July 20-26, 2005
Ben Kweller’s back, and he’s all grown up.
An old melodrama that should have been a new comedy.
THE GENTLE WAVES, Swansong for You (Jeepster) Belle and Sebastian cellist Isobel Campbell holds back for over 30 minutes before…
Plus CD Reviews of King Curtis, Fingletoad, Strange & Siho, Beauregard Ajax, Edip Akbayram, and Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris
Sally Timms keeps recording with her band and as a solo artist, despite the modest returns.
Joan Didion on terrorism and the sudden irrelevance of everything else.
Hussain Alshafei escaped Saddams repression and landed in Edmonds to live the American dream. Now hes accused of illegally funneling money home. Was he merely helping fellow immigrants feed the families they left behind, or engaged in something more?
47,625 Median income in dollars for an individual in Seattle. 409 Affordable rent in dollars for a very-low-income household making…
A new target has emerged for labor and environmental activists who are building on the momentum from last fall’s anti-WTO…
Lectures and Events LECTURE: ELIZABETH SANDVIG The Seattle painter talks about her approach to art. 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m., Wed. Nov….
The Goth comic-book writer reveals his fictional fantasies.
10. SEAL IV (Warner Brothers) 9. DANDY WARHOLS Welcome to the Monkey House (Capitol) 8. 8. ANDEW W.K. The Wolf…
Alan Corkery Hahn I once came across an arcane old library book, 19th-century journalist Edmund Lepelletier’s highly inaccurate biography of…
ALIEN Opens Wed., Oct. 29, at Cinerama and others As space-ship crewman Yaphet Kotto decapitated cyborg Ian Holm in this…
The Northwest’s top forager plucks food out of the wild.
ON THE PLATE April 16 Starting today, the Mitchelli Family Restaurants will serve a new spring menu focusing on the…
Lush anime fantasy isn’t so kid-friendly.
The Governor Martha Choe, Gov. Gary Locke‘s point person on economic development and landing the Boeing 7E7 jetliner assembly plant…
Seattle Opera goes contemporary for a moving, if misplaced, Fidelio that offers 19th-century oppression in 21st-century style.
