Old texts encounter new ironies.
Seattle musicians celebrate a radical American genius.
Getting comfy with a new friend.
One of Seattle’s newer live-music venues—and certainly one of the first to feature sleek tropical fish tanks, folded napkins, a…
Edited by Roger Downey
Our critics select the best albums by genre, plus singles, local music, and 10 you might have missed.
Best local court ruling We may have fun in this town yet! Federal Judge John Coughenour, not known as a…
The Fever: a detective story.
Inspired by a similarly structured Dutch organization of the same name, Seattle’s VERA Project began in 1999 when Tacoma native…
I’m Staying Out
A fortune teller was reading Tarot cards at a big Christmas party last week. I’m very skeptical about psychics, but…
How to strike out with all the right people at S.I.P.
Thankfully, success has neither spoiled nor improved the Honey Bear Bakery.
A parallel-universe editor might have titled the latest book about Ichiro Suzuki To Ich, His Zone, because that’s what most…
Given the Band’s fondness for contemporary art, it’s only fair to divide Talking Heads’ career into early, middle, and late…
The multitalented, multifaceted Robert Lopez really is the man who would be king.
Seattle standard
An Irish dance company from Chicago visits Meany. Plus: Tudor Choir goes colonial.
THE WU-TANG CLAN, The W (Loud) Their Mephistophelean vision of New York’s modern underworld powered the Wu-Tang Clan’s 1993 debut,…
The Olympia Festival of Experimental Musics celebrates its diamond anniversary.
