INITIALLY, WHEN MY boyfriend asked me to celebrate this Christmas, our first together, with his brother’s family in Lake Oswego,…
NEWS According to a recent New York Times report, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service banned importing beluga caviar from…
Cartoons, boobs, Pythons, and moredo we need a holiday theme to recommend these books?
Also: Lin Tianmiao, The Lawless Breed, Buck 65, and Jordan Fisher Smith.
ON THE PLATE THROUGH MARCH An authentic cassoulet takes time and effort. The white-bean stew contains ingredients not found in…
Polly Jean Harvey’s latest fine lyrical mess.
Meet Seattle’s newest rock bookers and promoters.
ACT’s production of Warren Leight’s new play listens close to the music.
My Grandpa used to tell me, “John, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Actually he would tell me that…
Hilary Hahn The Seattle Symphony presented violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg last week, and now here’s the anti-Nadja—poised, polished, Apollonian, and not…
FOOD & DRINK
I fancy myself a tough guy. I while away weekends lurking in leather bars redolent with cheap beer, smoke, and…
For once, keeping a movie musical tied to the stage serves the audience best.
Antony & the Johnsons and the Arcade Fire.
Escaping their stifling Southern roots, the members of Olympia’s the Gossip aim to reclaim rock for society’s outcasts.
Pro whistler Steve Herbst takes an age-old pastime into prime time.
Frankie Manning The Century’s Musica Vitae is going out in style with this appearance by Manning, one of the original…
“Transit belongs on city streets, not in parks. . . . “
Two ear-opening concerts of strings and song.
A dazzling ‘Dream’ at the Rep.
