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Joel McHale
There is some truly awful television out there. Lucky for us, we have Joel McHale to make fun…
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Rosanne Olson
A haunting image in This is Who I Am: Our Beauty in All Our Shapes and Sizes (Artisan,…
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A Christmas Carol
Economic indicators suggest that were heading into a lean Christmas for just about everybody, and that probably includes…
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
He is tall, skinny, earnest. His ears might stick out too much. Hes not a Washington insider. But…
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Seattle International Stand-Up Comedy Competition
The Seattle International Comedy Competition (read: L.A. to Canada) crowns a winner tonight. The month of high-pressure funny…
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Party on Thanksgiving Day
My nearest family members are in California and Connecticut. But Ive never understood the point of coughing up…
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Thanksgiving Eve Parties
The bars are stocked with liquor tonight. Thanksgiving Eve is one of the busiest nights for clubs across…
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Counterbalance Park
When the little park designed by Murase Associates opened at the corner of Queen Anne and Roy, I…
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Short Stories Live
Hanukkah, represent! Sholem Aleichem’s Hannukah Money will be performed by local stage pro Shellie Shulkin. Also on the…
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The Immortal Beaver
This documentary features what might as well be called the official state aircraft (and mascot) of Alaska: the…
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Jon Meacham
Before Reagan chopping wood or Bush clearing brush, there was the original American populist, President Andrew Jackson (1829-1837).…
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The Supersuckers
2008 marks the 20th anniversary of Mudhoney and Sub Pop. Its also the two-decade point for another 90s…
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King Lear
Do you ever get the feeling during a Shakespeare production that, for all its sesquipedalian grandiosity, youre really…
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DVD Release: Wanted
So this is how Angelina Jolie affords all those babies and pregnancy leave. Occupying the middle station in…
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Cheech & Chong
It took em 20-plus years, but hippie days are here again now that the legendarily smokeadelic duo of…
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Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and the Tangerine
Perhaps a benefit of its epic gestationmuch of the original footage dates back to 93this documentary biography of…
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The Fish-Stick King’s Defenders and Detractors Speak
And more on Aurora Bridge suicides, embryos, and overpriced sandwiches.
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Don’t Tourists Know We’re In a Recession?
Dear Uptight Seattleite, What should I do when one of those kids with a clipboard leaps into my…
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Puget Sound Symphony
Not above wearing a car engine filter on his head on the podium (though I cant recall what…
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James Stewart Retropsective
Written by Moss Hart and George S. Kauffman, the stage hit You Can’t Take It With You was…