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Jennifer Burns
Long before Ann Coulter became the poster girl of modern conservatism, an equally strong-willed and outspoken lioness held…
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Sieman Dijkstra & Gordon Mortensen
With ordinary woodcuts, you print the separate layers of color from different blocks. In the exquisite, intricate landscapes…
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China Blue
Sometime around 1950, blue jeans went from farm-wear to iconoclastic statement, becoming a kind of low-rise, boot-cut shorthand…
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Eugene Parnell
Its hard to disprove a negative, and local artist Eugene Parnell couches his show Bigfoot Is Probably Real…
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El Vez
Its never quite Christmas without a run-in with El Vez, the self-billed Mexican Elvis. All wry gimmicks and…
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Greg Mortenson
Greg Mortenson admires Al Qaeda. Or at least he gives the terrorists credit, following the catastrophic 2005 earthquake…
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Deck the Hall Ball 2009
Rather than last year’s same-y array of indie-rock bands peopled by white dudes with lots of feelings, this…
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Pierced Arrows
It’s true: Fred and Toody Cole are punk icons. The Portland married couple’s first band, Dead Moon, released…
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Portable Grindhouse
Measuring only about 7½ by 4 inches, videocassette boxes were notunlike their LP forbearslarge enough for collectable, frameable…
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Paula Becker and Alan Stein
Before Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks, or even Boeing, there was the Klondike Gold Rush that began in 1897. And…
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KEXP Yule Benefit
It’s only fitting that KEXP’s Yule Benefit exclusively comprises Northwest bands, all of which are very worthy of…
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Melt-Banana
Rare is the band that can extend its reach over multiple genres with as much dexterity, originality and…
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True Grit
Every film geek got excited with the recent announcement that Jeff Bridges will star in the Coen brothers…
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Mew
Denmarks Mew gives prog-rock a good name their 2005 release, And the Glass Handed Kite, a critical…
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Bob Schneider
Bob Schneider is living disproof of the old aphorism you cant polish a turd. Not, of course, that…
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
John Cameron Mitchells 2001 adaptation of his off-Broadway show is a rollicking, funny, near-classic movie musical. Teetering on…
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Evangelista
One of the most important, yet unsung women in rock n roll, Carla Bozulich, is back with her…
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Minus the Bear
Minus the Bear is one of those rare bands that sound as if they could be equally at…
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Grave Babies
Every time I gear up to hit Seattle, I put together a short list of all the bands…
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Battle in Seattle
Before Seattle Us upstart Redhawks claimed KeyArena as their home this year, the Sonics former arena remained largely…