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The Usual Suspects

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The Usual Suspects

From 1995, The Usual Suspects is cunning entertainment. The story of five felons who become a top-flight crew…

This 2008 comedythe third in Neil LaButes trilogy on looksis even more

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This 2008 comedythe third in Neil LaButes trilogy on looksis even more

This 2008 comedy—the third in Neil LaBute’s trilogy on looks—is even more vicious than its predecessor, Fat Pig.…

The Glass Menagerie

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The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams loved to write a dramatic Southern belle, and one of his first, Amanda, the matriarch of…

The Princess Bride

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The Princess Bride

From 1987, Rob Reiner’s charming PG-rated adaptation of the classic William Goldman children’s tale The Princess Bride is…

Eric Lane Barnes has put together a show thats surprisingly terrific, if

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Eric Lane Barnes has put together a show thats surprisingly terrific, if

Eric Lane Barnes has put together a show that’s surprisingly terrific, if a little rough. His story revolves…

Boogie Nights

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Boogie Nights

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights (1997) begins in 1978, when the new sexuality has hardened and been commodified…

Seattle AIDS Walk

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Seattle AIDS Walk

A five kilometer loop begins and ends in Volunteer Park, giving philanthropists/pedestrians a grand tour of Capitol Hill.…

Beard Papa's Cream Puff Munch-Off

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Beard Papa’s Cream Puff Munch-Off

Have you spent your life waiting for an eating competition that involves musically talented, heavily bearded men ferociously…

Isabel Wilkerson

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Isabel Wilkerson

Because we never grew cotton in this state, because we were admitted to the union 27 years after…

In the Heights

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In the Heights

You won’t leave In the Heights, the touring 2008 Tony-winner for Best Musical, humming any of composer/lyricist Lin-Manuel…

New Beginnings

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New Beginnings

Shawn Michael and Lauryn Grinnell are both popular salonists at Queen Anne’s plush Intermezzo. (Grinnell’s even done Lady…

Director's Choice

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Director’s Choice

PNB audiences last year adored Jiri Kylian’s Petit Mort (1991), from its salacious title to its dead sexy…

Arboring Film

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Arboring Film

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, Northwest Film Forum is screening 15 titles it’s helped birth. Beginning the “Arboring…

Duwamish Alive!

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Duwamish Alive!

Come down to Seattle’s forgotten south end river to help clear trash, make new friends, and discover a…

Grand Illusion "Casablanca" Fundraiser

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Grand Illusion “Casablanca” Fundraiser

The Nazis are winning. Europe is in disarray. Freedom is in retreat. Exiles and refugees are streaming into…

Richard Lewis

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Richard Lewis

Nobody pisses off Larry David like his longtime BFF Richard Lewis. The two met as 12-year-olds at a…

Koren Zailckas

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Koren Zailckas

Following the publication of her critically acclaimed 2005 memoir of drunkenness, Smashed, Koren Zailckas is sober, successful, and…

Scissor Sisters

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Scissor Sisters

Night Work, the third album from New York’s Scissor Sisters (the inimitably colorful quintet Jake Shears, Ana Matronic,…

Lyfe Jennings

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Lyfe Jennings

While spending just over a decade in prison for arson, Lyfe Jennings picked up a guitar and found…

Riverboat Gamblers

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Riverboat Gamblers

In the culinary world, finding that perfect balance of subtle sweetness and fiery spiciness takes years of practice…