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Tad Carpenter
Illustrator and designer Tad Carpenter describes his work as being modern, with a bit of Saturday morning cartoons…
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Running Friday to Thursday this week, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) is a late-career classic from…
Music
Bumbershoot Recommendations: Sunday, Aug. 31
Sons and Daughters, Jakob Dylan, Strange Fruit, and more.
News
What Should We Do About the DNC?
Dear Uptight, So here it finally is, the Democratic Convention. What should we do? Anxious Annie Dear Annie,…
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Intimate Exchanges
The regrettable part of Intimate Exchanges is that the only people who can truly recognize the ambition of…
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Monsters of Accordion
To those who associate the keyed device with Guy Lombardo and Weird Al Yankovic, I reply that accordion…
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Summer of 68 Revisited
Depending on your generational perspective, 2008 is a good time to ask your parents, or tell your kids,…
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Tempest Burlesque
Some come for the artistry, some for the artistically-spinning fringe pasties. Ive been to the Moulin Rouge, and…
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The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
You can never go wrong adapting a story by Dick King-Smith, one of Englands finest writers for children.…
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Stronghold
The original UW campus downtown was once covered with old-growth timber, as was its present location when the…
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Rosanna Olson
A haunting image in This is Who I Am: Our Beauty in All Our Shapes and Sizes (Artisan,…
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Oasis
OK, Oasis assertion during the 90s that it was the best band in the world was a bit…
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Gay Softball World Series 2008
(Editors Note: Among our staff, Gavin Borchert knows very little about softball and Mike Seely knows very little…
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Last Hurrah of the Clementines
Remember when absurdity was something you watched on a stage and not on CNN? Leaving behind the depressing…
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Deborah Butterfield
Sculptor Deborah Butterfield attributes her love of horses to being born on the day of the 75th Kentucky…
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Leon de la Rosa
Its hard for me to hear the words video artist without thinking of The Big Lebowskis giggling David…
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Edwin McCain
Who hasn’t been to a post-1998 wedding in which the couple danced to Edwin McCain? The saxophone-drenched ballad…
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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…