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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Fondly remembered from 1994, this Australian drag dramedy was a comeback vehicle of sorts for Terence Stamp, who…
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Art Thiel, Steve Rudman, and Mike Gastineau
Youve heard of coffee-table books, but have you heard of bathroom books? Were talking about the sort of…
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The Best of SIFF ’09
If you missed some of the best and most popular titles at SIFF, this mini-fest will give you…
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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Paul Mazursky made a splashand earned the rebuke of some high-culture guardianswith his 1969 debut feature, about two…
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Fremont Fair
Its coming. The weekend that unites tree-hugging hippie moms, gawking teenagers, and quasi-sketchy graybeard voyeurs. Yes, I speak…
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David Montgomery
We step in it. We plant flowers in it. Worms live in it. Some children even eat it.…
Music
The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows
Tragically Hip ~ Wednesday, June 17 That rarest of all North American beasts—the cult band that’s also a…
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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Notable Events
WEDNESDAY 6/17 Photography: Miniature Inmates Cheryl Hanna-Truscott spent more than six years photographing women in the Washington Corrections…
News
Yes, I’m a Rain Person
Dear Uptight Seattleite, I’m filled with rage when people say “My bad.” Since when did that become an…
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Norman Ollestad
Every kid wants to have “Fun Dad.” Norman Ollestad had “Extreme Fun Dad.” From the age of three,…
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Protective Custody
Cheryl Hanna-Truscott spent over six years photographing women in the Washington Corrections Centers prison nursery program, near Shelton,…
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Heide Hinrichs
Its the worlds game, football, played with wads of rags and twine in countries where kids are too…
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Afghan Star
Slumdog Millionaire, the documentary. Deservedly a Sundance prize-winner, Havana Markings film follows the American Idol knock-off produced in…
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Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Even though Anvil, a four-piece speed-metal circus that once toured with soon-to-be cash-cow longhairs like Whitesnake and Bon…
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The Red Race
This is the best sports documentary to play SIFF since The Heart of the Game, one of the…
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Bugs Bunny Cartoons
You can’t go wrong with Warner Bros.’ classic Loony Tunes series. Titles this week include the immortal What’s…
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OSS 117: Lost in Rio
Considered as a film alone, this sequel to the delightful French 2006 retro-spy romp now wears its premise…
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The Tempest
George Mounts production of The Tempest (for Seattle Shakespeare Company) feels like a standard Elizabethan approach, save for…
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Alan J. Stein and Paula Becker
Before Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks, or even Boeing, there was the Klondike Gold Rush that began in 1897. And…
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The Wire: This Weeks Notable Events
Thursday 6/11 Visual Arts: Tiny and Tawdry Jonah Samson was surprised when the folks at G. Gibson Gallery…