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Local History, and the World’s Biggest Jackass
Dear Uptight Seattleite, You’re old enough, you must remember when we used to sit in people’s living rooms…
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The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
Your kids may never agree to music lessons again after viewing this 1953 treatment of the Dr. Seuss…
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“Empire”
As the U.S. occupation of Iraq drags on, as the inflamed Arab Middle East continues to assign that…
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The Corporals Diary
The name of Jonathan Santos has been mostly forgotten to Northwest readers, though he briefly made news in…
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Innovation and Imagination
A strange and colorful apartment building is opened to your prying eyes. Inside are cartoonish figuresfaceless humans and…
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Ladies of Laughter
Hosted by MOViN 92.5s hilarious morning personality Monti, and co-produced by Comedy Underground, the new FridaySaturday Ladies of…
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Journey, Heart, & Cheap Trick
Get ready for one helluva sing-along, Seattle: Heart, Journey, and Cheap Trick are touring together. Pinch me, I…
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The Wall of Death
Installed in 1993, The Wall of Death may occupy, after the Fremont Troll, the worst site for public…
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Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys probably has the most enviable music career of all the young female pop stars out there…
Eat Drink Toke
Now that the gray has returned and the visitors have left, we
Now that the gray has returned and the visitors have left, we introduce a bi-Weekly Voracious feature in…
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Fremont Oktoberfest
Yes, its the wrong month. But why quibble when there are 70 microbrews to drink? When is it…
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Dexter Filkins
New York Times war correspondent Dexter Filkins worries that he killed a guy, a U.S. soldier in Iraq,…
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Josh Blue
Josh Blue stood out on NBCs reality show Last Comic Standing because a) he had cerebral palsy, and…
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The June Carter Cash Project
Live Girls! presents three original one-act plays by women inspired by the music of June Carter. All the…
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The Vertical Hour
I dont see many plays in which the narrative of the characters lives is only incidental. But given…
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Outsourced
A SIFF favorite from 2007, Outsourced has all the charm and color of its made-in-India locations, yet its…
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Red Heroine
This silent Chinese martial arts film from 1929, originally part of a lost action serial, is accompanied live…
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Metropolitan Opera at the Movies
On Wed., Nov. 19 at 7 p.m., an encore performance of John Adams’ Doctor Atomic, his dramatization of…
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Music of Olivier Messiaen
Bird calls and Hindu rhythms, chaos and tunefulness, Hollywood harmonies and modes of limited transpositionthe music of Olivier…