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Alexandra Fuller
In Fullers dramatic new memoir, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness (Penguin, $25.95), we learn all about…
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Brokaw
Wishing you could time travel back to early-90s Chicago and relive Touch & Gos glory days, where all…
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Thievery Corporation
The soundtrack to 2004 Zach Braff indie-flick Garden State is easily one of the best of the last…
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Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story
Before there was indie rock (or MP3s or iTunes or the Internet), there was college rockway back in…
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The Soft Skin
From 1964, François Truffaut’s fourth feature has never gotten much respecteven though many people (myself included) regard it…
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Beauty & Bounty
The loop through Beauty & Bounty (subtitled “American Art in an Age of Exploration”) is essentially chronological, a…
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Ke$ha
In an interview earlier this summer, Rihanna boasted that women are dominating pop music, rattling off a handful…
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NEPO 5K Don’t Run
You’ve got four hours to cover 3.1 miles in the NEPO 5K Don’t Run art walk, which then…
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7:30pm
The stereotype of tango includes a couple dressed all in black, slinking across the floor to Hernados Hideaway,…
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Handsome Furs
At Capitol Hill Block Party this year, Handsome Furs keyboardist Alexei Perry played like there was an electric…
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The Antlers
The last time the Antlers played Seattle, it was May of last year and they sold out Neumospartly…
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LaRue
Over the past half-decade, the Orlando-by-way-of-Seattle lyricist LaRue has put the wealth of his varied life experience down…
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Went the Day Well?
Forty years before Red Dawn–due for a remake later this year, BTW–there was the World War II thriller…
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Don’t Talk to the Cops!
Witch Gardens’ anti-fi jean-short fun will be finely complimented by the break-happy hippity-hop of Mash Hall relatives Don’t…
Music
Branford Marsalis: The Problem With Jazz
The saxophonist says the genre needs to get out of its rut of virtuosic self-indulgence.
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Fall Arts 2011 Calendar
SEPTEMBER 15 Jacob McMurray Linked to the ongoing EMP show, he’ll discuss his music history Taking Punk to…
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Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift is an inspiration to gangly girls everywhereyou may be a head taller than all the boys…
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Slaid Cleaves
When your given name is Richard Slaid Cleaves and you cleave the Richard from it, you basically have…
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Fleet Foxes
For the biggest name in Seattle music, theres no such thing as a sophomore slumpthe exquisite Helplessness Blues…
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Bumbershoot
Founded in 1971, the granddaddy of all Northwest festivals boasts over a dozen stages and hundreds of performances,…