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On Architecture: Mercer Island’s downtown development is lacking a vision
People are honking on Mercer Island. Downtown at the four-way stop between the Walgreens and the new 235-unit apartment/retail mammoth named The Mercer, drivers lose track of whose turn it is to move next, and every few minutes, someone will honk — sometimes repeatedly. Occasionally a finger will fly through a Mercedes sunroof in response. […]
Home decor made playful
Are you looking for that something different for your home?
Then you need to check out B. Whimzy at 420 E. Main St. in Gallatin.
Located in an older home on East Main, this shop offers some unique pieces that may very well be the finishing touches for your home. The name is appropriate because many of […]
Aquarium a beauty and pleasure
According to one source, more than 60 million people around the world keep aquariums for fun or profit. These can range from a small glass desktop model to a multi-ton commercial design that is part of a museum or water park tour. Most homeowners, however, are looking for a conveniently sized aquarium that will mesh […]
Cops vs. Thugs; Yakuza Graveyard
While Kino’s release of two mid-’70s Kinji Fukasaku Yakuza movies picks up the filmography of the Japanese crime master just after one of his career highlights — the massive, five-pic “Battles Without Honor and Humanity”– the discs amount to a modest DVD rescue. Many lovers of the Nippon underworld cinema tradition (in which Fukasaku was […]
Interview with director Bakhodir Yuldashev
What should a music video maker be able to do? A famous Russian professional Alexander Solokha once said that it depended: if a video maker was blind, he had to have a perfect ear and an incredibly fast reaction; if he was deaf, he had to be able to read the notes and read the […]
