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Local History, and the World’s Biggest Jackass

Dear Uptight Seattleite, You’re old enough, you must remember when we used to sit in people’s living rooms…

New Releases From Metallica and Tricky

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New Releases From Metallica and Tricky

Strengths and weaknesses.

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

Arts & Culture

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

Your kids may never agree to music lessons again after viewing this 1953 treatment of the Dr. Seuss…

"Empire"

Arts & Culture

“Empire”

As the U.S. occupation of Iraq drags on, as the inflamed Arab Middle East continues to assign that…

The Corporal’s Diary

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The Corporal’s Diary

The name of Jonathan Santos has been mostly forgotten to Northwest readers, though he briefly made news in…

Innovation and Imagination

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Innovation and Imagination

A strange and colorful apartment building is opened to your prying eyes. Inside are cartoonish figures—faceless humans and…

Ladies of Laughter

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Ladies of Laughter

Hosted by MOViN 92.5’s hilarious morning personality Monti, and co-produced by Comedy Underground, the new Friday–Saturday “Ladies of…

Journey, Heart, & Cheap Trick

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Journey, Heart, & Cheap Trick

Get ready for one helluva sing-along, Seattle: Heart, Journey, and Cheap Trick are touring together. Pinch me, I…

The Wall of Death

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The Wall of Death

Installed in 1993, The Wall of Death may occupy, after the Fremont Troll, the worst site for public…

Alicia Keys

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Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys probably has the most enviable music career of all the young female pop stars out there…

Eat Drink Toke

Now that the gray has returned and the visitors have left, we

Now that the gray has returned and the visitors have left, we introduce a bi-Weekly Voracious feature in…

Fremont Oktoberfest

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Fremont Oktoberfest

Yes, it’s the wrong month. But why quibble when there are 70 microbrews to drink? When is it…

Dexter Filkins

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Dexter Filkins

New York Times war correspondent Dexter Filkins worries that he killed a guy, a U.S. soldier in Iraq,…

Josh Blue

Arts & Culture

Josh Blue

Josh Blue stood out on NBC’s reality show Last Comic Standing because a) he had cerebral palsy, and…

Arts & Culture

The June Carter Cash Project

Live Girls! presents three original one-act plays by women inspired by the music of June Carter. All the…

The Vertical Hour

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The Vertical Hour

I don’t see many plays in which the narrative of the characters’ lives is only incidental. But given…

Outsourced

Arts & Culture

Outsourced

A SIFF favorite from 2007, Outsourced has all the charm and color of its made-in-India locations, yet it’s…

Red Heroine

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Red Heroine

This silent Chinese martial arts film from 1929, originally part of a lost action serial, is accompanied live…

Metropolitan Opera at the Movies

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Metropolitan Opera at the Movies

On Wed., Nov. 19 at 7 p.m., an encore performance of John Adams’ Doctor Atomic, his dramatization of…

Music of Olivier Messiaen

Arts & Culture

Music of Olivier Messiaen

Bird calls and Hindu rhythms, chaos and tunefulness, Hollywood harmonies and “modes of limited transposition”—the music of Olivier…