POETRY: Eavan Boland is from Dublin, Ireland, and we take it that "Eavan" is a girl's name there. It's not immediately obvious, it it? She carries more of a charge in her than that boggy, peaty, old Seamus Heaney. One of her poems, The Pomegranate, begins: The only legend I have ever loved is the story of a daughter lost in hell. And found and rescued there. Love and blackmail are the gist of......

Bernard-Henri Levy occupies a position in France roughly comparable to...well, we don't have anyone like him. Rock star Bono comes close. Jon Stewart, maybe, except that BHL writes his own material. Sporting an unruly haircut, clad in the requisite uniform (black shirt, black blazer), he's a familiar figure on French TV, the embodiment of the Public Intellectual. Atlantic Monthly sent him on a year-long assignment to retrace the intellectual journey taken by de Tocqueville; the......

The other evening Seattlest went to see Funny Ha-Ha at the Northwest Film Forum, not quite knowing what to expect. We can get like that. It's best to just let us go. Now, while we genuinely liked this film, it was clear to us that it's for a particular audience. Are you that audience? That isn't clear yet. We'll see. We just want to make sure you have a good experience, it's not a......

Well, it's certainly no Brew and View, but The Big Picture, Seattle's upscale movie theater-cum-bar suits us just fine. The self-described "boutique meeting and event facility" is located on 1st Ave. in Belltown, but last Friday, they opened an additional venue. This one's on the Eastside in Redmond Town Center (on the second level, across from Macy's). So after a long hard day working at Microsoft, or after a long hard day protesting Microsoft, you......