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Seattle Pride Parade
Gratifyingly, the Seattle Pride Parade seems to be established downtown where it belongs, after years of internecine bickering…
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Nightwatching/Rembrandt’s J’Accuse
Peter Greenaway’s rarely screened Rembrandt’s J’Accuse (2008) and Nightwatching (2007) are essential and vital works of contemporary cinema…
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30/30 Butoh Dance Performance
The stereotype of butoh includes very, very serious dancers, covered in rice flour and doing painful movement really…
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Sandra Bernhard
What Sandra Bernhard does best is being herself—hence the new album and touring show, I Love Being Me,…
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The Men
This Brooklyn quartet has handled toothy noise punk, Zeppelin-like blues-country, and greasy dance-rock with equal aptitude over the…
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Hey Tranny It’s Tranny
Gay Pride is never short on trashy, flashy spectacle, and Nark Magazine-produced party Hey Tranny It’s Tranny (I…
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The B-52’s
Glitter on the mattress. Glitter on the highway. Glitter on the front porch. Glitter on the hallway. Gay…
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Jan Svankmajer: The Surreal Puppet Poet
Welcome to the uniquely surreal world of Czech animation genius Jan Svankmajer. Unsettling, often grotesque, always imaginative and…
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Pillow Talk
This nifty 1959 romantic comedy that more or less cemented Rock Hudson’s screen image. Cast opposite Doris Day…
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Anthony Swofford
Whatever happened to that Jarhead guy, Anthony Swofford, after the success of his 2003 Gulf War memoir and…
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Bill Frisell
The Beatles have the most covered and coveted songbook in the world, and the airwaves are so saturated…
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Possession
Think Rosemary’s Baby reimagined as David Cronenberg bio-horror through the lens of European art cinema. In the 1981…
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NW New Works Festival
Two weekends of fun are a given at the annual NW New Works Festival, only you have no…
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John Fogerty
In a week fraught with tribute acts, there’s none more authentic than John Fogerty paying tribute to himself.…
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Blue Velvet
On the innocuous surface of David Lynch’s unforgettably freaky 1986 Blue Velvet are Laura Dern and Kyle MacLachlan…
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Sol
With a knack for writing easily relatable, vaguely empowering songs, and an unfailing ear for crowd-pleasing pop production,…
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Brian Posehn
Brian Posehn has made a comedy career out of being underestimated. He’s a big galoot often lurking in…
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From Here to Eternity
SAM’s Pride Month tribute to Montgomery Clift continues with Fred Zinnemann’s 1953 adaptation of the sprawling James Jones…
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Vockah Redu
That Vockah Redu hasn’t produced a single noteworthy song—quick, name one!—is pretty much irrelevant to his appeal. Not…
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Secret Colors
Matt Lawson is the imposing, 6’7” guitarist/keyboardist of local swirl-rock outfit Stephanie; off band duty he moonlights as…