VARIOUS ARTISTS We’re a Happy Family: A Tribute to the Ramones (DV8/Columbia) Paying homage to da bruddahs. No reason to…
Performances THE CHRISTMAS REVELS The Puget Sound Revels’ yearly holiday festival at Tacoma’s Rialto Theater includes dance, music, and drama…
Bret Easton Ellis, Karen Fisher, and Rodney Rothman.
A tap dancer’s chance to shine.
A harmonizing duo is the foundation of Freakwater’s Kentucky soul music.
Also: A Perfect Circle, U2, Chicks On Speed, James T. Cotton, Rilo Kiley, and World Cinema Classics.
AIDA, narrated by Leontyne Price, London Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf conducts (RCA Red Seal) This CD, encased in a fold-out…
The Gnome’s as happy as a clam that Radiohead rose above the Britneys and Korns to debut at No. 1…
Reissuing James Brown reissues.
Spinners by Anthony McCarten (Morrow, $24) Teenagers invent all sorts of fantastic stories to disguise their follies, but Delia Chapman…
The week’s local music calendar.
The knotty narratives of the Fiery Furnaces and Ken Stringfellow.
With the Grand Illusion Cinema freshly remodeled and the historic University Theater slated for reopening, you film buffs out there…
The music industry fights City Hall.
It’s time for this week’s musical equation: If the Ramones told us, “It’s the end, the end of the ’70s,…
Great art endures through generations—so if you want a masterpiece, go to a museum. This year, Bumbershoot showcases art that…
JIM GOETTLER and Bob Barnes want to help the police, but the city has rejected their offer. Admittedly, the offer…
FRIDAY STAGE sCARRIE Poor Carrie Whitehigh school is difficult enough even without telekinetic powers, a religious freak for a mother,…
Dance documentary movingly captures ballet greats before their final curtain.
THE EPOXIES The Epoxies (Dirtnap) Portland-based molded plasticians play both kinds of music: new and wave. With brain-railing buzz-saw fuzz,…
