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posted Friday, May 1, 2009 - Volume 37 Issue 18 |
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Arts and Entertainment
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Lea Salonga sings at Snoqualmie Casino
by Eric Andrews-Katz -
SGN Contributing Writer
Lea Salonga
May 4, 8 PM
Snoqualmie Casino Ballroom
Lea Salonga is one hell of an accomplished performer. Perhaps best known in the United States for her tragic portrayal of Kim in the mega-hit musical Miss Saigon, Lea's performances have extended far before and way beyond the Broadway r more |
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Talking with the Indigo Girls' Amy Ray
by Andrew Hamlin -
SGN Contributing Writer
Indigo Girls
May 8-9
Edmonds Center for the Arts, Edmonds, WA
You read it here first: Amy Ray - half of the Indigo Girls, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record label owner, and proudly out pretty much her whole life - has no plans to a more
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Cussing at the Moon grim yet lovely
by Miryam Gordon -
SGN A&E Writer
Cussing at the Moon
Nebunele Theatre (at Odd Duck)
Through May 10
Sometimes expectations are exceeded, even if expectations are high. Cussing at the Moon, an ensemble-created production by Nebunele Theatre (yes, a strange name), and a "homeless" company t more
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Funny Tangled mess at Annex
by Miryam Gordon -
SGN A&E Writer
Love's Tangled Web
Annex Theatre
Through May 16
Love's Tangled Web, playing at Annex Theatre, is pretty much a tangled mess, but that's only partly a production problem. The script by Charles Ludlam is all over the place, inconsistent, and shocking. But if more
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Art and environment linked at Junknation
by Rajkhet Dirzhud-Rashid -
SGN A&E Writer
Northwest Dance Syndrome's Junknation
April 26
Erickson Theatre Off Broadway
To me, the highlight of last weekend's meaty dance performance (besides the in-your-face environmental message) was the portion featuring dancers in costumes made of plas more
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A Dyke About Town - Music and movement with Mercy
by Mercy Moosemuzzle -
SGN Contributing Writer
Carolyn Gage Plays
Mercy corresponds with Lesbian playwright Carolyn Gage, whose work she admires a lot. Gage's play The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, which is a Lamdba Award finalist, was dropped from the Amazon searchable database because of the glitch you've more
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Oregon at Jazz Alley -
beautiful and intelligent
by E. Joyce Glasgow -
SGN Contributing Writer
Oregon
April 14-15
Jazz Alley
It is not an exaggeration to say that the group, Oregon, makes some of the most beautiful, sophisticated and intelligent music on the planet. Next year will be their 40th year as a group, and their musical interact more
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Polish pianist disappears on stage
by Rod Parke -
SGN A&E Writer
Recital by pianist Krystian Zimerman
April 21
Meany Hall on the UW campus
Only three times in the past five years of concert and opera going have I known the kind of peak experience in which I feel totally connected to the composer & to music so perfectly reali more
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| MUSIC LOUNGE |
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Taylor Hicks, Pink, Green Day, Capitol Hill Block Party
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| BITS & BYTES |
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Figaro, gender-bending Illyria
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| OUTBOUND |
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OUTBOUND:
Weekend in Portland, easy and affordable
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| WHERE IT'S AT |
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| MOVIE REVIEWS |
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Flaky Girlfriends gives up the ghost
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Transformers, Terminator blockbuster fun
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Delightful Detective Agency comes to HBO
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| INSIDE HOLLYWOOD |
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Deep Inside Hollywood - Romeo San Vicente
Wanda Sykes is Fox's Ms. Saturday Night
Romeo already thought that Wanda Sykes was one of the funniest people on the planet, but when she spoke openly and proudly about her long-term lesbian relationship at a marriage rally last year, she climbed even higher in the Pantheon of Awesomeness. So it's very exciting to hear that the out more |
| BOOK MARKS |
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Book Marks
by Richard Labonte -
SGN Contributing Writer
Cheever: A Life
by Blake Bailey
(Alfred A. Knopf, $35)
Let this incisive biography stand as an object lesson in the perils of denial: Without casting judgment, it makes clear that Cheever - dead more than a quarter century, his literary legacy dimmed - more
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Beautiful Things a wonderful story
by Miryam Gordon -
SGN A&E Writer
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Book-It Repertory Theatre
Through May 9
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears was a 2008 Seattle Reads pick. The novel is by an Ethiopian, Dinaw Mengestu, who came here when he was 2 years old. He wanted to reflect on more
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Ensemble Caprice
delights at EMG concert
by Rod Parke -
SGN A&E Writer
Ensemble Caprice, Early Music Guild
April 25
Town Hall
Light vs. Dark; Life vs. Death; Baroque vs. Gypsy music. Such were the clashes posed by Matthias Maute in his pre-concert talk about this concert, entitled 'La Follia and the Gypsies.' He might also have more
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