Mountlake Terrace

We ate our first salads in the dark at Mountlake Terrace’s Cinebarre; we taste-tested the movie-theater lobster roll at Redmond’s posh iPic; we enjoyed the myriad charms of Central District indie favorite Central Cinema.

The latter category drew Seattle-area neurologist Erik Armitano, who recently bought a used portable electrocardiogram machine for his new clinic in Mountlake Terrace.

“The loudest screams,” wrote a Variety reporter at the time, “were directed at the film’s discovery”: Gladstone, who lived as a child on Montana’s Blackfeet Reservation and graduated in 2004 from Mountlake Terrace High School.

Gladstone, who was happy to reconnect with many old friends after Mountlake Terrace High School held an Oscars watch party for their famous alum, said it’s been startling to be recognized when she’s in town visiting family, “out and about in Mountlake Terrace, Edmonds, Shoreline, going to my old haunts where I passed unnoticed for decades.”

Actor Lily Gladstone, an Oscar nominee this year for “Killers of the Flower Moon” and a graduate of Mountlake Terrace High School, stars in the new Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge,” which begins streaming April 17.