Arts & Culture
Word Is Out
The extraordinary, groundbreaking documentary Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives, first released in 1978less than…
Music
The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows
The Fall of Troy / Wednesday, March 31 After nine years and four full-length albums—not to mention a…
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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 3/31 Stage: Confessions Under Duress If you despise exposition in plays—you know, when a character tells his…
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Art Thiel
Youve heard of coffee-table books, but have you heard of bathroom books? Were talking about the sort of…
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Donnie Darko
Its 1988 as the Darko family worries about middle child Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal), whos apparently a paranoid schizophrenic.…
News
Did That “Anus” Surprise You?
Dear Uptight Seattleite, I can’t take free samples at the grocery store without feeling awkward. Am I obliged…
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David Laskin
Americas tiny armed forces were a joke before its belated entry into World War I. A draft was…
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Heaven
Heaven, for Minneapolis choreographer Morgan Thorson, is a place that imperfect people labor to reach. And the nine…
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Innocence Lost
Though Three Dollar Bill Cinema is promoting its Innocence Lost retrospective series as four nights of not-to-be-missed queer…
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Nellie McKay
Fast-rising young nu-jazz vocalist and songwriter Nellie McKay is Doris Days biggest fan. She reviewed a Day biography…
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Dreamgirls
If youre buying a ticket to the current revival tour of Dreamgirls, the splashy 1981 musical about a…
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Blue Scholars
Feeling like a scaled-down version of The Program the five-night hip-hop showcase orchestrated by the Blue Scholars…
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Black Tusk
Rugged and shout-y, the Savannah, Georgia trio Black Tusk is bent on playing metal that plows blindly ahead…
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Black Breath
There aren’t many Northwest metal bands poised quite so naturally for national success as the men of Black…
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Clinton Fearon & The Boogie Brown Band
Before relocating to Seattle in the late 80s, the Jamaican-born reggae artist Clinton Fearon spent nearly two decades…
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The Crocodile’s One Year Anniversary Party
The first year of nearly any new endeavor tends to fly by. This is the case with the…
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Jason Collett
Toronto vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Jason Collett is member of Broken Social Scene, but thats not really so special…
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The Slackers
Remember when ska was crazy popular, oh, about 12 years ago? The Mighty Mighty Bosstones were telling people…
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Bear In Heaven
We dont automatically associate the Deep South with spacey, synthy rock music, but thats exactly what we get…
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Scout Niblett
Based on the simplest description, British-born Scout Niblett should be much more popular than she is. A stripped-down…