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‘Encyclopedia Greenwoodia’ Gets Adults and Kids Alike Writing About a Neighborhood
Published 1:30am Wednesday, April 6, 2016
“Mr. Gyros is as amazing as the movie Transformers: Age of Extinction and I would recommend it to anyone who needs a place to eat.” ... Read more
There Is No Way a Chet Baker Film Can End Happily
Published 1:30am Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Despite the clumsiness, the film casts a spell. Its jazz rhythm has something to do with this.
Read moreHow Woody Guthrie Found Hope for America on the Banks of the Columbia
Published 1:30am Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Seventy-five years ago, the folk icon arrived in the Pacific Northwest to write songs for a progressive cause. The progress faltered, but the songs remain. ... Read more
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Seattle in the ’00s: The City That Was Born to Run
Published 1:30am Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Seattle came a long ways in the 2000s, but it lost something as well.
Read moreSeattle in the ’80s: Big Tech and Boomtown Economics Arrive
Published 1:30am Wednesday, March 30, 2016
An influx of talent and trouble quickly brings Seattle up to speed.
Read moreSeattle in the ’90s: Leaving Loserdom
Published 1:30am Wednesday, March 30, 2016
How to be in Seattle in the last decade of the 20th century.
Read moreThe Best Local Records We Heard This March
Published 1:30am Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Man in Tree was a living tarot card. The image of the quintessentially Northwestern man (lumberjack beard, lumberjack beanie, in a tree), fending off police ... Read more
Hey Marseilles Streamlines Its Sound and Looks on the Bright Side
Published 1:30am Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Since forming in 2006, Hey Marseilles has built its reputation on folky, earnest chamber pop. With sincere lyrics about love lost and wanderlust layered over ... Read more
A Brief History of the Seattle Weekly Distribution Box
Published 1:30am Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Every Wednesday at 2 p.m., a middle-aged white man in a black Porsche SUV takes every single Seattle Weekly from the boxes along First Avenue ... Read more
Bharti Kirchner’s New Novel Saves the Voiceless From the Flames of History
Published 4:30am Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Using her own myths, the author fills in the gaps in the history of her hometown of Kolkata.
Read morePacific Northwest Ballet Refreshes Past Works in the Latest ‘Director’s Choice’
Published 4:30am Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Pacific Northwest Ballet director Peter Boal often uses the annual “Director’s Choice” program to introduce local audiences to new works by new choreographers. But this ... Read more
Maged Zaher’s Disarming Political Prose
Published 4:30am Wednesday, March 23, 2016
The rich and the poor, the aware and the unaware, the passionate and the hypocritical—they’re all given voice in Zaher’s poems.
Read moreCampana Is a Grounded Space Cadet on ‘Eviction Notice’
Published 4:30am Wednesday, March 23, 2016
The album, which chronicles the artist’s experience being evicted from his home, is impressive, especially considering it is being narrated so soberly by a 21-year-old. ... Read more
The Top 20 Things to Do This Week
Published 4:30am Wednesday, March 23, 2016
From fantasy conventions to skronky no-wave farewells, all the best things to do in Seattle this week.
Read moreThe Painful Reality of Playing Janis Joplin
Published 4:30am Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Kacee Clanton’s vocal cords are sturdy. In 15 years performing as Janis Joplin, the singer has needed steroid injections only once, required to help calm ... Read more
Fueled by Curry, Four Eclectic Artists Hit the Road in Search of Indigenous Stories
Published 4:30am Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Building on the success of their “Curry NA Hurry” video, Jamil Suleman and his co-conspirators are attempting to build an indie media empire.
Read moreWith His Latest, Damien Jurado Returns to Form a Changed Man
Published 4:30am Wednesday, March 23, 2016
For the final chapter in his Maraqopa Trilogy, the Seattle songwriter returns from the furthest reaches of faith with a new old sound.
Read moreThe Paradox of Bernie and the Wealthy White Voter
Published 4:30am Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Skyway Park Bowl sits beige and inconspicuous off Renton Avenue South, between a casino and an Ezell’s Fried Chicken. It’s Wednesday night, and in the ... Read more
Electric Eye: Make-Outs Abound at Hundred Waters
Published 4:30am Friday, March 11, 2016
Hundred Waters is for lovers, or at least that’s what all the couples making out in the crowd at the show last Wednesday tells me. ... Read more