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Active Child
Pat Grossi began his career as a vocalist at age 9, when he joined the Philadelphia Boys Choir…
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Duran Duran
Dripping in eye makeup, synthesizers, and perfectly frosted hair, Duran Duran personified ’80s pastel excess. Girls from age…
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James McMurtry
What’s weirder: That Americana stalwart James McMurtry (son of Larry) is playing a Thursday night gig on Bainbridge,…
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World on a Wire
There are movies that make news and movies that are news. World on a Wire is one of…
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Loathed upon its first appearance as a violent, hope-deprived neo-noir that even the Nixon era couldn’t handle, the…
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Ken Jennings
Welcome to the world of Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks (Scribner, $25), in which…
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Junior Boys
The Ontarian electropop duo Junior Boys released their fourth album, Its All True, in June, and it doesnt…
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Julie Salamon
Wendy Wassersteinwho won a 1989 Tony and Pulitzer for The Heidi Chroniclesdied of lymphoma at age 55 in…
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Nick Jaina
To say that singer-songwriter Nick Jaina is blessed with an articulate, angelic voice is a criminal understatement (as…
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Cultural Confluence: Urban People of Asian and Native American Heritages
A mash-up and then some, the highly eclectic group show Cultural Confluence ranges from kung fu videos to…
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Blue Scholars
Seattle hip hop standard bearers Blue Scholars released their latest album, this years Cinemetropolis, to mixed reviews. One…
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Gimme Shelter
There’s a moment in Gimme Shelter, David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin’s documentary of the Rolling Stones’…
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White Orange
When White Orange bassist Adam Pike sent me an advance of his bands self-titled full-length a few months…
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La La Vasquez
La La Vasquez, the former TRL and Flavor of Love hostess and co-star of You Got Served, is…
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Low
How you feel about long-running Duluth, Minnesota trio Low in 2011 might largely depend on what drew you…
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Bush
In early 90s England, the British intelligence agency MI6 undertook two related but very different experiments in cultural…
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Ciders Gone Wild
If Washington State grows the best apples on the planet, as we claim, theres no reason we shouldnt…
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Iraq 2003-2006
IRAQ 2003 22nd to die • March 23, 2003 Marine Cpl. Randal Kent Rosacker, 21, of San Diego, son…
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Def Leppard & Heart
What has seven arms and sucks? Heart, if the Wilson sisters collectively boasted three additional arms. Grating as…
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Trainspotting
Mark Renton, the most articulate, self-aware buddy in an Edinburgh clique of ne’er-do-wells and heroin addicts, is the…