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Jackie McCarthy

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Resurrecting Fergie

After lapsing into madness and disappearing in West Seattle, a folk legend is reborn.

Music

Welcome to Paris, now go home

Air says, 'Don't believe the hype.'

Music

Guns ‘n’ records

How a nation blamed a 'Seattle band' for the Littleton shootings.

Eloise I Am

Arts & Culture

Eloise I Am

Everything I need to know I learned from Eloise

Music

God speaks

Veteran DJ and producer Todd Terry lays down the law.

Music

Janis untangled

A new box set highlights the singer's music rather than her legacy.

Monroe, the eternal blonde of promise.

Film

Production lines

Curvy blonde sex symbols were what we made them.

Music

Tune travel

How music can help you tune in to, or survive, your surroundings.

Film

‘No Future’ is now

Director Penelope Spheeris continues to chronicle 'The Decline.'

The Evil Among Us

Arts & Culture

The Evil Among Us

A new book fights the ubiquity of commodification, but it stops short of a knockout.

Film

Mormon hardcore

ONE OF THE MAIN characters in SLC Punk! dies from an accidental overdose, but he’s really a victim…

Music

Quannum physics

Chief Xcel of Blackalicious talks 'bout the Bay Area's breakbeat scientists.

Film

Acid casualties

The latest Irvine Welsh adaptation makes a virtue out of ugliness.

Music

Four years gone

So there’s a popular Seattle indie-rock band, and it plays lots of shows. People come to the shows.…

Music

The immigrant’s songs

Aussie expat Richard Davies keeps moving.

Music

Hopping WOMAD

A multicontinental fête jumps across musical borders.

Music

Manah from heaven

Seattle rhythm kings let loose.

It's a guy thing

Arts & Culture

It’s a guy thing

Mainstream men's magazines answer a rousing call: More cleavage, please!

Music

Apocalypse now

As tempests and flying pests invade New York,a Welsh rock band plays on.

Music

Hitspotting

Capitalist fodder-makers or rightsmart bastards?