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Shaft
Hes a complicated man. In the 1971 blaxploitation classic, Richard Roundtrees turtleneck-wearing spade detective is certainly bad, and…
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Golden Animals
The 70s psych-rock bandwagon sure has been getting crowded lately, what with all the Black Angels and Spindrifts…
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Robots at SFM
Paul Allen already has a robot section in his vanity sci-fi museumR2D2, posters from Metropolis and The Terminator,…
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Karen Hackenberg: Divining Line
Whats your spirit animal? In her series of diptych oil paintings, Northwest artist Karen Hackenberg posits a strange…
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Michael Kenna: New York City and Beyond
The Brooklyn Bridge is every photographers invitation to cliché, and Michael Kenna does not escape that trap in…
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Team Building, Word Counts, and Your Dignity
Dear Uptight Seattleite, I’m over at my neighbor’s place, watching his cat. Would it be unethical for me…
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Dan Hawkins: Detroit: Arsenal of Democracy
When Dan Hawkins goes to Motown, hes all about business. No one goes to Detroit for vacation, he…
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Jenny Schmid: Fountain of Youth
At first glance, Minnesota-based artist Jenny Schmids strange little subjects appear to be androgynous, totally cracked-out children. They…
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Auntie Mame
Assuring readers it wasnt a memoir, Patrick Dennis nevertheless wrote a character named Patrick Dennis into his 1955…
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Jon Behrens Films
Jon Behrens is one of those industrious local filmmakers who keeps cranking out quality shorts that receive little…
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Fremont Pub Crawl Shopping Spree
My annual Christmas shopping tradition is to wait until the very last minute, then run around the mall…
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Holiday Bizarre: A Jewish Christmas!
So maybe sometime as a kid, or maybe an adult, youre watching a Christmas special about the birth…
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Panda & Angel
If Low and My Bloody Valentine could mate, their offspring would sound like Seattle six-piece Panda & Angel.…
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The Pretenders
Writing about the new Pretenders album invites all sorts of Thomas Wolfe references. In 1984, Chrissie Hynde looked…
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Alexander Nevsky
So I guess Hitler didnt see this movie. From 1938, Sergei Eisensteins patriotic anthem Alexander Nevsky is basically…
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Waterthe Essence of Life
Sure, SAM had its big show SabadebThe Gifts, but some of that same Salish iconography shows up elsewhere…
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Beasts!
Selected images from the book Beasts! Vol. 2 (Fantagraphics, $34.99) remain on view. The 90 illustrations in the…
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Its a Wonderful Life
1946, meet 2008. Times are tough in Frank Capras Its a Wonderful Life (screening through Thurs., Dec. 25).…
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Gossip Girl
The general consensus on Gossip Girl is that its terrible. The New York Post hailed it as a…