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The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows

From Slack Fest to Neko Case.

Intiman's Valentine's Cabaret

From Slack Fest to Neko Case.

Stew and the Negro Problem

From Slack Fest to Neko Case.

Watch John Legend and The Roots Cover Arcade Fire's "Wake Up"

Speaking of the Arcade Fire, here's an unlikely cover of one of their best songs -- in this Spike Lee-directed clip, John Legend and the Roots perform "Wake Up" at New York City's Terminal 5. In their version, the song loses some of its fierce aggression and instead, with Legend pounding on the pi ... More >>

Live Music Roundup: Tuesday, August 25

fun.​fun., with Hellogoodbye, Limbeck, My Favorite Highway at Chop Suey, 6 p.m., $15 adv., all ages Supergroups seem back in vogue these days, from Tinted Windows to the Dead Weather to Them Crooked Vultures. Add fun. to that list. Despite the lower-case lettering, the trio of Nate Ruess (ex- ... More >>

Not Coming to a Theater Near You

​One of our favorite titles at SIFF was Spike Lee's concert film of Passing Strange, the Tony Award-winning show based on the life of musician/narrator Stew. The movie is playing New York and L.A. but not, unfortunately, Seattle. So the next best thing, if you've got cable and the Sundance Cha ... More >>

Terence Blanchard

Tuesday, August 25 and Wednesday, August 26

The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows

Tuesday, August 25 and Wednesday, August 26

20 Years Later, on a Big Brick Wall: Do the Right Thing

​Havana's kicking off its outdoor movie series with a doozie tonight. Twenty years after its release, we get Spike Lee's summer-swelter/racial-tension/pizzeria/Bed-Stuy masterpiece, Do the Right Thing. Sadly, it's a week late for our record-setting heat, which would have increased the vicariou ... More >>

SIFF Week 2: Picks & Pans

By Brian Miller and SW staff

Spike at SIFF

Twenty years ago, who had heard of Barack Obama? Surely not Spike Lee, who had a different politician on his mind during the summer of 1989. That was New York Mayor Ed Koch, whom Lee and other African Americans accused of racial insensitivity, and worse, following what became known as the Howard Bea ... More >>

Branford Marsalis: King of Kings

Life with Leno, Sting, and a decade-old quartet.

Branford Marsalis to Play a Four Night Stint at Jazz Alley

Legendary jazz saxophonist Brandford Marsalis and his world renowed quartet just announced they're playing four nights at Jazz Alley March 19-22. That's good news to me cause I've been listening to his newest album Metamorphosen quite a bit since an advance of it showed up in the mail recently and I ... More >>

Trouble the Water

Legendary jazz saxophonist Brandford Marsalis and his world renowed quartet just announced they're playing four nights at Jazz Alley March 19-22. That's good news to me cause I've been listening to his newest album Metamorphosen quite a bit since an advance of it showed up in the mail recently and I ... More >>

Detroit Blues

An inner-city oil well’s the MacGuffin in a political polemic. Also: PNB’s “New Works” and So Many Words.

PICK Trouble the Water: Hurricane Katrina Filmed From the Inside Out

An inner-city oil well’s the MacGuffin in a political polemic. Also: PNB’s “New Works” and So Many Words.

Miracle at St. Anna: Spike Lee Goes Long in WWII

An inner-city oil well’s the MacGuffin in a political polemic. Also: PNB’s “New Works” and So Many Words.

Late Review: Trouble the Water

An inner-city oil well’s the MacGuffin in a political polemic. Also: PNB’s “New Works” and So Many Words.

Black, Not Blaxploitation

SAM screens four classics of African-American cinema

Flourishes of Stagecraft Distract From Three Stories of Survival in The Breach

The Rep’s production is a monumental effort that includes a pool containing 840 cubic feet of water, buckets of rain falling from the rafters, and lots of moving parts onstage.

Desert Bayou: Katrina’s Refugees in the Mormon State

The Rep’s production is a monumental effort that includes a pool containing 840 cubic feet of water, buckets of rain falling from the rafters, and lots of moving parts onstage.

New on DVD: Billy Wilder Invents the Media Circus. And more!

The Rep’s production is a monumental effort that includes a pool containing 840 cubic feet of water, buckets of rain falling from the rafters, and lots of moving parts onstage.

The Upside of Angst

Dialed down and depressed, Adam Sandler shows us he's a real actor in Reign Over Me.

Thursday

Dialed down and depressed, Adam Sandler shows us he's a real actor in Reign Over Me.

Seattle Weekly's Recommended Events

WEDNESDAY: The largest theater collaboration in history, and a Comedy of Errors on the Interstate

Good Vibrations

More than the music itself, James Brown's biggest legacy might be the freedom he created.

An Overdue Defense of Little Miss Sunshine

Plus Spike Lee, Jet Li, and the decline of Bart.

Nov. 1-8, 2006

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

Oct. 13-19, 2006

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

Kinky Boots

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

Crash

Also: Don't Move, Head-On, and Twin Sisters.

The Martin Scorsese Film Collection

MGM Home Entertainment, $49.96

Dr. Strangelove

Columbia TriStar Home Ent., $34.95

This Week's Attractions

Columbia TriStar Home Ent., $34.95

This is Mourning Edition

Columbia TriStar Home Ent., $34.95

Arts Picks

Columbia TriStar Home Ent., $34.95

Mira-Monster

Love him or hate him, new indie film book proves that Harvey Weinstein is the real star of his movies.

DRÔLE DE DRAME

Home Vision Entertainment, $19.95

Trading Places

How the Sonics' Payton-Allen swap plays out on-screen.

Sinking Lee-Ward

Spike makes his most boring New York story yet.

Brief Encounters

Spike makes his most boring New York story yet.

Greater

Oscar-winning Ali profile packs a punch.

The patriot

Light briefly shines on a dark continent.

Must-seethe TV

Spike Lee's anger turns to the small screen.

The replacement

Racial fantasia on the gridiron.

Restaurant

Is it attraction or guilt?

Gerbil in a microwave

The edgiest indie "films" are being created and distributed online.

Different Strokes

A familiar Spike Lee joint with a whole new look.

He got lame

Spike Lee's latest forces viewers to assume the position.