Ziggy Marley/Wednesday, September 28 Your first taste of Wild and Free, the fourth solo record from Bob Marley’s eldest son,…
From James McMurtry to James Blake.
THURSDAY 9/15 Food & Drink: Transatlantic Accord If Washington state grows the best apples on the planet, as we claim,…
From Blue Scholars to Bush.
THURSDAY 9/8 Visual Arts: Tiny Yellow Memories The English writer and artist Clare Johnson has an obsession that measures three…
John Prine with Ani Difranco, plus Ke$ha with LMFAO.
WEDNESDAY 8/31 Film: Hearts Aloft Pixar’s 2009 Up packs a profound emotional punch in its first few minutes, when it…
From Janet Jackson to Kenny Rogers. Seriously.
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion/Wednesday, August 17 Kids today! Bah! They think Jack and Meg White singlehandedly invented deconstructed, ballsy…
WEDNESDAY 8/17 Books/Visual Arts: Wife Swap Traveling by rail, trail, horseback, and steamship, New York painter Albert Bierstadt first visited…
FRIDAY 8/12 Film: The Wanderer Jim Jarmusch‘s rarely screened first feature, Permanent Vacation (1980), pointedly contrasts the bustle of NYC’s…
From Adele and Arctic Monkeys to the Go-Go’s and Calexico.
From KMFDM and Pizzafest to Phish and Lucas Nelson.
WEDNESDAY 8/3 Film: Ghost Story Alfred Hitchcock‘s first American film, an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s novel Rebecca, was a…
FRIDAY 7/29 Stage: Great Buzz In the Next Room, or the vibrator play may cause some prudes to wriggle in…
From Katy Perry to Kenny Chesney.
THURSDAY 7/21 Visual Arts: Monkey Man So much anti-German feeling erupted during World War I that the once-august reputation of…
WEDNESDAY 7/13 Books: Distant Gunfire If the name Leon Czolgosz is remotely familiar to you, it may be as one…
WEDNESDAY 7/6 Music/Film: Play It Again, Adam When the Seattle Symphony announced last summer would be the last for the…
From Slack Fest to Neko Case.
