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Liddell promises to bleed for her art at On the Boards.

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WEDNESDAY 10/5 Books/Stage: Dr. Lizardo Chances are you think of him as a killer: the Emmy-winning kind who…

Nacho Picasso's "death-rap" album For the Glory is out now.

Music

Reviews: Every Local Release of the Month

From Afraid of Figs and Blue Marvel to Dude York and the Foghorns.

At the Cinerama, Keir Dullea gets pulled into the 2001 void.

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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events

WEDNESDAY 9/28 Happy Hours: Free Peas, Please You needn’t be traveling on your company’s expense account to enjoy…

The innocent children of Odd Future.

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The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows

Ziggy Marley/Wednesday, September 28 Your first taste of Wild and Free, the fourth solo record from Bob Marley’s…

The prodigious James Blake.

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The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows

From James McMurtry to James Blake.

Fassbinder's prescient vision of the future in World on a Wire.

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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events

THURSDAY 9/15 Food & Drink: Transatlantic Accord If Washington state grows the best apples on the planet, as…

Nevermind Live, Tuesday, benefits a visionary who helped Nirvana get their feet wet.

Music

The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows

From Blue Scholars to Bush.

The Grand Illusion celebrates B-movies.

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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events

THURSDAY 9/8 Visual Arts: Tiny Yellow Memories The English writer and artist Clare Johnson has an obsession that…

Sharp knives, Handsome Furs.

Music

The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows

John Prine with Ani Difranco, plus Ke$ha with LMFAO.

Sundsten brings historical themes to her new portrait series.

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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events

WEDNESDAY 8/31 Film: Hearts Aloft Pixar’s 2009 Up packs a profound emotional punch in its first few minutes,…

Janet's "Number Ones" tour is all for you.

Music

The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows

From Janet Jackson to Kenny Rogers. Seriously.

Weezer rides on!

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The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion/Wednesday, August 17 Kids today! Bah! They think Jack and Meg White singlehandedly invented…

Watts: ever unpredictable.

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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events

WEDNESDAY 8/17 Books/Visual Arts: Wife Swap Traveling by rail, trail, horseback, and steamship, New York painter Albert Bierstadt…

Hwang is here for the Yellow Face premiere.

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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events

FRIDAY 8/12 Film: The Wanderer Jim Jarmusch‘s rarely screened first feature, Permanent Vacation (1980), pointedly contrasts the bustle…

Rolling in soul: Adele.

Music

The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows

From Adele and Arctic Monkeys to the Go-Go's and Calexico.

The two civilians of Wye Oak.

Music

The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows

From KMFDM and Pizzafest to Phish and Lucas Nelson.

De Niro created a movie archetype with lone gunman Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver.

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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events

WEDNESDAY 8/3 Film: Ghost Story Alfred Hitchcock‘s first American film, an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s novel Rebecca,…

Room mates: Cummings as the doctor, Johnson as his neglected wife.

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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events

FRIDAY 7/29 Stage: Great Buzz In the Next Room, or the vibrator play may cause some prudes to…

Baby, she's got fireworks.

Music

The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows

From Katy Perry to Kenny Chesney.

Von Max’s monkeys, as in his The Botanists (1900), were modeled from life.

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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events

THURSDAY 7/21 Visual Arts: Monkey Man So much anti-German feeling erupted during World War I that the once-august…