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Bainbridge Connections Abound in Wicked Web Comedy “Wrecked”

If you haven’t seen Wrecked yet, check it out. But be sure to watch when the kids aren’t around unless you are up for fielding some extremely awkward vocabulary questions. Wrecked is a wicked, funny, and potty-mouthed award-winning web series, now airing its second season. It was created and filmed locally by recent BHS grads…

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Shift Change

Acclaimed Documentary “Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work” Shows May 9

The aptly named “Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work” by Seattle-area filmmakers Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young is all about shifting business ownership to the people who do the work. It’s not a new idea, and yet in our transnational corporate-dominated global economy this simple and sound notion rings “radical.” Successful cooperatives such as REI, Group Health,…

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Eight-Year-Old Carlos Field-Bennett Helps Kids in Poverty Get Educations

11:35 a.m. In August, when 8-year-old Carlos Field-Bennett saw the global premiere of the film Living on One, which was made by three BHS graduates, he was moved into action. In fact, he took so much action that he raised $1700 for education scholarships in Guatemala. Living on One chronicles the struggles of four young…

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Bainbridge Filmmaker Tells Stories of Seattle Homeless Youth in “Invisible Young”

5:11 p.m. When Islander Steve Keller returned to filmmaking after a 13-year hiatus, he didn’t take the easy road. He chose to make a full-length feature film about homeless teens. There is the trust factor. How do you get the kids to tell you their stories? There is the safety factor. How do you protect…

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Celluloid Bainbridge: The Little Festival That Can

11:39 a.m. Celluloid Bainbridge, which hits the island this weekend, is a film festival organized around one key criterion: Every film shown must either be filmed here or involve someone from here in cast or crew. You might think that would narrow the selection to well below the category of festival. But you’d be wrong….

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Letter to the Editor: Free Outdoor Movies Enjoyed Under Starry Summer Skies!

by Sue Hylen, Arts & Cultural Manager, BI Metro Park & Rec District, August 30, 2012, 9 a.m. Between 200-400 people enjoyed a Free Friday Evening Movie at Waterfront Park with neighbors, friends, and families these last three Fridays of August, sponsored this year by your Metro Park & Recreation District. Emcee TJ Faddis graciously…

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Bainbridge Cinemas and Lynwood Theatre Go Digital and 3-D

7:08 p.m. Technophiles will be happy to know that Bainbridge Cinemas launched its new digital projection system last Thursday in all its theaters, and the company was working today to get a digital projector running at its Historic Lynwood Theatre too. Soon both locations also will have 3-D capability, giving Islanders reason to stay on…

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Three BHS Grads and a Pal Tackle Poverty: See the “Living on One” Premiere

5:30 p.m. Imagine living on one dollar a day. Somehow you’d need to feed and clothe and house yourself with only four round, shiny quarters. That is exactly what 1.1 billion people around the world currently have to do. In 2010, three young men raised on Bainbridge and a fourth buddy tried to do it…

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Fixing the Future: Special Film to Be Screened Wednesday

6:02 p.m. Several Bainbridge organizations with their own plans for fixing the future—West Sound Time Bank, Sustainable Bainbridge, and YES! Magazine—are partnering with Bainbridge Cinemas and Bainbridge’s alternative workplace OfficeXpats to host a screening of PBS host David Brancaccio’s documentary Fixing the Future Wednesday evening at 7 at the movie theater in the Pavilion. Brancaccio…

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AMC’s “The Killing” Ends, Leaving Women’s Prison on Bainbridge Island

Love it, hate it, or never heard of it, the hit show The Killing, which concluded last night, has heard of Bainbridge Island. But whether its writers have ever actually been here is another question. Call it artistic license, but the universe of The Killing bears little resemblance to the one we know around here—or…

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Two Teens and a Movie: Men In Black 3—ROFC or ROFL?

by Korey Hawkins and Kolin Hawkins May 30, 2012 6 a.m. Inside Bainbridge presents the latest episode of “Two Teens and a Movie,” featuring Bainbridge Islanders Korey (16, high school sophomore) and Kolin (14, 8th grader) who review movies now in theaters from two teens’ point of view. Whenever the film contains a potential concern…

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Two Teens and a Movie: The Avengers: Box Office Boffo or Bomb?

by Korey Hawkins and Kolin Hawkins May 6, 2012 Inside Bainbridge presents the latest episode of “Two Teens and a Movie,” featuring Bainbridge Islanders Korey (16, high school sophomore) and Kolin (14, 8th grader) as they review movies now in theaters from two teens’ point-of-view. Whenever the film contains a potential concern, they review the…

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Two Teens and a Movie

Two Teens and a Movie: The Three Stooges: Laugh-out Loud or Painfully Lame?

by Korey Hawkins and Kolin Hawkins April 19, 2012 Inside Bainbridge presents the latest episode of “Two Teens and a Movie,” a video movie review featuring Bainbridge Islanders Korey (16, high school Sophomore) and Kolin (14, 8th grader). They review movies now in theaters from two teens’ point-of-view. Whenever the film contains a potential concern…

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Take Our Poll: “The Hunger Games” Empowering or Too Dark for Teens?

YA, or Young Adult, literature has grown increasingly far-reaching in its real-life themes. Some people think certain YA lit content is too intense and disturbing for teens, while others see it as an empowering resource for young people dealing with real-life struggles. Read more about this controversy in our article “The Hunger Games” Empowering or…

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