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Midday Veil
It’s been a year since the self-described spiritual and psychedelic Midday Veil released their blissed-out, meditative debut full-length…
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Mico de Noche
To the dismay of many, Mico de Noche dropped off the scene not long after unleashing an unbelievably…
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Suzanne Tidwell
While the city debates new zoning for troubled Pioneer Square and free Wi-Fi is added, with vacant storefronts…
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The Bride Wore Black
Though Jeanne Moreau is top-billed in The Bride Wore Black (1968), it takes a good 15 minutes to…
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Paula Becker and Alan J. Stein
The Space Needle, Elvis, the Monorail, the Bubbleator at the Food Circus … there was even a nightclub…
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Flooding With Love for the Kid
Zachary Oberzan’s Flooding is inevitably at one with its concept—to remake First Blood (or, more accurately, adapt David…
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Scott Kelly
The Tractor might not be where you’d expect to find a member of heavy drone gods Neurosis doing…
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Casablanca
We all know the story of this 1942 Michael Curtiz perennial: a classic love triangle set against the…
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Joshua Roman
No one knows exactly when or for whom J.S. Bach wrote his six suites for solo cello, but…
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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Ah, yes, the yuletide season brings us Pia Zadora the way she was always meant to be—stilted, seventh-billed,…
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Neal Fryett
Shop-window galleries generally don’t work for me. There needs to be one big, prominent work to stop a…
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Visqueen
It’s been three years since Visqueen released a new album, 2009’s Message to Garcia, and now they’re making…
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Ghostbusters
Who you gonna call? I think we all know the answer: the top-grossing film of 1984, Ghostbusters! Bill…
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Andrew Witkin
“We all have our tchotchkes,” explained Massachusetts artist Andrew Witkin at the recent opening of his somewhat abstruse…
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Unstuffed
Black Friday is a day best known for leftovers and discount shopping, but this year, it also will…
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Wale & Friends
Today’s often narrow-minded mainstream rap production is offset by the uncommonly rich instrumentals Washington D.C. rapper Wale (pronounced…
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Slow Dance
There are two bands called Slow Dance, and they could hardly be more different. One is an indie-pop…
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Marc Maron
In a career lately revived by his popular WTF With Marc Maron podcasts (and Twitter, which he uses…
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Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Steve Martin stars with the late John Candy in this warm, sentimental 1987 holiday road movie by John…
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M. Women
M. Women—the rock trio of guitarist Andrew McKibben, bassist Schanen Ryan, and drummer Carrie Schaff—recently returned from a…