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Amy Waldeman
As the saying goes, funerals are for the living. A corollary: Memorials are for politicians and the special-interest…
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Kasey Anderson & The Honkies
Anderson’s gravel-coated voice and alt-country heartland sounds draw comparisons to Ryan Adams and Bruce Springsteen; he’ll sound even…
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Science Fiction Film Festival
Paul Allen’s ongoing film festival features titles like 2001: A Space Odyssey, the original 1953 The War of…
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Planet of the Apes
“Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!” Need we say more about our favorite post-apocalyptic…
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Lambchop
Nashville, TN in 1986 was a far cry from the Southern-fried version of Portland it currently is, and…
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Overkill
The Big Four of thrash metal—Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax—should really be the Big Five. New Jersey’s Overkill…
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The National Film Festival for Talented Youth
Though it draws entries from all over the U.S. and abroad, The National Film Festival for Talented Youth…
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Gauguin & Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise
Over a century after his death, the tropical hues and fecund shock of Gauguin’s famous canvasses have been…
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Craig Ferguson
If you stay awake long enough to catch The Late Late Show (12:30 a.m. on CBS) you’ll know…
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Freud’s Last Session
It’s September, 1939. England has just declared war on Germany. Inside Sigmund Freud’s London refuge (nicely dressed by…
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Army of Darkness
Before Sam Raimi started the Spider-Man franchise, before Peter Jackson’s LOTR trilogy, there were the marching skeletons and…
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The Bushwick Book Club
Beacon Hill musician Geoff Curtiss Larson visited a nightclub in Bushwick, Brooklyn (during a temporary 2009 move to…
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Willie Nelson Tribute Night
Hey, did you hear? Willie’s playing the Puyallup Fair on September 7. I know, I know, the man…
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Stephen Tow
Pennsylvania history professor Stephen Tow is a fanboy—not of anime, not of comic books, but of us. As…
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David Rees
It goes without saying that How to Sharpen Pencils (Melville House, $19.95) is a put-on, given the book’s…
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Hotels
Seattle surf-rockers celebrate the release of their Cinemascope I EP with New Wave electro-dance outfit Noddy and echoey…
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Looking Into Light
What’s the primary cause of homelessness? Poverty, obviously, but financial catastrophes often result from health crises. You don’t…
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Kowalski
These five rockers hailing from Bellingham are ready to show Seattle they can rock just as hard as…
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Demon Hunter
In support of their newly released album, True Defiance, Seattle natives Demon Hunter hit the stage tonight with…