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Calvin Trillin
The election is over, our new president has been inaugurated, and maybe its time to change the generally…
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Savion Glover
Savion Glover has done just about everything you can imagine as a tap dancer, working with classical musicians,…
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The Zmiros Project
In the popular mind (including the mind of many Jews), Judaism is all about rules, deprivation, and maybe…
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Shelter
Among the artists featured in Shelter (through Feb. 14), Seattle photographer Zack Bent gets prominent placement. In part,…
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Henry Alford
My one attempt at joining a book group started strong with Lolita, but collapsed after someone else suggested…
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There’s Nothing Unwholesome About Sexual Intercourse
Dear Uptight Seattleite, It’s a wintry day and I’m walking down the street holding my coffee cup in…
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Jacob Dahlgren
Yellow and black bulls eyes are hung in row upon unbroken row along the gallery wall, with a…
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Ronald C. White
An obscure politician from Illinois, with little experience in Washington, DC, a long-shot candidate for the White House
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Buddha Belltown
I celebrated my 23rd birthday by getting plastered, flailing about to Billy Idol, and then dumping my boyfriend…
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Site: Unseen
The landscape photography in Site: Unseen is all about whats not in the picture. Theres no dead bodies…
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Mike Hickey
Councilman/childrens author Nick Licata will bestow top honors in the eighth Poet Populist competition today. The election winner…
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Children’s Film Festival
Ive often wondered: Once I create a few tiny, rambunctious versions of myself, how can I expose them…
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Jonathan Coulton
Jonathan Coulton writes and records sweetly melodic folk-pop tunes about brain-eating zombies and lovestruck mad scientists. His geek-powered…
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The Matrix
This 1999 cyber fantasy starring Laurence Fishburne and man-boy Keanu Reeves is an impressive visual trip. Directors Larry…
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San Francisco Symphony
After all the second chances Ive given that bitch , he still disappoints. Lifes too short to give…
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Cliff Mass
Everybody talks about the weather, but how many of us are actually doing something about it? UW professor…
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Letters to the Editor: Don’t Call It “Killing”
Also: Elephants are people too, you know! (Though we're not so sure about mimes.)
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Tomás and the Library Lady
Just as many of us over drinking age sheepishly found ourselves stocking up on Harry Potter and sneaking…
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The Woman in Black
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible, Hitchcock once said. The Woman in Black adheres closely…