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An Interview with Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author of A Visit From the Goon Squad

By Laura Dannen

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Seattle's Little Intimacy Problem

A native deconstructs our city’s little intimacy problem.


By Kathryn Robinson

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Seattle Met Picks

By Laura Dannen

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Pacific Northwest Ballet Premiere's a New Quixote

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Northwest Bookshelf: Science on Ice

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Dispatches from Seattlemet.com

By Christopher Werner

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The Perfect Party

Here's who we'd invite if we could entertain this month's most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


By Allison Williams

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Trade Secrets: Kill It at Karaoke

By Allie Oosta

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Grand Visions for Seattle

By Katherine Koberg

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Vintage Video from Seattle's 1962 World's Fair

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Spring Arts 2012: Then and Now

The lasting cultural legacy of the 1962 World’s Fair was the city’s new civic hub, Seattle Center, home to world-class opera, ballet, theater, art—and a visit from King Tut—then, and now.


By Laura Dannen

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Fiction: Jim Lynch’s World’s Fair Tale, Truth Like the Sun

An exclusive excerpt.


By Jim Lynch

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Seattle Center House Recycled

In time for the 50th anniversary of the World's Fair, Graham Baba Architects turns the old armory into a house of light.


By David Laskin

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The Seattle World’s Fair in 2012

In 1962, Seattle introduced the world to the Space Needle and Belgian waffles. We asked Seattle experts to imagine a 2012 version.


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The 1962 World's Fair: A Timeline

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1962 World's Fair 50th Anniversary

Fifty years ago, the 1962 World’s Fair did more than just celebrate global culture. It put Seattle on display, inspired world leaders, and erected a certain needle-shaped tower. A look at the 184 days that changed Seattle—and the world—forever.


By James Ross Gardner and Allison Williams

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A Tuskegee Airman Goes to the Movies

Hollywood will tell the story of the Tuskegee Airmen this month. George Hickman knows more than the plot.


By Matthew Halverson

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Bruce Lee Slept Here

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Dispatches from Seattlemet.com

Tastes Like Team Spirit


By Christopher Werner

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The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


By Allison Williams

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Northwest Bookshelf: The Map of My Dead Pilots

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Best Things to Do in January

By Laura Dannen

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Isaac Layman Photos at the Frye

By Laura Dannen

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U.S. Debut for Lebanese Performance Artist Rabih Mroué

Lebanese performance artist Rabih Mroué leads a creative rebellion in his U.S. debut.


By Laura Dannen

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Joan Rivers Look-Alike Contest

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The Top Things to Do in Seattle in December

By Laura Dannen

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Bushwick Book Club Sets Hunter S. Thompson to Music

An unusual book club creates songs of fear and loathing for the concert hall.


By Laura Dannen

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Best Things to See and Do in Winter in Seattle

Don’t hibernate. There are hot toddies, Russian spas, and skating rinks worth braving the cold.


By Allison Williams

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How Redbox Could Take Down Netflix

Netflix is on the ropes. Can Bellevue’s Redbox land a knockout blow?


By Matthew Halverson

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Steve Jobs and the Sins of His Father

Thirty-seven years ago Steve Jobs’s biological father led a group of college students into Egypt. Then he vanished. A forgotten Tacoma crime story.


By James Ross Gardner

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Northwest Bookshelf: Shiro Kashiba, Recipes from a Sushi Pioneer

By Brian Colella

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Survive Your So-Called Social Media Life

By Allie Oosta

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The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


By Allison Williams

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Joel McHale Was on the Huskies Football Team (Really)

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Esquire Snubs Seattle, Boeing’s Dreamliner, and ’The Real World’ Casting Call

By Christopher Werner

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Ski Movie Mogul Warren Miller Refuses to Go Downhill

Warren Miller inspired legions of skiers with his goofy, self-narrated ski-bum films. After the sale of his company—and a lawsuit—Miller agreed to never appear in, narrate, or direct another ski film. But now, nearing 90, he refuses to go downhill.


