Arts & Culture
When they first meet, George (Stan Gill) and Doris (Laura Hanson) are
When they first meet, George (Stan Gill) and Doris (Laura Hanson) are both staying at a hotel sans…
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Circus Tracks
Maybe it was because I was one of the thousands who trekked out to Marymoor Park a few…
Arts & Culture
Captive Creatures
Erin Frost is a beast. In her stunning new series of self-portraits, Captive Creatures (on display through June…
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in Night and Day: Burlesque in the Workplace
Would I ever wear fishnets and pasties to work? Im not sure it would go over so well,…
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World Wide Knit in Public Day
My first learning-to-knit project was born of the desire to spend an entire couchbound Saturday watching television guilt-free,…
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Finish Line Festival
Dont worry: If you get a flat pedaling up one of the steep, infamous Eastside hills during the…
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Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is everywhere these days: knighted by the Queen of England; playing Helen Hunts OB/GYN in Then…
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Talib Kweli
The offspring of two college professors, Brooklyn-hailing MC Talib Kweli is known for his sociopolitical observations and witty…
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This Place Is a Prison
Pigeons have sex each morning outside the window of my First Hill closet/studio, which I really cant afford.…
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The Commodores
Clear the dance floor yallHoss in the house! The Brick House, that is. Anyone whos been to my…
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The Wackness
Jonathan Levines The Wackness was the most inimitably Sundance-y film at Sundance this year, from its self-consciously irreverent…
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The 54-Hour Improvisation
If youre the sort of person who just cant get enough improv, your seemingly bottomless appetite is about…
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A Marvelous Party
Noël Coward is known for his plays, wit, and lavish lifestyle. What many forgetoutside geeky musical-theater circlesis that…
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The Dhamma Brothers
Returning from May, this slow-moving documentary puts a group of maximum-security prison inmates through the rigors of a…
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Iraq in Fragments
Local director James Longley’s Oscar-nominated 2006 documentary was deftly shaped from two years of guerilla reportage on the…
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Alls Well That Ends Well
Seattle Shakespeare Company has labeled this a romantic comedy, though romance is rather an afterthought preceded by reluctance,…
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12 Minutes Max
If youve ever wondered how to choreograph the here and the now of life in Japan (per dancer…
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Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
A year before the notorious 2006 World Cup head-butt that ended his career in disgrace, this documentary followed…
Arts & Culture
Seattle Symphony
Trying to keep track of whether Stalin considered Hitler an ally or an enemy, in the days leading…
Film
SIFF Week 4: Picks & Pans
Russian mobsters, Hong Kong gangsters, murder in Italy, sex tourism in Nepal, and sheep rustling in Sardiniaits an…