The business of predicting the future and ourselves in it.
Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Masters of Scottish Arts, and a big, wet kiss from Pacific Northwest Ballet.
McMurtry’s latest frontier epic falls short.
The final frontier
Remembering an artist and icon.
Seattle Opera marshals Wagner’s Ring—and fights a small budget battle on the side.
An interview with Jeanette Winterson.
A Moon for the Misbegotten, and Tapdog/Underdog.
Two new books attack the Republican monopoly on God. But are there more than two sides to the issue?
A nation is born while a family dissolves in Amos Oz’s beautifully sad, intricate, elliptical memoir.
FRIDAY – SUNDAY FILM PICCADILLY Firm of nipple, steely of gaze, brazen yet skulking, sultry and slutty and haughty, pioneering…
Irvine Welsh’s new novel follows four Scots into maturity.
Seattle Opera’s Don Pasquale is missing the humor of humanity.
Spare us the melodrama.
Everyone’s a critic. But then, some people deserve to be—especially when their own life becomes the subject of a movie,…
A tour of Trevor Fairbrother’s sensational Sargents.
The event is hyped as “The World’s Quickest Theater Festival,” and the more cynical among us might suggest that “quick”…
Leonard Bernstein: A White-House Cantata London Sym- phony Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon); Bernstein conducts Bernstein: Serenade, Songfest (Deutsche Grammophon) As if…
Gilbert & Sullivan Society’s Pirates of Penzance finds a perfect balance of sense and nonsense.
Twenty-five scientists predict where life, the universe, and everything else are headed—and the scary thing is, they’re probably right.
