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Danielle Agami
Seattle is full of people who come from elsewhere, bringing their expertise and their enthusiasm with them—one of…
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Moneyball
Michael Lewis’ 2003 book concerns Billy Beane, a former ballplayer-turned-scout-turned-GM, and Paul DePodesta, an Ivy League wonk, who…
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Marty
Scarecrow Video has built an entire DVD kiosk, almost a shrine, featuring Ernest Borgnine, who died last month…
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The Wild Bunch
Sam Peckinpah’s famously bloody, balletic, slo-mo 1969 Western has more to do with the Vietnam era than frontier…
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Josh Garrett-Davis
Josh Garrett-Davis has a twofold perspective on his childhood in South Dakota. Born there in 1980 to a…
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The Princess Bride
From 1987, Rob Reiner’s charming PG-rated adaptation of the classic William Goldman children’s tale The Princess Bride is…
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Refused
The second of this week’s reformed leftist rock outfits (along with Desaparecidos on Saturday), Refused espoused a politics…
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826 Day
The average tutor usually sets up shop at the library, not at the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co.…
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Intiman Theatre Festival
Of the three repertory titles being presented, I loved Dirty Story and Romeo & Juliet. Hedda Gabler felt…
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Flight Deck
The media is full of behind-the-scenes work, from restaurant tales on the Food Network to training-camp reports in…
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99 Layoffs (Love in the Time of Pink Slips)
Produced by Radial Theater Project, Vincent Delaney’s new play is a must-see for comedy fans. 99 Layoffs is…
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The Big Lebowski
The Coen brothers’ 1998 stoner-noir is Raymond Chandler filtered through dirty bong water, where almost every line of…
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Duwamish River Festival
It’s a toxin-filled Superfund cleanup site. It’s a fetid ribbon meandering its way through industrial Seattle. And it’s…
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Desaparacidos
This week, two great, politically-charged punk rock bands from around the turn of the 2000s hit Seattle on…
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The Physics
The Physics’ recorded catalog is a portrait of consistency rarely equaled in rap music. The Seattle trio has…
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Cairo Vibrations Festival
Vibrations is the ultimate chiller fest—a one-day, free, outdoor event with no super-huge names eliminates worrying about money,…
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Radiolab Live: In the Dark
Radiolab is all about curiosity—one reason why the public radio program, heard at 1 p.m Saturdays on KPLU,…
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Royce the Choice
This Seattle MC has quietly released three mixtapes since 2010, each packed with his distinct punch-line lyricism, and…
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The Reid-Secrest Olympics
Ten years ago, a 45-minute mockumentary called The Reid-Secrest Olympics was released by novice Seattle filmmaker Jason Reid.…
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Jaws
As summer draws to an end, let us revisit the greatest summer movie ever made: Jaws, which became…