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The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows
Fashawn/Wednesday, March 2 With a premium placed on maturity, it’s easy to forget hip-hop’s roots are in youth.…
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The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
THURSDAY 2/24 Photography: Soft and Focused Popular photography was new in the 1920s, and the medium was only…
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The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows
Black Milk/Wednesday, February 23 Best known as a beatmaker for the likes of Slum Village, the Detroit-based Dilla…
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The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows
From Gang of Four and Shabazz Palaces to Smith Westerns and Justin Townes Earle.
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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 2/16 Books: The River of Time In our present age of irony and gimmick lit, Bainbridge Island…
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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 2/9 Books & Booze: Cabin Boy Magnolia writer Sam Howe Verhovek has worked as a correspondent for…
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The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows
The Get Up Kids/Wednesday, February 2 If you thought you’d outgrown heart-on-your-sleeve, power-chord-laden emo, you probably broke up…
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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
THURSDAY /2/3 Burlesque: Take Most of It Off! Overbearing mothers skank up their preteen daughters for beauty pageants…
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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 1/26 Books: Don’t Tell Her to Relax! Early in Claire Dederer‘s memoir Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three…
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Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows
From Sean Lennon's The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger to Daniel Lanois' Black Dub.
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The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows (in West Seattle)
Erin McNamee/Wednesday, January 19 Several years ago I was having drinks with some friends at the Celtic Swell…
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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events (in West Seattle)
WEDNESDAY 1/19 Photography: Lost in Space Mercer Island photographer Roger Ressmeyer has done quite a bit of globe-trotting…
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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 1/12 Books: The Growing Menace Those who have it can joke about it, and patients at the…
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The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows
Pony Time/Wednesday, January 5 This year-old Seattle duo makes the kind of garage-inflected, early-’60s pop, delivered by contemporary…
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In 2011, We’re Looking Forward To . . .
. . . New releases, bigger festivals, and another live-music venue in the U District.
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The 10 Best Books of 2010
Vocoders, bohos, and a blast of vertigo (in alphabetical order).
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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 12/29 Film: Way Off Campus Who you gonna call? I think we all know the answer: the…
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The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows
PWRFL Power / Wednesday, December 29 It’s been more than two years since Kazutaka Nomura—alias PWRFL Power—released his…
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The Top 10 Seattle Albums of 2010
Our favorite releases from the bands and labels that make the scene great.