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Ed Asner, whose Emmy Award-winning supporting role as the gruff but lovable Lou Grant on the 1970s situation comedy “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” led to his own Emmy Award-winning starring role in the spinoff dramatic series “Lou Grant,” has died. He was 91. Asner, an outspoken liberal activist who se
Old, new, major, minorâhereâs our city, and sometimes our state, on the screen. Photo collage: Shutterstock by Everett Collection and Featureflash Photo Agency, Seattle Met composite. A pan across lake union. Then we plunge into a tugboat's engine room, where we meet the married, middle-aged couple who own it. They'll spend the next hour and a half engaged in bouts of slapstick bickering. Thatâs how Seattle first hit cinema screens, in 1933, in Tugboat Annie. It's not exactly a must-see, but since then, the city and the state around it have been portrayed in hun...
There’s something delightfully creepy about near-abandoned towns in the middle of nowhere. There’s always that one motel with that one patron, that one street with that weird element, and the unsuspecting person that’s just passing through. Slender Threads, developed and self-published by Blyts, is a point-and-click adventure game that takes players to one of these towns and sets them loose to uncover a story of a writer struggling to make a living. Shacknews had the opportunity to explore part of this unnerving narrative as part of the Steam Game Festival. Come with us, as we piece tog...
