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Jamie Spiess
Q Cafés booker seems to possess an uncanny knack for wading through the Seattles ever-widening pool of lesser-known…
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Michelle Goodman
Local author Michelle Goodman has done what so many of us are terrified to do (and may all…
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Untitled Earthworks
There is art to be found in Kent. And if you dont believe me, you can Google map…
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French Crime Wave
SIFF’s repertory series continues with Louis Malle (Elevator to the Gallows, Wed.), Jean-Pierre Melville (Bob le Flambeur, Thurs.),…
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The Banyans
Named for the banyan trees that Andy Fitts climbed as a boy in Hawaii, his band The Banyans…
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Adam Shepard
Plenty of people disagree with the reductive tendencies of Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed), whos created a minor…
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Jim Blanchard
Its leftovers
sort of like cleaning out the fridge. Thats how local artist Jim Blanchard describes the work hes…
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Dr. Strangelove
You know the plot of Stanley Kubricks landmark 1964 A-bomb farce: Sterling Hayden launches an attack wave of…
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Pi
Darren Aronofsky’s debut feature Pi won him a 1998 directing award at Sundance. Max Cohen (Sean Gullette) is…
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Mark Bittman
Like many of us, Mark Bittman fell in love with food and somehow found himself ensnared in politics.…
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69
NWFFs yearlong retrospective of films made in 1969 continues with a pair of countercultural antiwar flicks. Directed by…
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Not All Clowns Are Bozos
Some people love clowns. Some fear them, a condition known as coulrophobia. (Thats because most people first encounter…
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Knife in the Water
Roman Polanski’s 1962 feature debut got him the cover of Time magazine, got him an Oscar nomination, and…
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14/48
Aptly dubbed The Worlds Quickest Theatre Festival, 14/48 is a swift and quirky adventure. The idea: Toss together…
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Azar Nafisi
In 1979, Iran went through a transformation straight out of Margaret Atwoods Handmaids Tale. Overnight, new leadership and…
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The Road to Mecca
The plays of Athol Fugard, also a noted South African poet and unwavering foe of apartheid, are tempered…
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Marat/Sade
Confined to an insane asylum, as he often was, the Marquis de Sade directed plays using the inmates…
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Inauguration Day Viewing Party
On Nov. 7, 2000, my friends and Iall having voted in our first presidential racehuddled around the TV…
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Can I Pull Off a Rasta Beret?
Dear Uptight Seattleite, The MacArthur Foundation and its dedicated grantees have been working to build a more just,…
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Lenka
The last time an Australian TV-star-turned-singer scored an international hit with a cover song was in 1997. (Remember…