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Mickey Avalon
On his 2006 self-titled debut, Mickey Avalon rhymed about the underbelly of streetlife rap had yet to explore…
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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 8/25 Opera: Jealous Much? Verdi was all but retired when librettist Arrigo Boito gave him a pared-down,…
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LasaRose
LasaRose’s MySpace tagline is “Funky Folk para todos!” And that’s enough for me. If you managed to miss…
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House
Cult movies should be mistakes, not intentional. In his 1977 feature debut, theres no indication that Nobuhiko Obayahshi…
Music
The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows
Rufus Wainwright / Wednesday, August 25 See An Incomplete History. Wavves / Wednesday, August 25 Nathan Williams of…
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s
A certain kind of classic for a certain kind of viewer. Audrey Hepburn stars in the 1961 adaptation…
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Evergreen State Fair
Perhaps even more synonymous with the end of summer than Labor Day is the Evergreen State Fair. The…
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Big Day of Play
School starts up again in just a few weeks. But as disheartening as that may be for the…
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The Mystic Sons of Morris Graves
Morris Graves died nine years ago. Or did he?!? Thats whatll be determined tonight by The Mystic Sons…
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Clay Throwdown!
With its financial and management problems behind it (we hope), BAM is launching an ambitious new show with…
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Margaret Cho
Its easy to be cynical about comics releasing music albums, thanks to cringe-inducing efforts by the likes of…
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Night Market
Traditional Asian markets are held in the cool, evening hours, with street vendors hawking food, drink, and entertainment.…
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Barnum’s FUNundrum!
Nineteenth-century circus owner P.T. Barnum had an enterprising spirit, silver tongue, and anything-goes approach to advertisinghe allegedly coined…
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Otello
Verdi was all but retired when librettist Arrigo Boito gave him a pared-down, fat-free version of Shakespeares Othello…
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Molly Epstein
The name of Epstein’s show, “We Walk Wounded: Jewelry & Objects About Healing,” is a mouthful. An artist…
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Frankenocchio
Puppet-maker Brian Koosers morbid fable returns for a third run. When God cuts the strings of angelic marionette…
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Kim Sciarrone
The show “Memory” couples the white-on-white sculpture of Yun Hong Chang with the photos of Kim Sciarrone, also…
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Eat My Shorts
The six to 11 short plays on any given evening of this production were submitted from around the…
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A former auto body shop, Suyama Space is sited smack in the
A former auto body shop, Suyama Space is sited smack in the middle of the architectural offices of…
Arts & Culture
Orange Crush
Local artist Eugene Parnell takes an amusing dig at the formaldehyde sharks of Damien Hirst with this considerably…