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The Old, Weird America

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The Old, Weird America

“The Old Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art” doesn’t evoke the mythological folklore world of Greil Marcus…

Love's Fool

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Love’s Fool

On the surface, Federico Garcia Lorca’s 1928 one-act The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden…

Tony Angell

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Tony Angell

Shoreline illustrator and sculptor Tony Angell previously illustrated In the Company of Crows and Ravens (authored by local…

Sunny Day Real Estate

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Sunny Day Real Estate

Any Sunny Day Real Estate fan knows the details already: The Seattle band that launched the ‘90s emo…

Transition

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Transition

Reggie Watts and Tommy Smith, like most artists today, are seeking the holy grail of “what’s next” in…

Langdon Cook

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Langdon Cook

In a region full of mushroom hunters, public-park fruit scavengers, and clam diggers, Langdon Cook is a forager’s…

Tryst

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Tryst

Karoline Leach’s 2006 romantic thriller, like its caddish seducer of a hero, preys on those who share the…

Islands

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Islands

After the bombastic yet oddly leaden feel of last year’s Arm’s Way, “Switched On” comes rushing out of…

Washington State Book Awards

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Washington State Book Awards

The Washington Center for the Book has selected six Northwest writers for its annual WSBA awards. (Each gets…

Day of the Dead at SPL

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Day of the Dead at SPL

Connect with your Mexican roots—or claim some new ones—by remembering loved ones during a series of Día de…

Digital Leather

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Digital Leather

Though the name conjures something like biker techno, Digital Leather is closer to synth punk, which still fits…

Subprime!

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Subprime!

Norman Bell, a former soldier in the finance trenches, takes us “inside the heart of the mortgage meltdown”…

The Process Church of the Final Judgment Sabbath Assembly

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The Process Church of the Final Judgment Sabbath Assembly

A real organization (read: cult) in London during the late ’60s and early ’70s, The Process Church of…

Shallow Grave

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Shallow Grave

Before he won an Oscar for being all uplifting in Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle made his feature…

Alton Brown

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Alton Brown

Alton Brown is the cook/science-nerd star of the award-wining Food Network show Good Eats, where he demonstrates ingenious…

Bloody Henry

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Bloody Henry

The horror of fecundity is the lens through which local puppet impresario Brian Kooser portrays Henry VIII’s lewd,…

Jay-Z

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Jay-Z

Jay-Z is arguably the most successful artist and entrepreneur in American hip-hop. His net worth is over $150…

Jamie Ford

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Jamie Ford

David Guterson and his bestselling Snow Falling on Cedars aren’t the last word on our illegal World War…

The Hunger

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The Hunger

From 1983, Tony Scott’s super-stylized vampire tale stars David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, and Catherine Deneuve. That Deneuve sets…

dd/mm/yyyy

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dd/mm/yyyy

As evidenced by the sequence of the calendar they’ve borrowed for a band name, the members of dd/mm/yyyy…