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Got a Problem With My Raw Milk, Buddy?
Dear Uptight Seattleite, I’m going to sell my Subaru and get a Prius. Could you please congratulate me?…
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Seattle Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival
In 1997, the Seattle Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival hosted the creation of the worlds longest single…
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Short Films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Distinguished by their inventive mix of fiction and documentary modes, Apichatpong’s short eccentric narratives sparkle with fleeting natural…
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Girl Power Hour
Weve all known the girl with long, unwashed hair and hemp everywhere whos never shaved anything anywhere and…
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David Hajdu
In his The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America (Farrar, Straus & Giroux,…
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Vertical Ethiopia
There are riots in Kenya, and the glaciers are melting off Mount Kilimanjaro. So author Majka Burhardt and…
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Sugar
Ryan Fleck and Anna Bodens Sundance standout Sugar gets as much right about baseball as any movie Ive…
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Mark Kozelek
Middle age is not a good place for 90s college rockers to be. As the creative force behind…
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The Animals at Night Rain Falls on Asphalt (In Spades) Better suited for relaxing with a martini than…
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Oscar Tuazon & Eli Hansen
A pair of two-man (two-brother, to be precise) exhibits explore temporary shelters, found objects, and utopian architecture. One:…
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Happily Ever After? II
Turns out Rapunzel was letting her hair down for more guys than the prince. The brothers Grimm initially…
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Image from BBC NewsThat’s Moscow, Russia this time. A gay rights group
Image from BBC NewsThat’s Moscow, Russia this time. A gay rights group will be marching in the Russian…
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Judy Gold
Women are funny. Very funnyto put a sock in Christopher Hitchens recent contrarian bit in Vanity Fair. And…
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Muriel
Alain Resnais’ Muriel (1963) is an absorbing portrait of a restless French culture, riven by both the memory…
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Elatia Pearl
Elatia Pearl pounced on the dated pile of National Geographic magazines lying neglected on the free table at…
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Dalai Lama-orama
Tenzin Gyatso, revered from age 2 as the 14th incarnation of the Bodhisattva (enlightened soul) of Compassion, will…
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Dategirl in the Flesh
Every week you appeal to her for romantic and sexual advice. Every week she dispenses sound, savvy instructions…
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Noodle
Concluding this years Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Noodle suffers from a too-cutesy name that belies a serious subject:…
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Alien
This is Ridley Scott’s 2003 director’s cut of the sci-fi classic, which hardly needed improvement back in 1979,…
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Marjane Satrapi
Before winning every single prize for comics imaginable, Satrapi seemed destined for none as a girl growing up…