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The owl as icon, and the charisma of the woodpecker
In his groundbreaking first book, wildlife photographer Paul Bannick offers a bird's-eye view of the Northwest.
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A searing Elektra at Seattle Opera
Superb casting and breathtaking music making by the orchestra produce Seattle Opera's most compelling work in many years.
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Marie Chouinard, a very distinctive voice in dance
The Montreal-based choreographer brings a new work to On the Boards, full of chaotic invention and dirty dancing.
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A Powder keg of a book
Ignore the preface, and get to the poetry and power in this new anthology written by women in combat.
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Running on global warming issues proved "hard to sell and easy to hammer," but leave it to our neighbors to figure out this urgent new politics. Plus, why arts funding matters (at least in Canada).
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An 1891 play turned rock musical
The touring version of Spring Awakening plays a short run at the Paramount, pulsing with the rock anthems of youth and biological time bombs.
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KCTS hires a new leader
Maurice Bresnahan gets the hot seat, arriving next month from South Carolina. Seattle's public-TV station is finally out of debt, but it still seems more about survival than revival.
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The SSO starts to look beyond Maestro Schwarz
The next three years could involve a lot of healing, finding new visions for the symphony, and a chance to solve its financial weakness.
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Unannounced guest star of Intiman's new show: Sarah Palin
It's almost spooky to see how much Robert Penn Warren's novel based on Huey Long resonates in today's campaign. Intiman gives All the King's Men a rousing production.
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How accurate is Battle in Seattle?
A journalist and former Seattle City Council member who led the council's investigation into the WTO riots faults the film for claiming too much for the protesters. More disturbing was the picture of dreamy nonchalance in planning that the investigation revealed about City Hall and Seattle Police.
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Schwarz's Mahler does the orchestra proud
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Seattle Opera names successor to Speight Jenkins
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Mysterious daredevil scales Seattle buildings to shoot photos
An anonymous photographer has released new photos from the top of the Space Needle and other buildings in downtown Seattle. The photos are being posted to Reddit, a social sharing site, by the alias "shuttersubversive."
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A Seattle artist's powerful tribute to his mentally ill mother
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Detroit Symphony as the comeback kid, triumphing at Carnegie
The appearance comes as the orchestra plays a program originally created by the Oregon Symphony, which suddenly pulled out of a Carnegie tour.
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