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Guster
While no one will ever mistake Guster for some sort of artfully challenging prog-rock band, they’ve certainly made…
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My Goodness
Im going to go ahead and say that anytime you fuse blues and punk, its going to sound…
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Thirty Seconds to Mars
Heres a fun fact: Next year Jared Leto will turn 40. For those of us who hear his…
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Little Dragon
Gothenberg, Sweden has proved to be an unlikely boon to the international pop music community its the…
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Ron Reagan
You often forget, until he pops up on TV during national election cycles, that Ron Reagan has lived…
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W. Scott Trimble
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A Hummer drives into an art gallery, and all the…
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Chamber Cymbeline
There’s something for every devotee of the Bard in Chamber Cymbeline, though in this seldom-performed late-career effort, the…
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Simone Dinnerstein
For pianist Simone Dinnerstein to choose Bach’s Goldberg Variations for her 2007 debut CD (self-financed, though Telarc issued…
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Kuroneko
Nippo-Gothic horror fables have a long tradition of proto-feminist outragethe metaphysical issue of the genre almost always revolves…
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Mystery Train
Jim Jarmusch’s 1989 comedy, set in and around an old fleabag hotel in Memphis, is a treat for…
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Heidi Durrow
The literary world is no longer run by dead white men, which is fitting, because the good ol’…
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In the Solitude of Cotton Fields
Young Polish director Radosław Rychcik adapts a French play by Bernard-Marie Koltès, In the Solitude of Cotton Fields,…
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Sunrise
F.W. Murnaus beautifully photographed 1927 melodrama Sunrise is one of the last great silents made in Hollywood, but…
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Micmacs
An exploded grandfather clock of a movie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s intricately antic 2010 Micmacs hurls gears, gizmos, and other…
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Outsourced
A SIFF favorite from 2007, Outsourced has all the charm and color of its made-in-India locations, yet its…
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Andy Kindler
Standup comedian Andy Kindler feels he’s really hit a groove with his gig as a correspondent for the…
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Shadows, Raincoats & Monsters
The inaugural show for Olivier Wevers’ Whim WHim company at On the Boards last year created a big…
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Slither
A pitch-perfect work of B-grade zombie-flick schlock, the 2006 Slither is way more enjoyable than it should be,…
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Seahawks vs. Saints
At this point in the Seahawks season, really, whats the point in feeling shame? Thanks to a stingy…