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Clare Johnson
The English writer and artist Clare Johnson has an obsession that measures three inches square, usually canary yellow.…
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A Woman Under the Influence/Husbands
The late Peter Falk (1927-2011) made a successful Hollywood career out of being underestimated. Columbo cemented him as…
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Chad VanGaalen
It’s somehow fitting that a month full of ghosts and ghouls finds Calgary’s Chad Vangaalen coming to town.…
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Nick Lowe
Like Patti Smith, Nick Lowe was only ever punk by association. Though he served as the rough-and-dirty in-house…
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Matt Badger & His Flock of Knives
As the drummer for Ravenna Woods, Matt Badger is usually tucked in the back of the stage, partly…
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The Champions Cup
Substitute Advil for steroids, and the Champions Cup is something like professional wrestling. They might talk a little…
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The Wolf Man
Released the very same week as Pearl Harbor, The Wolf Man (1941) has an American innocent become embroiled…
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Blackie
When seasoned Seattle guitarist Gary Westlake asked super-vixen vocalist Dejha Colantuono (the pipes behind Ragazza and Rotten Apples)…
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Battles
Battles are one of those too-rare bands that are as dazzling to watch as they are to listen…
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The African Queen
In The African Queen, you get Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, their little boat, and a very hokeybut very…
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The Drums
After releasing popular self-titled debut last year and riding the hype wave of their ultra-peppy single, Lets Go…
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Gardens & Villa
Santa Barbaras flute-tooting indie-pop quintet Gardens & Villa is still touring in support of their spacey, freewheeling self-titled…
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Ernest Cline
Ernest Cline has earned a living in lots of different ways. He donated plasma, gutted fish, worked as…
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Chromeo
Two shameless revivalistsChromeo of 80s electro boogie, synth pop, and Hall & Oates-styled R&B; opener Mayer Hawthorne of…
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Mary Stuart
What if Hillary had duked it out against Sarah in 2008, instead of facing Barack? In 1800, Friedrich…
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Michael Cooper
As the Bay Area sculptor Michael Cooper explains in a companion video, he’s a near-exact contemporary of George…
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Heaven & Earth III
CoCA’s third Carkeek Park exhibit, subtitled “Cycles of Return,” scatters nearly two dozen sculptural installations among the greenery.…
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Isabel Wilkerson
Because we never grew cotton in this state, because we were admitted to the union 27 years after…
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Dum Dum Girls
Only In Dreams, the Dum Dum Girls’ follow-up to their fizzy firecracker of a debut, last year’I Will…
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’80s Video Dance Attack
If the fashion and pop music of today indicate anything, it is that the ’80s are back in…