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Seattle Gay News teams with Purr for Oscar party
Unless Marion Cotillard and Ruby Dee score upset wins, the winners of the 2008 Academy Awards are as predictable as John McCain's trip to Minneapolis-St. Paul in September. But that doesn't mean you have to skip the fun of watching the glitzy ceremony this year, which enjoys a last-minute polish thanks to the recent end to the writers' strike.
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Persuasion a lark of a production
by Miryam Gordon -
SGN A&E Writer
PERSUASION
BY JANE AUSTEN
ADAPTED BY JEN TAYLOR AND
COLIN BRYNE
DIRECTED BY MYRA PLATT
BOOK-IT REPERTORY THEATRE
THROUGH MARCH 2
Society during Jane Austen's era, in the late 1790s, was severely strict in the ways men and women intera more
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Real patriotism demonstrated at The New Space
by Miryam Gordon - SGN A&E Writer
GOD OF HELL
BY SAM SHEPARD
THE NEW SPACE
THROUGH FEBRUARY 23
What would a play be like if Sam Shepard, the quirky, charged playwright, wrote a play about current politics? What might you expect? Well, he wrote a play in 2004 that was designed to try to actu more
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Jumper not satisfying sci-fi
by Rajkhet Dirzhud-Rashid -
SGN A&E Writer
JUMPER
OPENING FEBRUARY 15
The best (and possibly funniest) moment in Jumper is when the title character - who has been using his ability to teleport, or "jump," all over the continent - meet his mom (Diane Lane), finds out she's a member of the group that's more
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Sayles brings magic touch to fantastical Spiderwick
by Sara Michelle Fetters -
SGN Contributing Writer
THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES
OPENING FEBRUARY 15
The Grace family has left New York and moved into the secluded country home of their great-great-uncle Arthur Spiderwick (David Strathairn), a strange recluse who disappeared years earlier under highly mysterious more
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Central District Forum presents Nora Chipaumire's Chimurenga
Chimurenga
February 15 - 16
Broadway Performance Hall
1625 Broadway, Seattle
$20, $15 for CD Forum members, seniors and students
The Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas (CD Forum) proudly welcomes 2007 BESSIE Performer Award Winner Nora Chipaumire. Her solo dance performance Chimurenga debuts in S more
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Today is not so different from Yesterday
by Miryam Gordon -
SGN A&E Writer
BORN YESTERDAY
BY GARSON KANIN
DIRECTED BY SUSANNA WILSON
STARRING JANE MAY,
ROBERT BOGUE AND
JASON MARR
SECONDSTORY REPERTORY
THROUGH MARCH 1
This play proves that politics is classic. Big business and politics have gone t more
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25 years later, Michael Jackson's Thriller continues to thrill
by Albert Rodriguez -
SGN A&E Writer
No other album in the history of recorded music has sold 104 million copies worldwide. Not Abbey Road. Not The Joshua Tree. Not even Rumours. The only full-length recording to achieve this feat is Thriller. Domestically, it ships over 60,000 copies annually as a catalog item.
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UW Bothell presents Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell the Tales
The University of Washington Bothell's Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program presents a performance of Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell the Tales on Wednesday, February 27, 6:30 p.m. on the UW Bothell campus in the North Creek Events Center.
This one-man show, featuring E. Patrick Johnson relates the stories of more
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Human spirit celebrated in Needless Talents
The Theater of Needless Talents
Choreographed and directed by Donald Byrd
Music by Erwin Schulhoff
With the Northwest Sinfonietta Trio
Featuring James Garlick, Mara Finkelstein, Judith Cohen
February 22-24, 29, and March 1-2
Madrona Studios
800 Lake Washington Blvd.
$18 pre-sale, $20 doo more
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One-woman country musical 100 Heartbreaks premieres at Capitol Hill Arts Center
100 HEARTBREAKS
FEBRUARY 15, 16, 22, 23, 29,
MARCH 1, 8:30 PM
CAPITOL HILL ARTS CENTER
1621 12TH AVE.
$15
Seattle director/designer Jennifer Zeyl (BlahblahblahBANG!, My Name is Rachel Corrie) directs the world premiere of Joanna Horowitz's one-woman country musical 100 Heartbreaks, playi more
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Cornish College of the Arts presents 2008 BFA dance concerts
BFA dance concerts
February 21-March 1
Broadway Performance Hall
1625 Broadway
Free, though tickets are required
The Cornish College of the Arts Dance Department presents the 2008 BFA Concerts February 21-March 1, showcasing the choreography and performance work of Cornish Dance Department's cl more
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Q-Scopes by Jack Fertig
ARIES (March 20 - April 19): You're not usually a worrier, but stress can exaggerate health problems. Still, they're real problems; a check-up now can save plenty of grief later. Focus on the task at hand, put one foot in front of the other, breathe, and relax!
TAURUS (April 20 - May 20): Creative constipation feels dire, but it' more
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