Film
SIFF Week 3: 30 New Picks & Pans
Wednesday, June 2 7 p.m., Neptune American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi Back when Will Ferrell did his…
Music
The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows
Buzzcocks / Wednesday, June 2 33 (and a third) years after their debut EP Spiral Scratch, the UK’s…
Arts & Culture
Seattle’s True Independent Film Festival
Since 2005, Seattles True Independent Film Festival (aka STIFF) has been the boozy, cheerfully uncouth gate-crasher to SIFFs…
Arts & Culture
Disco and Atomic War
If you ever doubted that David Hasselhoff was the 80s embodiment of everything good and decent about America,…
Arts & Culture
Martin Charnin on “West Side Story”
It sounds like an episode from Steve Allens old Meeting of Minds series, where actors playing Aristotle, Emily…
Arts & Culture
Kooza
In recent years, Cirque de Soleil has collaborated on some, er, questionable productions, e.g., Criss Angels Vegas flop…
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Coppélia
Romanticism in ballet cuts two ways: Theres the tragedy of Giselle, where spurned women rise from the dead…
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Seattle Japanese Garden 50th Anniversary Celebration
To celebrate its 50th birthday, the Seattle Japanese Garden is opening its shrub-flanked gates for free today. Though…
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Seattle International Dance Festival
The Seattle International Dance Festival begins on the SLUT; and though wed like to see ballerinas vaulting from…
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42nd Street
42nd Street contains none of the heavy drama or extreme angst that marks so many contemporary musicals. Instead…
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The Oedipus Cycle
The proximal thrills and clever material frugalities of small independent theater abound in Balagans adaptation of Sophocless ancient…
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Horton Foote’s straightforward 1953 play about an elderly woman’s determination to return
Horton Foote’s straightforward 1953 play about an elderly woman’s determination to return to her rural birthplace holds no…
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Jacuzzi Boys
A new school of garage bands is springing up nationwide. The flourishing DYI scene in Oxford, Mississippi has…
Arts & Culture
Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek
Forever underground MC Talib Kwelis collabo with producer/DJ Hi-Tek, Reflection Eternal, had already begun its slow but steady…
Arts & Culture
Soft Rock Cafe
Do you like piña coladas? Gettin’ caught in the rain? Of course you do, but you’ve always been…
Arts & Culture
Ape Machine
Its no profound observation to call Ape Machine a throwback. The Portland five-piece indulges in smoking licks and…
Film
SIFF Week 2: Picks & Pans
Wednesday, May 26 7 p.m., Harvard Exit Devil’s Town In tennis-mad Belgrade, this dark comedy is set among…
Arts & Culture
Sage Francis
Not content to simply be a longtime ambassador between hip-hop and indie rock, Sage Francis spends his new…
Arts & Culture
Carrie Underwood
Carrie Underwoods enormous success since winning American Idol has become a double-edged sword for the television sensation in…
Arts & Culture
MC Chris
High-pitched and hidden behind his ever-present low-slung black baseball cap, MC Chris is the comic-loving, videogame-playing antithesis to…