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The Shining

Tuesday Night Music Club

Nine up-and-coming bands at the heart of Seattle's music scene.

Tuesday Night Is the Heart of Seattle's Music Scene. But You Have to Care to Look

John Roderick is the singer and songwriter responsible for Seattle's the Long Winters. His Reverb column appears every week.​Note: This column is part of this week's cover story, Tuesday Night Music Club, which includes profiles of nine Seattle bands. I don't remember the exact first time I p ... More >>

How Do You Know: Reese Witherspoon Must Choose Between Owen Wilson and Paul Rudd

John Roderick is the singer and songwriter responsible for Seattle's the Long Winters. His Reverb column appears every week.​Note: This column is part of this week's cover story, Tuesday Night Music Club, which includes profiles of nine Seattle bands. I don't remember the exact first time I p ... More >>

Video: La Sera's Hotness Confirmed

​Even dismembering dudes in a Sissy Spacek meets Jack Nicholson performance in the video for La Sera's "Never Come Around," (after jump) Katy Goodman's the hottest thing to come out of the indie-rock cupboard since Ben Gibbard went vegan. If Sub Pop/Hardly Art ever had a chance to make money s ... More >>

The American: George Clooney Sulks Through an Italian Hill Town

​Even dismembering dudes in a Sissy Spacek meets Jack Nicholson performance in the video for La Sera's "Never Come Around," (after jump) Katy Goodman's the hottest thing to come out of the indie-rock cupboard since Ben Gibbard went vegan. If Sub Pop/Hardly Art ever had a chance to make money s ... More >>

Chapel Happy Hour

​Even dismembering dudes in a Sissy Spacek meets Jack Nicholson performance in the video for La Sera's "Never Come Around," (after jump) Katy Goodman's the hottest thing to come out of the indie-rock cupboard since Ben Gibbard went vegan. If Sub Pop/Hardly Art ever had a chance to make money s ... More >>

God Damn the Pusher Man!

www.8-track-shack.com"So you wanna be a bird?" The Magic Carpet Ride, featuring Steppenwolf's Goldy McJohn, plays Seattle's Hard Rock Cafe on April 30.​When I was thirteen years old, I got a hold of an 8-track tape of the Easy Rider motion picture soundtrack. This is the music from the legenda ... More >>

Big Plans for Alki Homestead

​In its most recent incarnation, the Alki Homestead was a nostalgic, lodge-like structure where dapper waiters served large platters of fried chicken until its customers said "no mas!" Eating there felt like taking in a meal on the set of The Shining, only with far less likelihood that Jack Ni ... More >>

De-Nesting Cuckoo

Nine years ago, then-Gov. Gary Locke spoke bravely of tearing down Lakewood's gloomy Western State Hospital, the state's biggest mental institution other than the state capitol building, and replacing it with a modern treatment facility. Instead, he cut its budget. Now 136 years old, it has been rep ... More >>

Five Easy Pieces

Nine years ago, then-Gov. Gary Locke spoke bravely of tearing down Lakewood's gloomy Western State Hospital, the state's biggest mental institution other than the state capitol building, and replacing it with a modern treatment facility. Instead, he cut its budget. Now 136 years old, it has been rep ... More >>

Easy Rider

Nine years ago, then-Gov. Gary Locke spoke bravely of tearing down Lakewood's gloomy Western State Hospital, the state's biggest mental institution other than the state capitol building, and replacing it with a modern treatment facility. Instead, he cut its budget. Now 136 years old, it has been rep ... More >>

Christopher Sandford

Nine years ago, then-Gov. Gary Locke spoke bravely of tearing down Lakewood's gloomy Western State Hospital, the state's biggest mental institution other than the state capitol building, and replacing it with a modern treatment facility. Instead, he cut its budget. Now 136 years old, it has been rep ... More >>

Wintergrass Music Festival

Annual bluegrass fest is a winter pick-me-up

The Bucket List: Die, Nicholson, Die!

Annual bluegrass fest is a winter pick-me-up

New on DVD: Jack Nicholson Has Never Looked better.

Annual bluegrass fest is a winter pick-me-up

Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose: Acid Casualties Persevere

Annual bluegrass fest is a winter pick-me-up

Dating Mexicans Is Not Slumming

Annual bluegrass fest is a winter pick-me-up

Things We Lost in the Fire: Only Benicio Del Toro Is Worth Saving

Annual bluegrass fest is a winter pick-me-up

The Pusher trilogy and more

All the Danish hoodlums you can handle.

Nov. 1-8, 2006

A week of calamities: The Cold War, the Iraq War, and Katrina all over again.

Three Times and other new releases

How to triple the love story with the same two performers

Oct. 13-19, 2006

Hedwig, depressed Swedes, and a wandering Dutch architect in Africa.

Bait and Switch

A hero of the Hong Kong new wave returns the compliment.

May 3-10, 2006

Short films, El Mariachi, Val Lewton, and The Lost Boys of the Sudan.

April 5-12, 2006

Local film events and specialty venues.

Nov. 16, 2005

Local film events and specialty venues.

Chinatown

Also: Patricia Hagen, Electric Six, Africa in America Festival, and William T. Vollmann.

Half Full

Despite all its extravagant praise, this midlife-crisis movie leaves an empty feeling: Is that all there is?

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer & Monster

Columbia TriStar; Aileen $19.95, Monster $26.95, two-pack $39.95

Opening Nights

Columbia TriStar; Aileen $19.95, Monster $26.95, two-pack $39.95

Arts Picks

Columbia TriStar; Aileen $19.95, Monster $26.95, two-pack $39.95

Something's Gotta Give

Columbia Tri-Star Home Ent., $28.95

A Sign From Above

Columbia Tri-Star Home Ent., $28.95

Brief Encounters

Blue Car, Manic, and Shanghai Ghetto

Honesty at the Oscars

What I'd like to see, but won't, on this Sundays telecast.

Brief Encounters

What I'd like to see, but won't, on this Sundays telecast.

Gong Show

The clanging, kinetic world of Lelavision.

Flyover Gothic

In a middle-American odyssey, Jack poignantly captures his character's crumpled humanity. Too bad everyone else is a cartoon.

Clueless

An architect without a plan.

Small World

Dear Ann-Margret . . .

Die Hard

Dear Ann-Margret . . .

Take off! A celebration of Canadian Music Week

Dear Ann-Margret . . .

Crazy cuts

Critics assail the governor's plan for the mentally ill.

Resistance is !@&%# futile

Salty artifact of the '70s returns.

Mixed forecast

The highs and lows of winter film.

I'd like to Spank the Academy . . .

A cultural critic mouths off at the rich, the famous, and the Holly Weird.

Mr. Smith goes to Hollywood

Guttersnipe Elliott Smith brings the Oscars down to earth