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If Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel are worried about what the hip-hop world thinks of their group…

Arts in Nature Festival

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Arts in Nature Festival

Are they tree-huggers? Granola eaters? Flower children? No, the more than 100 artists performing in this weekend’s Arts…

Radiohead

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Radiohead

Hard to believe there once was a time in the mid-’80s when Radiohead was just another vagabond group…

Spirited Away

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Spirited Away

Hayao Miyazaki’s 2002 Spirited is essentially a kids’ fairy tale, rich in enchantment and shape-changing, with a dreamy…

Andrea Change (Jen Moon) takes note as robot companion Trickle (LaChrista Borgers) teaches Johnny (Daniel Christensen) manners.

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Reviews: interlace [falling star],The Nexus Project

Campy sci-fi (almost) and a dozen shorts for charity.

Aida

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Aida

Ethiopian captive princess falls for Egyptian warrior captor: No way this is going to work out. You wish…

News

As a System Administrator, I hate spam with the heat of a

As a System Administrator, I hate spam with the heat of a thousand blazing suns. Spam runs the…

Water Mover

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Water Mover

Unbuilt lots, even sloped blackberry patches sitting on unstable soil, are fast disappearing in Seattle. Particularly in Fremont,…

James Bond Movies

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James Bond Movies

Sean Connery is honored with a Sunday series of old 007 flicks, to be followed by music and…

A Prairie Home Companion

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A Prairie Home Companion

If you listen to his critics, Garrison Keillor is the most boring entertainer in the world. Superficially, there’s…

Shrek

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Shrek

What’s big, green, and costs millions of dollars to put in a theater? The answer, of course, is…

“You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello”

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“You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello”

Seattle has a muscular, well-known crop of male rock photographers, but when our Hannah Levin needs a last-minute…

Dirk Wittenborn

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Dirk Wittenborn

As a literary device, pharmaceuticals have been woefully underused. (Has it really been more than 20 years since…

Shaun Kardinal

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Shaun Kardinal

We all have some odd guilty pleasure in the bathroom—the hygiene habit we don’t tell anyone about. Mine…

Japanese Monster Movies

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Japanese Monster Movies

You get twice the monster mayhem for the same price, and that price is free, at this new…

Harry Shearer

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Harry Shearer

“Smithers? Come here—I need you to rub some lotion on this rash. I think an orphan rubbed against…

David B.

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David B.

Known by his nom de ’toon David B., Parisian author-illustrator Pierre-François Beauchard is visiting town as part of…

“Spray It, Don’t Say It”

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“Spray It, Don’t Say It”

Kick-ass graffiti artist Greg Boudreau uses stencils and spray paint to create voluptuous Brigitte Bardot–esque female landscapes that…

Amanda Boyden

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Amanda Boyden

Both Amanda Boyden’s author bio and her first novel, Pretty Little Dirty, rely heavily on her rough-and-ragged blue-collar…

World Boomerang Championships

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World Boomerang Championships

When he steps up to throw at the World Boomerang Championships (which runs Aug. 18-27), Steve Kavanaugh will…