The minute I spy the unsolicited parcel on my welcome mat, alarms go off in my head. All my packages…
PAPA M Showbox at 8 p.m. Wed., Feb. 25. $13 adv./$15. David Pajo is a real slave to history, both…
Half a sword-wielding revenge epic is better than a whole decade without Tarantino. But his latest is more like a movie-survey course than a movie.
ON THE PLATE JULY 18-20 The Bite of Seattle is one of the stranger festivals to grace Seattle Center. There’s…
Real gifts for those real-life situations
Also: Les Savy Fav, Ted Leo + The Pharmacists.
The Mark Sidran for Mayor campaign is rolling in the May money. Sidran for Seattle reported more than $100,000 in…
SHON SULLIVAN FRONTS a band called Goldenboy. He makes his home in a magical-sounding spot named Diamond Bar. But, evidence…
VELVET DREAMS The velvet painting. Never has a genre of American art so enraptured every demographic: the mod hipster, the…
Seattle surfers embark on their own peculiar safari.
Fox Home Entertainment, $27.98.
They say if you want to learn about a culture, sift through its garbage. But in lieu of digging through…
Skateboarders explain the art of “the asphalt wave.”
I watched James Elledge die in Walla Walla.
A marriage goes from bad to weird in Nick Hornby’s third novel.
Also: Twelfth Night.
New Line Home Ent., $39.99
Some surprisingly sane scientists (and one moderately sane Microsoft exec) want to use your PC to find alien radio transmissions.
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A Bel Air marriage goes sour. Naturally, it’s the wife’s fault.
