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Fall Arts 2011 Calendar

The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

Tonight: Nas & Damian Marley @ Showbox SoDo, Kyle Gass' Trainwreck @ Chop Suey

​Nas & Damian Marley, with Nneka. Showbox SoDo, 1700 First Ave. S., 628-3151. 8 p.m. $42. All ages. Nas and Damian Marley play the roles of motivational speakers on their collaboration, Distant Relatives, an LP that uplifts without inducing yawns and rolled eyes. The wave of hype the legendary ... More >>

The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows

​Nas & Damian Marley, with Nneka. Showbox SoDo, 1700 First Ave. S., 628-3151. 8 p.m. $42. All ages. Nas and Damian Marley play the roles of motivational speakers on their collaboration, Distant Relatives, an LP that uplifts without inducing yawns and rolled eyes. The wave of hype the legendary ... More >>

Karaoke Korrespondent Discovers South Shoreline Romance at Its Finest

Karaoke Korrespondent Jeff Roman checks in on Reverb every Wednesday. The Boss' "Thunder Road" remains one of his go-to numbers.​This week, the Karaoke Korrespondent heads north to the land of blondes, Bob Seger, and a little too much Ghostbusters. By Jeff Roman A buddy of mine who lives in ... More >>

Georgetown Music's Axe Men

Because you still can't download a guitar.

Pete Carroll's Long-Distance Chairmanship of Inner-City Program Worries L.A.

One of the ironies of the Seahawks' recent hiring of USC football coach Pete Carroll is that Los Angeles' much-admired inner-city program, A Better LA, is now being run from Seattle. Carroll founded the nonprofit group in 2003 and turned it into a powerful social and political organization. It ope ... More >>

Karaoke Korrespondent: Tiger's Sports Bar & Grill

​Karaoke Korrespondent Jeff Roman visited Kona Kitchen in Tiger's Sports Bar & Grill last week. This is his report: Tiger's Sports Bar & Grill in Broadview used to be the Peking Palace. It was my favorite spot for karaoke until the owners sold it and moved into the place next door to open a ... More >>

Your Arts & Space Weekend Planner

​The last weekend of August begins on the moon! That's where much of the LP record cover art is set in a new show at EMP: It's refreshing to seen a museum exhibit that doesn't pretend to offer great music or great art. Culled from the collection of an L.A. music industry executive, Spaced Out ... More >>

Late Review: Year One

Oh, Michael Cera! Dear, sweet Michael Cera. What have you gotten yourself into now? Our Robert Wilonsky went to see the new Old Testament comedy (which opens Fri., June 19 at the Metro and other theaters), and here's his report: Unbearably painful from shrugging start to outtakes-laden finish (alwa ... More >>

Sadness at the Video Store

A colleague asked me the other day if I knew of any good indie video stores in West Seattle. "Other than Scarecrow," she added, since she didn't want to drive that far. Still, that's the first place that comes to mind in Seattle, though it's a holdout in a declining industry. (I was surprised the ot ... More >>

Silent Movie Mondays

A colleague asked me the other day if I knew of any good indie video stores in West Seattle. "Other than Scarecrow," she added, since she didn't want to drive that far. Still, that's the first place that comes to mind in Seattle, though it's a holdout in a declining industry. (I was surprised the ot ... More >>

Fresh News From Sundance

A colleague asked me the other day if I knew of any good indie video stores in West Seattle. "Other than Scarecrow," she added, since she didn't want to drive that far. Still, that's the first place that comes to mind in Seattle, though it's a holdout in a declining industry. (I was surprised the ot ... More >>

Finally, Seattle's Own School of Rock

It's a long way to the top.

Stephen Frears

He takes us behind the cameras of Mrs. Henderson Presents.

What Were They Thinking?

A critic looks back on a year's worth of movie miscues.

The 10 Best Films of 2005

Gay cowboys, a giant monkey, killer bears, abandoned Japanese kids, and a 40-year-old who can't get laid. So much for politics at the movies this year.

Monkey Business

New book and DVDs tell the larger-than-life stories behind King Kong.

Lords of Dogtown

Also: Mondovino, Rock School, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

What We Wanna See

What Seattle Weekly's critics look forward to.

Incident at Loch Ness

Also: Head in the Clouds, Ladder 49, Last Life in the Universe, Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America, The Motorcycle Diaries, and Shark Tale.

Brief Encounters

Also: Head in the Clouds, Ladder 49, Last Life in the Universe, Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America, The Motorcycle Diaries, and Shark Tale.

Room 1525A

Seventeen letters determine a paralegal's life.

Karl Marx's Top 25 Reading List for Resurgent Radicalism

Seventeen letters determine a paralegal's life.

The Culture Bunker

Seventeen letters determine a paralegal's life.

High Fidelity

Music geek ponders a deeper groove.

Bring on the new clubs!

Music geek ponders a deeper groove.