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Shakespeare on Film

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Shakespeare on Film

Stephanie Shine, George Mount, and other members of the Seattle Shakespeare Company will provide introductions for these seven…

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The War Party

Vincent Delaney’s politically driven play is wonderfully atypical of political theater. While so many of his contemporaries have…

Weezer

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Weezer

Much like Aerosmith when the band was all on drugs, or Elton John when he was still bi,…

Spring Awakening

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Spring Awakening

Franz Wedekind wasn’t exactly a hit playwright back in his day—though he might have been one of the…

Anatomy of a Murder

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Anatomy of a Murder

James Stewart defends the innocent again in this oft-overrated 1959 Otto Preminger legal drama, which continues to catch…

Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson

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Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson

Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq offers just that. Scenes from Najaf, Baghdad, and Basra…

Eddie Sunshine (left) singing on Hill X in Kent Mackenzie's THE EXILES (1961). Charles Burnett and Sherman Alexie present a Milestone Films release. The film was restored from the original 35mm materials by Ross Lipman and the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

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The Exiles

This forgotten 1961 indie is set largely in L.A.’s working-class Bunker Hill district, since razed for office towers.…

Dennis Lehane

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Dennis Lehane

Race, unions, the Spanish flu, God, and baseball—these are not the staples one associates with the acclaimed crime…

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The Esoterics

Thought to be the oldest surviving monotheistic texts in the world, the gathas, or hymns, of Zoroastrianism can…

David Macaulay

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David Macaulay

Ever wanted to know how you pass kidney stones? Of course you did. In The Way We Work:…

God’s Ear

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God’s Ear

A new play about a husband and wife coming to terms with the death of their child—sounds like…

April Brimer: Portraits of Curiosity

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April Brimer: Portraits of Curiosity

Looking at April Brimer’s portraits, you can’t help but wonder what is happening. Why is that girl’s popcorn…

Group Reading

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Group Reading

Richard Hugo House’s new writers-in-residence are Angela Jane Fountas, Ed Skoog, Cienna Madrid, and Storme Webber. The latter…

America’s Test Kitchen

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America’s Test Kitchen

Hosted by Christopher Kimball (you know, the guy in the bow tie), America’s Test Kitchen is a cross-media…

Susan Orlean

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Susan Orlean

Staff writer for The New Yorker, played by none other than Meryl Streep in the film adaptation of…

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Sex in Seattle, Episode 16

“The Space In-Between,” which easily could have been renamed “Who’s Your Daddy?”, maintains playwright Kathy Hsieh’s tradition of…

Your Hair, Your Neighbors, and a Tip for Tippers

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Your Hair, Your Neighbors, and a Tip for Tippers

Dear Uptight Seattleite, I changed my name to “Warrior,” but I can’t get anyone to call me that.…

Political (non)Science Film Series

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Political (non)Science Film Series

It’s not just Intiman that’s jumping on the campaign theme. This Political (non)Science series of eight old political…

Ian Rankin

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Ian Rankin

John Rebus is tired. He’s 60, divorced, his only child living far away, too fond of smoking and…

Princess Mononoke

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Princess Mononoke

Hayao Miyazaki’s epic 1999 fantasy is grounded in a mythology as richly complex as Disney’s fairy tales are…