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Pretty Poison
Call it Bobby sox noir? The 1968 Pretty Poison begins as a kind of Billy Liar or The…
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Songs of Summer
The stellar local bands involved in this charity show benefiting the Rainier Valley Food Bank are expected to…
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Tomten
Over a year after becoming the dark horse, wildcard winner of 2011’s Sound Off! competition, Tomten is releasing…
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Mickey Avalon
with The rapping embodiment of the Los Angeles sleaze scene, an Avalon show might facilitate a one-night-stand and…
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Dategirl
There will be beer. There will be whiskey. There will be pizza. And there will be a sensational…
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Dogma
Unlike his breakthrough Clerks, Kevin Smith’s 1999 Dogma actually has a plot, and a good thing, too. Because…
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Maps & Atlases
This mathy Chicago quartet released their second album on Barsuk Records, the intricate and hypnotic Beware and Be…
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Patrick Watson
The Québécois Polaris Prize winning band is touring in support of their adventurous fourth studio album, Adventures in…
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Japandroids
The rackety British Columbian duo of Brian King and David Prowse is back with their second LP of…
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Bonnie Prince Billy
It’s worth remembering that as somber and affecting as the best of Will Oldham’s songs as Bonnie Prince…
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Seattle International Film Festival
You’ll find two main varieties of SIFFgoers at the Seattle International Film Festival, now in its 38th year.…
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PNB Encore Program
Pacific Northwest Ballet’s season-ending encore program is always a fun evening, made up of exciting bits and pieces…
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Stalley
The occasionally promising Ohio rapper brings his enjoyable singles and Maybach Music clout to town. Get there early…
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Dia Frampton
Fans of The Voice will remember this charming 20-something from the show’s first season; she took second place…
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Coppélia
The danger in promoting a ballet as “family-friendly” is that a chunk of your potential audience will write…
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Hide/Seek
Hide/Seek is a gay-centric group show organized by the Smithsonian, now on its West Coast tour. The rainbow…
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Seattle International Dance Festival
Next time I go on vacation, I want Cyrus Khambatta to pack my bags—every year he’s produced the…
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The Observers
Jacqueline Goss is an experimental filmmaker whose shorts employ free-ranging associations, 2-D digital graphics, and apposite tidbits to…
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Red River
Red River (1948) is a frontier epic, the sweeping tale of a journey that can’t be made and…
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Fresh Espresso
You know there’s something wrong with the hype machine when an album as brilliant as FE’s debut Glamour…