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Scottish pop from bis, gnarly noise from Bill Rieflin, and more . . .
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Bis Social Dancing (Grand Royal/Capitol) No one ever expected this Pop Tar-fueled trio to be Scotland’s second most noticed ’90s export (see also: Trainspotting), much ... Read more
The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Paramount Home Ent., $19.99. Read more
5 Easy steps to making Seattle Weekly
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Herewith, the five “easy” steps that made Seattle Weekly—or, at least, the steps that happened during the 21 years that I was its editor or ... Read more
Bring It On
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006U.K. eclectics Gomez revel in agitating their audience. Read more
Calendar of Merriment
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006HELLCAB Hellcab is a collection of scenes from the life of a Chicago cab driver on one bitterly cold, 14-hour workday right before Christmas. Six ... Read more
Tried and true
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006A mixed-repertory ballet program offers the traditional and the industrial. Read more
This Week’s Attractions
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Coffee and Cigarettes Opens Fri., May 21, at Guild 45 Some things are best reserved for DVD outtakes and extras. The 11 vignettes Jim Jarmusch ... Read more
For Kids’ Sake
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006First off, James Keblas is an absolute genius. As co-founder and former executive director of the Vera Project, he not only birthed one of the ... Read more
Tribute
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Director celebrates screen icons and female strength in campy detour into the past. Read more
Arts Picks
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006MARK TAKAMICHI MILLER In previous work, Miller painted from snapshots he stole from Costco. Making sure there were duplicates in each packet, Miller would steal ... Read more
Trapped
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006R. Kelly, “Trapped in the Closet (Chapter 1)” (Jive). iTunes Tweet ft. Missy Elliott, “Turn da Lights Off” (Atlantic). iTunes Quasimoto, “Rappcats Pt. 3” (Stones ... Read more
Ammunition
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006I’ve been spending a lot of time with teenagers lately. No, I didn’t drill a hole into the boys’ locker room at the high school. ... Read more
One Hoagy With Everything
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006THE FIRST TIME I heard the name Hoagy Carmichael, I scratched my chinit was college, and I rarely shaved, so my face itched a lotand ... Read more
Doing It to Death
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Give it up for funk classicists Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. Read more
Car trouble
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006For somebody who works at a dot.com—and I don’t mean as a Kozmo delivery guy—my ignorance of technology is astonishing. I have friends who are ... Read more
Whadchagit?
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006SPOTTED OUTSIDE OF: Orpheum, 618 Broadway E., 322-6370 NAME: Jim Deal AGE: 33 WHERE DO YOU LIVE? Shoreline WHAT DO YOU DO? I work in ... Read more
Lights, camera, controversy
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Seated in plastic chairs on a studio riser, we all sat attentively as the “audience coordinator” taught us clapping signals. Yes, it was off to ... Read more
Summer Reads and Beyond
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006Serial killers, pinup girls, and hatchet jobs about your former bossit must be summer, right? Oh, but it’s not all sandy fun and sunblock stuck ... Read more
Bow down to David Holmes
Published 7:00am Monday, October 9, 2006A few weeks ago, when Radiohead’s Kid A debuted as the No. 1 album in America, after a summer that saw the charts dominated by ... Read more