By Neal Thompson

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Northwest Bookshelf: Beneath Cold Seas

By Brian Colella

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Postgame Riots

By Matthew Halverson

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The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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Dispatches from Seattlemet.com

By Christopher Werner

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Hip-Hop Artist Common Might Have Been a Seattleite

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Seattle Company Gives Angry Birds a Boost

By Stephanie Rubesh

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7 Reasons Why Seattle Is Funny

A bald-faced defense of Seattle’s sense of humor.


By Laura Dannen

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Puzzle Palooza Featuring Groovik’s Cube

World’s biggest brain teaser.


By Laura Dannen

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Inside the Matrix

The Barefoot Bandit Speaks

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The Redemption of Ryan Leaf Will Be Televised

And blogged about. And chronicled in newspapers. Once upon a time the WSU football phenom had the world at his feet. Now, after a very public addiction to prescription painkillers, he’s ready to talk. And talk. And talk.


By Matthew Halverson

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Microsoft's Game Face

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The Bootlegger’s Right-Hand Man

Upcoming PBS documentary turns the lens on a Kirklander whose rum-running father never forgot his strangely scrupulous boss.


By Jessica Voelker

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Seattle World's Fair, a Look Back

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Dispatches from Seattlemet.com

By Christopher Werner

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The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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A Mask for Every Occasion

Wild Carnival traditions join the parade at the Burke.


By Laura Dannen

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NPR: No Pledge Required

Isn’t that what NPR stands for?


By Kathryn Robinson

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Seattle Wonder Women Launch GeekGirlCon

Seattle comics lovers and fantasy fans unite for the first-ever GeekGirlCon.


By Lisa Han

10 Little-Known Seattle Records You Should Listen To

By Stephen Tow

A Grunge Guru’s Reading List

On the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s Nevermind, a Seattle music writer sizes up a bookshelf’s worth of grunge histories.


By Gillian Gaar

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The Strangest Tribe: How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge

In an exclusive excerpt from Stephen Tow’s Seattle music history The Strangest Tribe, the author shows how the U-Men bridged the path from punk to grunge.


By Stephen Tow

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Would It Work Here? More Skate Parks

By Abby Tracy

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Fall Arts Preview

New spaces, fresh faces.


By Laura Dannen, Adriana Grant, Lisa Han, and Allison Williams

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Mike McCready and Pearl Jam Celebrate Their 20th Anniversary

By Matthew Halverson

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The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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Dispatches from Seattlemet.com

By Christopher Werner

The Nirvana Baby Speaks

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How to Hang a Picture

By Saba Sulaiman

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Northwest Bookshelf: Jim Davidson, The Ledge

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Et Tu, Dave Matthews?

Is Seattle's jam-band jester gunning for Bumbershoot?


By Matthew Halverson

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A Note from the Editor

By Katherine Koberg

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Halo Crashes PAX

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Web Exclusive: Kindie Music Videos

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Seattle’s Kindie Rockers Play G-Rated Tunes Even Parents Can Love

By Laura Dannen

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Insider's Guide to Olympic National Park: Poet of the Park

Tim McNulty serves as unofficial poet laureate of the Olympics.


By Allison Williams

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Insider's Guide to Olympic National Park: Art of the Park

Every medium presents the peninsula through a different lens.


By Allison Williams

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A Talk with Marcellus Turner, City Librarian, the Seattle Public Library

By Matthew Halverson

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Northwest Bookshelf: William Gibson

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The Real Housewives of...Seattle?

Examining the odds that Bravo's infamous series will wind up in our neck of the woods.


By Jessica Voelker

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The Perfect Party

Here's who we'd invite if we could entertain this month's most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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The Lawn Bowling Championships Come to Seattle

By Matthew Halverson

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Hackers Develop Disaster Response Video Games

Can you survive an earthquake? How about a virtual one?


By Matthew Halverson

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Seattle Summer Events Guide: August Calendar

A day-by-day guide to outdoor pleasures all summer long.


By Laura Dannen

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Seattle Summer Events Guide: July Calendar

A day-by-day guide to outdoor pleasures all summer long.


By Laura Dannen

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Seattle Sound: Eddie Vedder

Pearl Jam’s front man trades his guitar for a ukulele.


By Laura Dannen

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Seattle Summer Events Guide

Movies under the stars! Concerts on the grass! Freebie family fun!


