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Twin Sister
The young Long Island quintet Twin Sister’s crystalline In Heaven was one of last year’s most exquisite pop…
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Hellboy
You can never have too many tentacles in a movie, or too many Nazis. The 2004 comic-book adaptation…
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Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival
Among the 21 short films being screened in two packages, Andrew Bowler’s Time Freak has the distinction of…
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Body Heat 4: Safeword
Classcadia’s latest at ETG brings San Francisco duo Safeword’s brand of sexy, insinuating tech-house for what’s sure to…
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(500) Days of Summer
Can there be a thing as too much cute? This is the dilemma for 2009’s Summer (also the…
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Los Campesinos!
The Welsh family Campesinos! is touring on the back of their fourth album, last year’s Hello Sadness, an…
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Suzanne Opton
After nine years, over 4,000 military deaths, and thousands more injuries, the Iraq War is finally over. Soon…
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Justin Sloe
As one-third of LA’s Droog, Justin Sloe makes appealingly weird, warping deep house; expect a fine set of…
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The Dusty 45s
Seattle rockabilly roots troupe The Dusty 45s gather up some of their closest friends for a benefit show…
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Hieroglyphics
This time, the usually-nine-count veteran Oakland rap group is touring sans a few members (notably the highly-identifiable cartoon-voiced…
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Don Hertzfeldt
Unspeakable violence afflicts the stick-figure characters drawn by animator Don Hertzfeldt, whose Oscar-nominated 2000 short Rejected includes the…
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Nada Surf
At the end of January, Barsuk Records released longtime indie rock heroes Nada Surf’s sixth LP, The Stars…
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Jennifer Egan
Rock lit is on the rise. Soon after Patti Smith’s memoir Just Kids won the 2010 National Book…
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Jonathan Evison
In our present age of irony and gimmick lit, Bainbridge Island writer Jonathan Evison has bravely set out…
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Team America: World Police
This gleefully gory, vulgar 2004 flick—co-written by South Park cranks Trey Parker and Matt Stone and starring “an…
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Coriolanus
Seattle Shakespeare’s production effectively contemporizes the tale of professional warrior Caius Martius (later dubbed “Coriolanus,” magnificently played like…
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Seattle Dance Project
Seattle Dance Project’s newest work, Brahms Afoot, harks back to other iconic stagings of his beautiful waltzes by…
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Gift of Gab
Peerless lyricist Gift of Gab–real name Timothy Parker–has seen his share of highs and lows. From surgery, rehab,…
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Troy Gua
Don’t hug me, bra. Out-of-towners and transplants always complain about the “Seattle Nice” freeze-out effect; and though Troy…
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Attila
You may not know whom to root for in Verdi’s 1846 Attila. Though the titular Hun is planning…