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Posted on January 24, 2012 By: genestout

RESTAURANT REVIEW: Bahama Breeze feels great on a wintry Seattle day

By GENE STOUT Don’t have time or money for a trip to the Caribbean? You can at least pretend at Bahama Breeze Island Grille, a…

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Posted on December 23, 2011 By: genestout

CD REVIEW: It’s never too late for (Christmas with) Tony Bennett

By GENE STOUT Who’s got time to read all those last-minute gift ideas circulating just before Christmas? Most people are too frantic to care. But…

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Posted on December 19, 2011 By: genestout

CONCERT REVIEW: Tony Bennett celebrates ‘the good life’ in song

By GENE STOUT What could be a better Christmas gift for a classic-pop fan than a Tony Bennett concert at Christmastime? The age-defying, 85-year-old crooner…

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Posted on September 6, 2011September 6, 2011 By: genestout

CONCERT REVIEW: Hall and Oates close Bumbershoot with rockin’ soul

By GENE STOUT No music fan was too young or too old for Daryl Hall and John Oates’ Bumbershoot weekend finale Monday night, Sept. 5,…

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Posted on April 30, 2011April 30, 2011 By: genestout

Lucinda Williams, Brandi Carlile, Go-Go’s and more at 2011 ZooTunes

The 2011 BECU ZooTunes concert series opens with Taj Mahal June 22 at the Woodland Park Zoo. Other performers in this year’s series include Lucinda…

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Posted on April 25, 2011 By: genestout

CONCERT REVIEW: Rod Stewart, Stevie Nicks show heart and soul at KeyArena

Rod Stewart may not be “Forever Young,” as one of his more famous songs suggests, but he could have fooled me. At 66, the veteran…

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Posted on April 18, 2011April 18, 2011 By: genestout

CONCERT REVIEW: Paul Simon still vital after all these years

By JO ANN RIGGS It was a true Kodachrome moment. Paul Simon, who’d played WaMu Theater in Seattle on April 15, debuted the club portion…

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Posted on April 17, 2011 By: genestout

Peter Frampton, Jeff Bridges, B-52s heading to Chateau Ste. Michelle

The 2011 summer concert series at Chateau Ste. Michelle features a lot of top musicians and one movie star — Jeff Bridges — who performs…

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Posted on April 14, 2011 By: genestout

CD REVIEW: Paul Simon returns with ever-graceful ‘So Beautiful’

By MIKEL TOOMBS As he has since at least 1956, when Simon and Garfunkel first became a duo, Paul Simon ponders the mysteries of the…

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Posted on April 1, 2011 By: genestout

Paul Simon returns to Seattle with new album ‘So Beautiful Or So What’

By MIKEL TOOMBS There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only two to see Paul Simon live in Seattle. You…

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Posted on April 1, 2011April 1, 2011 By: genestout

The Go-Go’s get a boost from the Girl Scouts during ‘Ladies Gone Wild’ tour

The things you learn by perusing your Inbox. Last week I found out that “We Got the Beat,” The Go-Go’s’ proto-girl-power anthem, “is the Girl…

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Posted on January 23, 2011January 24, 2011 By: genestout

CD REVIEW: Seattle’s Barbara Ireland turns back time on delicious new disc

Seattle singer-songwriter Barbara Ireland’s new album is a world apart from the glam-punk she once performed as a member of The Fags and other bands.…

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Posted on September 27, 2010September 27, 2010 By: genestout

CONCERT REVIEW: Harry Connick Jr. celebrates the sounds of New Orleans

While lounging on the lawn at Chateau Ste. Michelle for a Harry Connick Jr. concert Saturday night (Sept. 25), I started thinking about the airfare…

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Posted on August 31, 2010 By: genestout

CONCERT REVIEW: Pink Martini brings ‘Splendor’ to Chateau Ste. Michelle

The title of Pink Martini’s current album, “Splendor in the Grass,” is the perfect phrase to describe the first of two recent shows at Chateau…

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