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Big Trouble in Little China
John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China (1986) is an enjoyable mash-up of classic Westerns, Saturday-morning serials, and…
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14/48 Theater Festival
The whole point to the annual 14/48 Theater Festival, in which 14 new 10-minutes plays are created over…
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The Straight Story
A G-rated Disney film, and yet it’s still a genuine David Lynch movie. He brings his often mesmerizing,…
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Hot New Sounds From Oly
The dream of the ‘90s is also alive in Olympia, where, of course, it never really left. It’s…
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Dick Dale
It’s been nearly 20 years since Pulp Fiction catapulted Dick Dale back into public consciousness, and over a…
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Dual Nature
This small collection of glass and jewelry objects includes work from Eunsuh Choi, Ron Ho, Masami Koda, Vina…
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Uhh Yeah Dude
Just as some veteran comics (e.g., Louis CK, Marc Maron) are discovering the Internet and podcasts, young and…
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Blouse
The Portland trio Blouse—bassist Patrick Adams, breathy vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Charlie Hilton, and producer/multi-instrumentalist Jacob Portrait, who also plays in…
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Bryan John Appleby
As far as scruffy, folky troubadours go, Seattle has pretty much got the market cornered. But while many…
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David Dondero
Singer-songwriter David Dondero is a ramblin’ man, a troubadour, considered by some a modern day Woody Guthrie—an artist…
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Stop Biting
Seattle’s well-loved beats and breakdancing weekly hosts NYC’s Blind Prophet and local Ill Cosby, two producers bound to…
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Office Space
Before the BBC’s The Office, or NBC’s version with Steve Carell, there was Office Space, Mike Judge’s 1999…
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Hot Club of Cowtown
This Austin, Tex. trio makes fiddle-fueled western swing fused with ragtime jazz, a toe-tapping, two-stepping style influenced by…
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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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Detective Agency
Detective Agency is a local, mostly female, breezy pop-rock quartet; their songs are innocuous and quietly charming. Tonight…
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Luminous: The Art of Asia
The challenge for the handsomely mounted historical survey show “Luminous: The Art of Asia” is to pep up…
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Tête-à-tête
Laminated menus, like in a point-to-eat sushi joint, are necessary to cope with the 19th-century buffet that is…
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Grayskul
Legendary Seattle duo JFK and Onry Ozzborn are not only some of Seattle’s most thorough rap artists on…
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0SS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
Director Michel Hazanavicius and his star, Jean Dujardin, scored a hit at SIFF ’06 with 0SS 117: Cairo,…
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Body Heat 3
The latest in Classcadia’s series of smart, high-endurance house nights, this month headlined by deep house sophisticate Manik,…