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Fuco Uedo and Esao Andrews

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Fuco Uedo and Esao Andrews

Depicting strange sexual acts and fetishes, Japanese shunga art was popular during the 16th and 17th centuries. You…

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S2

In Edward Mast’s futuristic play, the future looks much like the present, except that people wear funny clothes…

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Medea Knows Best

Major props to Nebunele (“little crazies”) Theatre for their major prop: a giant TV screen, complete with volume…

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The Fisher Ensemble

Garrett Fisher’s operas—for lack of a better term—are often mythic explorations of individuals in conflict with larger forces…

I Am My Own Wife

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I Am My Own Wife

The Pulitzer- and Tony-winning I Am My Own Wife had a long and complicated road to Seattle. Originally…

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The American String Project

What’s more fun than playing chamber music with friends? Convening a whole orchestra’s worth of friends. Bassist Barry…

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Red Lights

In Cédric Kahn’s strange, suspenseful 2004 Red Lights, Jean-Pierre Darroussin plays a henpecked husband to Carole Bouquet. During…

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Some people know wine and cheese. I know zombie movies. And nowzombie

Some people know wine and cheese. I know zombie movies. And now—zombie theater. Qui Nguyen’s Living Dead in…

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Mark Morris Dance Company

Last week, a group of scholars spent an enjoyable evening picking apart the different elements of Mark Morris’…

Dutch artist Ron van der Ende, who was born in Delft (home

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Dutch artist Ron van der Ende, who was born in Delft (home

Dutch artist Ron van der Ende, who was born in Delft (home of the famous blue porcelain dishware),…

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As Mochipet, Daly City, Cali’s David Y. Wang is a man who

As Mochipet, Daly City, Cali’s David Y. Wang is a man who wears apurple dinosaur costume on stage,…

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Photo by Meghan PetersMinus the BearWhen: Thursday, May 8Where: The Showbox at

Photo by Meghan PetersMinus the BearWhen: Thursday, May 8Where: The Showbox at the MarketWhen I saw Minus the…

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Trannyshack Seattle hosted by Heklina & Ursula Android, DJ Baby J

In last year’s Seattle TrannyShack preview I let you in on a few “always” for the first time…

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The Dirtbombs, Dan Sartain, Terrible Twos

Detroit’s Dirtbombs are back with their first full-length in five years. That’s big news for Mick Collins fans;…

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NOFX, No Use for a Name, American Steel

Don’t go looking for NOFX to slow down or change things up now that they’re marking 25 years…

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The Bottle Rockets, Massy Ferguson (CD release)

During the Bottle Rockets’ 2006 album Zoysia, Brian Henneman sang his heart was “better than broken, not as…

Dutch artist Ron van der Ende, who was born in Delft (home

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Dutch artist Ron van der Ende, who was born in Delft (home

Dutch artist Ron van der Ende, who was born in Delft (home of the famous blue porcelain dishware),…

Pity poor magic. Even when it escapes the sideshow ghetto of ventriloquism

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Pity poor magic. Even when it escapes the sideshow ghetto of ventriloquism

Pity poor magic. Even when it escapes the sideshow ghetto of ventriloquism and the geek tent, it still…

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Raj Patel

As an idealistic college frosh choking on tear gas during the 1999 WTO protests, I only wish I’d…

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Without getting into a lot of acoustic arcana about how and why,

Without getting into a lot of acoustic arcana about how and why, the natural trumpet—the instrument’s version 1.0,…