Edited by Laura Dannen

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Vicci Martinez Rocks The Voice

Spunky local rocker Vicci Martinez gets her TV moment.


By Laura Dannen

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Seattle Summer Events Guide: Summer Fun Finder

A day-by-day guide to outdoor pleasures all summer long.


Edited by Laura Dannen

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The Capitol Hill Block Party and How It Grew

By Christopher Werner

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Capitol Hill Explosion

Have you been to Pike/Pine lately? The zesty corridor on Capitol Hill is home to (at least!): 35 new bars and restaurants, 17 new shops and one 15-year-old block party that just may be the best summer blowout in the nation.


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The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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Saving Captain America

By Matthew Halverson

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Seattle Basketball Coach Gives Tips on Trash Ball

By Clancey Denis

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Mayor McGinn to Media: No House Calls, Please

It’s 10pm. Do you know where the mayor is? Should you?


By James Ross Gardner

Seattle Summer Events Guide: Theater & Dance

Seattle Summer Events Guide: Film

Seattle Summer Events Guide: Concerts

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Local's Guide to the Pike Place Market: Meet the Ghosts

Mercedes Yaeger, owner of Market Ghost Tours, introduces Pike Place’s most distinguished ghouls.


By James Ross Gardner

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Local's Guide to the Pike Place Market: Pike Place Performers

Four entertainers who embody the weird and wonderful tradition of performing in the Market.


By Jessica Voelker

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The Observer

Megan Griffiths, Filmmaker


By Matthew Halverson

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Mountain High

Publish or Perish the Thought

How to get your book from the recycling bin to the bookshelf.


By Laura Dannen

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Chat Room

Dispatches from Seattlemet.com


By Christopher Werner

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Let’s Start the Show

When a couple of college kids put on a show at UW, they set the stage to make Seattle a hip-hop hotbed.


By Matthew Halverson

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Passing Through: Panic Room

Jodie Foster is serious about depression. Seriously.


By Matthew Halverson

The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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Seattle Bookshelf

By James Ross Gardner

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A King’s Ransom

Major League Baseball’s trade deadline is next month. Here’s why the Mariners should give up star pitcher Félix Hernández now.


By Matthew Halverson

Verbatim: Kiss Off

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Local's Guide to the Pike Place Market: Meet the Mayor

Pike Place through the eyes of Michael Yaeger, its honorary mayor.


By Katie Ormsby

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Local’s Guide to the Pike Place Market

The Pike Place Market has 104 years of history, 240 stalls, shops, and restaurants, at least four ghosts, two pigs, countless hidden treasures, and more.


Edited by Jessica Voelker

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Battle of the Buskers

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Seattle Sound: New Albums from Local Artists

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North by Northwest

Finding the Seattle connection in five films at this year’s SIFF.


By Laura Dannen

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Oil and Water

A West Seattle photographer documents the BP oil spill.


By Laura Dannen

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Northwest, Vegas Style

By Kathryn Robinson

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Chat Room

Dispatches from Seattlemet.com


By Christopher Werner

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Tacoma’s Heart of Glass

Keep an open mind on a sojourn to the South Sound.


By James Ross Gardner

The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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Pop Cult: Green Lantern Rock

By James Ross Gardner

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Seattle Bookshelf

By James Ross Gardner

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Would It Work Here? Random Acts of Culture

By Laura Dannen

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Pop Cult: Copycat Killing

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Seattle Bookshelf

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A Question For... Jonathan Evison

By Hilary Meyerson

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Rage Against the Machine

In a new monologue, Mike Daisey dissects his love-hate relationship with iPhones.


By Laura Dannen

The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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10 Must-See Masterpieces

A guided tour of top works of art in Seattle’s permanent collections.


By Noah Charney

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Are You Going to Comicon?

The Washington State Convention Center hosts the ninth annual Emerald City Comicon, March 4–6. But don’t reach for the tights until you’ve taken our questionnaire.


By Matthew Halverson

The Last Ride of Cowboy James

King County Superior Court charging document against 74-year-old James Fogle (the inspiration for Drugstore Cowboy, starring Matt Dillon) for his botched 2010 heist in Redmond.


