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Clarence Acox & The Legacy Quartet
Clarence Acox is one of the city’s biggest stewards of jazz, having imbued generations of Seattle families with,…
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The 40-Year-Old Virgin
The smart, kindly 2005 comedy from Judd Apatow and co-writer/star Steve Carell towers above most contenders, because the…
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Plaid
Few genre tags are as divisive—or as grudgingly necessary–as IDM. “Intelligent dance music”—as codified on Warp Records’ landmark…
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Double Indemnity
Based more on James M. Cain’s original crime novel of the 1930s than the famous 1944 Billy Wilder…
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tUnE-yArDs
If only more rockers could have the proverbial balls of tUnE-yArDs Merrill Garbus. Her set is so massive…
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Circle Mirror Transformation
Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation, under Andrea Allen’s sensitive direction, delivers dozens of gentle, pleasingly human moments via…
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An Evening With Warren Miller
At the age of 86, Warren Miller is long retired from the company he sold, which still produces…
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Newyorkland
The conventional assumption is that live theater is an immediate, in-your-face experience, while film and television are mediated…
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Diary of a Country Priest
Tormented by suspicious parishioners and his own spiritual anguish, the young cleric (Claude Laydu) in Robert Bresson’s 1951…
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WU LYF
Manchester, England’s WU LYF is not a Wu Tang Clan tribute but a garage rock band of four…
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LINES Ballet
Alonzo King’s San Francisco-based LINES Ballet has a name that shortchanges its work. King’s choreography displays mind-blowing feats…
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Rainn Wilson and Friends
The Office is managing to survive without Steve Carell; the same might not be true if NBC lost…
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Fruit Bats
Eric Johnson has been making country-tinged folk-pop as Fruit Bats since 1997, but it took him until 2011…
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…Like There’s No Tomorrow
Serviceable snow porn, this episodic annual highlight reel has moved well beyond the folksiness of the wry, long-retired…
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c.1993 (you never step in the same river twice)
Under the guidance of director Bret Fetzer, using the drug overdose of River Phoenix as its sad springboard,…
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The Clumsy Lovers
It’s often noted that Vancouver, BC country/rock/bluegrass group Clumsy Lovers is a road band, a fact their website…
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Earl Brooks
For every Seattle band that hits the big time, an incalculable number continue to labor on the scene…
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Big Sean
Most rap albums contain a certain plea for the listener to buy into the artist’s personality, based upon…
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The Drifting States of Denis Cote
Canadian director Denis Côté has an interest in individuals with “one foot outside of society,” he says, evident…
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Fox and the Law
On their self-titled EP, Fox and the Law demonstrate two distinct facets of their sound, moving from bare-bones…