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Seattle Jewish Film Festival
The challenge for the Seattle Jewish Film Festival, now in its 16th year, is always the same: Hammer…
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Raising Arizona
Poor, dumb Texas jailbird Nicolas Cage is just too weak, or too love-struck, to resist the maternal edicts…
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David Laskin
Americas tiny armed forces were a joke before its belated entry into World War I. A draft was…
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Ted Hiebert
What’s your spirit animal? Judging from his use of an old wolf pelt (PETA members stay away), you…
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All My Sons
Aside from transplanting All My Sons to Seattles Central District and transposing Arthur Millers modern tragedy from a…
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Grant Achatz
People can (and do) say a lot of things about chef Grant Achatz and his Chicago restaurant Alinea.…
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Moisture Festival
After seven years, you know the drill. The annual spring Moisture Festival comes in two flavors: matinees are…
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Billy Elliot the Musical
A motherless boy trapped in impoverished County Durham gives up boxing and, against all odds and his miner…
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Contemporary 4
My dictionary only has three definitions of contemporary, but Pacific Northwest Ballet has four in its Contemporary 4…
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Neil Strauss
Neil Strauss was once a well-respected and even influential music writer for The New York Times. Then he…
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Hardball
In this story of one Ann Coulteresque heroines ascent from faceless news reporter to neocon pinup, playwright Victoria…
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Uta Barth
The German-born, L.A.-based photographer excises everyday objects from their quotidian, household environments. A vase of flowers sits on…
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Alden Mason
This small but impressive collection of paintings spans most of the renowned 92-year-old Northwest artist’s career. Mason, born…
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The Velvet Teen
How did the Velvet Teen never become one of the biggest bands in indie rock? They were in…
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Junkie XL
In another universe, Neumos could have easily been named something elseand for one night, it essentially will be.…
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Tera Melos
The Sacramento three-piece Tera Melos plays that precarious game of trying to balance wildly complicated instrumentals topped with…
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Simian Mobile Disco
Simian Mobile Disco are an electronic duo that sprang from an indie rock group (Simian, the mobile disco…
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AZ
Potentially the most underrated rapper of all time, AZ never achieved the same fame or fortune as his…
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Onra
French producer Onra and Seattle collective SunTzu Sound start with similar musical sources, but where they go from…
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Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Show
As a living example of pre-Internet indie rock success, the Elephant 6 Collective has come to represent that…