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Airplane!

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Airplane!

“There’s no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you’ll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the…

Joseph Giant

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Joseph Giant

Conor Byrne is truly one of Seattle’s best kept secrets when it comes to discovering promising new local…

Back to the Garden:

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Back to the Garden:

Driving across the Cascades on a 1988 road trip, Ballard filmmaker Kevin Tomlinson discovered a very idealistic enclave.…

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$18-$23

SAM’s fall supershow needs no more fanfare than the First Avenue banners and window-wraps already proclaiming Picasso: Masterpieces…

David Rakoff

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David Rakoff

Just when you think you might nod off from the clichés that smother our media culture, David Rakoff…

Christian Rizzo

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Christian Rizzo

The last time Christian Rizzo was in Seattle, he built a little apartment on stage at On the…

Clay Throwdown!

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Clay Throwdown!

BAM’s first Biennial show features some 30 Northwest artists working in clay, but the medium and its presentation…

Alex Ross

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Alex Ross

Accidentally or by design, modern jazz and rock combos took on the same basic template that baroque composers…

Cunningham in the Northwest

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Cunningham in the Northwest

A native of Centralia, Merce Cunningham started his career at Cornish, where he was a student in the…

Scott Peterson

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Scott Peterson

Raised in South Seattle and educated at Yale, Scott Peterson paid his own way to Africa after college…

Steven Kotler

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Steven Kotler

At 40, Steven Kotler was a jaded L.A. journalist whose philanthropy was limited to once having “had sex…

Ralph Stanley

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Ralph Stanley

Wintergrass may have jumped ship to bourgeois Bellevue, but this show is proof that bluegrass still has a…

Tony Clifton

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Tony Clifton

Andy Kaufman has been dead for 26 years, yet Tony Clifton lives on. The belligerent, pot-bellied lounge entertainer…

It’s a Salon!

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It’s a Salon!

Performing as “Cherdonna Shinatra,” Jody Kuehner is a tall blonde rocking unflattering hair extensions, a la Britney Spears.…

Gregory Schaffer

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Gregory Schaffer

In 2007, UW-trained photographer Gregory Schaffer returned to Seattle after two years in China working for the Peace…

Double Take/Vertigo

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Double Take/Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock lives! The very cleverly assembled hybrid Double Take samples the director’s old movie cameos and TV…

Sara Marcus

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Sara Marcus

If you think the Spice Girls invented Girl Power, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the…

Gail Collins

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Gail Collins

On The New York Times’ op-ed page, some prefer the correctives of Krugman, others the bromides of Brooks,…

Steve Duno

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Steve Duno

Steve Duno didn’t plan on rescuing a mangy, tick-infested Rottweiler-Shepherd mix that was raised on a hidden marijuana…

Françoiz Breut

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Françoiz Breut

The Cherbourg chanteuse Françoiz Breut began her musical career as a backup singer for her then-boyfriend, the songwriter…