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The rising force of Mt. Fuji records

Posted Fri, Nov 20, 6 a.m.

In a standout year for Seattle music, Michael Jaworski's indie label is on a rock-punk-country roll. Many of Mt. Fuji's bands are playing locally this weekend.

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Sex, death and 'Bodies'

Posted Wed, Nov 18, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

An exhibit of corpses is back for a second tour of Seattle, where it has been a huge hit. What are we really experiencing when we wander the gallery of the dead?

Flying the flannel flag

Posted Tue, Nov 17, 6 a.m.

By Travis Hay

Concert Review: With a new book on grunge and a memorable show at Neumos, Seattle's signature sound rocks on.

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Concert Review: The Pixies' Doolittle live

Posted Fri, Nov 13, noon

By Travis Hay

The alt-rock heroes kicked off a two-night gig at the Paramount celebrating the album's 20th anniversary. It was like the excellent movie version of a book you love.

Resurrecting Seattle's book festival

Posted Sat, Nov 7, 8 a.m.

By Knute Berger

It's been a tough year for books and words, but one bright spot was the effort to bring back a Seattle book festival. Some saw the event as a great first effort, others as a fiasco.

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Discovering Nirvana's lost treasures

Posted Fri, Nov 6, 5 p.m.

By Travis Hay

Two of the band's seminal concerts are captured in new releases this week. It's enough to make a critic regret, again, a long-ago mistake.

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Theater review: ACT's Rock 'n' Roll finds a groove

Posted Fri, Oct 23, 5:07 p.m.

By Ben Rankin

Tom Stoppard's latest play melds memory and mirth in ACT's strong re-imagining of the Broadway production.

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Opera Review: 'La Traviata' kicks off 'Verdi-fest'

Posted Fri, Oct 23, 1 p.m.

By Thomas May

Seattle Opera's production soothes and sometimes soars, but doesn't stretch.

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New chapter for Elliott Bay?

Posted Sun, Oct 18, noon

By Knute Berger

Seattle's iconic Pioneer Square bookstore might move. It could also close. Tough times bring tough choices for the bookseller, and the neighborhood it has helped to revive.

Celebrating Seattle, 'City of Music'

Posted Thu, Oct 15, 1:39 p.m.

By Travis Hay

The Showbox dresses up for the city's inaugural music awards program, honoring KEXP, Quincy Jones, Fleet Foxes, and others. Even the restrooms smelled nice.

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Seattle Rep: One too many steps

Posted Wed, Oct 7, 6 a.m.

By Ben Rankin

In going from thriller novel to onstage comedy, the slapstick adaptation of Hitchcock's classic '39 Steps' tries just about everything to get a laugh, when maybe none was needed.

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Beyond here lies somethin'

Posted Mon, Oct 5, 12:21 p.m.

By Travis Hay

Bob Dylan kicks off a new tour at Seattle's Moore Theatre with a spirited set that mixes deep album cuts, recent bluesy folk material, and even an unexpected sense of fun.

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Glenn Beck: Schtick it to us

Posted Sun, Sep 27, 11:04 a.m.

By Ted Van Dyk

Glenn Beck, barnstorming Seattle and Mount Vernon this weekend, is more the norm than an aberration in modern media, eagerly exploiting a niche appeal that broadcasters covet.

When alternative radio meant Seattle's KJET

Posted Wed, Sep 23, 5:25 p.m.

By Feliks Banel

It's been exactly 21 years since the grunge-anticipating, AM rock station KJET signed off the air, leaving a flood of great memories for our writer, including his favorite place to listen: a radio-challenged Ford Pinto.

A big week for the cottage cult

Posted Mon, Sep 21, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

Backyard cottage housing is a benefit, not a threat, to single family neighborhoods, and in keeping with the values that shaped Seattle. Let's have more.

Utopia: Are we there yet?

Posted Wed, Sep 9, 9:24 p.m.

By Knute Berger

An art exhibit in Port Angeles displays creative responses to the Cascadia dream.

An encore for the Seattle World's Fair

Posted Mon, Sep 7, 6 a.m.

By Feliks Banel

The case for marking the 50th anniversary of the big fair with a weeklong celebration called Century 21.5.

At ACT, a tacky Texas sendup of Wagner's 'Ring'

Posted Sat, Aug 8, 10 a.m.

By Thomas May

'Das Barbecu' is a lively show with an excellent cast and direction. Too bad it has more fun spoofing Texas than skewering Wagner.

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Heroes, saints, and celebs

Posted Tue, Jun 30, 6 a.m.

By Anthony B. Robinson

In a perverse way, our modern fascination with celebrities such as Michael Jackson provides an avenue for moral discourse

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And for Seattle's next 'world's fair,'...

Posted Fri, Jun 5, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

Puget Sound boosters are proposing to launch an annual Global Health Celebration in 2012 to re-brand Seattle for the new century.

Other media

SIFF Italian film fest opens with a winner "Fortapasc," about a reporter who is killed after investigating the mob in Naples, turns out to be one of the great journalism movies. The festival runs through this week.

BIG BLOG

Embarrassed Hollywood studio pays off Alaska newspapers for running fake ads For the publicity release of a movie called "The Fourth Kind," Universal Pictures created ads that included stories that appeared to be from real Alaska newspapers about an alien abduction near Nome.

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Gail Collins: With the world slated to end, what to do about holiday shopping Or homework assignments, for that matter. New apocalypse movies and Twitters of Terror indicate the end is near.

NEW YORK TIMES

Best movies of the decade...a critic struggles with a list A.O. Scott plays the game that never gets old. Starting with "My Dog Skip."

NEW YORK TIMES

Anticipated Amelia Earhart movie grounded by critic Director Mira Nair, who has turned out wonderful movies in the past, crashes in this retelling of the legendary aviatrix who went missing.

WALL STREET JOURNAL

Blog posts

'GIVE': Seattle music fit for holiday giving

Posted Tue, Nov 17, 4 p.m.

by Travis Hay

A star lineup of city musicians, backed by some popular venues and arts orgs, has produced a 36-track CD with all proceeds going to charity.

Island Girl: 'This Is It,' every day

Posted Tue, Nov 3, 4 p.m.

by Ann Bauer

An argument to see Michael Jackson's movie, and to remember that there's not always next year.

Boo!

Posted Fri, Oct 30, 5 p.m.

by Mark Matassa

It could be creepy out there on this Halloween weekend, what with all that extra time to plan tricks and treats.

'Hold for applause, fade out'

Posted Fri, Oct 30, 11:30 a.m.

by Travis Hay

Movie review: With This Is It, the late Michael Jackson offers what would have been one of the greatest concerts ever. But the film isn't as successful in explaining MJ the man.