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Spoiling for a Fight

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is selling out at KeyArena. Since when did we become a fisticuffs-loving city?


By Matthew Halverson

The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite
 if we could entertain
 this month’s most 
interesting visitors,
 locals, and newsmakers.


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Seattle Bookshelf

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Fantasy Frye-land

Oil paintings to the right, “whimsically disturbing” performance art to the left.


By Suzanne Beal

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This Product Will Change Your Life

How a game, an actor, and a mentor-driven startup program helped alter Seattle tech entrepreneurship (and maybe celebrities) forever.


By James Ross Gardner

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Mr. Inappropriate

Matthew Inman, web-comic creator


By Matthew Halverson

Spring Arts Preview: Top Seven Strategies Seattle Arts Should Copy

By Laura Dannen

Spring Arts Preview: Arts in a Flash

By Laura Dannen

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Bleep of Faith

Penn Jillette doesn’t hate you.


By James Ross Gardner

The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite
 if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors,
locals, and newsmakers.


Spring Arts Preview: 21 Can't-Miss Events

By Laura Dannen, Clancey Denis, and Sarah Hirsch

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Seattle Bookshelf

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American Spirit

Norman Rockwell’s vision of small-town life pays a call on Tacoma.


By Laura Dannen

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God, Guts, and Sons

Ron Reagan, Magnolia resident and son of President Ronald Reagan, from his new memoir My Father at 100


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Amazon Attacks!

The online retailer wants to produce your movie. Just be sure to read the fine print.


By Matthew Halverson

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Spring Arts Preview

By Laura Dannen

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Fly Guy

Drew Barth, Bellevue resident and finalist in the 31st Seattle International Comedy Competition


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Seattle Bookshelf

The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite
 if we could entertain
 this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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Atonement

A new orchestra demystifies modern chamber music.


By Laura Dannen

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Bring It?

Northwest choreographers vie for $10k in the A.W.A.R.D. Show.


By Laura Dannen

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Knight Writer

Neal Stephenson, Time-Traveling Author


By Matthew Halverson

Rainn Wilson and Craig Robinson Respond to Reader Questions

By Laura Dannen

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We Got Game

By Matthew Halverson

The Perfect Party

Here's who we'd invite if we could entertain this month's most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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The Facebook Comic

You don’t publish graphic novels—and allegedly not pay your artists—without making a few enemies.


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Scent of a Candy Man

Willy Wonka gets the Smell-O-Vision treatment.


By Laura Dannen

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Raaalphie!

A Christmas Story gets the musical treatment.


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Desk Jockeying

Fact: Outside The Office, Rainn Wilson and Craig Robinson refuse to fight.


By Laura Dannen

Seattle Met Uncut: A Talk with Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz

By Laura Dannen

Letters to the Editor

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Lover Boy

Philip Seymour Hoffman takes on two new roles: romantic lead and film director.


By Laura Dannen

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Northwest Exposure

Chase Jarvis made a career with images of fast people in far-flung places. Then he pointed his camera at his hometown.


By James Ross Gardner

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Long, Beautiful Hair

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Minced Meat Words

Seattle comedian Andy Haynes on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, September 8, 2010


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Laughing Matter

Two of the top local contenders in this year’s Seattle International Comedy Competition get sassy.


Edited by Laura Dannen

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The 50 Gigabyte Woman

Mónica Guzmán, Social Media Maven


By Matthew Halverson

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Get Kinect-ed

By Matthew Halverson

The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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Waiting for a Super Washingtonian

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’Scuse Me While I Sue This Guy

Forty years after Jimi Hendrix’s death, his estate is a frustrating litigious mess.


By James Ross Gardner

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Back From the Dead

Washington’s battered film industry finds new energy, new talent, new funding, and some horrific inspiration from H. P. Lovecraft.


By Lia Steakley Dicker

The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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Arts Crush

By Alexandra Notman

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Dead and Loving It

What has rotting flesh, eats human brains, and is shuffling into Seattle for a new convention?


By Tiffany Wan

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Hello, Picasso

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The Littlest Arms Dealer

Will Chapman outfits armies for World War Wee.


