Arts & Culture
The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling
Excruciating memories of those lizardy old guys croaking out “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” in Martin Scorsese’s Shine a Light…
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Timothy Egan
When we sat down to discuss his new Edward S. Curtis biography, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher…
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Wake in Fright
Americans who laughed at Crocodile Dundee back in 1986 had no idea what the Australian Outback was really…
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Rim Jobs and Painful Peckers
Dear Dategirl, After a long dry spell, I’m back on the market. While it’s great to fuck someone…
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The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
THURSDAY 11/8 Stage: Barrier to Entry Most discussions about immigration to the U.S., illegal or otherwise, have centered on…
Music
Village Voice Media brought Wu Tang, Erykah Badu, Fishbone, Yelawolf, Wild Flag,
Village Voice Media brought Wu Tang, Erykah Badu, Fishbone, Yelawolf, Wild Flag, Times New Viking and more to…
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Ghostbusters
Who you gonna call? I think we all know the answer: the top-grossing film of 1984, Ghostbusters! Bill…
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On Sunday, makers of onigiri — a Japanese delicacy of white rice
On Sunday, makers of onigiri — a Japanese delicacy of white rice and seafood — showed off their…
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Young Frankenstein
Mel Brooks’ inspired 1974 spoof is probably his best movie, affectionately rooted in the James Whale originals (particularly…
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The Dog and Pony Show
Fall is a tough time for dogs. Weeks ago they were frolicking outside in the sun, tongues lolling;…
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Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Nick Park’s claymation-animated heroes, cheese-addicted inventor Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis, to the mild manner born) and his…
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John Roderick and Friends
If you ever wanted to know if your favorite tweeters are as witty, funny, and self-deprecating in person…
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Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection
It was Steve Jobs who invented minimalism. No, scratch that, it was Mies van der Rohe. Unless, wait,…
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It was a month of Bieber fever, magic mushrooms and thrift-shop style.
It was a month of Bieber fever, magic mushrooms and thrift-shop style. And that was all before Halloween…
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Sister
Part of the French Cinema Now series, which runs Wednesday through Sunday, Ursula Meier’s Sister is a Dardenne-lite…
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Seattle Butoh Festival
Butoh started out as a Japanese dance form responding to the devastation of World War II. Since those…
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The Theater of Needless Talents
Within the grim history of the Holocaust, the story of the artists in the Terezin concentration camp still…
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Country Lips
If the Maldives are the Band of Seattle’s thriving Americana scene, then Country Lips are its Byrds. True…
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Let the Right One In
This lucid Swedish indie gem from 2008, adapted for the screen by John Ajvide Lindqvist from his novel…
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The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls
This enchanting little tchotchke melds magic and mayhem in post-Soviet Russia, commingling centuries-old folklore with the crass new…