The Banyan Tree: Three Easy Pieces
Pratidhwani’s latest production gains by keeping it simple and keeping it real.
The Ghastly Impermanence: Assumption of Risk
Why have a column about radio drama? Omar Willey answers.
The Ghastly Impermanence: 2013 Parsec Awards
Announcing your 2013 Parsec Award Winners celebrating sci-fi and speculative fiction broadcasting in audio and video.
The View from Nathan’s Bus: An Introduction
Welcome to The View from Nathan’s Bus, a new column at the Star written by Nathan Vass, writer, photographer, movie director and a bus driver for King County Metro.
Annex Theatre’s The Half Brothers Brand Old-Time Variety Show
There is a lot about The Half Brothers’ Old Time Variety Show, the Seattle-based bluegrass trio’s recent late night production at Annex Theatre, that evokes the spirit of Woody Guthrie, the late folk singer. For their part, the trio balance their fond homage to “old-timey music” with a healthy amount of modern sensibility.
August 31, 1968: Sky River Rock Festival
Woodstock was not the first historic rock music festival: it was preceded by the Sky River Rock Festival, organized in Seattle and staged near Sultan, Washington. Jeff Stevens histories you counterculturally.
The Ghastly Impermanence: Harmless Visions
Thoughts on the BBC Radio Four sci-fi series from June.
Paige Barnes’ Naked: The Affront of Improvisation
Omar Willey grapples with the mythic dimensions of Paige Barnes’s latest performance.
Public Image Ltd: First Issue
On the occasion of PiL’s first American release of the notorious LP First Issue, Andrew Hamlin refuses to be bored.

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