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Carmina burana

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Carmina burana

Carl Orff: a hapless German Shostakovich, muddling through as best he could under a psychotic tyranny? Or a…

Bruce Benderson

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Bruce Benderson

A curmudgeonly travel writer passes through Seattle, unhappily, in the short, satirical Pacific Agony, which includes Seattle Weekly…

Big Trouble in Little China

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Big Trouble in Little China

John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China (1986) is an enjoyable mash-up of classic Westerns, Saturday-morning serials, and…

Electric Six

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Electric Six

Listening to an Electric Six album is a bit like turning your iPod on shuffle – take the…

Steven Kazlowski

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Steven Kazlowski

That damn global warming: First it made the weather wacky. Now it’s melted enough Arctic ice to threaten…

The Dead Trees

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The Dead Trees

I could take the easy way out and say that the Dead Trees sound just like Pavement, and…

Dynasty

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Dynasty

Mount Baker and Crystal Mountain are opening this week, meaning that winter has officially arrived for Northwest skiers…

New Italian Cinema Festival

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New Italian Cinema Festival

The Camorra crime families that have their hands around the neck of Naples have been around much longer…

Jillian Venters

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Jillian Venters

The local author’s Gothic Charm School: An Essential Guide for Goths and Those Who Love Them (Harper, $13.99)…

Peter Pan

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Peter Pan

A joyous Peter Pan makes this one of SCT’s better productions. Eric Ankrim provides the joy—as well as…

Raphael Saadiq, seen at Bumbershoot 2009.

Music

The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows

Black Heart Procession ~ Wednesday, November 11 It’s funny, but not too long ago indie-rock scribes were debating…

The Wizard of Oz

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The Wizard of Oz

Family flick, gay cult movie, midnight stoner jamboree—it doesn’t really matter how you categorize this 1939 classic, tonight…

Mudhoney

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Mudhoney

In case you haven’t been paying attention, right now is a great time to be a Mudhoney fan.…

Slender Means

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Slender Means

Of the local Votolato brothers, Rocky went folk and took a solo gig with Barsuk. Sonny went pop.…

Space Cowboy

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Space Cowboy

French DJ and producer Space Cowboy (Nicolas Dresti) is best known these days for being wingman to pop…

Woodland Park GP

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Woodland Park GP

It’s the sport so controversial, they banned it from Lincoln Park! Well, not really—a recent city permit snafu…

Girls

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Girls

Pitchfork loves Girls. KEXP and SPIN love Girls. And so you’ve got to be asking yourself, which is…

Pixies

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Pixies

Since I was four years old when Doolittle came out (the Pixies second album, which the band will…

Mose Allison

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Mose Allison

For most of the legendary vocalists of jazz, you can hear a long line of descendants and copycats—singers…

“Johnny Cat,” one of Lavine’s Ave rats, in ’83.

Arts & Culture

The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events

THURSDAY 11/12 Classical: Chorally Ambiguous Carl Orff: a hapless German Shostakovich, muddling through as best he could under…