Affecting, e-mail-heavy teen drama launches three-week Japanese cinema series. But was junior high really that bad?
Send listings two weeks in advance to visualarts@seattleweekly.com Lectures and Events Concert and Last Bash at SAM Musicians Mische Eddins…
The nights seem to slip away from you at Pike Place Market’s Patti Summers Lounge. There’s something just mesmerizing about…
I have never been a fan of coffee-based drinks. Being buzzed and caffeinated at the same time I find a…
One unexpectedly fine bottle of wine might be a fluke; two could be just luck; but when I hit three…
Never mind Doris Lessingit’s the ordinary details that count.
An Indian restaurant in Ballard conjures up visions of lefse pappadams.
How to please the insufferable gearheads in your life
Best Local Corporation MICROSOFT No, it’s not the high-paying, cubicle- imprisoning contract work that makes Microsoft king of Seattle companies….
Bash a gimp. Steal the cane from a blind man and hit him upside the head with it. Talk dirty…
ELVIS COSTELLO North (Deutsche Grammophon) Much of Elvis Costello’s oeuvre is built upon the look of love from across the…
Why head for the slopes when winter sports await so close to home?
The challenges of talking about race in Seattle.
Criminally bad cop flick features a lard-ass De Niro.
LAS MARGARITAS Downtown tends to be vacant and gray around 5 o’clock on an autumn evening. Then there’s Las Margaritas….
KNIFE IN THE WATER, Red River (Overcoat)—Texas’ peculiar musical patchwork encompasses country, blues, punk, and psychedelic rock, styles ill-suited for…
I have this recurring nightmare. Vanity Fair has hired me to profile Madonna. I’m sitting in the Material Girl’s Manhattan…
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David Rakoff and Benjamin Kunkel.
Timber barons, locked in a secret room far away from the probing eye of democracy, are dividing up what’s left…
