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Mike Watt & The Missingmen
For the last several years, Mike Watt has done everything from serve as bassist for the reformed Iggy…
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Portugal. The Man
Portugal. The Mans come a long way since the days when they used to hang around Seattle with…
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Psycho
If you watched the arm amputation in 127 Hours through your fingers last year, while your friends simply…
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tUnE-YaRdS
There’s a fine line between being eccentrically wacky and downright fucking annoying. If the capitalization of tUne-yArDs’ name…
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Vultures 2012
The Columbia City Theater is hands-down one of the citys most aesthetically pleasing venues, all scarlet hues and…
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Neil Simons 1971 hit play–about a man who in swift succession loses his job, his cool, his identity,…
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Charlie Sheen
Avoiding Charlie Sheen is impossible these days. Since the highest-paid television actor was fired from Two and a…
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Isaac Marion
A good friend of mine, Isaac Marion, just published his first novel, and now I am going to…
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On the Bowery
In a very real sense the ultimate New York movie, Lionel Rogosin’s 1957 On the Bowery is cinema-as-bog-body,…
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Royal Wedding Viewing Party
Its no wonder that everyonemeaning meis is fascinated by Prince William and Kate Middletons pending nuptials. Hes a…
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Now & Then
Since 1982, one of the enduring small pleasures to opening The Seattle Times on Sunday has been Paul…
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Tomb
This eerie, immersive installation is a three-way collaboration between the street artists known as no touching ground (ntg)…
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Yuck
Yuck is a multi-national band–its four young members hail from London, Japan, and New Jersey–but for all their…
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Wax
After a cursory web search, it might seem that not only can Maryland-born, SoCal-residing rapper Wax freestylethats about…
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Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart is what Mick Jagger would have been had he not had Keith Richards there to call…
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Eddie Spaghetti
Eddie Spaghetti, of Supersuckers (semi-)fame, has never been known for making the most melodic music. You wouldn’t want…
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Matt Sellars
The local artist spent several months during 2009 obsessively collecting and sketching the trash he found on a…
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Time Bandits
Ardently pro-imagination and pro-childhood, writer-director Terry Gilliam’s second solo feature (1981) makes the viewer wish he could dream…
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Kurt Vile and The Violators
Kurt Vile’s latest album, last month’s Smoke Ring For My Halo, is his most subdued record to date;…
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Twin Shadow
Tourmates Twin Shadow and the Pains of Being Pure at Heart both look to the 1980s for sonic…