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The Nexus Project: Twelve short plays benefit charities
by Miryam Gordon -
SGN A&E Writer
The Nexus Project
Richard Hugo House
Through September 7
Twelve short plays are being presented in two programs at the Next Stage, hosted by Richard Hugo House. This festival's unique approach is to ask local playwrights to choose a charity and then write a short play that somehow connects to the more
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Radiohead reigns supreme at White River
by Jessica Price -
SGN A&E Writer
Radiohead
White River Amphitheatre
August 20
Radiohead might be the world's least likely stadium band, but you wouldn't guess it by the packed White River Amphitheatre last week. There were so many people in attendance, it's hard to fathom that a band as more
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Wagner Olympics at McCaw Hall
by Rod Parke -
SGN A&E Writer
Recital by Ben Heppner and Wagner Competition
McCaw Hall
August 14-16
What started out as a mini-Wagner festival threatened to become a wake instead. Two days before the International Wagner Competition, Wagnerian tenor Ben Heppner began his recital at McCaw H more
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Little Dog offers laughs despite shortcomings
by Miryam Gordon -
SGN A&E Writer
The Little Dog Laughed
Directed by Francaswell Hyman
Intiman Theatre
Through September 13
Douglas Carter Beane makes a strong statement about media and celebrity in The Little Dog Laughed at Intiman Theatre. While we might agree with the sentiment more
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Search and Destroy destroyed by confusing quirks
by Miryam Gordon -
SGN A&E Writer
Search and Destroy
Directed by Curtis Eastwood
Balagan Theatre
Through September 13
This production of Search and Destroy at Balagan Theatre is frantic to the point of near hysteria. The script seems to start in the middle, where you meet Martin M more
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A pocket guide to the coolest Seattle music
by Albert Rodriguez -
SGN A&E Writer
Welcome to Seattle! A city with the best coffee this side of the Atlantic Ocean, cutest geeks on the West Coast, freshest seafood around, and a place that really doesn't rain as much as you've been told. Another great thing about Seattle is our music scene, which rose to international fame in more
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Matt Costa makes it short and delightful at WaMu
by Albert Rodriguez -
SGN A&E Writer
Matt Costa
August 26
WaMu Theater
When it was announced Matt Costa would go onstage at 7 p.m. sharp this week at WaMu Theater, it wasn't a joke. With an almost three-quarters full venue, if that, and as concertgoers streamed in and headed directly t more
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The Reel Spin: The DL Chronicles: Smart, sexy and seductive
by Ron Anders
SGN A&E Writer
In recent months, I seem to have been inundated with the here! Channel's large quota of entertaining guilty-pleasure DVDs: the skin-soaked soaps Dante's Cove and The Lair, among others - all intentionally campy spectacles. So, when I began watching The DL Chronicles, I didn't know what more
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Emerald City Softball saved my life
by Sara Michelle Fetters -
SGN Contributing Writer
In case you've been living under a rock or don't ever take a look at this particular newspaper, the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Association and Amateur Sports Alliance of North America bring roughly 4,000 people to Seattle next week for World Series Northwest Quest 200 more
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Traitor an edgy, timely drama
by Rajkhet Dirzhud-Rashid -
SGN A&E Writer
Traitor
Now Playing
Now that most of the "summer blockbuster" films are like yesterday's good meal, gone, or at least digested, the big screen is getting more serious (though this year's earlier writer's strike may still bring us some things we'll mark more
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Death Race pretty damned good
by Rajkhet Dirzhud-Rashid -
SGN A&E Writer
Death Race
Now Playing
I barely remember Death Race 2000, the original movie about a killer race across the country that starred David Caradine, but I do know that for the time (the mid-'70s), that film rocked, and I'm pretty sure I enjoyed it. The curre more
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Frigid River an emotional snowstorm
by Sara Michelle Fetters -
SGN Contributing Writer
Frozen River
Opening August 15
Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo) is having her worst Christmas ever. Her husband has disappeared with the down payment money the family needed for their new doublewide trailer, and son T.J. (Charlie McDermott) and littl more
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Q-Scopes by Jack Fertig
ARIES (March 20 - April 19): Address any and all problems you have in your relationships, especially the personal and the political. Have a clear idea of where you want to be in the future with your companion (current or hypothetical) and your compadres.
TAURUS (April 20 - May 20): You and your colleagues each have your own ide more
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