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Big Dig Record Show

Saturday, March 7

Rawstock V

Arts & Culture

Rawstock V

Drinks will be served (cash bar) and music played (the Fred Roth Revue) between the two blocks of…

Five Easy Pieces

Arts & Culture

Five Easy Pieces

Everybody remembers this 1970 classic for the wrong scene (Jack Nicholson ordering the sandwich in the diner). Instead,…

Rushmore

Arts & Culture

Rushmore

If Jean-Luc Godard and Takeshi Kitano had collaborated on Revenge of the Nerds, they might have produced something…

No Dice

Arts & Culture

No Dice

In an age when Paul Blart: Mall Cop is blurbed as “The Funniest Movie of the Year,” you…

Identity, Costume, Cliché

Arts & Culture

Identity, Costume, Cliché

Here in America, we’re used to seeing half-naked women everywhere we look. But Korean women are taught to…

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…

Jack Hamann

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Jack Hamann

In the summer of 1944, African-American soldiers staged a nighttime attack on a cadre of Italian prisoners of…

Literary Lions Gala

Arts & Culture

Literary Lions Gala

Superlibrarian Nancy Pearl joins local novelist for this gala fundraiser and dinner. After Oprah, having a display at…

Phosphorescent’s Matthew Houck enjoys fine dining at least as much as Willie Nelson.

Music

The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows

Clues ~ Wednesday, March 4 It’s hard to fathom the influence MySpace has as a promotional tool in…

Ewald in Footfalls: a narrowing range of expression.

Arts & Culture

Opening Nights: Beckett, Berlin, Beaches, and Rowdy Gypsies

PICK Rockaby & Footfalls New City Theater, 1404 18th Ave., 271-4430, www.newcitytheater.org. $15. 8 p.m. Fri.–Sat. Ends March…

Jesus (in The Last Supper) looks down on the new Korean woman.

Arts & Culture

The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Notable Events

WEDNESDAY 3/4 Visual Arts: Older Glory Whether the new president is Obama or Reagan or Jackson, America has…

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

Arts & Culture

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

Whether the new president is Obama or Reagan or Jackson, America has always been a place for renewal.…

Metro Classics

Arts & Culture

Metro Classics

This repertory series continues with Jeff Goldblum as a bug in David Cronenberg’s 1986 remake of The Fly…

Azadeh Moaveni

Arts & Culture

Azadeh Moaveni

We’ve all been there. You and some guy you’re super into go on a double date with your…

The Munich Secession and America

Arts & Culture

The Munich Secession and America

Franz von Stuck reworked his painting Sin eleven times. Clearly there was something about the bare breasted Eve…

What Makes You Think You're So Smart Anyway?

News

What Makes You Think You’re So Smart Anyway?

Dear Uptight Seattleite, Oh my God, could you be any more annoying? What makes you think you’re so…

David Montgomery

Arts & Culture

David Montgomery

We step in it. We plant flowers in it. Worms live in it. Some children even eat it.…

Abraham Verghese

Arts & Culture

Abraham Verghese

A regular contributor to The New Yorker (among other publications), Abraham Verghese is one of those rare doctors…

Amy O'Neal and Daniel Cruz

Arts & Culture

Amy O’Neal and Daniel Cruz

Amy O’Neal and Daniel Cruz come from different parts of the dance world. O’Neal’s avant garde credentials underlie…