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WEDNESDAY 5/23
SIFF: Out of Time
"I love Aubrey Plaza," a colleague recently told me about her desire to see Safety Not Guaranteed. Never having watched Parks and...
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Some people are primarily visual in the way they process incoming stimuli. I'm likely more auditory. I can carry a tune (with far-from-perfect pitch) after catching it a few...
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Red eyes and a smoker's cough are a common denominator among the teens and 20-somethings congregated outside the Seattle Laser Dome's box office for a recent midnight showing...
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Somewhere there must be a chef and farmer who've agreed to keep their working relationship relatively discreet, but the vast majority of liaisons in the locavore era are...
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Azadeh had to get away. The young Iranian-American was convinced that her phone was tapped. Someone, the CIA maybe, was eavesdropping. She felt anxious. It no longer seemed...
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 23
Unforgivable/6:30 p.m., Harvard Exit
Unforgivable? Interminable is more like it. Veteran writer/director André Téchiné (The Witnesses,...
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Dear Dategirl,
I love my girlfriend. Until recently we had an epic sex life, but over the past month or so she's developed this habit of signifying her sexual interest by...
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Dear Mexican,
Why can’t the United States and Mexico agree on one only name for the Rio Bravo-Grande river? And I don t understand why the Americans lo dice in...
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In May 2009, Thurston County residents Michael and Shirley Williams purchased Greyhound bus tickets for a trip from Olympia to Detroit. "The Dirty Dog" is not exactly known...
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There's been a lot of fearmongering over the U.S. Department of Justice's proposed consent decree with the city over police reforms. The feds reportedly want an outside...
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The perception is accepted as fact at this point: Washington's recently redrawn 8th Congressional District was crafted into a Republican safe haven, an area impossible for...
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 23
Flight to Mars Mike McCready's UFO tribute band is celebrating 10 years together; tonight's show will benefit the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America,...
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SW: Do you remember when and where you wrote "We Are Young"?
Ruess: For the most part I was just in my car driving to meet with another producer that I was really excited...
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The Situation On a recent Tuesday evening, I'm at the Ballard Smoke Shop drinking beer with local garage-pop quartet Detective Agency: drummer Ulrika Larsson,...
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Ryan Purcell and The Last Round/Friday, May 25
Ryan Purcell writes songs evocative of the places Jason Aldean sings about in his self-explanatory Middle American anthem "Fly...
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With the Seattle Mariners having lost more than half their games so far, it's no wonder the club wants its fans to look at something other than batting averages and slugging...
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The Watering Hole: The Gerald, 5210 Ballard Ave. N.W., 432-9280, BALLARD
The Atmosphere: It's a shame that the fifth season of Mad Men has finished filming, because The Gerald...
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The nonfiction formula pioneered by Spellbound leads to frustrating superficiality in this glossy documentary about a multicultural collection of young ballet dancers striving...
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Arguably the strangest of the many recent Scandinavian movies to rifle through modern American-indie tropes and then cash in by getting bought up for an American remake (see:...
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In the drug-addicted annals of monster-rock band Hole's lady legacy, there's the one who died (bassist Kristen Pfaff), the one whose husband died (screamer Courtney Love), and...
