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Leighton Meester and Check In The Dark
Blair Waldorf’s wild adventures in romance on season 5 of Gossip Girl have finally wound down, but that…
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Hilary Hahn & Hauschka
A violinist of Hilary Hahn’s popularity and acclaim could easily be resting on her laurels—content with a very…
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Skelator
One of the best local metal bands around, Skelator coalesces wailing vocals, killer guitar riffs, and monstrous drums…
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The Tall Man
If you took the Ian Birk-John Williams shooting and moved it to an island off the coast of…
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Northwest Folklife Festival
With last year’s attendance estimated at 275,000, the Northwest Folklife Festival is bigger than the ongoing SIFF (about…
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Yo, Son! 10th Anniversary
Mixed format DJ nights are one of the pillars of most any healthy hip-hop scene. The usually artist-rich…
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Xiu Xiu
Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart sings in a never-quite-breaking tremble, the sort of delivery that, say, early Bright Eyes…
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Mariners vs. Angels
Sure, Chone Figgins was an awful free-agent signing, arguably the worst in Mariners history. But Mariner fans will…
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Eirik Johnson
Returning home from several years Boston, UW-trained photographer Eirik Johnson soon set out for the woods of Oregon.…
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The Pharmacy
Vashon Island’s hottest rock band has already had a busy 2012, releasing the raucous Dig Your Grave EP…
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Ryan Purcell & the Last Round
Ryan Purcell writes songs that are evocative of the places Jason Aldean sings about in his self-explanatory Middle…
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Safety Not Guaranteed
“I love Aubrey Plaza,” a colleague recently told me about her desire to see Safety Not Guaranteed. Never…
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Deep End
Jerzy Skolimowski directed Deep End, a blithe but deceptive 1970 coming-of-age film about a teenager (John Moulder-Brown) crushing…
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Holiday
Holiday is a late addition to the GI’s Cary Grant tribute, the third of four films pairing him…
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Colum McCann
An Irishman living in New York, Colum McCann captured that city during a distant yet resonant era in…
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Pony Time
The party-rocking duo of Luke Beetham and Stacy Peck play this hometown show before embarking on a short…
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Justin Halpern
Okay, so maybe the William Shatner-starring TV adaptation of his book Shit My Dad Says didn’t find an…
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Best Coast
Beach-rocker Bethany Cosentino is touring in support of her highly anticipated second LP, the Jon Brion-produced The Only…
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The Pitmen Painters
Directed by Kurt Beattie, Lee Hall’s endearing hit about English coal miners during the 1930s-’40s who get turned…
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Damn Yankees
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross’ 1955 musical tells of the hapless, inept, cellar-dwelling Washington Senators and their Faustian…