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Maria Semple
Transplanted to the Northwest from Hollywood, where she wrote for shows including Arrested Development, Maria Semple now treats…
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The Believer Love Songs for Lamps Cassette Release
The current July/August issue of Dave Eggers’ San Francisco lit mag The Believer is the Music Issue, and…
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The Devil, Probably
There is a moment at the end of Robert Bresson’s 1977 film when Charles (Antoine Monnier), a young…
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Mom Died and Life Sucks
Dear Dategirl, I’m a 35-year-old single woman who was transferred from the East Coast to Seattle about three…
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Roman Holiday
Audrey Hepburn stars in this 1953 romance, for which she earned an Oscar playing a princess who dumps…
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Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Twenty-six-year-old Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews is proof that the tradition of New Orleans-style horn music is not something…
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Mariners Vs. Indians
Now Ichiro-less and suddenly lukewarm in the AL West, the Mariners should be able to mount a serious…
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The Cult
With the onslaught of seminal releases from 1987 being celebrated this year, we shouldn’t overlook the 25th anniversary…
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Rent
There’s much to recommend about this revival of the Pulitzer-winning 1996 musical, including a scrappy, mostly local cast…
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Rick Bass
Rick Bass cares very, very much about the rhinoceros. Yet his travel account The Black Rhinos of Namibia…
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Viking Days
Pancakes (served from 9 a.m.-noon) are the traditional draw to the weekend celebration of Scandinavia that is Viking…
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Linda’s Fest
Linda’s Fest is a free evening concert in the parking lot behind Capitol Hill mainstay Linda’s Tavern. Now…
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KISS
It’s fitting that KISS is touring with Mötley Crüe, because KISS is basically to thank/hate for making the…
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Norah Jones
It would have been easy for Norah Jones to settle into a comfortable career of easy adult contemporary…
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The Shining
Wait, they’re going to make a prequel to The Shining? Does Stephen King really need the money that…
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Turandot
Of Puccini’s two forays into Orientalism, Madama Butterfly is the one that makes a stab (ha ha) at…
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Poliça
This Minneapolis electronic R&B quintet, barely a year old, is riding a big wave of buzz, but with…
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Bottle Rocket
And thus, in 1996, was the Wes Anderson juggernaut launched upon unsuspecting white urbanites who thereafter, by indie…
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Jane McGonigal
“My number-one goal in life is to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. I’ve…
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Jenny Lawson
Jenny Lawson’s new Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) is by turns hysterically funny, endearingly…