By Matthew Halverson

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"Teh Biznuss" Man

By Matthew Halverson

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The Man Who Loved Seattle Too Much

Grant Cogswell found hope in Seattle’s possibilities. He tried to give the city a monorail and a civic vision, but he discovered that happy endings are only in movies.


By Eric Scigliano

The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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Lost in the Shadows

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Young MC

Luke Burbank, Podcast Host


By Matthew Halverson

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Turnover

3BA might be the next big thing in professional basketball: full-court, three-on-three hoops played at breakneck speed. But even the game’s back-and-forth action can’t compete with the off-the-court legal drama.


By Matthew Halverson

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Budding Bromance

When they're not filming Grassroots, Jason Biggs and Joel David Moore are bonding over Bacardi.


Edited by Laura Dannen

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In the Key of Glee

Seattle’s favorite song and dance comedy is back—and it has company.


By Alexandra Notman

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Hold Your Tongue

Ethan Stowell, owner of Tavolàta, Anchovies & Olives, and How to Cook a Wolf, from his cookbook Ethan Stowell’s New Italian Kitchen, out September 21.


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She’s the App for That

Real Weather Girls puts the forecast—and a Seattle hottie—in your hands.


By Douglas Bair

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A Tasting Menu of Fall Arts

A sampler of outstanding selections from the coming cultural season, from soup to nuts.


Edited by Laura Dannen

The Perfect Party

Here's who we'd invite if we could entertain this month's most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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Gulp Fiction

Seattleite Molly Ringle's winning entry in the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest to write the worst first line of a novel.


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Ira Glass Has the Flu

The host of This American Life can't talk right now.


Edited by Laura Dannen

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Artists Gone Wild

Edited by Laura Dannen

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Busy Betty

America Ferrera brings The Dry Land to a wet city.


Edited by Laura Dannen

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Seattle Food Events

Five kick-yourself-if-you-miss-it awesomefests.



By Jessica Voelker

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Photos from Seattle Met's Flash Mob Cover Shoot

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Feel the Love

Seattle Met's history-making flash mob cover shoot.


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Smells Like Green Spirit

Local music fests—new and old—aren't afraid to compost.


Edited by Laura Dannen

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That's All, Folks

The Perfect Party

Here's who we'd invite if we could entertain this month's most interesting visitors, locals and newsmakers.


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Main Man

Eat your veggies—and pay no attention to the man behind the middle finger.


By Jessica Voelker

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Prison Munchies

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Cash In on Me If You Can

The Barefoot Bandit's fans and foes battle at the till.


By James Ross Gardner

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Is That an App in Your Lap?

Mature content on mobile phones—two Seattleites have a knack for that.


By Jason Cohen

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About Face

Could this happen to everyone’s favorite time waster?


By Matthew Halverson

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100 Reasons to Love Seattle

By Laura Cassidy, Tiffany Wan, Jessica Voelker, Eric Scigliano, Kathryn Robinson, Judy Naegeli, Caitlin King, Matthew Halverson, James Ross Gardner, Laura Dannen, and Christopher Werner

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The Illegal American

Anonymous, Babysitter and Housecleaner


By Matthew Halverson

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Unfriend Me

Status update: So much tech so close to home.


By Kathryn Robinson

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Party Pics

Pictures from recent community benefits and charity events.


The President’s Analyst

David Remnick talks about Muhammed Ali and Obama, the Clintons and the Tea Baggers, how he managed to write The Bridge, his acclaimed new biography of Barack Obama, while editing The New Yorker, and how he can hear every writer’s voice except his own.


By Compiled by Eric Scigliano

The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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Bite of Seattle

Why do so many locals vamp it up on-screen?


Edited by Laura Dannen

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Me, Myself, and Finneyfrock

By Tiffany Wan

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Mayor of Cirque City

Former PNB dancer Adam Miller runs away with the circus.


Edited by Laura Dannen

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Renoir in Our Backyard

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Baby Got Broke

Washington Mutual Execs who sang the ditty to Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back" during a company retreat in Hawaii in 2006. The lyrics were unveiled in April 2010 during a senate hearing on the collapse of the Seattle-based bank.


