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Mark McGuire
Unlike Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. (who you’ll find elsewhere in this week’s listings), or Com Truise, or Hype…
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Bill Cunningham New York
No passion for fashion is required to enjoy this absorbing portrait of legendary New York Times “On the…
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Buck
The documentary Buck follows itinerant horse trainer Buck Brannaman as he applies his uniquely humane and frankly astounding…
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Fitz & The Tantrums
“Do you have soul?” “That all depends…” Seattle is certainly in step with America’s renewed appetite for the…
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Pangea
The LA garage-punk quartet Pangea creates the sort of sloppy and squalling rock tunes that fans of Wavves…
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Thomas Frank
Though he lives near the Beltway, What’s the Matter With Kansas? author Thomas Frank is more than passingly…
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Dirk Powell Band
Multi-instrumentalist Dirk Powell is folk royalty in most mountain music circles, and his pedigree runs deep. Since learning…
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House of Bamboo
Samuel Fuller’s 1955 House of Bamboo is no one’s idea of a classic: a wide-screen, luridly Technicolor tale…
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The Ferry System Makes Loogies a Misdemeanor
And other weird ways you can be arrested while riding on the Sound.
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In Dreams: The Films of David Lynch
Can it really be that David Lynch has stopped making movies? That’s the unhappy thought occasioned by this…
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Youth Lagoon
Idaho’s Youth Lagoon, which is the nom de plume of 22-year-old Trevor Powers, was birthed in the winter…
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Mulholland Dr.
This 2001 feature signaled a bracing, entertaining return to form for David Lynch. In big, bad Hollywood, cartoonishly…
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Cléo From 5 to 7
In Agnés Varda’s 1962 take on the New Wave’s girl-in-Paris scenario, the imperially named Cléopatre Victoire (Corinne Marchand)…
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Wolves in the Throne Room
North American black metal has been gathering steam for some years now, with in-depth profiles in The Believer,…
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Blue Velvet
On the innocuous surface of David Lynch’s unforgettably freaky 1986 Blue Velvet are Laura Dern and Kyle MacLachlan…
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West Side Story
Perhaps it’s heresy to say it, but the last thing I expected to work in the 2009 Broadway…
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Allen Stone & Seattle Rock Orchestra
Local soul-singer Allen Stone is a rare talent in the sense that his voice is as pristine and…
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Fu Manchu
It has been said that Fu Manchu has only one song, that ditty being an anthemic, humorously distorted,…
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Eraserhead
Even more than Blue Velvet, upon first viewing it in the ’80s on VHS, David Lynch’s non-narrative 1977…
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The Fucking Eagles
This rollicksome Tacoma group is one of the most effective local bands at transcribing fifties-style R&B/dance as guitar-lead…