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It's less than a week until the Holidaze Edition of the Punk Rock Flea Market , going down on December 6 at the Underground Events Cente...

Beginning this Friday, SIFF Cinema is showing the film The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine , a documentary on 96-year old French scu...

My friend Douglas Paasch died suddenly on Saturday. His most recent show, the Wizard of Oz, had opened the day before at the Seattle Childr...

While in Baltimore, I saw a small and miraculous exhibit of Dalton Ghetti 's work at the American Visionary Arts Museum . Ghetti makes ...

I’ve been around Baltimore and DC for the past few days, and to say the least, the mood here is ebullient. Everywhere I go, people are pract...

There's still a few days for procrastinating poets to apply for the Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry at Middlebury College . The selec...

Northwest artist Hans Nelsen is known for his exquisite woodwork. His large and elaborate pieces, often painstakingly hewn from a single blo...

Spanish Cinema has exploded onto the world scene in a huge way. For all intents and purposes, there was no Spanish film industry between the...

Today, November 11th, marks the 121st anniversary of the execution of the Haymarket Martyrs - eight anarchists and labor organizers who too...

Greg Boudreau is Seattle's most prominent stencil artist, having long graduated from creating street pieces to mounting national exhibi...

Digable Planets first appeared in the early 1990's with the very clever and utterly unexpected album "Reachin' (A New Refutati...

Last words on the election from poet Langston Hughes . Let America be America Again Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it use...

A poem for Election Day by William Carlos Williams . The Approaching Hour You Communists and Republicans! all you Germans and Frenchmen! you...

Studs Terkel died yesterday, Oct. 31, at a ripe 96 years old. Terkel was a genius of 20th century journalism, working for decades in televi...

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...