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Live from the HUT

Wing-It Productions’ live-action variety radio show broadcasts a gritty blend of 1940’s noir drama and hot, modern improv…

Angels in America

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Angels in America

Decidedly the more exciting half of Angels. Yes, Millennium Approaches has drug-induced trips to Antarctica, an AIDS-stricken gay-bashing…

My Custom Van

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My Custom Van

Michael Ian Black, best known for his frequent (constant?) appearances on I Love the ’80s, now makes his…

Bite of Seattle

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Bite of Seattle

As the smells of roasting meat, fried delights, and sweet libations waft through downtown, the masses will be…

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Mother Courage and Her Children

Amid the cruelty of war, Mother Courage hangs on tightly to what she knows best: capitalism. Soldiers may…

The Last Polar Bear

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The Last Polar Bear

That damn global warming: First it made the weather wacky. Now it’s melted enough Arctic ice to threaten…

Kirkland Uncorked

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Kirkland Uncorked

I acquired a taste for good wine during my four years at prestigious Washington State University. Or at…

Wyclef Jean

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Wyclef Jean

Many socially conscious rappers started out with a message and ended up rhyming about money, hos, and Dom…

I Die Daily

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I Die Daily

You tell me what Matthew Barney is up to in his five Cremaster flicks. Or let documentary filmmaker…

Bruce Lee 35th Anniversary

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Bruce Lee 35th Anniversary

“Why doesn’t somebody pull out a .45 and, bang, settle it?” asked Bruce Lee in his martial-arts classic…

Old School

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Old School

Let the sweater puppies out of the pound, the f-bombs out of the armory, and Will Ferrell’s mashed-potato…

Planet of the Apes

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Planet of the Apes

“Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!” Need we say more about our favorite post-apocalyptic…

The Jesus and Mary Chain

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The Jesus and Mary Chain

From Scotland they came, the Reid brothers, shuddering the plaster off dorm-room walls with their 1985 debut Psychocandy.…

Seattle Bon Odori

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Seattle Bon Odori

During my childhood in Japan, I’d find refuge at my grandmother’s because, unlike my parents, she didn’t give…

The Foo Fighters

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The Foo Fighters

The day before my band’s second show, I got a call from SW blogger Krist Novoselic: “Do you…

Good Bye To All That

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Good Bye To All That

Eminent Northwest poet David Wagoner will join fellow writers Todd Faulkner and Cody Walker for their last readings…

Crank It Up

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Crank It Up

No longer Seattle’s dumping ground, South Park is about to experience something the likes of which it’s never…

Oceanic

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Oceanic

Picasso had his blue period. Hugh Hefner had his blonde period. Through August 11, “Oceanic: Nautical Adventures and…

Boston/Styx

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Boston/Styx

Back in high school during the ’90s, we used to ride around in a sweet old red Fiero…

Disconnect

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Disconnect

Photographer Adam Satushek isn’t a tree hugger. “I never went out planning to shoot trees and houses,” he…