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The Road Warrior

Reno, Drum Tech and Stage Manager


By Matthew Halverson

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All the President's Been

New Yorker editor David Remnick bridges the gaps in Obama’s life story.


By Eric Scigliano

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Burning Man

David Boushey, Stuntman


By Matthew Halverson

The Perfect Party

Here's who we'd invite if we could entertain this month's most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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Festival Fever

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Barefoot Contrarian

Edited by Laura Dannen

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'Extra' Directors

Edited by Laura Dannen

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Risky Business

Bolstered by new leadership, Seattle Art Museum is in the mood for a fresh coat of paint.


Edited by Laura Dannen

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¡Viva la Seattle!

A survey of what Mexican Americans have given Seattle—besides great Cinco de Mayo parties.


By Tiffany Wan

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Brother, Can You Spare a Joke?

Garrison Keillor, during a live broadcast at the Paramount Theatre of his public radio program A Prairie Home Companion, April 3, 2010.


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Viva Vega

A "Close Up" of folk musician Suzanne Vega.


By Christopher Werner

The Perfect Party

Here's who we'd invite if we could entertain this month's most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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Fit as a Fiddle

An Old World artisan matches up violins, players, and big-time investors.


By Eric Scigliano

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We Think You've Seen Her Before

Suzanne Vega, backstage at the Moore Theatre on February 25, 2010.


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Turning Japanese

Seattle's anime and manga fest turns 13 this month. What are you wearing?


By James Ross Gardner

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The Kid Gloves Come Off

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Homer Alone

Hans Altwies treads softly into his first solo show—an adaptation of The Iliad.


Edited by Laura Dannen

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Just a Song Before I Go

Graham Nash keeps on keeping on with a photography exhibit at EMP and a new album with Crosby and Stills.


Edited by Laura Dannen

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Sounders ’Til We Die

What to yell, where to watch, and everything else you need to know to be an expert soccer fan.


By Matthew Halverson

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Rain King of Comedy

Defrocked late-night TV host Conan O'Brien on Larry King Live in 2002


The Perfect Party

Here's who we'd invite if we could entertain this month's most interesting visitors, locals and newsmakers.


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Showing Some Skin

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Where the Boys Aren't

Darnell Sue thinks networking should be a blast. But ladies only.


By James Ross Gardner

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Vehicular Cam Slaughter

Travel Channel cruises Seattle to find the nation's worst driver.


By James Ross Gardner

The Perfect Party

Here's who we'd invite if we could entertain this month's most interesting visitors, locals and newsmakers.


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Earthly Delights

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The New Faces of Seattle Arts

The spring arts calendar fills up with artists who break new ground in Seattle.


Edited by Laura Dannen

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Knit One, Pow! Two

Edited by Laura Dannen

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From Prince to King?

PNB principal Olivier Wevers debuts his own dance supergroup, Whim W’Him.


By Jean Lenihan

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The Not–So–Hard Times of Amber Lancaster

From high school to spokesmodel and back to high school.


By James Ross Gardner

The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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I Spy

Watch these video samples from movies filmed in our hometown and see if you can spot the locations.


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Nerd for Life

Rainn Wilson, star of NBC’s The Office, speaking to students at the University of Washington


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Red Hot

Seattle’s John Myhre dissects his design work in 'Nine.'


By Matthew Halverson

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Truthiness

Edited by Laura Dannen

The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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The Collector

When a St. Louis art lover made Seattle his home, it was our city’s gain.


By Steve Wiecking

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The Movie Seattle Saved

Thirty years ago, The Stunt Man was gathering dust in a vault. Its producers hated it and no studio would touch it. Then Seattle audiences made it the star of one of Hollywood’s greatest underdog stories.


By Matthew Halverson

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Home Movies

Our curated celluloid history tells the tale of how Seattle grew up on-screen.


By Steve Wiecking

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A Diamond in the Rough

By Matthew Halverson

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Will Work for Quote

Tim Burgess wants to curb pushy panhandlers—but doesn't want to comment.


By Karen Quinn

The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.


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Bloody Good Music

By Steve Wiecking

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Beautiful Creature Feature

Green Porno brings out the animal in Isabella Rossellini.


