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Fall Arts: Teach Me Tonight!

With expert advice from our favorite artists, here's Seattle Weekly's Instruction Manual 2008.

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How to Enjoy Fall Arts

Our master events calendar: what to do, practically every night, from now to the end of the year.

The Rich, a Bridge, and a Harshed Mellow

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The Rich, a Bridge, and a Harshed Mellow

Dear Uptight Seattleite, Can we talk about the word “underwhelmed”? It sums up everything I hate about this…

Death becomes them: Friedman and Chamberlin.

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He Said, She Said

ACT’s Project Orpheus and Eurydice offer mirror images of the same myth.

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Letters to the Editor

More on rural King County environmental squabbles and Beacon Hill safety issues.

New Music From Ra Ra Riot and N.E.R.D.

Music

New Music From Ra Ra Riot and N.E.R.D.

Both acts are pimping their latest wares in town this week.

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In the Sawtooths

The characters in Dano Madden’s story of male bonding are like the Odd Triple: one is type A,…

Jewel

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Jewel

Jewel has had a hell of a musical career for someone barely into her mid-30s. The folk singer-songwriter…

Don’t You Fucking Look at Me: Surveillance in the 21st Century

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Don’t You Fucking Look at Me: Surveillance in the 21st Century

We’ve got red-light cams at traffic intersections (unless Tim Eyman stops them), and some argue the police should…

Milos Forman’s Formative Films

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Milos Forman’s Formative Films

Long before he won Oscars for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus, Milos Forman was just…

Bellevue Collection’s Fashion Week

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Bellevue Collection’s Fashion Week

Which is more stylish—206 or 425? Eastsiders have their say at the Bellevue Collection’s Fashion Week (through Sept.…

16th annual Salmon Homecoming

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16th annual Salmon Homecoming

Saying goodbye to summer is always rough, but saying hello to salmon makes it a whole lot easier.…

Julie Blackmon: Domestic Vacations

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Julie Blackmon: Domestic Vacations

Despite growing up in a place where it sometimes snows in June, I never once had the pleasure…

Arts & Culture

Election Show 2008

Wing-It’s election show returns with a vengeance as incumbent President Jon Axell and his competitors, John Boyle, Jen…

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains

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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains

Diane Lane and Laura Dern star in this 1981 cult favorite, an avowed influence upon many female rockers…

This Is Spinal Tap

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This Is Spinal Tap

Turn it up to 11! The original 1984 “rockumentary” returns, still the best film Rob Reiner has ever…

Janeane Garofalo

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Janeane Garofalo

Most female comics are merely outspoken, not confrontational. That’s not the case with Janeane Garofalo. She’s up in…

Donnie Darko

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Donnie Darko

It’s with some skepticism that we greet 20 more minutes of 2001’s Darko in the dreaded director’s cut…

Day of Music

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Day of Music

Disarming those who groused about classical-music elitism, people lined up around the block to get into Benaroya Hall’s…

The Nylons

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The Nylons

Admitting a passion for the Nylons is akin to saying you worship Billy Joel (which I do) or…