The Seattle International Film Festival is showing four films Sunday at its Renton venue.
The Seattle International Film Festival is showing five films Saturday, the first full day of its run in Renton.
g an exhibit by local watercolor artist Jan Tervonen at Carco Theatre through June 22.
Mostly self-taught, she has developed a minimalistic abstract style with a wry sense of humor representative of her Finnish-American roots.
Renton will get a look at two sub-cultures through a screening of two documentaries this weekend.
The Los Angeles-based company j2f productions will present two films at the Renton Civic Theatre on Saturday, May 12.
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Lakeside Bistro
11425 Rainier Ave. S., Renton
Contact: 206-772-6891, lakesidebistroseattle.com, reservations recommended
This year, Officer Jeff Reynolds was voted “Best Police Officer in Renton.”
For its 25 anniversary, Renton Civic Theater is looking for any photographs of the theater from its past as the Renton Theater movie house.
“We have looked through several historic data bases and have only come up with one picture from the 1960s,” said artistic/managing director Bill Huls. “We would love to have some pictures to display to compliment the 1940s movie poster we found in our attic.”
The blade came into view like a version of Excalibur – forged by an Avalonian elf and blessed with dragon’s breath – as the Chef’s knife easily sliced through the flesh of the slippery rainbow trout skin.
The Palace Kitchen was our Camelot.
And Chef Tom Douglas was our culinary king.
Our family style feast at the Whistle Stop in downtown Renton almost always begins with a mound of cheese nachos and the requisite accompaniments: hearty corn salsa, guacamole and sour cream.
The Mak Fai Washington Kung Fu Club performs a lion dance in the Greenwood Memorial Park porte-cochere Sunday as part of the park’s Ching Ming festival honoring deceased loved ones. The festival drew several hundred people.
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Lakeside Bistro
11425 Rainier Ave S
Contact: 206-772-6891, lakesidebistroseattle.com, reservations recommended
7 p.m., April 5, Songwriters’ Open Mike Night with Alan Sobel, showcase for budding songwriters and musicians, free
As a parent who has shopped at IKEA for years, they just seemed like the logical choice to sponsor an event like Caspar Babypants. And IKEA is a pretty good place to demonstrate some cooking over Spring Break
By almost any measure, Renton’s Scott Petett is not your typical chiropractor.
Unless your typical chiropractor happens to enjoy soaring over 30-foot gaps, hucking his bike down a huge drop or navigating a log ride several feet off the ground.
The Renton Civic Theatre will celebrate its 25th silver anniversary with 2012-2013 season filled with favorite shows from the past 25 years.
The opening musical and celebration planning are still in the works for September, but the new season starts off with “Arsenic and Old Lace” in October.
Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra is presenting its ”Heavens and Earth” Concert on Friday, March 23, at 7 p.m. at Maple Valley Presbyterian Church.
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Lakeside Bistro
11425 Rainier Ave S
Contact: 206-772-6891, lakesidebistroseattle.com, reservations recommended
“Look, Mom, water!” The girls scuttle the cooking supplies they’d been carrying onto a nearby end table.
I bring up the rear, sporting my new “I Love Renton” tee, as my girl’s hustle-walk toward a decorative water fountain filled with coin-sized dreams and filled with the kind of luscious clear water a kid just has to stick a hand into.
The Renton Municipal Arts Commission is presenting an exhibit by local oil painter Tracy Wallschlaeger Saturday through March 30 at Carco Theatre.
A public reception to meet the artist is 5 p.m.-7 p.m. Saturday at the theatre adjacent to the Renton Community Center, 1717 Maple Valley Highway.
“Mommy! Look at the big airplane!” Patrick, my 4-year-old says, lifting himself in his backseat booster in unison with the airplane taking flight beside us.
“Ug, ug!” Ty grunts excitedly as he points his toddler-sized finger at the train tooting down the track.
“I want to fly!” Patrick exclaims.
For the second year in a row, Evergreen City Ballet is bringing the beloved children’s book “Fancy Nancy” to the stage.
“Fancy Nancy: Bonjour Butterfly” opens at the theatre at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue this month and at Evergreen City Ballet’s Black Box Theatre in Renton in March.
