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David Bazan Learns to Let Go
David Bazan Learns to Let Go
By Mark Baumgarten • June 10, 2016 1:30 am

How the Seattle songwriter got out of his rut, slimmed down his sound, and learned to love music again.

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Meet the Tony-Nominated Orchestrator Giving 5th Ave’s ‘Paint Your Wagon’ a Fresh Coat
Meet the Tony-Nominated Orchestrator Giving 5th Ave’s ‘Paint...
By Mark Baumgarten • June 8, 2016 1:30 am

The first step, he says, was to ignore the original orchestration for the 1951 Broadway musical.

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With ‘Stick Fly,’ Intiman Stages a Powerful Start to a Festival Devoted to Black Women
With ‘Stick Fly,’ Intiman Stages a Powerful Start...
By Mark Baumgarten • June 3, 2016 2:00 pm

In Lydia R. Diamond’s comedic drama about one well-to-do family in crisis, neither wealth nor education can stave off the devastating effects of racism.

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With His Big KEXP Donation, Paul Allen Completes the Station’s Transformation
With His Big KEXP Donation, Paul Allen Completes...
By Mark Baumgarten • June 1, 2016 1:30 am

Fifteen years ago, the tech billionaire helped chart a new course for the college radio station. Now he’s helping to bring it home.

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A Hilarious Spoof, ‘To Savor Tomorrow’ Takes a Knowing Look at Our Naive Past
A Hilarious Spoof, ‘To Savor Tomorrow’ Takes a...
By Mark Baumgarten • May 25, 2016 1:30 am

Cafe Nordo adds another week to the run of its popular new play.

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From "You Disappear." Courtesy of Carlos Lopez
Carlos Lopez Wins Grand Jury Prize for Sync...
By Mark Baumgarten • May 18, 2016 1:30 am

The Seattle filmmaker’s 3-D turn distinguishes him in an excellent field.

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The D.I.Y. artist with his own take on the classic Nudie Suit, sewed by Clarity Miller. Photo by Jason Quigley
Karl Blau Takes a Nashville Turn With Producer...
By Mark Baumgarten • May 12, 2016 1:30 am

The indie mainstay finds new life in songs from another place and another time.

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The Things Are Against Us at Washington Ensemble Theater, 2016. Photo by Chris Bennion
Washington Ensemble Theatre Invites Experts in for Its...
By Mark Baumgarten • May 4, 2016 1:30 am

The world premiere of The Things Are Against Us is a haunted house of a play. But does it get its ghosts right?

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Stokley Towles. Illustration by Marie Hausauer
Exploring the Secret Lives of Bus Drivers
By Mark Baumgarten • April 27, 2016 1:30 am

Stokley Towles takes a long look at the people who see us every day.

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After the Death of Prince, KEXP Gives Fans a Place to Come Together
After the Death of Prince, KEXP Gives Fans...
By Mark Baumgarten • April 27, 2016 1:30 am

The Seattle nonprofit radio station has long celebrated the musicians who defined a particular kind of pop music. Now it is getting used to mourning them.

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Aaron Posner’s So Popular, Two Theaters Are Staging His Adaptations at the Same Time
Aaron Posner’s So Popular, Two Theaters Are Staging...
By Mark Baumgarten • April 20, 2016 1:30 am

Aaron Posner loves his authors. He has since he was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, consuming every work by those writers who spoke to his particular understanding of the world.

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A Lesson in the Economics of the Ballpark Frank
A Lesson in the Economics of the Ballpark...
By Mark Baumgarten • April 6, 2016 1:30 am

On the eve of the Mariners’ opening day, Joe’s Grilled Gourmet Dogs owner Joe Bernstein has high hopes and a lot of hot dogs.

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Kacee Clanton as Janis Joplin at the Pasadena Playhouse (detail)
The Painful Reality of Playing Janis Joplin
By Mark Baumgarten • March 23, 2016 4:30 am

How the actor taking on the role for 5th Avenue Theatre’s production of A Night With Janis Joplin preserves her vocal chords and gets closer to the late, great singer.

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With His Latest, Damien Jurado Returns to Form a Changed Man
With His Latest, Damien Jurado Returns to Form...
By Mark Baumgarten • March 23, 2016 4:30 am

For the final chapter in his Maraqopa Trilogy, the Seattle songwriter returns from the furthest reaches of faith with a new old sound.

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Illustration of Emo Todorov  (detail). By Marie Hausauer
How the Cheap, Creepy Robotic Hand from UW...
By Mark Baumgarten • March 11, 2016 4:30 am

Researcher Emo Todorov talks about the $1,000 breakthrough he helped create.

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It was Ruby Sullivan’s dad who introduced her to the music of
It was Ruby Sullivan’s dad who introduced her...
By Mark Baumgarten • January 19, 2016 7:48 pm

It was Ruby Sullivan’s dad who introduced her to the music of David Bowie. Months before the artist’s universally mourned…

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David Brewster at Folio, still building after all these years. Photo by Sara Meyer
It’s been 50 years since a young academic...
By Mark Baumgarten • January 19, 2016 5:34 pm

It’s been 50 years since a young academic named David Brewster moved from the East Coast to a sleepy Seattle….

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It’s been 50 years since a young academic named David Brewster moved
It’s been 50 years since a young academic...
By Mark Baumgarten • January 19, 2016 12:55 pm

It’s been 50 years since a young academic named David Brewster moved from the East Coast to a sleepy Seattle….

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Smith pictured in the '90s. Courtesy of Blowback Pictures
Near the end of Nickolas Dylan Rossi’s documentary...
By Mark Baumgarten • May 10, 2015 7:39 pm

Near the end of Nickolas Dylan Rossi’s documentary about Elliott Smith, the late artist’s former collaborator and good friend Sean…

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Doyle’s Jasper amid the signature blue waves.
Brandon Ivie had a problem to solve. During...
By Mark Baumgarten • May 5, 2015 5:14 pm

Brandon Ivie had a problem to solve. During the first scene of Jasper in Deadland, his hero needed to take…

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