Arts & Culture
The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
FRIDAY 6/29 Film: The Puzzle Master The least well-known of the New Wave founders, and easily the least prolific,…
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The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 6/20 Books: Rounds and Shots Whatever happened to that Jarhead guy, Anthony Swofford, after the success of his…
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The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
THURSDAY 6/14 Books: And the Answer Is . . . There will be beer. There will be whiskey. There will be pizza.…
Film
SIFF Week 4: Picks, Pans, and the Monorail!
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6 Future Lasts Forever/4 p.m., Pacific Place Turkish writer/director Özcan Alper places a modern young woman…
Film
SIFF: Week 3 Picks & Pans
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30 Rent-a-Cat/3:30 p.m., Harvard Exit Wait, you mean this isn’t the plot for Zooey Deschanel’s TV…
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The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
FRIDAY 6/1 Dance: Appropriate for All Ages The danger in promoting a ballet as “family-friendly” is that a chunk…
Arts & Culture
The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 5/23 SIFF: Out of Time “I love Aubrey Plaza,” a colleague recently told me about her desire to…
Film
SIFF Week 2: 20 New Picks & Pans
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 Unforgivable/6:30 p.m., Harvard Exit Unforgivable? Interminable is more like it. Veteran writer/director André Téchiné (The…
Arts & Culture
The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
THURSDAY 5/17 Stage: Talking It All In Former Seattleite Lauren Weedman‘s comic prowess continues to turn heads in Hollywood.…
Film
SIFF: Week 1 Picks & Pans
THURSDAY, MAY 17 [PICK] Your Sister’s Sister/7 p.m., McCaw Hall For decades, it seems, Seattle’s tiny film community…
Arts & Culture
The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 5/9 Books: Voting at the Pump Corporations are people, my friend. Except, Pulitzer-winning journalist Steve Coll might…
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The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
THURSDAY 5/3 Film: The Defendant Big-screen interpretations of Joan of Arc are often ridiculous (Jean Seberg in Saint Joan,…
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The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
THURSDAY 4/26 Books: You, a Guru? A.J. Jacobs has a shtick, and that’s OK. He knows he has…
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The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 4/18 Photography: Family Duress What’s the primary cause of homelessness? Poverty, obviously, but financial catastrophes often result…
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The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
THURSDAY 4/5 First Thursday: Soft Hardware Even those not terribly interested in last weekend’s gathering of the National Council…
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The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 3/28 Film: Over and Over the Line It’s got its own festival, action figures, costume contests, and about…
Music
The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows
The Blackberry Bushes String Band/Thursday, March 29 Multi-instrumentalist and K Records solo artist Kendl Winter’s quick picking and…
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The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
FRIDAY 3/23 Film: Battle of the Battles OMG! Have you got your ticket for The Hunger Games? (See review.)…
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The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 3/14 Photography: A New Continent It takes courage to open a gallery these days, when so many have…