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Some superbly appropriate films opening in Seattle this week. Just in time to freak out expectant parents, "Rosemary's Baby," ...

New York dance music pioneers Liquid Liquid have resurfaced after 25 years of dark obscurity. The band existed briefly in the early 1980...

Poet John Berryman was born on this day, October 25, in 1914. Berryman looms large in contemporary poetry, owing largely to the dark, drunk...

Throughout the entire painful Bush administration, The New York Review of Books has been the single most consistently critical American med...

As some astute readers have noticed, Pepita and I are expecting a child. Sometime around the end of March, little Babydogg will make his or ...

Socialist poet Adrian Mitchell wrote that "most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people." Seattle's...

There's still time to register for "Messmann's Messquerade," coming up on Halloween. Since 1999, local bike messenger Mes...

I tend to write letters and make journal entries with my delightful manual typewriter, a virtually indestructible 1940's- era Royal Quie...

This is a very strange and entertaining website from Dutch animator Han Hoogerbrugge . Recommended for 2:AM web surfing and workdays when t...

Today is the birthday of comic and social critic Lenny Bruce , born October 13, 1925. Bruce's sad life and short career are the stuff of...

Italian painter Batiste Madalena was hired by Kodak founder George Eastman during the last days of silent cinema to design and hand-paint ...

Beginning this Thursday, the talented madmen at Monkey Wrench Puppet Lab present their newest fever dream, "UFO the Puppet Show."...

Artist and gallery owner Paul Pauper is creating a series of provocative luggage sure to attract attention at airports. His suitcases and h...

The date for the next Punk Rock Rock Flea Market has been nailed down. The Underground Events Center presents the Holidaze edition of the Pu...

The week to come brings an unusually rich cinema schedule - even by Seattle's extremely high standards - as two renowned film makers com...

Hayden Carruth died yesterday at 87 years old. The upstate New York poet was a devoutly private and radically intelligent man of the wides...

I was up in Greenwood this morning and saw a few hopeful signs of things to come. Some nice stencils of a decidedly political bent. Also, th...

I've gushed before about local musical hero Amy Denio . Another local phenomenon are the duo Correo Aereo , who play a beautiful and un...

As Friday afternoon rolled around, it was tough deciding whether to stay at the Rendezvous and watch the presidential debate or join the mo...

Last night I headed out to Nickelsville to lend a hand and take a look around. Nickelsville is a homeless camp that appeared early in the m...