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Ultrasonic: Are Conspiracy Theories Contagious?
Published 7:00am Tuesday, May 29, 2012If you’re going to save yourself from self- indulgence as the writer/director/star/ composer of a shoestring indie, you’d better do something risky or odd with ... Read more
SIFF: Week 3 Picks & Pans
Published 7:00am Tuesday, May 29, 2012WEDNESDAY, MAY 30 Rent-a-Cat/3:30 p.m., Harvard Exit Wait, you mean this isn’t the plot for Zooey Deschanel’s TV show New Girl? A gawky, earnest, unmarried ... Read more
The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
Published 7:00am Tuesday, May 29, 2012FRIDAY 6/1 Dance: Appropriate for All Ages The danger in promoting a ballet as “family-friendly” is that a chunk of your potential audience will write it ... Read more
The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows
Published 7:00am Tuesday, May 29, 2012***EDITOR’S PICK Learning Team/Wednesday, May 30 This pop-rock quintet, one of Bellingham’s most notable current players, has released three FreePs via Bandcamp since their inception ... Read more
I have to admit, I scraped off most of the cheese. But,
Published 7:00am Monday, May 28, 2012I have to admit, I scraped off most of the cheese. But, otherwise, I killed every bite.12. When you order a “cheese” omelet stuffed with ... Read more
Renee McMahonPutting together a festival is not unlike putting together a mixtape.
Published 7:00am Sunday, May 27, 2012Renee McMahonPutting together a festival is not unlike putting together a mixtape. Not only are the band and genres different, but you can put bands ... Read more
This morning, continuing their Complete Lists series, our siblings at LA Weekly
Published 7:00am Friday, May 25, 2012This morning, continuing their Complete Lists series, our siblings at LA Weekly presented their Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time, compiled using the following ... Read more
Damn Yankees
Published 7:00am Friday, May 25, 2012Richard Adler and Jerry Ross’ 1955 musical tells of the hapless, inept, cellar-dwelling Washington Senators and their Faustian quest to beat their titular archrivals: Middle-aged ... Read more
An Evening With Groucho
Published 7:00am Friday, May 25, 2012Frank Ferrante loves Groucho Marx (1890—1977) just like I do, and this one-man show is the closest recreation of his brilliant anarchic wit and stiletto ... Read more
First Date
Published 7:00am Friday, May 25, 2012In this gossamer confection of a new musical, Aaron (Eric Ankrim), a successful young Jewish investment banker, meets the willful artiste-wannabe Casey (Kelly Karbacz) at ... Read more
The Gurs Zyklus
Published 7:00am Friday, May 25, 2012A lot of composers today—practically every one under 40, and plenty over—spend a lot of self-conscious time and energy on the question of genre-crossing. This ... Read more
Love Battery
Published 7:00am Thursday, May 24, 2012The story goes that Love Battery never really fit in with the grunge-era Seattle scene: that their psych-garage rock was too colorful, too Dayglo if ... Read more
Cairo PA Benefit
Published 7:00am Thursday, May 24, 2012On a most basic level, possession of a PA, or Public Address system, is what turns an ordinary room into a viable venue for live ... Read more
Pure Bathing Culture
Published 7:00am Wednesday, May 23, 2012Last year Brooklynites Daniel Hindman and Sarah Verspille, in between tours with Vetiver, for which he plays guitar and she plays keys, moved to Portland ... Read more
Don’t Fear the Laser
Published 7:00am Tuesday, May 22, 2012Why The Wall's 30-year run at Pacific Science Center is more historic than Roger Waters' anniversary tour. Read more
Through @ 2: Dicks’ Picks
Published 7:00am Tuesday, May 22, 2012Detective Agency keeps it very discreet, very professional. Read more
Chef Zephyr Paquette in front of “the coop”The Skelly and the Bean
Published 7:00am Tuesday, May 22, 2012Chef Zephyr Paquette in front of “the coop”The Skelly and the Bean space is best described as whimsical. A glass garlic clove butterfly catches the ... Read more
The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows
Published 7:00am Tuesday, May 22, 2012Ryan Purcell and The Last Round/Friday, May 25 Ryan Purcell writes songs evocative of the places Jason Aldean sings about in his self-explanatory Middle American ... Read more
Greg Stonebraker/Courtesy of KEXPThe situation On a recent Tuesday evening, I’m at
Published 7:00am Tuesday, May 22, 2012Greg Stonebraker/Courtesy of KEXPThe situation On a recent Tuesday evening, I’m at the Ballard Smoke Shop drinking beer with one of my favorite new discoveries, ... Read more
The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
Published 7:00am Tuesday, May 22, 2012WEDNESDAY 5/23 SIFF: Out of Time “I love Aubrey Plaza,” a colleague recently told me about her desire to see Safety Not Guaranteed. Never having watched ... Read more