Usually the movie starts at 7pm, but tonight Rozella owner Ricardo is throwing live jazz into the mix, with the film starting at 8pm, so it should be a lively evening.

Did we mention that it’s FREE? As in…NO COVER?

From IMDB:

“In ‘Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from his family, and hanging on by a thread in the 1950′s New York jazz world. Dale gets an offer to play in Paris, where, like many other black American musicians at the time, he enjoys a respect for his humanity that is not based upon the color of his skin. A Parisian man who is obsessed with Turner’s music befriends him and attempts to save Turner from himself. Although for Dale the damage is already done, his poignant relationship with the man and his young daughter re-kindles his spirit and his music as the end draws near.”

Here’s the trailer:

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FERRET FOUND! (West Seattle Burien White Center)

Ferret found – 112th and 21st ave sw. yesterday.

We kept it overnight and are taking it to the Kent Animal shelter today.

Email: comm-634849888@craigslist.org

Someone please get their animal back before it ends up sleepin’ wit’ da fishes in Kent!



Investigators believe Steven E. Tuimaseve shot Frank Curtis at point-blank range after Curtis refused to let him use the phone when he showed up at his doorstep at 2 a.m. Sunday.

Investigators said Curtis, 78, was asleep when he heard someone knocking at the door at his home in the 200 block of SW 116th Street in the Top Hat neighborhood between White Center and Burien.

Answering the door, he saw a man he didn’t recognize standing there, asking to use the phone.

The victim refused to let the man inside because he didn’t know him and because he appeared to be intoxicated. Tuimaseve then allegedly shot Curtis through the glass door, hitting him in the shoulder.

Curtis was hospitalized with shoulder injuries and powder burns to his face. He is expected to recover.

Members of the victim’s family were awakened by the shot and called police. The gunman was arrested a short while later about a block away.

Sean Winchester, a friend of the victim, said the victim did not know the gunman, and the only apparent motive was that he was upset over the victim’s refusal to let him use a phone.

Even so, the victim’s son Sean Curtis said he saw the warning signs long before the shooting took place.

He said Tuimaseve spent a lot of time at the family’s next-door neighbor’s home and was part of a group that brought “noise and garbage” to the neighborhood.

Sean said he never spoke to Tuimaseve, but said he’s had several run-ins with others who frequented his neighbor’s house.

“The conversations have always been confrontational. I was confronted by several males who shouted out racist comments at me. Everything is our fault,” he wrote in an email to KOMO 4 News.

Sean said the neighbor’s home is notorious for hosting wild parties with “…loud music to the point where knick-knacks in our house vibrate on the shelves, drug use (the smell of marijuana can be smelled to the point where we have to shut our windows).”

Sean said he has been reporting the trash issue to environmental health officials and the noise disturbances to the police, but a permanent solution has yet to be found.

Tuimaseve, 25, is a convicted felon who was placed on active supervision by the state Department of Corrections after being released from jail about a year ago. His record includes several felony convictions, including assault, attempted robbery and domestic violence.

Winchester described the victim as a “good man,” a 20-year veteran of the Navy and retired Boeing machinist who “wouldn’t hurt a fly.”

“When things got bad for me, when the economy tanked, they took care of me for a while, and now I’m here doing what I can for the family,” he said.

SOURCE:

• KOMO News

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The incident took place in the 200 block of SW 116th Street between White Center and Burien, officials said.

The victim, a retired Boeing employee and Navy veteran,  was hospitalized with shoulder injuries and powder burns to his face, and is expected to recover. The suspect was arrested a short while later about a block away from the scene of the shooting.

Sean Winchester, a friend of the victim and his family, said he learned the details of what happened from family members.

He said the victim, who is in his 70s, was asleep when he heard someone knocking at the door. Answering the door, he saw a man he didn’t recognize standing there, asking to use the phone. The victim refused to let the man inside because he didn’t know him and because he appeared to be intoxicated.

“At that point, the individual pulled out a gun and shot (the victim) in the shoulder,” Winchester said. He said the bullet shattered the glass in the door before hitting the victim.

Members of the victim’s family, who also had been asleep, were awakened by the shot and called police. The gunman was arrested a short while later about a block away.

Winchester said the victim didn’t know the gunman, and the only apparent motive was that he was upset over the victim’s refusal to let him use a phone.

“Some drunk individual apparently picked the wrong house … and decided to shoot somebody at 2 in the morning,” he said.

Winchester said the suspect may have been at an “alcohol and marijuana” party in the neighborhood earlier in the day.

He said the victim was a “good man,” a 20-year veteran of the Navy and retired Boeing machinist who “wouldn’t hurt a fly.”

“When things got bad for me, when the economy tanked, they took care of me for a while, and now I’m here doing what I can for the family,” he said.

SOURCE:

• KOMO News

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Here is a Flickr slideshow from the event:

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From IMDB:

“The Motorcycle Diaries” is based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures that he and his best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

The Motorcycle Diaries is an adaptation of a journal written by Guevara when he was 23 years old. He and his friend, Alberto Granado are typical college students who, seeking fun and adventure before graduation, decide to travel across Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela in order to do their medical residency at a leper colony.

Beginning as a buddy/road movie in which Ernesto and Alberto are looking for chicks, fun and adventure before they must grow up and have a more serious life. As is said in the film itself, it’s about “two lives running parallel for a while.” The two best friends start off with the same goals and aspirations, but by the time the film is over, it’s clear what each man’s destiny has become.

Here’s the trailer:

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Video from the scene shows heavy smoke billowing from the home as firefighters sprayed water from the outside.

One corner of the house was involved in flames and vinyl siding had melted from the home’s exterior.

Firefighters reported that a primary and secondary search of the home showed it to be all clear.

There is no immediate word of injuries or a cause.

SOURCES:

• KING-TV
• KIRO-TV

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Naming this park in his honor is a fitting tribute for the officer who was shot and killed while investigating an assault outside a White Center home back in December 2006.

His murder stunned the community, who revered Cox as a Superman, a larger-than-life prosecutor-turned deputy.

News video:

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The park will include:

• Area: 12 acres
• Hours: Dawn to dusk
• Amenities: White Center Community Center, Mel Olson Stadium, children’s play area with play structures, tennis courts, picnic tables and barbecues, picnic shelter, baseball fields, racquetball courts, restrooms.
• Rentals: For information on renting facilities, please call 206-205-5275.

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From the HBO website:

As the world watched in horror, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005.

Like many who watched the unfolding drama on television news, director Spike Lee was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster, but by the slow, inept and disorganized response of the emergency and recovery effort.

Lee was moved to document this modern American tragedy, a morality play witnessed by people all around the world.

The result is WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS.

The film is structured in four acts, each dealing with a different aspect of the events that preceded and followed Katrina’s catastrophic passage through New Orleans.

Sneak peak of Part One of the film:

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Spike Lee introduces the film in New Orleans in 2006:

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