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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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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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…
Read Full ArticleCONCERT 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,…
Read Full ArticleLucinda 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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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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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…
Read Full ArticlePeter 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…
Read Full ArticleCD 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…
Read Full ArticlePaul 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…
Read Full ArticleThe 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…
Read Full ArticleCD 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.…
Read Full ArticleCONCERT 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…
Read Full ArticleCONCERT 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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