Music
If Friday’s relatively light crowd had anyone worried that this year’s Capitol
If Friday’s relatively light crowd had anyone worried that this year’s Capitol Hill Block Party was going to…
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Pulp Fiction
We have just one question for you: How do we know which wallet belongs to Jules Winnfield? There’s…
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James McMurtry
It’s really a shame this show isn’t scheduled for the flatbed stage out back of Slim’s with the…
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Gillian G. Gaar
In addition to contributing to every newspaper in town, including ours, music writer Gillian G. Gaar has written…
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Animal Collective
The general consensus is that Animal Collective’s latest and ninth album Centipede Hz is a chaotic, overstuffed mess.…
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Fall Kick-Off
This weekend’s Fall Kick-Off series at Velocity Dance Center offers three different programs to give you a taste…
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Gary Hill
Californian Gary Hill came to Seattle in 1985 to establish the video department at Cornish. By then he’d…
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Celebrate Seattle
Most of the year, the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra is heard but not seen. Musicians play down in…
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Martin Amis
We haven’t read Martin Amis’ new novel Lionel Asbo: State of England (Knopf, $25.95), but we share his…
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Maldoror
Vashon Island’s UMO Ensemble is anything but a straight theater company. Using grotesque costumes and broad gestures, its…
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Atmosphere
Toward the end of the nineties, a new sort of energy began to roll outward from the clubs…
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Mr. Hulot’s Holiday
Jacques Tati’s 1953 comedy screens as a fundraiser for the GI. The film became an international hit and…
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Néo-Fiction
For his newest work at OtB, called Néo-Fiction, French performance artist Christian Rizzo is going to play tourist.…
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Jurassic Park
The late writer Michael Crichton, who famously tutored President Bush on the fallacy of global warming, was no…
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Austra
Feel It Break, the debut LP from this Canadian electronic outfit, was a noteworthy introduction to the band’s…
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Hot Chip
Now more than a decade into their recording career, UK group Hot Chip have long outgrown the intentionally…
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Scott Freiman
For a certain kind of baby boomer, identifying all the faces on a certain 1967 Beatles album was…
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Fall Arts: Our Calendar of Events
• = Recommended SEPTEMBER Ongoing–Oct. 7 Memphis The musical about the birth of rock radio returns. 5th Avenue…
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Schew Aquarium
This local band is a delightful trio of goofballs who seem to write songs around whatever silly inside…
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Touch of Evil
The reputation of Orson Welles’ 1958 Touch of Evil gradually grew over the four decades following its release,…