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Cliff Mass

Everybody talks about the weather, but how many of us are actually doing something about it? UW professor…

Broadway Festival

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Broadway Festival

In a field where there’s already a high tolerance for repetition, Jerome Robbins still took it to extremes.…

Seattle International Bike Expo

Arts & Culture

Seattle International Bike Expo

What’s so international about the Seattle International Bike Expo? We have no idea, but your passports are likely…

Paul Bannick

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Paul Bannick

First of all, let’s consider the title of this ornithology/photo album: The Owl and the Woodpecker (Mountaineers Books,…

Café Campagne: Ceci n’est pas un parisien.

Eat Drink Toke

Favorite Restaurants: A Step Up for Special Dates

Dining in the $20 to $30 range.

 . . . And you will know us by the trail of spray paint.

Music

The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows

Les Claypool’s Oddity Faire ~ Wednesday, March 11 Even though putting Saul Williams and Les Claypool on the…

HTCAW is bigger than a breadbasket (but just barely).

Eat Drink Toke

Favorite Restaurants: Fine Dining for the Flush

How to eat for between $30 and $50.

Class act: The cast of The History Boys enjoys a group shot.

Arts & Culture

Opening Nights: The History Boys and The Seafarer

PICK: The History Boys ArtsWest, 4711 California Ave. S.W., 938-0339, www.artswest.org. $10–$32. 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Sat., 3 p.m. Sun.…

Eat Drink Toke

Introducing the 2009 Seattle Weekly Food Awards

Our food section is usually devoted to writing about the highs and lows of individual restaurants. But restaurants…

The Glowing Grail of Communication Strategies

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The Glowing Grail of Communication Strategies

Dear Uptight Seattleite, My neighbor’s newly password-protected wireless connection is called cant_share_anymore. Doesn’t this seem vindictive? No Name…

Brasa is a deluxe showroom for the pleasures of the pig.

Eat Drink Toke

Favorite Restaurants: A Serious Splurge

How it tastes to spend more than $50 a plate.

Beautiful bún bowls at Green Leaf.

Eat Drink Toke

Favorite Restaurants: Cheap, Fast, and Under Control

Eating well for less than $10.

Kari Brunson helps PNB go to Broadway.

Arts & Culture

The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Notable Events

WEDNESDAY 3/11 Stage: Something for Everyone The annual Moisture Festival, now in its sixth year, has proven to…

Betrayal

Arts & Culture

Betrayal

Braden Abraham directs Harold Pinter’s 1978 ode to infidelity, which unfolds in reverse chronology. When we first meet…

Eleemosynary

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Eleemosynary

The term “emotional incest” would not be overstating the meddling/thwarting/blurred-boundary ickiness between granny Dorothea (Maureen Miko) and her…

Moby Dick

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Moby Dick

Book-It’s Moby Dick puts us in the weatherworn wood belly of the New England whaling trade, where adventure-thirsty…

Rubble Women

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Rubble Women

Arbeit macht performance art in this 70-minute, eight-actress meditation on the Trümmerfrauen—the female citizens of Berlin conscripted to…

Rockaby & Footfalls

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Rockaby & Footfalls

The first live-theater piece by longtime Seattle experimental filmmaker Janice Findley pairs two late works by Samuel Beckett…

Blood Squad: I Won’t Be Ignored

Arts & Culture

Blood Squad: I Won’t Be Ignored

An improv troupe that prefers cold-blooded murder, psychopathic obsession, and gory pantomime to the genre’s frantic games, Blood…

Daniyal Mueenuddin

Arts & Culture

Daniyal Mueenuddin

Imagine Pakistan in the decades before 9/11 and Al Qaeda, post-colonial and nearly feudal in the divide between…