jazz up

“I make a killer spicy pimento cheese, and bringing it to any tailgate party will jazz up any burger or hot dog—and make you look like a pro.”

By word of mouth, however, and probably the need of some newspaper columnists to jazz up the game, Super Bowl stuck.

The experts who Stewart brings on his broadcasts help us to make sense of the unfathomable, which he jazzes up as well as he can with a bit of comedic seltzer here and there.

Locally, the Northwest Film Forum, a nonprofit art house theater on Capitol Hill, is also jazzing up its calendar.

Given Disney’s long history of smoothing out and jazzing up the quirky, potent, sometimes dark works of Lewis Carroll, J.M.