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Karaoke and Line Dancing
Monday night karaoke at the Hen has always been a lot mellower than Wednesdays (which can get shoulder-to-shoulder…
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Northwest Emerging Artists
Have I got a house to sell you. Cheap! One of 130 in a brand-new development. Bad credit…
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Lymbyc System
What is most immediately arresting about Lymbyc Systym is how warm the band manages to feel, particularly on…
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Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
When Owen Ashworth was just an unknown film school dropout recording minimalist pop in his bedroom for an…
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Shaun of the Dead
Co-screenwriters Edgar Wright and Simon Peggs 2004 rom-zom-com shows laudable imagination and irreverence. Shaun (Pegg) is an utter…
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Jasper Fforde
For Seattle fantasy readers, English author Jasper Fforde is always a welcome visitor. His whimsical works, including Thursday…
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Bullitt
Steve McQueen was never a bigger, cooler star than in this 1968 cop flick. Playing a San Francisco…
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SHIM
SHIM hasnt released fresh material in almost two years now (according to their MySpace page, theyre currently in…
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Black Whales
Though most people will come to this show to hear the catchy local indie rock stylings of Black…
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Suffocation
If its shocking that straight ahead, early 90s style death metal has had this long of a shelf…
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Joe Sacco
Political cartoons arent generally reported from the front lines, but Portlands Joe Sacco is an important exception. Beginning…
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Jacques Tati Retrospective
SIFF’s Jacques Tati retrospective concludes Jan. 15-18 with Monsieur Hulots Holiday (1953), the international hit that established his…
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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
THURSDAY 1/7 Film: No Speed Limit How many times does World War II prisoner Steve McQueen bounce the…
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There’s a Reason It’s Not Called a “Buttrail”
Dear Uptight Seattleite, The woman who was giving me a perm the other day put hot curlers in…
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John Digweed
Last year, John Digweed rolled through town with fellow trance god and frequent collaborator Sasha and delivered unto…
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Harkonen
Going to a club on New Years Eve is generally an experience best reserved for people who find…
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Naked Razors
Eschewing last names and tearing into a gritty three-piece sound, local youngsters Naked Razors are clearly loving every…
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Junior Brown
Describing The Byrds, David Fricke once said that rock & roll at its very core is country music…
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Army of Darkness
Before Sam Raimi started the Spider-Man franchise, before Peter Jacksons LOTR trilogy, there were the marching skeletons and…
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Dazed and Confused
Its 1976 all over again in Richard Linklaters 1993 pot-hazed high-school confidential. Yet beneath the cannabis clouds theres…