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• Super in a rather expected way

  June 14, 2013 in Features on Page C5 For its first half, “Man of Steel” is well on its way to superhero-movie greatness. Dark, turbulent and not at all campy, it casts the young Clark Kent as a …

• ‘Something’ captures spirit of youth, times

  June 14, 2013 in Features, Seven on Page C6 The something in the air in Olivier Assayas’ “Something in the Air” is youth, politics, violence, art, sex and mopeds. The film begins “not far from Paris” in 1971, when …

• Flying Mammals pump up the funk on new EP release

  June 14, 2013 in Features on Page C3 Flying Mammals have landed and with a new album in tow. At the turn of 2013, the Coeur d’Alene band of brothers made a pledge to fans that they would …

• Witty ‘Midnight’ cuts to heart of relationships

  June 14, 2013 in Features on Page C6 They met on a Vienna-bound train and fell in love with each other over a long night’s talk “Before Sunrise.” Nine years later, they reconnected in Paris and fell in …

• The movie to end all end times movies

  June 14, 2013 in Features on Page C6 The lads of Hollywood’s “Pot Pack” get together for a riotous riff on The Rapture in “This is the End,” an often hilarious, generally irreverent comedy about the Biblical apocalypse …

• Modern fairy tale oozes with quirky optimism

  June 7, 2013 in Features on Page C7 Noah Baumbach’s playful, effervescent comedy “Frances Ha” is the story of a young woman’s quest to find an apartment in New York. That’s an arduous task for most ordinary, gainfully …

• Zombie flick ‘Warm Bodies’ surprisingly relatable

  June 7, 2013 in Features, Seven on Page C7 Romantic zombies, gunbattles in Russia and an odd road trip are featured in this week’s new DVD releases. • “Warm Bodies,” Grade B-plus: The zombie love story introduces a new …

• Voyeuristic story-in-a-story intrigues to end

  June 7, 2013 in Features on Page C6 The teacher is a veteran of the French school system, not burnt out but resigned to the mediocrity of each new crop of high school sophomores. That first assignment – …

• Closer look at a man of tricks

  May 31, 2013 in Features, Seven on Page C6 If you only know Ricky Jay from his side career – as a character actor looming like a sinister talisman in the films of David Mamet, and in other work …

• Nude Pop back in Spokane after tour, stint of farm work

  May 31, 2013 in Features, Seven on Page C3 It’s been quite a year for Nude Pop. About this time last year most of the members of the Spokane dream-pop quartet – originally known as Nude – had just …

• Film’s magic act unravels with its disappointing end

  May 31, 2013 in Features on Page C6 “Now You See Me” is like seeing a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat and then showing you how the trick is done, only to learn the bunny’s …

• A decent portrait of an artist

  May 31, 2013 in Features on Page C7 “Renoir” aims to do for the great Auguste Renoir what “The Last Station” did for Leo Tolstoy. It’s a lovely, painterly period piece that mimics the colors of Renoir’s art, …

• Fans, family motivate this musical multitasker

  May 31, 2013 in Features on Page C3 It’s been 18 years since Jewel released her debut album, “Pieces of You,” which would spawn three hit singles and go platinum 15 times. In the ensuing years, Jewel has …

• Fans, family motivate this musical multitasker

  May 30, 2013 in Features, Seven on Page N3 It’s been 18 years since Jewel released her debut album, “Pieces of You,” which would spawn three hit singles and go platinum 15 times. In the ensuing years, Jewel has …

• Nude Pop back in Spokane after tour, stint of farm work

  May 30, 2013 in Features, Seven on Page N3 It’s been quite a year for Nude Pop. About this time last year most of the members of the Spokane dream-pop quartet – originally known as Nude – had just …

• 2013 Pig Out In The Park schedule

  May 24, 2013 in City 2013 PIG OUT IN THE PARK Free Live Entertainment 3

• A rough but satisfying tale of redemption

  May 24, 2013 in Features, Seven on Page C6 A barrel of whisky would usually spell doom for the working-class blokes who always find their way into Ken Loach films. But it is redemption the director and his longtime …

• ‘Iceman’ offers chilling portrait

  May 24, 2013 in Features, Seven on Page C7 The phrase “banality of evil” popped up when historians sought to explain the bland men and women who carried out the Holocaust, when critics looked for ways to describe the …

• ‘Furious 6’ delivers what fans expect

  May 24, 2013 in Features on Page C6 Bad movies are rarely as much fun as these “Fast and the Furious” pictures. And make no mistake about it – they’re bad. They stick to a rigid formula of …

• Out with Plant, in with Zombies

  May 24, 2013 in Features on Page C2 On the concert front, we have good news and bad news. We’ll tackle the bad news first.

• Scattered drama has moments of promise

  May 24, 2013 in Features, Seven on Page C6 “At Any Price,” a roughly mixed but interestingly plotted offshoot of “Death of a Salesman” and other hardy father/son perennials, is the fourth feature from writer-director Ramin Bahrani, whose career …

• Film doesn’t live up to name

  May 24, 2013 in Features on Page C7 Derivative as all get out and plainly concocted by a committee, “Epic” is a children’s animated film that is more entertaining and emotional than it has any right to be. …

• Shift to TV not always kind to stage stars

  May 17, 2013 in Features, Seven on Page C12 NEW YORK – The slow, lingering demise of “Smash” has felt more like a punch to the gut to the folks on Broadway. The TV series about the making of … 1

• After accidental start, Folkinception grows into local favorite

  May 17, 2013 in Features, Seven on Page C3 Matt Mitchell’s previous band was just about to open a show for Clumsy Lovers at the Knitting Factory when the band abruptly broke up. Instead of giving up the high-profile …

• Angelina Jolie says she had double mastectomy

  May 14, 2013 in Health, Nation/World LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast … 18

• MGMT show promises hint of anticipated third album

  May 10, 2013 in Features, Seven on Page C3 MGMT cast a spell on the indie world with the hypnotic hooks and catchy anthems of its 2007 major-label debut, “Oracular Spectacular.” The Grammy Award- winning “Electric Feel” and the …

• MGMT show promises hint of anticipated third album

  May 9, 2013 in Features, Seven on Page W3 MGMT cast a spell on the indie world with the hypnotic hooks and catchy anthems of its 2007 major-label debut, “Oracular Spectacular.” The Grammy Award- winning “Electric Feel” and the …

• The Cowboy way

  April 26, 2013 in Features on Page C1 When Cowboy Junkies gathered around a single microphone to record “The Trinity Session” straight to tape, they didn’t know it at the time, but the Canadian quartet had sculpted a …

• Hay at work

  April 12, 2013 in Features on Page C1 Colin Hay never set out to be a singer-songwriter. Sure, he played around with that genre as a young man in Australia. But by 1978, he’d co-founded the group that …

• Interplayers Theatre’s ‘Sirens’ play worth watching

  April 10, 2013 in City on Page A6 “Sirens,” by Deborah Zoe Laufer, is an amusing romantic comedy that makes a great date play and is fairly family friendly. Interplayers Theatre’s latest production features quirky characters and much … 2

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