Arts & Culture
Feist
If anything can be said about Leslie Feist, it’s that she’s gracefully deliberate. In 2007, an iPod commercial…
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Araabmuzik
Tonight is a stacked bill, but its biggest star is the Akai MPC. The “music production center” with…
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KIll Bill Volumes I & II
Quentin Tarantino’s ’70s-saturated martial-arts opus is oddly academic. The cheesy credits and wah-wah-pedal score signal both a debt…
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Mark Yarm
First things first. No, Mark Yarm, author of Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (Crown,…
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Austra
Austra is the Toronto electro-pop trio of bassist Dorian Wolf, drummer Maya Postepski, and the icy blonde vocalist…
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Chali 2na
The Verbal Herman Munster, former rhyme-lending member of noteworthy Los Angeles acts Jurassic 5 and Ozomatli, Chali 2na…
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M83
M83’s long, rewarding journey from blippy electronica to imaginary film scores to full-on ‘80s synth-pop splendor reaches some…
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Love Stories
The original choreography for Debussy’s Afternoon of a Faun was a major scandal when it premiered in 1912.…
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Memorial for Benny Hills & Benefit for Seattle Drum School
Ben Hills was a Seattle drummer, Comet Tavern bouncer, and much loved Capitol Hill personality when he died…
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Youth of Today
To be mentioned in a Hold Steady song, a band must have a certain amount of relevance to…
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Appropriate for Seattle Shakes’ fall production, Sheila Daniels sets this love-smacked summer comedy in a decidedly creepy autumnal…
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Hey Marseilles
The title track from “Elegy,” the new 7-inch by Seattle’s orchestral, Mediterranean-tinged songsters Hey Marseilles begins with a…
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Ghosts I’ve Met
Just as Sparklehorse was the late Mark Linkous and a rotating cast of players, Ghosts I’ve Met is…
Film
You Are All Captains: Filmmaking on the Fly in Morocco
Early in You All Are Captains, director Oliver Laxe—playing a version of “himself,” a Spaniard teaching a filmmaking…
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Trip Fantastic #1 Release Party
Jason Baxter is one-half of the local electronic duo USF, Hardly Art’s newest publicist, and now a published…
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David Shields
Jonathan Raban may be the city’s most esteemed author, and Garth Stein its most commercially successful, but David…
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Adam Mansbach & Ricardo Cortés
“The eagles who soar through the sky are at rest/And the creatures who crawl, run, and creep/I know…
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Le Rayon Vert
Eric Rohmer’s 1986 masterpiece Le Rayon Vert (aka The Green Ray) delivers an absorbing, empathic portrait of a…
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Lights
Valerie “Lights” Poxleitner is a diminutive young Canadian whose girly voice was meant to be layered over lush…
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Mark and Michael Klebeck
Since local donu-preneurs Mark and Michael Klebeck have authored Top Pot Hand-Forged Doughnuts: Secrets and Recipes for the…