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The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows
Dirty Projectors ~ Wednesday, November 4 This New York trio (which adds two members when touring) is as…
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Should I Be Flattered That I Have a Billionaire’s Taste?
Dear Uptight Seattleite, Please do me a favor and pass this note along to TLA, my adult-DVD rental…
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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 11/4 Comedy: “Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before . . .” Twenty-three venues, three and a half weeks,…
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Emma
In this Austen adaptation, it’s Emma Woodhouses difficult aspects that actress Sylvie Davidson seems a bit hesitant to…
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Bone Portraits
Deborah Steins play is a convergence of science and showmanship as presented by our host for the evening,…
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Sociological Lab Theater
Crawl Space is throwing itself a farewell party to launch its final exhibition, Stranger Circumstances, in which two…
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Silent Movie Mondays
After the unpopular and unexpected ouster of organist Dennis James last June, the keys will be manned by…
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Regina Spektor
Listening to Regina Spektor is very much like listening to a precocious childincredibly endearing, but also a little…
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Degenerate Art Ensemble
Whats most stunning about the Young Composers Collectives metamorphosis into the Degenerate Art Ensemble, since Joshua Kohl, Haruko…
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múm
Icelandic folktronica collective múm has undergone a marked transformation since losing their creepy-kid-sounding lead singers three years ago…
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Steve Martin
In his fine memoir Born Standing Up, Steve Martin writes at length about the total lack of interest…
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Art Wolfe
Drawn from his 2007 PBS series and recent companion volume (Mountaineers, $24.95), the images in Travels to the…
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Eirik Johnson
Raised in Seattle and a UW grad, Eirik Johnson’s photographs in “Sawdust Mountain” chronicle the decline of the…
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Langhorne Slim
Langhorne Slims latest effort, Be Set Free, isnt exactly a departure from his last, self titled record. In…
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Skinny Puppy
You could make the argument that Canadian anarcho-industrial-rock pioneers Skinny Puppy have been at their most artistically potent…
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Madness Out of Time
H.P. Lovecraft’s short horror stories always need to be met (at least) halfway by the reader’s imagination–he leads…
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The Henry Clay People
Named for a 19th Century Secretary of State and clearly inspired by Pavement and other quirky 90s commodities…
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Mickey Avalon
Its easy to buy that Mickey Avalon is a former heroin junkie and prostitute. The rapper is notorious…
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Mikael Colville-Andersen
Copenhagen! Its the Valhalla of bicycle advocates. Some 36 percent of commuters there ride bikes ride bikes to…
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Blues Control
Russ Waterhouse and Lea Cho are Blues Control, the Queens, New York duo that makes a righteous racket…