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Ben Verdoes pulls up to the Park & Ride lot in Stanwood
Published 11:35pm Thursday, October 3, 2013Ben Verdoes pulls up to the Park & Ride lot in Stanwood wearing a military green tank top and a fresh close-cropped haircut. “Welcome, soldiers,” ... Read more
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 9 Jesmyn Ward “Men’s bodies litter my family history,” writes
Published 5:34pm Thursday, October 3, 2013WEDNESDAY, OCT. 9 Jesmyn Ward “Men’s bodies litter my family history,” writes Ward in the first chapter of her new memoir, Men We Reaped (Bloomsbury, ... Read more
Wednesday, Oct. 9 Jacco Gardner lives in its own sealed-off universe, where
Published 3:37pm Thursday, October 3, 2013Wednesday, Oct. 9 Jacco Gardner lives in its own sealed-off universe, where the year is 1967 and the baroque pop of the Beach Boys and ... Read more
In late May, former Microsoft manager Jamen Shively called a press conference
Published 12:40am Thursday, October 3, 2013In late May, former Microsoft manager Jamen Shively called a press conference on the 40th floor of the Columbia Tower. It was six months after ... Read more
La Luz, It’s Alive (Oct. 15, Hardly Art, laluz.bandcamp.com) In the book
Published 12:00am Thursday, October 3, 2013La Luz, It’s Alive (Oct. 15, Hardly Art, laluz.bandcamp.com) In the book world, the term “genre-slumming” denotes an author known for high literature trying her ... Read more
If it were slower and a bit gloomier, you might almost mistake
Published 11:15pm Wednesday, October 2, 2013If it were slower and a bit gloomier, you might almost mistake the serpentine, chromatic opening of Mozart’s String Quartet in E-flat for a piece ... Read more
My desk faces the weird intersection of 2nd, 3rd, and Main streets
Published 6:07pm Wednesday, October 2, 2013My desk faces the weird intersection of 2nd, 3rd, and Main streets in Pioneer Square. Every day I walk to work past the desperate, unfortunate ... Read more
Stage Openings & Events The Bike Trip Martin Dockery’s solo storytelling
Published 11:00pm Tuesday, October 1, 2013Stage Openings & Events The Bike Trip Martin Dockery’s solo storytelling show recounts Dr. Albert Hofmann’s pioneering LSD experience. West of Lenin, 203 N. 36th ... Read more
Gravity Opens Fri., Oct. 4 at Cinerama and other theaters. Rated PG-13.
Published 10:48pm Tuesday, October 1, 2013Gravity Opens Fri., Oct. 4 at Cinerama and other theaters. Rated PG-13. 91 minutes. Why are they even offering this movie in non-3-D format? With ... Read more
Stage Openings & Events The Bike Trip Martin Dockery’s solo storytelling
Published 10:09pm Tuesday, October 1, 2013Stage Openings & Events The Bike Trip Martin Dockery’s solo storytelling show recounts Dr. Albert Hofmann’s pioneering LSD experience. West of Lenin, 203 N. 36th ... Read more
Dance • Axis Dance Company SEE AGENDA, PAGE 29. Pacific Northwest Ballet
Published 9:51pm Tuesday, October 1, 2013Dance • Axis Dance Company SEE AGENDA, PAGE 29. Pacific Northwest Ballet SEE REVIEW, PAGE 31. Kultura Savannah Fuentes headlines a night of music and ... Read more
Secondhand Lions The 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 Fifth Ave., 625-1900, 5thavenue.org. $29
Published 8:56pm Tuesday, October 1, 2013Secondhand Lions The 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 Fifth Ave., 625-1900, 5thavenue.org. $29 and up. Runs Tues.–Sun. Ends Oct. 6. Given its stated mission to send ... Read more
The Matchmaker Taproot Theatre, 204. N 85th St., 781-9707, taproottheatre.org. $15–$40. Runs
Published 8:55pm Tuesday, October 1, 2013The Matchmaker Taproot Theatre, 204. N 85th St., 781-9707, taproottheatre.org. $15–$40. Runs Wed.–Sat. Ends Oct. 26. Thornton Wilder’s classic farce is a tortured piece of ... Read more
Air Twyla McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St. (Seattle Center), 441-2424, pnb.org. $28–$174.
Published 8:54pm Tuesday, October 1, 2013Air Twyla McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St. (Seattle Center), 441-2424, pnb.org. $28–$174. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.–Sat., 1 p.m. Sun. Ends Oct. 6. Twyla Tharp has been ... Read more
Local & Repertory Broken on All Sides Call for price and time
Published 7:01pm Tuesday, October 1, 2013Local & Repertory Broken on All Sides Call for price and time for this new criminal-justice doc. Panel discussion follows. (NR) Pacific Science Center, 200 ... Read more
Each time you bite into an apple, you’re enjoying the results of
Published 5:51pm Tuesday, October 1, 2013Each time you bite into an apple, you’re enjoying the results of thousands of years of selection and cultivation – painstaking processes that have produced ... Read more
It is raining fiercely outside, but Alexandra Niedzialkowski is dry now, sitting
Published 9:34pm Monday, September 30, 2013It is raining fiercely outside, but Alexandra Niedzialkowski is dry now, sitting at a Capitol Hill coffee shop sipping a steaming cup of chai. While ... Read more
Fifteen or so years later, all but one of the Hanson brothers
Published 5:22pm Monday, September 30, 2013Fifteen or so years later, all but one of the Hanson brothers have cut their hair. Like Samson, it’s very likely the brothers’ powers lay ... Read more
London producer Actress has earned his abstruse reputation. Though Darren Cunningham thankfully
Published 7:17pm Friday, September 27, 2013London producer Actress has earned his abstruse reputation. Though Darren Cunningham thankfully doesn’t indulge in electronic music’s pervasive “anonymous producer” trope, interviews reveal a musician ... Read more
Lorde recently became the first woman to top the U.S. Billboard Alternative
Published 5:17pm Friday, September 27, 2013Lorde recently became the first woman to top the U.S. Billboard Alternative Chart since 1996. She’s more populist than pop, though—Lorde makes music for the ... Read more