No artist owned 2011 quite like Adele, and she’s poised to sweep the major awards at the Grammys today. If she does, she would become the first performer since the Dixie Chicks in 2007 to win awards for album, song and record of the year.
• It’s the final day of the Northwest Flower & Garden Show at the Washington State Convention Center, 800 Convention Place, Seattle. Hours today are 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; 253-756-2121, gardenshow.com.
Tony Bennett performed on the very first Grammy Awards, and as he returns for the 54th show this Sunday, the singer says it never gets old.
For some, Valentine’s Day is a rose-scented, chocolate-covered day of sweet bliss.
Scotty McCreery had just come home from school with an assignment: write essays for college applications.
CNN suspended political analyst Roland Martin on Wednesday for "offensive" tweets during the Super Bowl that some critics said were anti-gay.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame says six additional groups will be inducted this year after a committee determined they should be recognized with previously enshrined original lead singers.
Fox's medical drama "House" is ending its eight-year run this season.
Madonna's not finished with stadiums.
After what felt like an eternity but was actually just a few minutes, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt emerged from a white door into the foyer of the old-fashioned Bel-Air mansion that he shares with his wife of 25 years, former glamour queen Zsa Zsa Gabor.
It's never been my favorite month. But January was worse than ever this year.
• It’s supposed to be cloudy today, so take the little one to the Tiny Tots Indoor Playground on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Lakewood Community Center, 9112 Lakewood Drive S.W. It’s open from 9:30-11 a.m. and is $16 for two times per week for four weeks; $8 for one time per week for four weeks or $2 drop-in fee; 253-798-4177, piercecountywa.org/parks.
• Learn about flowers, shrubs, landscaping, crafts, horticulture and community projects with the Country Gardeners. They meet 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. every first Monday at the Eastside Community Center, 1614 99th St. E, Tacoma. 253-843-1567.
Less than a second stood between British singer M.I.A. giving the finger to 114 million people watching the Super Bowl halftime show and no one noticing at all.
The pressure was on. The tension was thick. And then, there were yawns in between.
Keith Urban is back.
If you're expecting to be shocked by all the Super Bowl ads, don't hold your breath: There won't be many surprises.
Alma Mitchell might not sleep too well tonight. But that’s to be expected. The Tumwater resident finds out tomorrow if she’s the winner of the 2012 New Yorker magazine’s annual Eustace Tilley cover contest.
• America’s Largest Antique & Collectible Show is today at the Puyallup Fair & Events Center, 10 Ninth Ave. S.W., Puyallup. Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. today with admission of $6, 503-282-0877, palmerwirfs.com.
Here's the list of what’s happening this weekend:
The cover of Tacoma author Marissa Meyer’s young adult novel, “Cinder,” shows the glass slipper expected of any story based on Cinderella. But the foot inside that slipper is made of gears, rods and other metal parts. You don’t need to crack the cover to know this isn’t going to be a story about mice becoming coachmen.
In the calm, resonant space at Christ Episcopal Church in Tacoma, a low voice rises out of nothing. Dusky purple, it weaves haunting lines at the very edge of hearing, joined swiftly by two others in wistful, ornamented harmony. It’s a flute, but a very unusual one: a copy of one played by Jacques Hotteterre, court musician to Louis XIV of France, and its carved ebony and ivory joints produce lush sounds more than two half-tones below modern pitch. The flute, the pitch, the other instruments and the baroque music played Monday night at Christ Episcopal are part of the four-month-long Salish Sea Early Music Festival, which includes concerts all around Puget Sound, with Tacoma as the starting point.
Teenagers acquire super powers and, being teenagers, videotape themselves as they learn what they can do in “Chronicle,” an entertaining comic-book movie without the comic book.
Daniel Radcliffe acquits himself reasonably well in his first adult big-screen role, a man haunted by “The Woman in Black.”
The Tacoma Astronomical Society and Puyallup Library staff are praying for dry weather next week. Tuesday night is the fifth annual free Star Party in the park outside the library – and for the last four years it’s been too rainy to use the society’s big telescopes.
The recording academy and Grammy producers have unveiled a flurry of Grammy performers this week, beginning Tuesday with a return to the stage for Adele and a Katy Perry announcement on Wednesday. Thursday, the curtain was pulled back on one of the Feb. 12 telecast’s rock ’n’ roll acts: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, who are gearing up for a new tour.
As David Letterman and Howard Stern can attest, a 30-year anniversary celebration is a ripe opportunity to cringe at geeky haircuts.
The upcoming remaking of "21 Jump Street" will premiere as the centerpiece of Austin's South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival.
"Soul Train" host Don Cornelius was the arbiter of cool, a brilliant TV showman who used his purring, baritone voice to seduce mainstream America into embracing black music and artists.
More than a quarter of a century after "Watchmen" intrigued readers with tales of less-than-heroic and all-too-human - save for Dr. Manhattan - crime-fighting vigilantes, DC Entertainment is revisiting them in a series of original prequels this summer.
Adele is nominated for six Grammys, and she'll be on deck to collect anything she wins: The 23-year-old singer is set to perform at the awards show.
Nicole Scherzinger and Steve Jones are out at "The X Factor."
Actress Cynthia Nixon is trying to clarify her earlier remarks that got her in hot water with some fellow gay rights activists.
Pierce County Libraries offer free computer classes at all their branches. Here are a few happening today. For more ideas and classes, go to piercecountylibrary.org.
Why are the TV shows I like always on opposite the other TV shows I like?
• Become your own dog whisperer by checking out the “Six Tips for a Safe and Sane Dog” presentation by trainer Dorothy Turley. It’s from 1-3 p.m. today at the Gig Harbor Branch Library, 4424 Point Fosdick Drive N.W., Gig Harbor. Free and open to the public. 253-265-6235, gigharbordogparks.org.
Van Halen fans know the veteran rockers are coming to the Tacoma Dome on May 5. Here’s your reminder that tickets go on sale today at 10 a.m.
Trio of canoes Skeet Jensen didn’t let a dumping of snow stop him from bringing three canoes into Tacoma Art Museum.
Out beyond the circle of firelight, eyes gleam in the night in “The Grey.” Two eyes. Six eyes. Ten. More.
Glenn Close is very still in her latest film – quiet, never cracking a smile. Playing a member of the staff of an upper crust Dublin hotel in the late 19th century, the idea was to be invisible. Think of people “in service,” the butlers and maids of “Downton Abbey” or “The Remains of the Day.”
A chilly play comes to life in David Cronenberg’s “A Dangerous Method,” a 100-minute peek into the complex relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, the birth of psychoanalysis and the schism between these two giants that impacts psychotherapy to this day.
The new Children’s Museum of Tacoma is free for all (or at least pay what you can), which should be celebration enough for those of us looking for fun stuff for our kids. The new space provides physical excitement and sensory stimulation for kids of all ages, even teenagers.
The first laugh doesn’t give it all away. Kyra Sedgwick, playing a New York TV reporter, shows up to cover the would-be suicide of the “Man on a Ledge.” She finishes her breathless report, and then, with more than a hint of Rita Moreno sneaking into her voice, the WASPy Sedgwick says, “Suzie Morales reporrrrrting.”
I’m on my way to the Tacoma Home and Garden Show in just a few minutes. It runs 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. today.
You can either check out everything for your home or for your outdoor life at these two shows:
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