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In a just world, this performance would get an Oscar nomination: Hugh Grant as a vain thespian in “Paddington 2.”
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Oscars 2019: Who got snubbed for Academy Award nominations? Who surprised?

What? No best picture nomination for Barry Jenkins' "If Beale Street Could Talk"? Or best director nod for Bradley Cooper for "A Star Is Born"? Here's who else got snubbed, and who surprised, in Oscar nominations 2019.

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Ornate seats at the Grand Illusion, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, in Seattle. On the screen is actor Mickey Rourke in “9 1/2 Weeks,” which is being tested to an empty house to see if the DVD is projection-worthy. If so, the theater would get permissions to show the film from the 1980s. 204209
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“We Are Family” by Fabio Bartolomei

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Movies

Oscar nominations skip Cooper for director, Mr. Rogers doc

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The rollercoaster of the 2019 awards season continued Tuesday with a batch of Oscar nominations that few could have predicted. Sure, there were some shoo-ins that made it, like "Black Panther" breaking the superhero best picture barrier, and "A Star Is Born," ''The Favourite" and "Roma" being among the leading nominees....  VIEW

Music & Nightlife

Brandi Carlile performs at the Seattle Center after marching from Cal Anderson Park during the March For Our Lives protest in honor of the Parkland shooting on Saturday, March 24, 2018, in Seattle. 205739

Brandi Carlile and ODESZA look to break megafest mold with Mexico getaway concerts

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Fox News host Bret Baier, family survive motor vehicle crash

Fox News host Bret Baier and his family have survived a motor vehicle crash in Montana. In a statement released Tuesday, the anchor and executive editor of Fox News Channel's "Special Report" says that after a weekend of skiing he was driving to the airport on icy roads with his wife and their two sons...

Theater

Jennifer Zeyl, artistic director at Intiman Theatre is photographed on the set of “Native Gardens” Friday, Aug. 24, 2018. 207503

'A beacon of hope': Intiman and ACT theaters finally debt-free after years of belt-tightening

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Classical Music

James Newton Howard conducts James Ehnes playing Howard’s “Violin Concerto.”

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Visual Arts

Friends Justin Seo and Mira Kim take in the expansive view of downtown from the new Benaroya wing of the Tacoma Art Museum. In the background is the colorful blown glass piece “Blanket” by Jen Elek (CQ). Saturday was the grand opening of the wing. (The artist says the piece challenges the viewer to reconsider what type of object should be considered a painting.) NOTE: ref to more photos online Tacoma Art Museum opens new Benaroya wing on Saturday Jan 19, 2019 209069

Tacoma Art Museum opens new Benaroya wing  VIEW

Pacific NW Magazine

The legend of Sasquatch won't die. (But if just one Bigfoot would — die, that is — Ron Judd would become a believer.)

Dance

Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Jonathan Porretta as Franz in PNB’s premiere production of Coppelia: Choreography by Alexandra Danilova and George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust (after Marius Petipa). Photo © Angela Sterling

Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Jonathan Porretta to retire