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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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Kanye West opens tour in Seattle, Grammy wrap-up, Natalie Cole snubs Winehouse victory
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Equal Rights Washington fundraising banquet hosts GLBT comics, singer as entertainment
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Winter Pride a big snowball of cool, Gay fun
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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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