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Oscar Wilde

  • Arts

    September 28, 2011

    Opening Nights: An Ideal Husband

    How Oscar Wilde snuck subversion into a drawing-room melodrama.

  • Calendar

    September 28, 2011

    An Ideal Husband

    How Oscar Wilde snuck subversion into a drawing-room melodrama.

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Toke Signals: The Renton Herbalist Offers Convenient Connoisseurship

    If you're an authorized medical marijuana patient in the Seattle metro area who is into connoisseur-grade cannabis, The Renton Herbalist ( can deliver to your door.

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    Battle Royale Quizzes at The Reading Gaol

    ​ The Bar: The Reading Gaol (Phinney Ridge, 418 NW 65th St) can be found in my favorite, most desolate drag of 65th Street that starts with Cafe Bambino and stretches across a series of abandoned buildings and For Sale signs. Quick tip: If you started reading this article fumbling over how t ... More >>

  • Arts

    March 24, 2010

    The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

    ​ The Bar: The Reading Gaol (Phinney Ridge, 418 NW 65th St) can be found in my favorite, most desolate drag of 65th Street that starts with Cafe Bambino and stretches across a series of abandoned buildings and For Sale signs. Quick tip: If you started reading this article fumbling over how t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 17, 2010

    1 Short Stories Live

    ​ The Bar: The Reading Gaol (Phinney Ridge, 418 NW 65th St) can be found in my favorite, most desolate drag of 65th Street that starts with Cafe Bambino and stretches across a series of abandoned buildings and For Sale signs. Quick tip: If you started reading this article fumbling over how t ... More >>

  • Arts

    January 20, 2010

    The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

    ​ The Bar: The Reading Gaol (Phinney Ridge, 418 NW 65th St) can be found in my favorite, most desolate drag of 65th Street that starts with Cafe Bambino and stretches across a series of abandoned buildings and For Sale signs. Quick tip: If you started reading this article fumbling over how t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 13, 2010

    Keith Stern

    ​ The Bar: The Reading Gaol (Phinney Ridge, 418 NW 65th St) can be found in my favorite, most desolate drag of 65th Street that starts with Cafe Bambino and stretches across a series of abandoned buildings and For Sale signs. Quick tip: If you started reading this article fumbling over how t ... More >>

  • Arts

    August 19, 2009

    Stage Preview: Helsinki Syndrome’s Oscar Party

    Two performance-art provocateurs explore the importance of reinventing Earnest.

  • Film

    June 17, 2009

    PICK Easy Virtue: Jessica Biel Actually Charms Us

    Two performance-art provocateurs explore the importance of reinventing Earnest.

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2009

    The Beer Authority: New Bottle Shop in Lake City

    The Adams' Seattle Beer Authority (Barry, Porter and Shellane) has been open for one week, and so far business is great, yet more evidence of the fact that craft beer ranks as a recession-proof mini luxury. The shop reserves one cooler each for German, Belgian, and English, with the other three cool ... More >>

  • Arts

    January 28, 2009

    Victorian Secrets

    It’s all about style in Oscar Wilde’s comedy of roleplaying.

  • Food

    December 31, 2008

    Save Those Tiny Bubbles

    It’s all about style in Oscar Wilde’s comedy of roleplaying.

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2008

    Ask the Bartender: Absinthe's exaggerated resume

    It’s all about style in Oscar Wilde’s comedy of roleplaying.

  • Arts

    October 3, 2007

    Opening Nights

    It’s all about style in Oscar Wilde’s comedy of roleplaying.

  • Arts

    September 19, 2007

    Theater Calendar

    It’s all about style in Oscar Wilde’s comedy of roleplaying.

  • Arts

    January 31, 2007

    Smart for Smart's Sake

    Stoppard's whiplash word games raise questions about art and war.

  • Arts

    December 27, 2006

    Seattle Weekly's Recommended Events

    THURSDAY: Holy Ghost Revival and a bunch of snakes.

