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Family Fourth at Lake Union
Not just an idle exercise in passive patriotism, The Family Fourth at Lake Union is now very much…
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Shaun of the Dead
Co-screenwriters Edgar Wright and Simon Peggs 2004 rom-zom-com Shaun of the Dead shows laudable imagination and irreverence. Shaun…
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Seven Samurai
One of the great pleasures in revisiting this action-filled 1954 masterpiece is how the seven different samurai will…
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NighTraiN
Watching NighTraiN open for Absolute Monarchs at the Comet a few months ago will undoubtedly go down as…
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Sondre Lerche
The Norwegian songwriter Sondre Lerche emerged a decade ago as a precocious and angelic-faced teenager with Faces Down,…
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Sonny and the Sunsets
The prolific San Francisco troubadour Sonny Smith spent much of 2010 working on 100 Records, a project in…
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Bill Callahan
Everyones allowed a past they dont care to mention, sings Bill Callahan on America!, the distortion-driven and overtly…
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My Morning Jacket
Over the last 12 years, My Morning Jacket have gone through the kind of perfect, organic growth that…
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Blonde Redhead
What unites two such disparate artists as perfectly symmetrical avant popsters Blonde Redhead and introspective bass music producer…
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Rubber
Quentin Dupieux’s thriller follows the exploits of a tire that figures out how to control its own motion…
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…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Trail of Dead, composed of Conrad Keely, Jason Reece, Autry Fulbright II, and Jamie Miller, got its first…
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Two Gallants
Looking back now, Two Gallants seem like one of those acts that come up ahead of a trend,…
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
In this 2009 stop-motion adaptation, Wes Anderson has added an existential layer to the protagonist of Roald Dahl’s…
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Dropkick Murphys
The spirited brand of Celtic punk-rock Dropkick Murphys have been playing for 15 years should be instantly recognizable…
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Suddenly, Last Summer
The love that dare not speak its name–here, the love for Spanish rent boys on sandy beaches–deeply infuses…
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Sol
Junes been a big month for Seattle rapper Solaside from being named to the Bumbershoot lineup, a long-time…
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Sweetgrass
Though the breathtaking vistas of Big Sky Country in Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylors unforgettable sheep-herding documentary come…
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ReSet
With a name like Whim Whim, you would think that Olivier Wevers newish dance company specializes in the…
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Daniel Beltrá
At the Seattle Aquarium’s indoor tidal-pool exhibit, kids are almost instinctively drawn to the colorful starfish, anemones, urchins,…
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Armistead Maupin
The ’70s are considered the Me Decade, but count author Armistead Maupin among those whose efforts made it…