By Steve Wiecking

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26 Perfect Saturdays

We've planned out a year's worth of memorable days—urban explorations, out-of-bounds adventures, and relaxed, cultural happenings of the very Seattle kind.


By Laura Cassidy

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History in the Making

Ken Burns has a presence in the past.


By Steve Wiecking

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A Question For...

Estelle Parsons


By Steve Wiecking

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Screaming in Strings

By Steve Wiecking

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Steampunk'd

Diana Vick's Victorian sci-fi dream for Seattle.


By Karen Quinn

The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, or newsmakers.


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Instant Gratification

Robert Mapplethorpe's Polaroids expose the development of an artist.


By Steve Wiecking

Straight Talker

A visit with Melvin Van Peebles.


By Steve Wiecking

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Born Again

Seattle musician David Bazan breaks with his evangelical past on Curse Your Branches.


By Nick Feldman

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Polaroids: Mapplethorpe

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The Old, Weird America

Select images from the Frye Art Museum exhibit.


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A Question For...

Andrew Connor, of the Cody Rivers Show and artistic director of SketchFest Seattle Comedy Festival, reveals the magic behind his comical stage genius.


By Steve Wiecking

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Fall Arts from A to Z

A primer to the season's best bets.


By Steve Wiecking

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Mr. President

Dennis Haysbert remains diplomatic about the movie he’s making in Seattle with Tobey Maguire.


By Steve Wiecking

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Such Sweet Sorrow

Pacific Northwest Ballet's Lucien Postlewaite shares why he loved taking the lead in Roméo et Juliette.


By Steve Wiecking

August Arts

31 days, 31 things to do: Concerts, parties, plays, art shows, sports, and fairs for every day of the month.


By Nick Feldman

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Neighborhood Watch

An interactive art installation records a city in transition.


By Steve Wiecking

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Ring Leader

Conductor Robert Spano returns for another workout with Wagner’s Ring Cycle.


By Thomas May

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Con Song

Tony winner Scott Wittman talks fast about turning a Hollywood hit into tune-filled theater.


By Steve Wiecking

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Costume Couture

Fashion designer Luly Yang discusses her first time designing for the stage.


By Katie Cornell

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Vince Mira Won't Walk the Line

Billed as the Second Coming of Johnny Cash, a teenager from Federal Way wowed rock stars, morning news shows, Ellen DeGeneres, and the Cash estate. There’s just one problem: Vince Mira is done parroting the Man in Black.


By James Ross Gardner

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Back to Its Roots

No Depression celebrates Americana music online and in concert.


By Brian J. Barr

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Worried Man

Actor Paul Giamatti returned to Seattle. But don’t make a big deal about it.


By Steve Wiecking

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A Sound Return

The music of Detroit’s Rodriguez receives a Seattle revival.


By Laura Cassidy

A Chat with Francis Ford Coppola

The esteemed director talks about his favorite Godfather scene and the hazards of bringing a personal piece to cinematic life.


By Steve Wiecking

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Four Questions For…

Marc Bamuthi Joseph


By Steve Wiecking

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Little Boy Lost

Francis Ford Coppola finds his inner child for Tetro.


Edited by Steve Wiecking

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The Sundance Kid

Local director Lynn Shelton outgunned the doubters at Robert Redford’s film festival. Now she’s aiming at her hometown.


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Four Questions For... Jan Fabre

Belgian maverick Jan Fabre discusses his revolutionary career in the arts.


By Christopher Werner

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Munchkin for Life

An Oz veteran lands in the Emerald City.


By Steve Wiecking

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The Not-So-Final Frontier

A Seattleite wrote the Star Trek backstory. Will the new movie ruin her universe?


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Puppet People

Marionettes in motion make for unsettling notions.


By Christopher Werner

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A Walk in the Park

Director Sam Buntrock creates a new "Sunday" for Seattle


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String Theory

Classical cellist Joshua Roman expands his musical universe with Radiohead, world travel, and an unshakeable belief in his own potential.


By Steve Wiecking

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Stomaching the Fall Out

Facing fame gives rocker Pete Wentz an ache.


