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Talk like an Egyptian: Serket's cast.

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Opening Nights: Death, Sex and Pharaoh Serket

Death, Sex Balagan Theatre, 1117 E. Pike St., 800-838-3006, www.brownpapertickets.com. $12–$20. 8 & 10 p.m. Fri., 8 p.m.…

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day

The Cinerama continues its 70mm series with James Cameron’s action-filled 1991 sequel. Today, we can all make jokes…

La Venexiana

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La Venexiana

Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo opens with the hero’s wedding to his beloved Eurydice, so Italian ensemble La Venexiana took…

Garden & Cosmos

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Garden & Cosmos

SAAM’s visiting show Garden & Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur visually chronicles about 300 years’ worth of…

Broken Social Scene

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Broken Social Scene

Canadian supergroup Broken Social Scene has morphed from dream-like instrumental duo to indie-rock collaborative to, most recently, savvy…

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The Whitest Kids U Know

Like most bunch-of-guys comedy troupes, The Whitest Kids U Know suffer from serious dick-joke overload. But at their…

Dean & Britta

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Dean & Britta

“Warhol was not afraid to bore people.” So says Dean Wareham by phone from New York. We’re talking…

Esther Pearl Watson

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Esther Pearl Watson

Stopping on a road trip, Los Angeles artist Esther Pearl Watson found a teenager’s diary from the ’80s…

Jamie Ford

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Jamie Ford

David Guterson and his bestselling Snow Falling on Cedars aren’t the last word on our illegal World War…

Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival

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Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival

It’s quite a skill, taking complex ideas and cramming them into 10 minutes. A good short film needs…

The Right Chips for PBS

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The Right Chips for PBS

Dear Uptight Seattleite, Where’s the best place to get a new dog? Pooch Lovin’ Lonnie Dear Lonnie, Some…

Thomas and Porretta:settling in.

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As If 9/11 Weren’t Enough

A shell-shocked family has to deal with the approaching apocalypse in SPT's comedy. Plus: gems from PNB and…

SPU Portable Works Collection

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SPU Portable Works Collection

Rather like the WPA program during the Great Depression, our Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) acquisition of 32 recent…

Shoot the Piano Player

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Shoot the Piano Player

Concluding SIFF’s French Crime Wave series, François Truffaut’s second feature is a movie that, in 1960, shifted registers…

Jewels

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Jewels

Certain works have become milestones in the ballet repertory—a test of maturity for the company doing them. Previously…

Temple Grandin

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Temple Grandin

Made famous by Oliver Sacks in The New Yorker, autistic scientist Temple Grandin has achieved renown in her…

Shuffle Mode

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Shuffle Mode

Guillermo E. Brown has been a drummer in a host of progressive jazz scenarios, most famously with improvising…

Etta James

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Etta James

“I don’t think she looks like me.” That’s what Etta James told the press last year, when Beyoncé…

The 39 Steps

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The 39 Steps

The most successful and most celebrated of Alfred Hitchcock’s British movies, his The 39 Steps (1935) was twice…

Mike Daisey

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Mike Daisey

Mike Daisey possesses a singular skill that suits his profession to a T: He can talk about himself…