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+ Room, – Room
Please silence your cell phones, iPods, corduroy pants, and crinoline dresses. If you require hearing aids that can…
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The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Notable Events
WEDNESDAY 2/25 Music: Past Mastery Last year I finally “got” Bill Frisell, and I owe it all to…
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Cliff Mass
Everybody talks about the weather, but how many of us are actually doing something about it? UW professor…
Music
The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows
Ra Ra Riot ~ Wednesday, February 25 It’s no fluke that Ra Ra Riot went from playing gigs…
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The Last Laugh
Everett Herald critic Robert Horton will introduce the great 1924 silent. Director F.W. Murnau creates moments of stunning…
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Bill Frisell
Last year, I finally got Bill Frisell, and I owe it all to History, Mystery. One of two…
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Beard & Stache Fest
According to event organizer Amy Faulkner, the 100 bearded, mustachioed, and goateed gentlemen competing in the Beard &…
News
As you dope your ballots for your Oscar office pool, online contest
As you dope your ballots for your Oscar office pool, online contest or Sunday night viewing party, I…
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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…
News
Behold the Power of Smartness
Dear Uptight Seattleite, How should I greet someone who’s wearing ear buds? Sociable Sally Dear Sally, First, frown…
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Lola Montes
The tension between the longing for love and the actual, realized article underlies most of Max Ophuls’ dramas.…
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Jim Carrey plays Joel, an office-worker drone so stifled by his routine that the last two years of…
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Greg Palmer
You know those terrible coming-of-age novels and movies, the ones set to a ’60s soundtrack with a narrator…
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Oscar Parties
The glitz! The fashion! The rain! Seattle may be a long way from Hollywood, but that doesn’t mean…
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Seattle Bike Swap
So Im minding my own business, pedaling along the Burke-Gilman Trail, when a spoke breaks on my fancy…
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Don’t Tilt!
Anyone whos seen The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (and if you havent, youre missing out),…
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Junot Díaz
Its hard to say whether aspiring young writers would really want to emulate the career of the excellent…
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Drinks With Darwin
If you missed out on Darwin Day last week, the worldwide celebration honoring the bicentennial of Charles Darwins…