By Steve Wiecking

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Reading Music

Author Michael Cunningham shares the melody of The Hours and his other novels.


By Steve Wiecking

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Dress Code

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Five Questions for Jack Hamann

By Christopher Werner

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Dancing Through a Winter Wonderland

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Disco Inferno

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Go Ahead, Make His Day

Kirkland actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan brings out the big guns for Watchmen


By Matthew Halverson

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Tom Robbins Gets the Blues

…at the imminent demise of the morning P-I.


By Eric Scigliano

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This Just In

The newest ways to eat, shop, and play on the growing, changing, morphing Eastside.


By Megan Clark, Kathryn Robinson, and Steve Wiecking

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The 2009 Quotable Spring Arts Guide

We spotlight this season's bright stars. And they had something to say about it.


By Steve Wiecking and Christopher Werner

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The Royal Tennenhaus

ShmuTube attacks Seattle.


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The Anti-Ahab

Whale warrior Paul Watson turns eco-piracy into reality TV.


By Eric Scigliano

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Dawn Argentine Way

Soprano Dawn Upshaw colors an electrifying song cycle with the Symphony.


By Steve Wiecking

Poet of the Port Town

Just before ”Howl” made him famous, Allen Ginsberg savored old Seattle’s seaport rot.


By Ryan Boudinot

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Picture Perfect

Annie Leibovitz photographs well.


By Steve Wiecking

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Sounds Like Teen Spirit

A Northwest girls’ camp strikes a chord with two documentary filmmakers.


By Wilson Diehl

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Mr. Personalities

Actor Nick Garrison finds his own voice and discovers that life is a Cabaret.


By Steve Wiecking

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Once Upon a Time

Questions for indie folk singer Jamie Spiess.


By Laura Cassidy

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Listen to this man—Or we kill a puppy

Dr. Demento’s reign of syndicated radio terror started in Seattle.


By James Ross Gardner

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All the King's Women

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Screen Test Tube

Two hundred and forty words about Amy Walker’s two and a half minutes of fame.


By Lee Fehrenbacher

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This is SUB POP

The rise and fall and rise of the record label that that redefined itself for a new generation.


By Bart Blasengame

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Murder Most Tyra

America’s top reality host has Seattle blood on her hands.


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Man of Many Acts

Bumbershoot booker Chris Porter tries to catch the trends, keep it Reel, and always have a backup when Devo bails for China.


By Kevin Friedman

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Bidder Sweet

While Seattleites sat on their auction paddles, a Tacoma man took the lot.


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Dancing with the Czars

The jig is up for a Seattle game developer.


By Christopher Werner

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A Royal Pair

Two old friends find success as the Dutchess and the Duke.


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Market Man

Rock Star Gavin Rossdale talks shop at Pike Place


By Steve Wiecking

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"I Shall Call It Cletus"

A hardcore videogamer plays God in the 
virtual world of Spore, where omnipotence 
is the mission and survival is for the fit.


By Emily White

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Wait, Wait... She'll Tell You

Comedian Paula Poundstone knows the answers—but not the questions.


By Steve Wiecking

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His and Hers

John Kelly makes his own kind of music, Joni Mitchell's way.


By Steve Wiecking

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American Idolatry

With his mile-wide smile, unreliable voice, and parade of hairdos, Sanjaya Malakar became a star—and a pop culture punch line—on American Idol.


By Emily White

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50 Most Influential Musicians

Rock guitarists, jazz singers, folk pioneers, world-class cellists and more—these are the people who changed the sound of our lives.


Edited by Steve Wiecking

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What a Hoot!

How Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie caught the hootenanny spirit in Seattle.


By Eric Scigliano

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In a Meinert Key

Rock promoter, hip-hop impresario, political powerhouse—activist and entrepreneur David Meinert has shaped Seattle’s music scene.


By Michael Hood

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Body Electric

A conversation with political pop duo Team Gina.


By Laura Cassidy

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Green and Blues Brother

Rocking out with Seattle's singing Seahawk.


By Jim Gullo

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The Sound of Windows

Microsoft’s tuneful team showers your yuletide with geek-love cheer.


By Cherise Watts