Arts & Culture
This Week’s Critics’ Picks
Northwest Flower and Garden Show; Seattle Improvised Music Festival; author Anya Kamenetz.
Music
Top-Selling Records at Local Record Stores10.FOO FIGHTERS In Your Honor (RCA)9.SON VOLT
Top-Selling Records at Local Record Stores10.FOO FIGHTERS In Your Honor (RCA)9.SON VOLT Okemah (Sony Legacy)8.THE WHITE STRIPES Get…
Music
Wednesday, Nov. 24CakeThe deadpan Sacramento joke-rockers riffed on their own auto-copycat ways—ever
Wednesday, Nov. 24CakeThe deadpan Sacramento joke-rockers riffed on their own auto-copycat ways—ever notice how each album sounds a…
Music
Wednesday, March 9Bob Dylan + Merle Haggard + Amos LeeYou remember the
Wednesday, March 9Bob Dylan + Merle Haggard + Amos LeeYou remember the headliner—best songwriter ever, expanded what you…
News
Al Franken’s Sense
Fresh Air! Geov Parrish’s article made me smile [“Al Franken’s Sense,” May 4]. Geov is a straight-shootin’ truth-teller,…
Music
A Day in the Life
What goes on in Seattle's musical life over a 24-hour span? Seattle Weekly's music writers spent Friday, Oct.…
Music
CD Reviews
LYRICS BORN Later That Day (Quannum) Lyrics Born is figuring shit out, processing, venting, stressing like he made…
Music
Jazz Alley
Since it opened in a bare-bones storefront on University Avenue in 1979, Jazz Alley has been the great…
News
Dispatches From the Quagmire
Down-to-Earth Dispatches If only the dailies here would emulate Seattle Weekly‘s down-to-flesh-and-anguish reporting, as in your “Dispatches From…
News
Letters to the Editor
Kudos to Steve Lohse [“Wreck of the Martle,” June 16]. I was absolutely riveted by the story and…
Film
In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mysterious Life and Art of Henry Darger
Also: The Jacket, Travellers & Magicians.
Arts & Culture
Batman, BAM, and Sun
Wed Movie Talk about a dynamic duo. Director Christopher Nolan (Memento) and screenwriter David S. Goyer (Dark City)…
Music
Fiona Apple, Camper Van Chadbourne, and more.
VARIOUS ARTISTS, Tropicalia Essentials (Hip-O) A radical imbalance exists between the amount of press given Brazil’s late-’60s Tropicalia…
Arts & Culture
Happy 100th, Open Circle
A fringe theater celebrates a milestone. Plus: KING FM goes local, and a diva departs.
Music
Top-Selling Records at Local Record Stores
10. INDIA.ARIE Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationships (Umvd) 9. SNOW PATROL Eyes Open (A&M) 8. DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL…
News
Letters to the Editor
. . . [I]f men did not want to sexually degrade women, society would not suffer the impacts…