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Hip-Hop Activist Draze on Uncle Ike’s, Community Justice, Political Rap, and Being a Dad
Published 1:30am Wednesday, April 13, 2016
The clearest and most incisive recent critique of the capital forces changing the Central District came last week in the form of a seven-years-in-the-making hip-hop ... Read more
The Hugo House’s Cliché Célèbre Flips Tropes Into Treasure
Published 1:30am Wednesday, April 13, 2016
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled metaphors yearning to breathe free.”
Read moreLocal Bands and Artists Team Up for Forty-Two Inches of Record Store Day Fun
Published 1:30am Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Fainting Room Collective’s Triple-Six 7-Inch Box Set features records from Haunted Horses, Bali Girls, Stickers, He Whose Ox Is Gored, The Family Curse, and Transmissionary. ... Read more
Get Down on the Dance Floor (Literally) at This Unusual Local Club Night
Published 1:30am Wednesday, April 6, 2016
People drift in and out, chat, or meditate, and you might see someone popping a melatonin or asking if the bar has tea.
Read more‘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.
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