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The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Concerts
1990 Now Dance Party / Wednesday, December 22 The holidays are synonymous with warm, fond nostalgia, so what…
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THURSDAY 12/16 Dance: Pasta for Three For most dancers, performing at a movie house would seem like an…
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The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows
Cars vs. Violent Femmes Night / Wednesday, December 15 Tonight we celebrate the music of two bands who…
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THURSDAY 12/9 Photography: Western Grids Photographer Joe Deal died this June in Providence, Rhode Island, where he taught…
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The Expendables / Wednesday, December 8 Last time I caught the Expendables in town, they were supporting Slightly…
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WEDNESDAY 12/01 Film: Laughter, Then the Gunfire A flop when first released in 1939, The Rules of the…
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Footlaos Benefit / Wednesday, December 1 Footloose was a movie about a powerful, profound cause—the freedom to dance.…
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The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows
Blonde Redhead / Wednesday, November 24 The disappointment was palpable and heavy this July when, at the last…
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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
FRIDAY 11/26 Film: Shower Time If you watched the arm amputation in 127 Hours through your fingers, while…
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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 11/17 Books: Water, Water Everywhere There’s a lot of water in the Atlantic Ocean, and there’s a…
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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 11/3 Comedy: The Laugh Olympics With 32 comics in this year’s Seattle International Comedy Competition, competing in…
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Halloween Events
WTF?! Guys & Dolls & Zombies / Daily through Sunday, November 7 Zombies get no respect in museums…
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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommmended Events
WEDNESDAY 10/27 Books: Forever Plaid To those who came of age in the early ’80s, The Official Preppy…
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The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows
Blue Scholars / Wednesday, October 20 As far as Seattle hip-hop is concerned, headlining the Paramount has been…
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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 10/20 Comedy: Mr. Monotone Before Twitter there was Steven Wright, who in the early ’80s condensed his…
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The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows
Blood Red Shoes / Wednesday, October 13 Please don’t hold the fact that Brighton, England, power duo Blood…
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The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 10/13 Books: Overcooked UW professor Peter D. Ward is not a movie critic, but he curtly dismisses…