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21. Music

    Musical Mystery Tour

    Lansing-Dreiden's elusive synth dream.

    Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: June 14, 2006

    Serial killers' efforts to conceal their identities usually begin to crumble once they start contacting the media or the authorities, either with cryptic messages or "calling...

22. This Week's Attractions

    Beowulf & Grendel

    Opens at Varsity, Fri., June 16. Not rated. 102 minutes.

    Published: June 14, 2006

    By Odin's beard, somebody get me an umbrella! Doesn't it ever stop raining in sixth-century Daneland? And what about this wind? Can't keep me hair out of me freaking eyes! It's...

23. Visual Arts Pick

    Chris Crites

    Sue Peters

    Published: June 14, 2006

    Local artist Crites has been painting mug shots of criminals on brown paper bags since 1999. Using vivid acrylic colors with a Pop Art finesse, his slumped sullen figures share...

24. News

    GOP Goes Sharp Right

    A new state party chair has shaken up the way Republicans do business.

    George Howland Jr.

    Published: June 14, 2006

    The internal party changes that began in January with the narrow election victory of Diane Tebelius as state GOP chair became evident to all last month, when the Washington...

25. Music

    Occidental Explosions

    Green Milk from the Planet Orange's progressive bombast.

    Justin F. Farrar

    Published: June 14, 2006

    Fun and progressive rock are two things that have never gone together. Fun was the last thing yer average proghead (the scrawny, humorless, and all too pretentious concert-band...

26. This Week's Attractions

    The Lake House

    Opens at Metro and others, Fri., June 16. Rated PG. 98 minutes.

    Ella Taylor

    Published: June 14, 2006

    Forget what a fun couple Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves were in Speed. In this slow and heavy kickoff to the summer romance season, they play the mopiest lovers to hit the big...

27. Arts

    Bag Man

    A Q&A with paper-bag painter Chris Crites.

    Sue Peters

    Published: June 14, 2006

    The title of Chris Crites' current exhibit at Joe Bar on Capitol Hill echoes Martin Luther King Jr.: "I Was Proud of My Crime." The show consists of portraits of civil rights...

28. News

    Full Moon Fever

    The city attorney 'turns the screws' on Seattle's historic bohemian bar.

    Mike Seely

    Published: June 14, 2006

    In July 1989, Westlake Capital Inc. announced plans to demolish the historic Blue Moon Tavern on Northeast 45th Street in the University District for the purpose of erecting a...

29. Music

    Dig This

    Thee Emergency do it loud.

    Brian J. Barr

    Published: June 14, 2006

    Sweat and sex are like the peanut butter and jelly of carnal thought. Though no one likes to admit it, our animal instincts have a sweet spot for perspiration. Sadly, most...

30. Food Files

    Food News June 14-21

    Adriana Grant

    Published: June 14, 2006

    News Food and/or beverage news? E-mail food@seattleweekly.com. Steve Rinella, author of The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine, visits Puyallup to talk about his new book. A...

31. This Week's Attractions

    Look Both Ways

    Showing at Grand Illusion, Fri., June 16– Thurs., June 29. Not rated. 100 minutes.

    Michael Atkinson

    Published: June 14, 2006

    An unassuming, unadventurous, but likable dramedy about dying and grief, Sarah Watt's debut feature has been something of an audience-pleasing award repository, in Australia...

32. Stage Review

    New and Used

    On the Boards' annual festival of Northwest works shows novelty isn't everything.

    Sandra Kurtz

    Published: June 14, 2006

    The 19 works featured in On the Boards' Northwest New Works Festival are indeed all new, but some feel decidedly newer than others. While a fair number of artists in this...

33. News

    Not Just Another Roadside Attraction

    Tom Robbins reflects on his 44-year romance with the Blue Moon.

    Mike Seely

    Published: June 14, 2006

    Fifty-two degrees and drizzly is quintessential Thursday morning weather for Tom Robbins, perhaps the region's most famous raindrop booster. Clad in green rubber sandals and a...

34. Countdown

    Top-Selling Records at Local Record Stores

    Published: June 14, 2006

    10. TOOL 10,000 Days (Volcano) 9. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Stadium Arcadium (Warner Bros.) 8. GOMEZ How We Operate (ATO) 7. PEARL JAM Pearl Jam (J-Records) 6. SNOW PATROL Eyes...

35. This Week's Attractions

    Nacho Libre

    Opens at Metro and others, Fri., June 16. Rated PG. 91 minutes.

    Robert Wilonsky

    Published: June 14, 2006

    The second film by Jared Hess only feels 30–45 minutes too long, a big improvement over Napoleon Dynamite. Which is another way of saying that a little Jack Black goes a...

36. Books

    My Lucky Star

    Former Frasier writer send up Hollywood in the best way.

    By Gavin Borchert

    Published: June 14, 2006

    Part of the fun of this former Frasier writer's Hollywood satire—and there's a great deal of fun to be had—is mentally casting it. Wry, ultra-unflappable...

37. News

    'The Current State of Affairs Cannot Be Tolerated'

    City attorney to Blue Moon owner: Blame no one but yourself.

    Tom Carr

    Published: June 14, 2006

    The current owner of the Blue Moon Tavern has placed a historic institution at risk by allowing, if not encouraging, criminal activity in the bar. It would indeed be very sad...

38. Notable Shows

    Weekly Notable Shows

    Published: June 14, 2006

    Wednesday, June 14 Diane Schuur The three-and-a-half-octave singing, Grammy-winning vocalist continues her six-night run at Dimitriou's with the Latin rhythms of Caribbean Jazz...

39. New on DVD

    Breakfast on Pluto and High School Musical

    Glam rock, Irish politics, and wholesome family fun.

    Kate Silver and Frank Paiva

    Published: June 14, 2006

    Breakfast on Pluto Sony, $24.96 Neil Jordan's fantastical adaptation of the Patrick McCabe novel is, explains the director on his commentary, not your standard dour Irish film....

40. SW This Week

    This Week's Critics' Picks

    The Solstice Parade, Ten Tiny Dances and Jose Gonzalez/Juana Molina/Psapp top our list.

    Published: June 14, 2006

    SAT - PARADE Winding through Fremont to Gasworks Park, the annual Solstice Parade showcases magnificent floats, painted bodies, clowns, pirates, dancers—and maybe you?...