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Brandon Flowers

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Brandon Flowers

Love him or hate him, give credit where credit is due – when the rest of The Killers…

Jeffrey Palladini

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Jeffrey Palladini

From Chicago, Palladini’s show Subtraction includes a lot of women averting their eyes, shoulders hunched defensively, sometimes seeking…

Shay Culligan

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Shay Culligan

The Boston artist bases serigraphs on his own photographs of street scenes, architectural details, and political protest in…

bowl of water

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bowl of water

In their elaborate but subdued multimedia installation, Susan Gans, Kim Schnuelle, David Traylor, and Stu Witmer take as…

Susan Bennerstrom & Evelyn Woods

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Susan Bennerstrom & Evelyn Woods

Bennerstrom’s oils of houses, hallways, and empty beds suggest Edward Hopper. But, even though emptied of people, they…

12 Designers on Writing

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12 Designers on Writing

As part of the bilocal cultural exchange series between Seattle and New Orleans (see related events at Town…

La Dolce Vita

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La Dolce Vita

The sensation of 1960 and most notorious of Fellini films—evocation of jet-set decadence, source of the term “paparazzi”—has…

Julie Alpert

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Julie Alpert

There’s an everyday charm to these small urban watercolors, created from impressions Alpert made while roaming Capitol Hill,…

Brutal Beauty: Tales of the Rose City Rollers

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Brutal Beauty: Tales of the Rose City Rollers

In this ode to girl power, Chip Mabry delves into the world of Portland’s all-girl roller derby league,…

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Terry Gilliam’s 1998 Fear conveys perfectly what it feels like to come down from a hit of bad…

Richard LeMieux

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Richard LeMieux

Breakfast at Sally’s was written on a cast-off manual typewriter while the author was living in his van.…

Wintervention

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Wintervention

The 61st-annual Warren Miller ski movie isn’t afraid of an old pun. Skiers are addicted to skiing, so…

Louis CK

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Louis CK

After two decades of showbiz acclaim, Louis CK occupies a comedy sweet spot. Or maybe it’s a treacherous…

Roman Polanski: Shorts

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Roman Polanski: Shorts

Something of a tarnished brand, what with his Oscar and child-rapist-fleeing-from-justice status, Roman Polanski wasn’t always so notorious.…

Holy CowHolga plastice camera photographEastern Washington State, 1997Michelle R. Bates

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Michelle Bates

Manufactured in China as cheap plastic knock-offs of conventional SLRs, Holga and Diana cameras are defiantly primitive, explains…

bilocal

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bilocal

Both port cities, New Orleans and Seattle are otherwise far different in temperament: humid, friendly, and boozy versus…

Dancing at Lughnasa

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Dancing at Lughnasa

A heartsick narrator recalls a summer in the Irish countryside in 1936, when he was just seven, when…

Generationals

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Generationals

The New Orleans trio Generationals – songwriters Ted Joyner and Grant Widner plus drummer Tess Brunet – released…

Johnny Flynn

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Johnny Flynn

It almost sounds cliché to say, but an artist’s sophomore LP is quite often an indication of whether…

Laura Veirs & The Hall of Flames

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Laura Veirs & The Hall of Flames

Ten months on, the glow of Laura Veirs’ sumptuous July Flame still hasn’t sputtered: even though the album…