Sundays in Seattle offer free parking, hustle and bustle and most importantly, all-day happy hours at select restaurants. With discounted drinks, appetizers and entrees, Sundays in Seattle can be more than fun; they can be affordable. The following establishments have great happy hour deals on food and are open to all ages. Good deals on good eats are definitely worth the trek into the city.   BILLY BEACH AND SUSHI BAR   Good and legitimately affordable sushi is basically unheard of. Located in Ballard, Billy Beach Sushi & Bar is...

  Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited and shamelessly promoted Interstellar does not disappoint. Interstellar revitalizes the tired concept of space exploration and provides audiences with an unforgettable viewing experience. Sometime in the future, a ways out (it’s unspecified) planet Earth becomes uninhabitable for humans because, apparently, corn won’t grow anymore. The planet is overrun with dust; winds and dust storms as a result of said dust and wind. The story’s protagonist, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), previously an engineer, is now a corn farmer as a result of the government shutting down NASA, whom...

Things are going well for Jane. She’s planning to be a teacher and she’s dating a very nice detective named Michael. Chaos ensues when Jane is accidentally artificially inseminated during a routine gynecological check up. The gynecologist, preoccupied with her own love dramas, implants Jane with the sperm of a hotel mogul; the hotel mogul who owns the hotel that she works at, the same hotel mogul who she, years ago, shared a brief but romantic kiss with, and the same hotel mogul that saved his sperm before undergoing chemotherapy...

The 10th annual Hispanic Film Festival, put on by the University of Puget Sound’s Hispanic Studies department, showcases five different critically regarded Spanish language films. The festival began on Oct. 22 and will run through November 19th. The films that have already been screened include Con la para quebrada, an award winning documentary about portrayal of women in Spanish cinema, and La Yuma, a Nicaraguan drama film whose subject is an 18 year old girl who wants to be a boxer. The Hispanic Film Festival is open to the public,...

The trailers screened before Dear White People at AMC Lakewood made it very clear how important a film like Dear White People is in our current culture. Among the previews shown: two movies starring Kevin Hart and one romance movie starring black leads. The idea that Dear White People would appeal exlcusively to a black audience is presumptuous and incorrect. The target audience for Dear White People is not just black people; the target audience for Dear White People is everyone. Justin Simien’s directorial debut, Dear White People, which tells...

Every few years, audiences are tricked into thinking a David Fincher movie is good. While some of them are indeed good, his latest, Gone Girl, a film adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best-selling airport read of the same name, is not. With the film’s 87% on Rotten Tomatoes indicating “universal acclaim,” David Fincher has critics and moviegoers alike raving about a movie that is exactly like all of his others, but contains none of the redeeming qualities of his previous two films The Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon...

This year marks the Town Crier Speaks Festival’s 13th annual run. The Town Crier Speaks Festival is a production of Barebones Collective, the student theater group on campus. Town Crier Speaks consists of six different one-act plays, all of which are acted, written and directed by students. Town Crier Speaks, an entirely student-run production, gives many students who aren’t normally involved in theater a chance to perform. “Over the year has given a lot of opportunities to new writers, new directors, new actors, to feel a part of the campus...

University of Puget Sound’s French Film Series opened with its first film, Les Quatre Cents Coup, on Sept. 24. The following two films in the series, Á Bout de Souffle and Cléo de 5 á 7 will be shown on Oct. 15 and Nov. 19, respectively. The French Film Series is an event hosted by the newly established University of Puget Sound French Studies department. “This is the first semester we actually are a department of French Studies. We haven’t had in a couple years,” Arnaud Perret, French Studies professor...

With the new school year comes a newly renovated Wheelock Student Center and Diner. The changes made to the Diner include a larger kitchen, additional seating areas, an allergy-friendly station, more food options and many other modifications, all of which have contributed to campus sustainability efforts. The Diner’s kitchen has tripled in size and food quality has improved as a result. The larger kitchen allows Dining and Conference Services to purchase fresher food, improving the dining experience for consumers. “We used to have to buy things like melon pre-cut. There’s...