, so basic that one wonders why nobody se more
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Our Icon, Dorothy Allison
by Madelyn Arnold
SGN Contributing Writer
As The Village Voice says: "Dorothy Allison writes better about fury and forgiveness and all... in between than any ... [other] contemporary writer..." Bent Writing Collective’s October 14 production featured Allison as it’s "Me more
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Photographer Annie Leibovitz pays poignant visit to Seattle
by E. Joyce Glasgow -
SGN A&E Writer
Legendary photographer, Annie
Leibovitz, visited the University
of Washington campus on October
24th in support of her new book,
“A Photographer's Life” (2006).
Known for her distinctive and
memorable portraits of celebrities
in Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, more
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Life, love and just about everything else a man can talk about and an audience wants to hear
by Rajkhet Dirzhud-Rashid -
SGN A&E Writer
Thom Pain, (based on nothing)
Directed by Jerry Manning
Starring: Todd Jefferson Moore
Seattle Repertory Theatre (Leo K. Theatre)
October 5-November 5th
It's hard to imagine that one man, on a
stage without any props, or anything flashing, more
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Joan Jett still loving rock n' roll at The Showbox; Sugarcult, The Pink Spiders and The Adored - a three-way at El Corazon
Where It's At - by Albert Rodriguez and Richard Kennedy - SGN A&E Writers
Joan Jett and The Blackhearts w/ Eagles of Death Metal and Throw Rag
Wednesday, November 1 - 9pm
The Showbox- $25 / www.ticketswest.com
Joan Jett and The Blackhearts make a welcomed return to Seattle the day after Halloween. There o more
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Q-Scopes by Jack Fertig
ARIES (March 20 - April 19): Your seductive charm is working far
better than you expect. Use it sparingly and wisely; it could land
you into situations you hadn't gambled on. Secrets that come to
light may include long-hidden talents.
TAURUS (April 20 - May 20): Getting out into a new and different
milieu - preferably someplace wi more
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