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Night Rider

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Night Rider

The clogged evening-rush-hour lanes of I-405, your car stuck in central Bellevue, would not seem the best place…

Poncho Sanchez

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Poncho Sanchez

With Tito Puente gone to that great Palladium in the sky, Poncho Sanchez has secured a position over…

Outta My Light!

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Outta My Light!

What do egg whites, ammonium chloride, and light-sensitive salts give you? A picture, as we learn in “Outta…

Fountain of Wisdom

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Fountain of Wisdom

Years have passed, and the downtown library designed by Rem Koolhaas has agreeably woven itself into the urban…

Varmint

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Varmint

Few bands can pull off entire cover sets without prior rehearsals. But that’s exactly what Varmint has done,…

Starbucks Ice Rink

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Starbucks Ice Rink

Even if you don’t have kids, the Starbucks Ice Rink at Seattle Center’s ongoing Winterfest (through Wednesday) is…

Juried

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Juried

Portland’s Jenevive Tatiana sews rainbow-colored sequins onto newspaper clippings, resisting the gloomy headlines. Highlighted within black-and-white photographs are…

The Hideout

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The Hideout

It took me a good four months even to realize the Hideout existed just a couple blocks from…

Movement

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Movement

The walls are hung with 18 sets of old-fashioned music boxes (seven per group), all with a tine…

Woman on the Beach

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Woman on the Beach

Master of the beautifully modulated and devastatingly melancholy romantic farce, Korean director Hong Sang-soo’s Woman on the Beach…

Day of Wrath

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Day of Wrath

Understandably, since it was filmed in German-occupied Denmark during World War II, the 1943 Day of Wrath is…

J-Walking, Ice Freezing, and the Violin

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J-Walking, Ice Freezing, and the Violin

Dear Uptight Seattleite, Someone is coming toward me on the same side of the sidewalk as me. Who…

The Project

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The Project

Although films about filmmaking are generally a bad idea, it’s always gratifying to see hipster indie wannabes get…

Music

 Photo by Michael Alan Goldberg  Two young blondes with toothy smiles and hard-core

Duff McKagan’s column runs every Thursday on Reverb. I’ll preface this column by saying first off I realize…

The Christmas Foundling

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The Christmas Foundling

Women were a rare sight among the male-dominated camps of the California Gold Rush, and so it came…

The Godfather I and II

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The Godfather I and II

Completely restored for its recent DVD box set, Francis Ford Coppola’s Oscar-winning The Godfather may look better now…

Join: Design Seattle

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Join: Design Seattle

Join: Design Seattle is a new series of events showcasing local furniture and design products, with a focus…

Trouble the Water

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Trouble the Water

Hurricane Katrina’s third anniversary roughly coincided with the Republican and Democratic national conventions. If the two presidential candidates…

Noah Grussgott: What Goes Around Comes Around

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Noah Grussgott: What Goes Around Comes Around

Seattle artist Noah Grussgott is playing with two very different sets of signifiers in his mixed-media installation “What…

Nick Jaina Band

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Nick Jaina Band

Unlike Nick Jaina’s first release of 2008, Wool (which was recorded in parts, then assembled later), his new…