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Dave Cullen

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Dave Cullen

Yes, it’s been 10 years since Colorado teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot their way into the…

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Icono-Clan

Spectrum Dance Theater made a perfect choice when it added Merce Cunningham to this “Icono-Clan” program. The 90-year-old…

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson’s allegorical tale was published in 1886. Jeffrey Hatcher’s new adaptation posits that Hyde dwells in…

Knute Berger

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Knute Berger

Mossback is back! Our famously bearded, beloved former boss was editor-in-chief during three different tenures at Seattle Weekly…

Corin Hewitt

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Corin Hewitt

Two years ago, Corin Hewitt locked himself inside a cramped, cluttered room-within-a-gallery at Portland’s Small A Projects. He…

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

A blown fuse is the apt introduction to this adaptation of Dinaw Mengestu’s novel, in which Stepha, an…

Mike Seely

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Mike Seely

To call SW’s managing editor Mike Seely a poet of the dive bar isn’t quite right. Because unlike…

Seattle Jewish Film Festival

Arts & Culture

Seattle Jewish Film Festival

In its second week, SJFF offers many treats (see www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org for full schedule and details). Our pick is…

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Has it really been 20 years? This 1989 time-travel comedy about two genial teenage ninnies struck an extended…

Gutenberg! The Musical!

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Gutenberg! The Musical!

Doug and Bud have written a musical about Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press, and they desperately want…

Musician James McMurtry is photographed at his home in Austin.  photo by Ha Lam for Austin American Statesman/8/29/05

Arts & Culture

James McMurtry

The son of literary lion Larry McMurtry, James McMurtry hails from Texas, and rarely leaves. If you’re a…

Dan Deacon gets a handjob.

Music

The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows

DARK STAR ORCHESTRA ~ Thursday, April 23 It’s perfectly normal to admit you enjoy a small dose of the…

Seize Your Everyday Epiphany

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Seize Your Everyday Epiphany

[Note: Due to an excess of authorial excitement, this column originally gave an inaccurate date for the Terry…

The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Notable Events

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The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Notable Events

WEDNESDAY 4/22 Music: Middle Man The son of literary lion Larry McMurtry, James McMurtry hails from Texas, and…

Gala Bent

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Gala Bent

Gala Bent is the author of tall tales, in gouache and graphite, with imagined animals caught in suspended…

Haute Trash Fashion Show

Arts & Culture

Haute Trash Fashion Show

I’m a hoarder. It’s not that I need the boxes full of old birthday cards and dried-up pens…

Garth Sundem

Arts & Culture

Garth Sundem

I was on the college debate team. I spent the last three months’ worth of Friday nights, not…

Langston Hughes African-American Film Festival

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Langston Hughes African-American Film Festival

Among the second week’s highlights are an encore screening of the Buppie romance Medicine for Melancholy (recently a…

Kristen Truax

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Kristen Truax

Too many photographers are blasé about shooting rock shows and concerts. They talk more about the strict club…

Stephanie Syjuco

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Stephanie Syjuco

Artist Stephanie Syjuco was three when her family moved from the Philippines to San Francisco. Growing up, she…