Arts & Culture
Glenn Tilbrook
If you like tight, smart, melodic, meticulously crafted pop bursting with hooks, you can’t do much better than…
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Wondrous Cold
Penguins and dinosaurs, together at last! The former are photographed by Joan Myers in the traveling Smithsonian show…
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Rain Machine
Bearded and bespectacled, Kyp Malone is always a welcome sight as a guitarist and singer in TV On…
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The Pink Panther
Introducing his bumbling Inspector Clouseau character, Peter Sellers is pretty damn funny in the 1964 series opener to…
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Intimans three-hour production of Robert Sherwoods 70-year-old play pays off painlessly, yielding a surprisingly funny, tender portrait of…
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Madraso
“We should be called the Carpenters. This band has led to nothing but construction,” laughs Madraso drummer Chris…
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Toubab Krewe
Its one thing to sprinkle ethnic influences into your sound. Its another altogether to spend years studying under…
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Craig Ferguson
America has been good to The Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson, so good that he took a…
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The Graduate
If ever a movie deserved its kudos, it’s Mike Nichols’ 1967 masterwork. Not since its release has an…
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REVERB
62 performers. A mayoral face-off. There’s no local music festival like this. Check out the complete line-up, then…
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Ben Huh
Though he didn’t invent icanhascheezburger.com, Ben Huh has capitalized and leveraged the lolcat meme like no one else…
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The Purrs
Seattle-based quartet the Purrs got their big break a few years ago when KEXP caught wind of their…
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Polvo
Polvo was always its own worst enemy, seemingly intent on maintaining a lower profile than the band deserved.…
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Langdon Cook
In a region full of mushroom hunters, public-park fruit scavengers, and clam diggers, Langdon Cook is a foragers…
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Alien
Ridley Scotts directors cut of Alien isnt much different than the version that had its world premiere (!)…
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Opening Nights: Dunces and Runt
A Falstaffian gasbag in the Big Easy, and a football career spent in a brothers shadow.
Music
CD Reviews: New Music From Grand Hallway and J. Tillman
Grand Hallway Promenade (self-released) Two of the grandest sophomore discs in Seattle music arrived at the SW offices…