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How to Talk About Sex

The Lady: The Aung San Suu Kyi Biopic Is Duller Than the Headlines

Duff McKagan: The Real 9-9-9

I'd like to see Herman Cain try this.

Herman Cain Sucks. Here's the Real 9-9-9: 9 Nights, 9 Shows, 9 Chances to Melt Faces in the UK

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His memoir, It's So Easy (Simon & Schuster) is out now.​Since last week's rather spasmodic entry that entailed me trying to be funny and cute with the written word whilst bouncing around the Irish Sea locked in a tour bus with no power, my b ... More >>

The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His memoir, It's So Easy (Simon & Schuster) is out now.​Since last week's rather spasmodic entry that entailed me trying to be funny and cute with the written word whilst bouncing around the Irish Sea locked in a tour bus with no power, my b ... More >>

Missoula's Secret to Topping Seattle on Esquire's Best Bar List: Inviting Chris Jones to Guest Prof at Its University

Great picks, Chris, but what about the Union Club?​As someone who used to visit Missoula and my friends at the University of Montana quite frequently in my twenties, I can say I was pleasantly surprised to see two Missoula bars, Charlie B's and the Oxford, make Esquire's list of America's best ... More >>

Christopher Hitchens

Great picks, Chris, but what about the Union Club?​As someone who used to visit Missoula and my friends at the University of Montana quite frequently in my twenties, I can say I was pleasantly surprised to see two Missoula bars, Charlie B's and the Oxford, make Esquire's list of America's best ... More >>

Opening Nights: Charley's Aunt

A bit of a drag at Taproot.

Jennifer Burns

A bit of a drag at Taproot.

An Education: The Decade She Became a Woman

A bit of a drag at Taproot.

Looking for a Job? Former Drug Kingpin Needs Help with Memoirs

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Afternoon Edition: Oxford and Bourbon

Seattle People, our weekly slideshow of folks not making headlines around town, took a gander over to the Twilight Exit in the Central District this week.-- Oxford digs our music editor.-- Maggie Dutton on the difference between scotch, whiskey, and bourbon.-- Here we go again ... Mamma Mia!'s now o ... More >>

Last Night: Foo Fighters at KeyArena

Seattle People, our weekly slideshow of folks not making headlines around town, took a gander over to the Twilight Exit in the Central District this week.-- Oxford digs our music editor.-- Maggie Dutton on the difference between scotch, whiskey, and bourbon.-- Here we go again ... Mamma Mia!'s now o ... More >>

Mustaches and Ecstasy at Nectar Last Night

Seattle People, our weekly slideshow of folks not making headlines around town, took a gander over to the Twilight Exit in the Central District this week.-- Oxford digs our music editor.-- Maggie Dutton on the difference between scotch, whiskey, and bourbon.-- Here we go again ... Mamma Mia!'s now o ... More >>

Weekend Review: Lotsa Guitars, Nas, and Shearwater

Seattle People, our weekly slideshow of folks not making headlines around town, took a gander over to the Twilight Exit in the Central District this week.-- Oxford digs our music editor.-- Maggie Dutton on the difference between scotch, whiskey, and bourbon.-- Here we go again ... Mamma Mia!'s now o ... More >>

Raj Patel

Seattle People, our weekly slideshow of folks not making headlines around town, took a gander over to the Twilight Exit in the Central District this week.-- Oxford digs our music editor.-- Maggie Dutton on the difference between scotch, whiskey, and bourbon.-- Here we go again ... Mamma Mia!'s now o ... More >>

Lijia Zhang

Seattle People, our weekly slideshow of folks not making headlines around town, took a gander over to the Twilight Exit in the Central District this week.-- Oxford digs our music editor.-- Maggie Dutton on the difference between scotch, whiskey, and bourbon.-- Here we go again ... Mamma Mia!'s now o ... More >>

Groover's Paradise

Seattle People, our weekly slideshow of folks not making headlines around town, took a gander over to the Twilight Exit in the Central District this week.-- Oxford digs our music editor.-- Maggie Dutton on the difference between scotch, whiskey, and bourbon.-- Here we go again ... Mamma Mia!'s now o ... More >>

Crossover Time!

Two pop icons and a diva jump the fence.

Valve Work

A visit to Stuart Dempster's musical garage.

Original Freaks

Imaginational Anthem traces an acoustic line between the New Weird and the Old Eccentric.

Britons Behind Bars

Whether innocent or guilty, this arresting post-9/11 docudrama shows, one size of orange-jumpsuit justice fits all.

In Like a Lamb

Mild but pleasing, The Chronicles of Narnia succeeds more with the CG effects than the kids.

Nov. 16, 2005

Mild but pleasing, The Chronicles of Narnia succeeds more with the CG effects than the kids.

The Hero of Hotel Rwanda

Feb. 23-Mar. 1, 2005

A Real Octopus' Garden

Feb. 16-22, 2005

This Week's Reads

Alan Hollinghurst, David Rees, and Thomas Frank

This Week's Reads

Alan Hollinghurst, David Rees, and Thomas Frank

Opening Nights

Alan Hollinghurst, David Rees, and Thomas Frank

A Spot of Sherry

Alan Hollinghurst, David Rees, and Thomas Frank

This Week's Reads

Ved Mehta, Traci Elizabeth Lords, Frank Owen, Lisa Tucker, and Meredith Broussard.

This Weeks Reads

Gay and Laney Salisbury, Khaled Hosseini, Jim Fielder, and Fareed Zakaria.

Quick Reads

Andrew Vachss, Ruth Ozeki, Pico Ayer, and Michelle Lee.

Pooh's Pendulum

Eleven scholars deconstruct the billion-dollar bear. (Oh, bother.)

Space Lift

The power and the glory of the restored Suzzallo reading room.

Chalk Talk

'Inspirational' teacher tale is a dry academic exercise.

Brief Encounters

'Inspirational' teacher tale is a dry academic exercise.

The quest

Tolkien's Fellowship begins a work of transition—our own.

Great expectations

Dickens, Tolkien, and George Lucas are the fathers to this precocious orphan.

Grape Expectations

The gift of wine can open any door

The Culture Bunker

The gift of wine can open any door

Mythed opportunity

Northwest coast legend meets urban thriller.

42 Up

The landmark British documentary series continues

The war of the Rings

Will the Net make—or break—the fantasy legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien?

Not-so-simply 'Red'

An instrumental epic strings us along.

Books briefing

An instrumental epic strings us along.

Books, Briefly

An instrumental epic strings us along.

Stealth nonprofit

For those fighting gentrification downtown, enemies sometimes come disguised as friends.

From Old-School Treatise to Wiseass Rant

Surveying the range of the contemporary essay.

Truss no one

Director Sandra Goldbacher's unkept promise.