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Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg have built their 2007 buddy-cop homage-parody on everything from The Wicker Man to…

Now Serving Cheesecake

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Now Serving Cheesecake

Guys didn’t drool over stick-thin giraffes like Giselle Bündchen or Heidi Klum in the ’50s. They wanted bodacious…

George Michael

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George Michael

Pot busts, bathroom misadventures, napping in cars while stoned, weight gain, questionable fashion sense—is any offense bad enough…

Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival

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Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival

Put on your sailor’s cap and your best peg leg for the 32nd annual Lake Union Wooden Boat…

Storm v. Liberty

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Storm v. Liberty

Looks aren’t everything. Case in point: Seattle Storm shooting guard Katie Gearlds. Blessed with the sweetest three-point stroke…

Seattle Chamber Music Society

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Seattle Chamber Music Society

It’s hard to come up with legitimate gripes about the format of the smoothly functioning, fan-base-satisfying summer concerts…

The African Queen

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The African Queen

Where better to see this outdoor movie than near South Lake Union and the Wooden Boat Center? For…

Bond...and Beyond

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Bond…and Beyond

The new James Bond film isn’t expected until November 7, and it has a really stupid name, Quantum…

Tour de France

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Tour de France

Stage 4 of the Tour de France is a loop of about 19 miles, which elite riders—dispatched one-by-one,…

Sodom’s all-boy cast, with O’Furniture and Armani in front.

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Opening Nights

Summer camp: Adventures in Mating, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, and Zanna, Don't!

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Hal Ashby Retrospective

Concluding this series is the political satire Being There (1979), based on the Jerzy Kosinski novel, which stars…

Marié Digby

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Marié Digby

Singer-songwriter Marié Digby became a Web sensation by posting homemade videos of herself playing acoustic versions of top-40…

Garth Stein

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Garth Stein

Thanks in part to his novel being nationally featured at Starbucks, the local author’s The Art of Racing…

Lake Union Civic Orchestra

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Lake Union Civic Orchestra

Naturally, the reign of Dubya has made us all wary of careers being passed from father to son—but…

A Guide to Visitors

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A Guide to Visitors

How would you respond after witnessing the horrific death of a woman knocked under a bus? You could…

Girlfight

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Girlfight

In Karyn Kusama’s remarkable 2000 Sundance award-winning debut film, Diana (Michelle Rodriguez) initially comes across as a typical…

Superbad

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Superbad

Judd Apatow’s 2007 Superbad is about a couple of chronically unpopular best friends (Jonah Hill and Michael Cera)…

True Colors Tour

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True Colors Tour

Follow the rainbow and you’ll discover that at the end lies Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors Tour. We’re talking…

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Six names guaranteed to make you laugh: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and…

The Trials of Henry Kissinger

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The Trials of Henry Kissinger

This snappy 2002 BBC documentary doesn’t quite convince me of its thesis—drawn from Christopher Hitchens’ elegantly vituperative Harper’s…