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Vinegar Tom
Caryl Churchills 1976 play alternates between scenes of 17th-century witch hunts and songs of the present. Its less…
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Zeitgeist: The Films of Our Times
The lines will be long for the new 007 flick, and holiday movie season begins on Thanksgiving. If…
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Claire Cowie: 12 Views
Meerkats reign over the animal kingdom and human heads sprout like weeds in the ground in the wacky…
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Sherman Alexie & Ellen Forney
Our city’s most famous writer won his first National Book Award for his young adult novel The Absolutely…
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Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq
With our history-making election and economic crisis dominating the headlines, Iraq has slipped from most of our minds.…
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John Updike
Im stationed at roughly the 35-yard mark in the football-field newsroom at Bloomberg corporate headquarters in New York,…
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Paul Bannick: The Owl and the Woodpecker
First of all, lets consider the title of this ornithology/photo album: The Owl and the Woodpecker (Mountaineers Books,…
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Garth Stein
After Oprah, having a display at Starbucks may be the most effective way to launch a book. Mount…
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Glen Denny: Yosemite in the Sixties
Photographer Glen Denny was there in Californias Yosemite Valley when new hardware and techniques opened up Half Dome…
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Carlene Carter
The product of country-music icons June Carter Cash and Carl Smith, songwriter Carlene Carter initially attempted to distance…
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Henry Owings: Chunklet
For those born to rock, ready to rock, or hoping to rock sometime in the near future, Grammy-winning…
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Changing Form
The most popular viewpoint in the city is often a bore for kids. Whenever I walk up to…
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Kathleen Edwards
Alt-country songbird Kathleen Edwards may not have grown up anywhere near country musics American mecca, but who says…
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Frank Rich
Nice timing, Frank. After the Democratic sweep last week, New York Times columnist Frank Rich should have plenty…
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Warren Miller: Children of Winter
Even without the curse or blessing of El Niño or La Niña, skiers can expect higher gas prices…
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Cliff Mass: The Weather of the Pacific Northwest
Everybody talks about the weather, but how many of us are actually doing something about it? UW professor…
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Detroit Blues
An inner-city oil wells the MacGuffin in a political polemic. Also: PNBs New Works and So Many Words.
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The Shadowy Complications of Guy Love
Dear Uptight Seattleite, What office supplies should we re-order? Co-working Carl Dear Carl, I’m going to back a…
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Richard Barnes: Animal Logic
Many photographers have a museum fetish. They like to reframe what others have put in a frameand how…
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John Hodgman
Everyones favorite Mac pitchman and The Daily Show guest started out in book publishing. In a volume whose…