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Jules and Jim
A rocking chair has a rhythm of its own; so does Jules and Jim. Now 50 years old,…
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Hari Kunzru
I hate writers who miss deadlines. So, at 204 pages (of 369) in Hari Kunzru’s latest novel, I…
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Ben Ryder Howe
Not many memoirs of the Manhattan lit life include George Plimpton as a major character. Yet Ben Ryder…
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Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
Underrated by other critics because they haven’t had as many bicycles stolen as I have, Tim Burton’s 1985…
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Pygmalion
In this Seattle Shakespeare Company production, director Jeff Steitzer readily accepts that Pygmalion has its own Hollywood baggage:…
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Judas Queen
Freddy Mercury and Rob Halford totally fucking rock. They also are (were, in Mercury’s case) totally fucking gay.…
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Islands
After spending most of last year playing with the stomping, “doom-wop,” Sub Pop-signed indie supergroup Mister Heavenly, the…
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Revenge of the Electric Car
I couldn’t get my parents to watch Who Killed the Electric Car, Chris Paine’s indictment of the forces…
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Ladysmith Black Mambazo is probably the most popular a cappella group on the planet. Their inclusion on Paul…
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Orphee et Eurydice
Seattle Opera’s production of Gluck’s 1762 opera (in the French rewrite of 1774) is uncluttered but telling and…
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HERE/NOW
As a motto, HERE/NOW sounds like an admonition from Ram Dass, but as the title of this ongoing…
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I Am My Own Wife
The transvestite at Doug Wright’s Pulitzer winner—who somehow survived both Hitler’s Third Reich and the postwar purges of…
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Woody Guthrie Project
The unfinished lyrical canon of American folk singer Woody Guthrie is so vast—it contains over 3000 handwritten lyrics—and…
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Rushmore
If Jean-Luc Godard and Takeshi Kitano had collaborated on Revenge of the Nerds, they might have produced something…
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Fresh Espresso
Back in December, local laser-eyed hip hop crew Fresh Espresso were set to ring in the new year…
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Blake Shelton & Dia Frampton
Blake Shelton is one of the biggest names in mainstream country right now, but I know little about…
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Trus’Me
Now on its third month, Decibel Festival’s monthly night at Re-Bar still has no name other than the…
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SXSW Send Off
When one thinks of Seattle stereotypes, cheery, uptempo, electro-pop generally isn’t the first thing to come to mind.…
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Thelma Schoonmaker
So what if she didn’t win the Oscar for editing Martin Scorsese’s Hugo? Thelma Schoonmaker already has three…