Arts & Culture
Target Practice
SAMs big summer show is awfully specific about its themes and dates: Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-78.…
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Red, White, and Dead
Do you have a contingency plan prepared for an apocalyptic zombie invasion? Can you recite the script of…
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Orange Flower Water
Craig Wrights wrenching 70-minute immersion in infidelity is only New Century Theatre Companys second offering. This minimalist production…
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Made in U.S.A.
You can fool the movie audience, but not me, says Anna Karina in Jean-Luc Godards 1967 political noir…
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Trimpin: The Sound of Invention
Not a composer, but an inventor of genius was Arnold Schoenbergs description of John Cage, and the phrase…
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Cartoonapalooza
In an industry substantially built on Hearsts The Yellow Kid and Little Orphan Annie, its a cruel irony…
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Chase Family 4th
Although WaMu has collapsed in subprime shame, JPMorgan Chase has stepped in to sponsor whats now being called…
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The Weekly Wire: The Weeks Notable Events
THURSDAY 7/2 Cartoons: Nearly Erased In an industry substantially built on Hearst’s The Yellow Kid and Little Orphan…
Music
The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows
Stone River Boys ~ Wednesday, July 1 The Hacienda Brothers were sweet. They could achieve these peak moments…
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Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) was once considered such an important American painter that his work was featured on the…
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Show Boat
Taken with Edna Ferber’s 1926 novel, tracing the lives of three generations of entertainers over 40 years of…
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Wind Cradle
Wind Cradle looks like six giant blades of grass, or the magnified cartoon facial hairs of a razor…
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Artopia 2009
Where better to showcase emerging arts talent than Georgetown, the neighborhood that’s made on the cusp a form…
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Seattle Chamber Music Society
Besting all comersUW tried a summer contemporary-arts festival for a few years, Tacoma made a one-season attempt at…
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Fremont Outdoor Movies
John Belushi stars in the 1978 raunch-out comedy Animal House. Its wildly uneven, a period film that no…
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Jillian Venters
The local authors Gothic Charm School: An Essential Guide for Goths and Those Who Love Them (Harper, $13.99)…
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Seattle Symphony
Addressing the Lord directly, in love, praise, and supplication, the text of Aaron Jay Kernis Symphony No. 3,…
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ÜberPortrait
Put an umlaut in the title, and any arts exhibitionor heavy metal bandautomatically becomes more interesting. ÜberPortrait packages…