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Annie Get Your Gun
The many joys of Annie Get Your Gun, the 1946 musical that proved to be Irving Berlin’s most…
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New Year’s at Joe’s
There are intimidating dive bars that hipsters dare to infiltrate, and then there’s Joe’s Bar & Grill, where…
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Beasley’s Christmas Party
In this charming and deeply un-cynical adaptation (by C.W. Munger) of a 1909 novel by Booth Tarkington, Mr.…
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Heavy T & The Blue Notes
At the core of HT&TBN is bearded howler Tom “Heavy T” Bukowski and his bass-playing son, Augie. The…
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Treasure Fingers
This year, electronic festival throwers Decibel and monthly dance partiers Trashed are teaming up to throw a two…
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Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises
The most visceral and startling Seattle museum show this fall occupies the big basement gallery at the the…
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Seattle as Collector: Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs Turns 40
Set down on SAM’s lobby level (the Forum Gallery), this four-decade survey of city-owned art makes for excellent…
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Word Play
Text, typography, words, and alphabets–they’re not just the province of the writer. In this selection from the city’s…
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Reverend Horton Heat
Texas’s corn-fed rockabilly punk has always segued neatly between the bright clang of classic rock and the warm…
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It’s a Wonderful Life
Times are tough in Frank Capra’s 1946 It’s a Wonderful Life. Banks are failing. People are losing their…
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Woody Allen and His New Orleans Jazz Band
At the Carlyle Hotel in New York City, where clarinetist Woody Allen has played for years with his…
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My Goodness
It should be no spoiler to say that My Goodness will impress with their bulky blues-punk; they’ve been…
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Talcum
If you’re a Christmas orphan, or just looking to ditch the family after dark and blow off some…
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Black Nativity
Mention Langston Hughes, and most people place the author in the Harlem Renaissance, but he wrote one of…
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Seahawks vs. 49ers
Jim Harbaugh is arrogant, runs up scores, gives hyper-annoying locker room speeches, and gloats after games. He probably…
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Ham for the Holidays
Critics like to make a show of caviling whenever a satirist’s targets are “too broad” or “too easy”—but…
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A Christmas Carol
With two big new biographies just published on Charles Dickens, one wonders how ACT’s annual holiday staple, A…
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Country Lips
Many, many years before the likes of Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, and Blake Shelton donned 10-gallon hats and…
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Full Toilet
Don Sheets, the man behind grime-punk group Full Toilet, is a peddler of super-short songs (think The Minutemen…
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Crocodile Holiday Party
The holidays can be a slow time of year for venues that usually host touring bands—no one wants…