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Jamie Ford

Jamie Ford

Fall Arts Calendar 2010

A complete guide to the best of the season. With picks!

Review: The Story So Far Shows the Bittersweet Arc of Grand Archives' Albums

photo by Hilary Harris​Artist: Grand Archives Album: The Story So Far Label: Sub Pop Rating (Skip, Stream, or Buy): Buy (it's free, so you can't buy it, but you get the idea.) Download: The whole thing, on Grand Archives' website If you've never heard Grand Archives--or haven't picked up an a ... More >>

Jaime Ford

photo by Hilary Harris​Artist: Grand Archives Album: The Story So Far Label: Sub Pop Rating (Skip, Stream, or Buy): Buy (it's free, so you can't buy it, but you get the idea.) Download: The whole thing, on Grand Archives' website If you've never heard Grand Archives--or haven't picked up an a ... More >>

New Local Music Out This Week: D. Black, Grand Hallway, Slow Skate, Black Whales, Grand Archives

Colin J. NelsonSlow Skate, whose second record comes out this Friday​Grand Hallway, Promenade (self-released) A lush symphonic pop album that shows remarkable growth for this band, Grand Hallway's CD release show, which takes place Thursday, September 17 at the Fremont Abbey Arts Center, is a ... More >>

New Grand Archives MP3

Hilary Harris​For those of you who, like me, were really enamoured with Grand Archives' first record, you can check out a song from their second release, Keep In Mind Frankenstein, on Sub Pop's website. It's an airy, languid number called "Oslo Novelist," and is perhaps intended to tide us ove ... More >>

Amanda Boyden

Hilary Harris​For those of you who, like me, were really enamoured with Grand Archives' first record, you can check out a song from their second release, Keep In Mind Frankenstein, on Sub Pop's website. It's an airy, languid number called "Oslo Novelist," and is perhaps intended to tide us ove ... More >>

Akashic All-Stars

Hilary Harris​For those of you who, like me, were really enamoured with Grand Archives' first record, you can check out a song from their second release, Keep In Mind Frankenstein, on Sub Pop's website. It's an airy, languid number called "Oslo Novelist," and is perhaps intended to tide us ove ... More >>

Cyann & Ben, Kristin Hersh, Richard Swift, The Good, the Bad & the Queen

Hilary Harris​For those of you who, like me, were really enamoured with Grand Archives' first record, you can check out a song from their second release, Keep In Mind Frankenstein, on Sub Pop's website. It's an airy, languid number called "Oslo Novelist," and is perhaps intended to tide us ove ... More >>

Out of the Past

Nine old films take us back to the groovy, violent '60s.

KING's Camelot

Thirty years ago in Seattle Weekly.

Shouts, Winks, and Weeps

Events of note for the week of June 14-20, 2006.

Her Brand of Humor

Local lit mag brings funny women to Bumbershoot stage. No, really.

An Ancient Pyramid Scheme

May. 4-10, 2005

Unveiling the Middle East

Underrepresented writers reclaim the language of their homelands, even if some of them no longer live on their home soil.

Reader Ballot Winners

Underrepresented writers reclaim the language of their homelands, even if some of them no longer live on their home soil.

Readers' Picks

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Gore Vidal's History Lesson

America the beautiful is now an ugly, megalomaniacal mess.

A Walk Around the Lake

A solo adventurer treks 76 miles in five days around Lake Washington, looking for a chance to rediscover nature in the city and the nature of the city itself.

This Week's Reads

Jonathan Wilson, Heidi Julavits, and John Haskell.

War or Peace?

Local notables take their stands.

The collector

Trophy wife pays price for her acquisition.

Northwest Bookfest

Survival instincts

TOM ROBBINS: My life and work.

Forget cyberspace. The Northwest's master of Zen-punk prose spends his time exploring mythospace. And here, with a new novel hitting stores this week, he speaks out about what he sees, how he works, who he loves, and what really, really matters in the end.

Cop on the run

Sheriff Dave Reichert chased WTO looters through Seattle streets. Is he trying to chase Schell out of town as well?

Fall Arts Preview

Book picks

Fall Arts Preview - Books

Book picks