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Three Dollar Bill Film Series: Innocence Lost
by Scott Rice -
SGN Contributing Writer
Three Dollar Bill
Cinema's
Spring Film Series:
Innocence Lost
April 3-22
Northwest
Film Forum
There are certain films you should see if you're part of the Queer community. These films are part of our history, they are intrinsic to our civil rights struggle, and more |
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SGN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW:
Talking with dream girl Moya Angela
by Eric Andrews-Katz -
SGN Contributing Writer
Dreamgirls
April 6-11
Paramount Theatre
When Dreamgirls first opened, it took the 1981 Broadway theater world by storm. Telling the rags-to-riches story of an all-girl singing trio, it made stars of its leading ladies, Loretta Divine, Sheryl Lee more
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Arundhati Roy, Hamlet, Men's Chorus upcoming
by Mercy Moosemuzzle -
SGN Contributing Writer
Arundhati Roy
Mercy ate up Arundhati Roy's sold-out reading at Seattle Arts and Lectures, even though there had been a glitch about her ticket. The Booker Prize-winning novelist had a beautiful face, voice and presence. She was reading from her new non-fiction book, more
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Satiric Chinaman carries universal message
by Miryam Gordon -
SGN A&E Writer
Ching Chong Chinaman
SiS Productions
Through April 24
It's a play with a name that shall not be named - that is, if you are of Chinese descent and aware of the singsong aspersions cast your way by the phrase "ching chong Chinaman." SiS Productions thought more
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Sprawling Paradise Lost draws economic parallels
by Miryam Gordon -
SGN A&E Writer
Paradise Lost
Intiman Theatre
Through April 25
"Paradise Lost" is a good title. It was good enough for the poet Milton and his 10,000 lines of verse describing Adam and Eve's fall from grace. Clifford Odets liked it enough to use as the title of one of his pl more
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Modern Verona offers fun, accessible Shakespeare
by Miryam Gordon -
SGN A&E Writer
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Seattle Shakespeare Company
Through April 11
Two Gentlemen of Verona is one of the earliest - perhaps the earliest - of Shakespeare's plays. In a "talk back" at Seattle Shakespeare Company, where the play is being presented, someone more
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Melissa Etheridge - Fierce and Fearless
Inside the rock legend's life now - her personal awakening and how it's changed everything
by Chris Azzopardi -
SGN Contributing Writer
If Melissa Etheridge's music has seemed mellow lately, she's about to show you. Back to her rock-out roots, the tough-and-gruff musician/mother/activist makes a roaring return with the up more
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Dausgaard brings excitement, disappointment to symphony
by Rod Parke -
SGN A&E Writer
Thomas Dausgaard
at Seattle Symphony
Friday, March 26th
Benaroya Hall
Music is a language that speaks differently to different people. That's why the most important understanding of our group of passionate opera-loving friends is that we can always agree to more
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Hear Me Out: New albums by Jónsi, Bitch
by Chris Azzopardi -
SGN Contributing Writer
Jónsi, Go
You won't understand much of what Jónsi Birgisson, the Gay bandleader of Icelandic post-rock group Sigur Rós, sings on his solo outing. But here's the gist of it: Life is beautiful. Live it. Feel it. Make out. All that credo is fed into the invigorating and more
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Deep inside Hollywood
by Romeo San Vicente -
SGN Contributing Writer
Jackman taking road to Selma
Under normal circumstances, the casting of an actor to play Martin Luther King, Jr., in Selma, the latest project from Gay Oscar-nominated director Lee Daniels, would be major news. And once the movie is finally shot, cut and released, more
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