  • Arts

    June 28, 2006

    Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums in America

    Why idleness can sometimes help drudgery make sense.

  • Diversions

    May 31, 2006

    True and False

    Thirty years ago in Seattle Weekly.

  • Film

    February 1, 2006

    A Good Woman

    Opens Fri., Feb. 3, at Metro

  • Arts

    January 25, 2006

    Pulp Nonfiction

    A writer becomes prey in ArtsWest's literary noir.

  • Arts

    August 17, 2005

    In Good Company

    Tired of seeing the same faces onstage every season? Look here. . . .

  • News

    August 17, 2005

    Time for a Mercy Killing

    Unfortunately, reports of the monorail's demise are greatly exaggerated.

  • Arts

    July 27, 2005

    The Art of Patience

    Seattle's Gilbert & Sullivan Society leave an arcanely entertaining show just as they found it.

  • Arts

    June 1, 2005

    Beautifully Useless

    Drew Daly's magic acts of destructive sculpture.

  • Arts

    January 19, 2005

    Wilde at Heart

    ArtsWest's Oscar attempt means well but misses its mark.

  • Diversions

    January 19, 2005

    Abie Baby

    ArtsWest's Oscar attempt means well but misses its mark.

  • Arts

    October 13, 2004

    Going, Going ...

    Two of the city's finest arts venues hit hard times.

  • Arts

    January 28, 2004

    This Week's Reads

    William Gibson, Peter Ward, Merlin Holland, Walter Williams, and Maggie Balistreri.

  • Arts

    July 23, 2003

    Year of the Rabbit, Chuck Palahnuik, and More

    William Gibson, Peter Ward, Merlin Holland, Walter Williams, and Maggie Balistreri.

  • News

    July 3, 2002

    Who Said It?

    William Gibson, Peter Ward, Merlin Holland, Walter Williams, and Maggie Balistreri.

  • Film

    May 22, 2002

    Class action

    Upper-crust comrades blow their cover.

  • Arts

    May 8, 2002

    Art weds anarchy

    Vera Wilde marries well.

  • Arts

    April 24, 2002

    Small World

    Rocket man

  • Music

    April 3, 2002

    Jesus Christ!

    It's Princess Superstar.

  • Arts

    March 27, 2002

    Thrust and curlicues

    The Opera's Salome is long on melodrama but short on allure.

  • Film

    January 9, 2002

    Moulin Rouge

    The Opera's Salome is long on melodrama but short on allure.

  • Film

    August 1, 2001

    Behind the music

    Hedwig director doffs wig, tells all.

  • Arts

    July 11, 2001

    The Alien has landed

    Bette Bourne does Quentin to a perfect crisp.

  • Arts

    May 2, 2001

    Born to be Wilde

    More than a thousand letters reveal a passion for living and loving.

  • Arts

    January 24, 2001

    Building a bridge

    A play and its producers ask you to consider acceptance.

  • News

    November 22, 2000

    Rarified Reads

    Impress the bibliophile in your life with the stories behind the stories

  • News

    October 4, 2000

    Parting shots

    Ten years of blood, sweat, tears, and joy at Seattle Weekly and Eastsideweek.

  • Arts

    March 22, 2000

    Final Fringe

    In which the exhausted but exhilarated critic praises punctuality and discourages mugging.

  • Film

    June 23, 1999

    Walk on the Wilde side

    Contemporary events and an imaginative director revive a classic play.

  • Film

    May 26, 1999

    Sun screenings

    A few of summertime's most worthy.

  • Arts

    June 17, 1998

    The importance of being Oscar

    In the midst of a Wilde revival, are we any closer to knowing the artist and the man?

  • Film

    May 13, 1998

    Like a kid in a brain-candy store

    Why I'm jonesing for the film fest.

  • Arts

    February 18, 1998

    Flaccosus nervosus

    Why I'm jonesing for the film fest.

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