http://www.mynorthwest.com MyNorthwest.com delivers up-to-the-minute local news and information for Seattle and the greater Puget Sound area. en-us 15 144 21 http://www.mynorthwest.com http://www.mynorthwest.com/img/lg_mynw_144x21.gif http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=19&sid=296816 NEW YORK (AP) - A stage adaptation of John Grishams first novel, "A Time to Kill," will have its world premiere next year in Washington in what is being billed as a "pre-Broadway" production. Arena Stages artistic director Molly Smith said Thursday the play will run May 6, 2011, through June 19, 2011, at Arenas Kreeger Theater. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:58:55 PST http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=19&sid=296851 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Its a Hollywood cliffhanger, in more ways than one. The Trust for Public Land said Thursday its about $3 million away from the $12.5 million it needs to buy and preserve hilltop property beside the world-famous Hollywood sign. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:55:44 PST http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=19&sid=296738 AMSTERDAM (AP) - One of Vincent van Goghs most famous paintings, "The Bedroom," has been taken away for restoration, but art lovers dont have to miss it. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:13:21 PST http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=19&sid=11117 By The Associated Press (AP) - Today is Thursday, March 11, the 70th day of 2010. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:00:33 PST http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=19&sid=296468 By JACOB ADELMAN Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) - Groups pushing for robust Hispanic participation in the 2010 census announced a new campaign Thursday that aims to reach the hard-to-count demographic through its smart-phone-toting youngsters. The "Be Counted, Represent" campaign offers music downloads and a chance at concert tickets to cell phone users who share their e-mail addresses and phone numbers with organizers and forward information about the census to their friends. Principal organizers Voto Latino and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund stress in their messages that undercounted areas risk losing funding for transit, infrastructure and other needs, as well as political representation. They hope those messages promoting participation in the count will zip throughout the social networks of youngsters who can persuade their parents to fill out and return their census forms. "Youre looked at by many, many, many people as being powerful when it comes to money that they can line their pockets with," actress Rosario Dawson, a Voto Latino co-founder, told teenagers gathered in the library of a predominantly Latino high school. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:42:51 PST http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=19&sid=296507 By JENNY BARCHFIELD Associated Press Writer PARIS (AP) - After a week of shows dominated by the rail-thin teens who are ubiquitous on todays catwalks, Paris fall-winter ready-to-wear 2010-11 displays concluded Wednesday with a sensual celebration of women in all their curvaceous glory at Louis Vuitton. Supermodels Elle Macpherson, Laetitia Casta and Hollands Lara Stone _ a whopping size 4 _ sizzled in 1940s New Look-inspired skirtsuits with nipped waists, full skirts and tight halter-tops that strained to contain their overflowing cleavage. "I feel like a real woman who is glamorous, whos taking care of herself, whos not afraid of her body," one of the shows models, Karolina Kurkova told The Associated Press in a backstage interview, adding that Wednesdays was among her first shows since giving birth to a baby boy four months ago. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:27:27 PST http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=19&sid=296489 NEW YORK (AP) - An Israeli novel and a collection of Russian poetry have won prizes for best English-language translation. Gail Harevens novel "The Confessions of Noa Weber" won the Best Translated Book Award for fiction. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:21:57 PST http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=19&sid=296331 By MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) - A troublingly high number of U.S. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:03:55 PST http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=19&sid=296255 By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section." Fifteen years ago, nearly 3 in 10 women who had a first C-section were able to deliver their next baby vaginally, a trend called VBAC for "vaginal birth after cesarean." Now that rate has dropped to 1 in 10, in part because a third of hospitals and half of physicians ban women from attempting VBAC, a panel of specialists convened by the National Institutes of Health said Wednesday. But VBAC remains a safe alternative for the right candidates, and when those women try labor, between 60 percent and 80 percent of the time they do give birth vaginally, the NIH panel concluded. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:14:28 PST http://www.mynorthwest.com?nid=19&sid=296182 NEW YORK (AP) - A 12-hour adaptation of a Dostoyevsky novel will be among the highlights of Lincoln Center Festival 2010, running for 45 performances this summer. Festival director Nigel Redden said Wednesday the arts celebration, which runs from July 7 to July 25, will take place at Lincoln Center and at various other locations around New York. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:51:42 PST