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Placement of Place
Recovering attorney Esther Sirotnik took no photography classes back when she attended the UW, and that was when…
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Easy Rider
I wanna make a movie about mumbling, long-haired hippie drug dealers and their motorcycles, without much plot, add…
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Tout de Sweet
The Century Ballrooms gently sparkling new cabaret production is a come-to-life stage version of those movie musicals where…
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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…
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Rashomon
Probably the most cited movie ever, when used to describe other movies that employ multiple perspectives, Akira Kurosawa’s…
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The Peking Acrobats
Its time to step up our game, America. China is making us look like chumps. If the opening…
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Eighth Blackbird
My guess is that in the future, itll become apparent that Arnold Schoenbergs most lasting and significant contribution…
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The Blue Note 7
The heritage of Blue Note Records is hardly in need of more celebrating. From endless hip-hop sampling and…
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Steven Johnson
A good book is like a good PowerPoint presentation. Or at least thats the approach taken by pop…
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Amarcord
I remember in Italian, Amarcord (1973) is Federico Fellinis comedic semi-autobiographical look back at his hometown Rimini during…
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Nami Mun
The immediate temptation is to read Miles From Nowhere (Riverhead, $21.95) as memoir, since the biographical details of…
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Wild Strawberries
Isak Borg is 78 years old. Driving from Stockholm to receive an honorific award, escorted by his unhappy…
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Fight Club
Every lame buddy flick features a ritual fist fight that bonds its two male leads, and that clichéd…
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Silent Movie Mondays
Before the animated Disney musical version, before the Charles Laughton sound version, there was the 1923 silent version…
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New Year’s Eve at the Paramount
With all the clubs and events competing for your champagne dollars this New Years Eve, theres a veritable…
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Henry Moore’s Vertebrae
Henry Moore (1898-1986) is not someone whose name you often hear these days. Once a progressive, modernist force,…
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Sound of Music Sing-a-Long
Dont ask me how or when, but I have memorized every single word to every single song in…
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New Year’s Eve With Seattle Symphony
Used to be that programming New Years Eve orchestra concerts was a no-brainer: Just blow the dust off…
