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Pillow Talk
This nifty 1959 romantic comedy that more or less cemented Rock Hudson’s screen image. Cast opposite Doris Day…
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A Hug? Not When Anger’s All She’s Got
Dear Uptight Seattleite, Are you disappointed that Seattle Parks has apparently decided not to ban spitting after all?…
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Tim Egan and PNBA Award Winners
In The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & The Fire That Saved America, the Pulitzer-winning longtime Seattle correspondent for…
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Rear Window
Hitchcocks 1954 masterwork posits Jimmy Stewarts character as a voyeur, cooped up in his New York City apartment…
Music
The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows
Wilco ~ Wednesday, February 10 In less than 10 years (1995 to 2002), Wilco evolved from a scrappy…
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Dave Rawlings Machine
Over the years, Gillian Welchs longtime guitarist and collaborator Dave Rawlings has played for and collaborated with some…
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Grandmaster Flash
Grandmaster Flash is hip-hop. The double-back, back-door, back-spin, phasing, cuttin, scratching – back in the early 70s, Flash…
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Road House
Youve got a degree from NYU. What in? Philosophy. Any particular discipline? No, not really. Mans search for…
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Wings of Desire
The Berlin Wall came down a year after Wings of Desire opened in Seattle, when our Roger Downey…
Music
The Sound Off! Class of 2010
The annual competition pits 12 underage bands against each other in what has become a local rite of…
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Langdon Cook
In a region full of mushroom hunters, public-park fruit scavengers, and clam diggers, Langdon Cook is a foragers…
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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 2/10 Film/Dance: Step Lively The sixth pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Swing Time (1936) begins…
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Vivian Girls
If Vivian Girls’ most recent single is any indication, the all-female, Brooklyn-based trio are giving over to their…
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The Round 57
In the fall of 2007, Benjamin Verdoes of Mt St Helens Vietnam Band conceived and composed a five…
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Fertilizing Utopias
Remember how in Waterworld they used dirt for currency? Earth is an equally precious resource in the group…
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Van Dyke Parks and Clare and the Reasons
Van Dyke Parks digs the young ladies. After providing arrangements for Joanna Newsoms 2006 epic Ys, the avant-pop…
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The Red Shoes
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburgers dance classic The Red Shoes (1948) feverishly explores the demands of art at…
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Gahan Wilson
During the 50s, departing from the good cheer of Peanuts and company, cartoonist Gahan Wilson steered his pen…
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Dare to Be Dateless
Even if youre willfully single, its hard not to feel bitter during the expectation- and commercial-plagued weeks leading…
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Lets just go out on a limb here and say that, in an otherwise mediocre spin-off movie series…