Slog (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... images and elaborate cartoon-panel detail are a playtime delight in themselves. And Brendan Kiley on Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans : Except for a few uncomfortably long stares at reptiles (iguanas, alligators), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is only secretly a Werner Herzog movie . It feels, instead, like a screwball crime comedy for people who like their humor...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... It's gonna be fun. (Moore Theatre, 1932 Second Ave, thestranger.com/genius. 9 pm, $5, 21+.) BRENDAN KILEY (More on U.S.F. here .) Pixies, No Age (Paramount) Grouse about nostalgia if you want, but when an endlessly influential sleeper classic turned nonridiculous contender for greatest album of all time like Doolittle gets a sold-out nationwide victory lap, God is happy. Tonight and...
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Life-ruiner Brendan Kiley gives away all its secrets without so much as a spoiler alert !!! A middle-class couple in '70s Virginia receives a mysterious present, a box with a button protected by a glass dome. A man with a big hole burned into his face explains the deal: Press the button and you get a million dollars, but somebody you don't know will die. Easy, right? The couple is middle-class...
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Last night, the writer Lydia Davis spoke at Benaroya Hall. (Brendan Kiley wrote a really fine essay on Davis and did an interview before she arrived.) Not Nordstrom Recital Hall, the smaller hall, but Benaroya Hall, which has opera boxes and balconies. Most of the seats were taken. I was in a box on a balcony, and because of the scale of things, Davis looked like a figurine to me. I...
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... sometimes tear each others' clothes off—to a live score of piano, violin, and laptop. (Brendan Kiley) [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
Slog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
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Slog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
You have no doubt already read Brendan Kiley's great piece about the bizarre pleasures of loving Lydia Davis . But we have just put up the unexpurgated e-mail interview between Kiley and Davis for your reading pleasure: ...at a time when I was stuck in my writing, a few years later, I happened to read the stories—what he calls poems—of Russell Edson. The volume of...
Slog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Before they were wanted in California for skipping out on a $10,000 hotel bill and three (!) court appearances related to the crime, Randy and Evi Quaid spent a string of weeks in Seattle , where Randy was starring in a would-be Broadway musical at the 5th Avenue and Evi was doing her patented loony-chick schtick. During the Quaids' stay in Seattle, Stranger theater editor Brendan Kiley...
Slog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
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Slog (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... When their brains rub up against each other, sparks fly up your nose and down your pants." (Brendan Kiley) The Transition instructional video, for flavor: Transition Instructional Video from Luke Norby on Vimeo . I'm not saying you must get stoned before seeing the show. I'm just saying it wouldn't hurt. Ticket information here. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
Hankblog (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
So get on it! This is a fabulous opportunity for the right kid: The Young Critics Workshop is a writing seminar for 11th & 12th graders and college freshmen who are interested in arts criticism and critical journalism, taught by The Stranger’s Arts Editor Brendan Kiley. Read all about it, over here, on the Teen Tix Blog. [...]
