THURSDAY 12/9 Photography: Western Grids Photographer Joe Deal died this June in Providence, Rhode Island, where he taught at RISD….
The Expendables / Wednesday, December 8 Last time I caught the Expendables in town, they were supporting Slightly Stoopid on…
WEDNESDAY 12/01 Film: Laughter, Then the Gunfire A flop when first released in 1939, The Rules of the Game presented…
Footlaos Benefit / Wednesday, December 1 Footloose was a movie about a powerful, profound cause—the freedom to dance. But dancing…
Blonde Redhead / Wednesday, November 24 The disappointment was palpable and heavy this July when, at the last minute, Blonde…
FRIDAY 11/26 Film: Shower Time If you watched the arm amputation in 127 Hours through your fingers, while your friends…
WEDNESDAY 11/17 Books: Water, Water Everywhere There’s a lot of water in the Atlantic Ocean, and there’s a lot of…
From Usher to Eisley.
From the Cave Singers to Gordon Lightfoot.
WEDNESDAY 11/3 Comedy: The Laugh Olympics With 32 comics in this year’s Seattle International Comedy Competition, competing in two weeklong…
From Sufjan Stevens to Joan Osborne.
WTF?! Guys & Dolls & Zombies / Daily through Sunday, November 7 Zombies get no respect in museums or galleries….
WEDNESDAY 10/27 Books: Forever Plaid To those who came of age in the early ’80s, The Official Preppy Handbook was…
Blue Scholars / Wednesday, October 20 As far as Seattle hip-hop is concerned, headlining the Paramount has been untouchable, a…
WEDNESDAY 10/20 Comedy: Mr. Monotone Before Twitter there was Steven Wright, who in the early ’80s condensed his Tonight Show…
Blood Red Shoes / Wednesday, October 13 Please don’t hold the fact that Brighton, England, power duo Blood Red Shoes…
WEDNESDAY 10/13 Books: Overcooked UW professor Peter D. Ward is not a movie critic, but he curtly dismisses the eco-disaster…
WEDNESDAY 10/6 Books: The Hero’s Tail Steve Duno didn’t plan on rescuing a mangy, tick-infested rottweiler/shepherd mix that had been…
Seattle City of Music Awards / Wednesday, October 6 There’s a reason the 21-member Seattle Music Commission selected alt-country darling…
WEDNESDAY 9/29 Visual Arts: Assembly Required Set-apart From Memory by Time is an architectural funhouse. Set diagonally across the large…
