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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Vital link between Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows and Todd Haynes’s Far From Heaven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s…

Noir City

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Noir City

Visiting film scholar Eddie Muller will introduce every evening double feature in SIFF’s Noir City series. First up…

Rodney Crowell

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Rodney Crowell

Rodney Crowell has lived a Nashville dream life. He was a member of Emmylou Harris’ Hot Band in…

Michael Feinstein and The Sinatra Project

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Michael Feinstein and The Sinatra Project

If it weren’t for those nettlesome public-health laws, the Benny would be filled tonight with cigarette smoke, bourbon…

Pamela Madsen

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Pamela Madsen

Blogger Pamela Madsen shares a lot—perhaps overshares—in the title of her new memoir, Shameless: How I Ditched the…

The Lowdown

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The Lowdown

The Lowdown is all about the mash-up—a dance party masquerading as a dance performance, with multiple styles recombined…

Chop Shop

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Chop Shop

Eva Stone admits to being obsessed with modern dance, and the artist roster for her Chop Shop programs…

Sexy Stewardess Girls

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Sam Howe Verhovek

Magnolia writer Sam Howe Verhovek has worked as a correspondent for both The New York Times and Los…

Jurassic Park

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Jurassic Park

The late writer Michael Crichton, who famously tutored President Bush on the fallacy of global warming, was no…

Campfire OK

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Campfire OK

Local collective Campfire OK is one of those beautiful, restless entities that don’t stay in one place for…

Sarah McLachlan

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Sarah McLachlan

Sarah McLachlan might be the most predictable recording artist on the planet. Her ballads—they’re almost always ballads, barely…

Ozzy Osbourne

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Ozzy Osbourne

In a recent interview, Ozzy stated that he and the other members of Black Sabbath, including guitarist Tony…

Bettye LaVette

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Bettye LaVette

“I was singing R&B back in ‘62, before you were born, and your mama too,” Bettye LaVette wailed…

Scribes

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Scribes

When the studio Scribes was recording at was broken into and robbed, everything was gone—including the master versions…

Kool Keith

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Kool Keith

Since surfacing in 1984, Kool Keith has been one to push boundaries. And after retiring his alter ego…

The Tony Williams Tribute Band

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The Tony Williams Tribute Band

Two of the first CDs I ever owned were given to me by my dad when I was…

©peter samuels

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Bassnectar

Bassnectar – the nom de plume of San Francisco DJ and producer Lorin Ashton – is a mysterious…

L'Age d'Or

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L’Age d’Or

Luis Buñuel’s 1930 L’Age d’Or sparked a riot and was banned by the Paris police. The aristocrat producer…

Alien/Aliens

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Alien/Aliens

Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi classic Alien had its world premiere at SIFF. (That’s right, its world premiere! Respect.)…

The Blow

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The Blow

K Records’ Khaela Maricich of The Blow hasn’t released an album of new music since 2006’s whimsical and…