Arts & Culture
Valentine’s Day at Citrus
Set on Lake Union, Citrus is an ambitious and trendy new establishment bathed in pink and blue lights—imagine…
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Valentine’s Day at Twist
Twist is stylish without taking itself too seriously. The Belltown bar is decorated in purple and black, with…
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Harold and Maude
Hal Ashby’s 1972 countercultural touchstone may now seem somewhat adrift, since that dominant, Nixon-era culture has disappeared. Suicidal…
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Love Equally
Let’s face it: it’s Tuesday (barf), and it’s Valentine’s Day (double barf), so you’re going to want to…
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Dr. Dog
For music fans looking for a Valentine’s night out, there isn’t a better option than checking out Philadelphia’s…
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Valentine’s Day at the Capitol Club
Adorned with velvet curtains, satin throw pillows, and candles, the Capitol Club exudes a casual yet sexy Mediterranean…
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Smokestack Arias
Seattle composer Wayne Horvitz’s latest musical tribute to America’s labor movement of relates the 1916 Everett Massacre in…
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Chop Shop: Bodies of Work
Spectrum Dance Theater’s Donald Byrd doesn’t perform very often any more, but when he does, he still brings…
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Don Quixote
Alexei Ratmansky’s new Don Quixote, based on Marius Petipa’s 1869 choreography, debuted two years ago at the Dutch…
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Anthony Bourdain
On his long-running Travel Channel show No Reservations, celebuchef Anthony Bourdain drinks as often as he eats—and maybe…
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10 Things I Hate About You
Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew is reconfigured into the setting of “Padua High” (actually Tacoma’s Stadium High…
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Michael Vermillion
Michael Vermillion got his start with alternative rock band Vendetta Red, but after the group disbanded in 2006,…
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Omar S
Re-Bar—and this Drinking Issue’s alcohol advertisers—would probably prefer I didn’t say this, but let’s be real: the ideal…
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Cold Cave
Turns out gothic synth pop young gods Cold Cave actually have their own wine. It’s a Pinot Noir…
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Spring Arts: Calendar of Events
FEBRUARY Ongoing–March 2 Oklahoma! SEE REVIEW. 5th Avenue Theatre, 5thavenue.org Ongoing–March 4 I Am My Own Wife SEE…
Music
Damien Jurado Makes a Record He Likes
The local songwriter is no longer writing for the critics.
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Eleanor Friedberger
Eleanor Friedberger’s video for “Heaven” starts with a shot of her drinking a glass of red wine on…
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Weekend
“Fin du cinéma”? At the white-hot cresting moment of his epochal first phase, Jean-Luc Godard conjured his 1967…
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Vintage Japantown: Through the Lens of the Takano Studio
Photographer Henry Miyake bought the Takano Studio in 1931, and his portraits are of Japantown’s families, weddings, seasonal…
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Wilco
Wilco, one of America’s great live bands, is currently on the road in support of their adventurous latest…