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Dear Uptight, Was that you power-walking in front of me in the sweatshirt that said “The divine in…

Loaded, 4/9 at the Crocodile

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The Short List: This Week’s Notable Shows

Duff McKagan’s Loaded ~ Thursday, April 9 Since Velvet Revolver went on hiatus last year—you know, the band…

CD Reviews: Tap Tap, Andy Werth

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CD Reviews: Tap Tap, Andy Werth

Tap Tap The Re-Introduction (Lynx Records) When 21-year-old Tacoma rapper Tap Tap’s latest disc, The Re-Introduction, first showed…

Like Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler, ’80s artifact Anvil finally gets its due.

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The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events

Thursday 4/9 Film: Forever Blue-Eyed How gay is Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof? It depends…

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Letters to the Editor: Hands Off Our Take-‘N’-Bake

Re: “Fool’s Paradise” (April 1) by Seattle Weekly staff Just wanted to give you kudos for the April…

Chad VanGaalen’s one-man backyard band.

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The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows

Weinland ~ Thursday, April 2 John Adam Weinland Shearer is a careful man. The songs he writes and…

Peter Rock

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Peter Rock

What is it about Portland? For the first half of Peter Rock’s fifth novel, My Abandonment (Houghton Mifflin,…

Jamie Hernandez

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Jamie Hernandez

Jamie Hernandez, the famed co-creator of the Love and Rockets series (with brother Gilbert), also inks solo strips.…

Seattle Symphony

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Seattle Symphony

One of the warmest ovations I’ve ever heard for a piece of new music in Benaroya Hall greeted…

Jaime Hernandez appears at both Fantagraphics (Sat.) and ComiCon.

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The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Notable Events

THURSDAY 4/2 Books/True Crime: Drift Wisdom Here’s the guy to find your severed feet. As featured in our…

Arabian Nights

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Arabian Nights

Behind Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ribald trifecta—through April 23—of ripe teenage backsides, golden-skinned ephebes, and naughty nuns lies a…

The state can’t distinguish between unreal phony wrestling and real phony wrestling.

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April Fool: 22 Things About Seattle That We Wish Were a Joke

The people, trends, and events that even our cynical minds find hard to believe. (Online exclusive! Two bonus…

Construct

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Construct

In the best of worlds, Australian choreographer Tanja Liedtke would be on stage with her colleagues for the…

The Uptight In the Mayor's Race?

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The Uptight In the Mayor’s Race?

Dear Uptight Seattleite, Now even advice columnists are talking about getting into the mayor’s race—so why not you?…

Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson

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Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson

Has “freedom” ever fallen out of fashion in America? Short answer: No. But during the past height of…

Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1069, courtesy of 20th Century Fox.

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Paul Newman Retrospective

From 1969, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is one of the most enjoyable Westerns ever made. It…

Night of the Living Dead

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Night of the Living Dead

Night of the Living Dead (1968) came out of nowhere, or to be more precise, Pittsburgh, and turned…

Curtis Ebbesmeyer

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Curtis Ebbesmeyer

Here’s the guy to find your severed feet. As featured in our recent cover story (“Where the Feet…

Ping-Pong Benefit Tournement

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Ping-Pong Benefit Tournement

Jillian’s, the Sunset Tavern, ping-pong, Doctors Without Borders, and hairstylists are not often ingredients found in the same…

Shelli Markee

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Shelli Markee

Shelli Markee draws in cold-fused steel. Her flock of wire birds crowds the airspace at Fancy with fat…