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Brendan Kiley—who writes about theater, drugs, and more for The Stranger—has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua. His writing has appeared in Newsweek, the Boston Globe, the Forward, UTNE Reader, and the gently pedagogical pages of Education Update. He went to high school on Bainbridge Island, then attended the UW and the University of Chicago.

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  • A Very 99 Percent Holiday

    Being Choosy and Getting Boozy

    What You Don't Know About Your Favorite Liquor Brands—and Which Local Liquors to Buy Instead
    Posted on 12/07/2011
  • Theater

    The Dark Side of Enlightenment

    A Pale and Lovely Place: The Dark Side of Enlightenment
    Posted on 11/30/2011
  • Books

    All Its Spinning Reasonableness

    Happy 50th Birthday, Catch-22
    Posted on 11/30/2011
  • Suggests

    Pastor Kaleb’s Sunday Service

    For more than a decade, Pastor Kaleb has been shepherding a flock of, in his words, “the defunct and disoriented.”
    Posted on 11/23/2011
  • Theater

    First-World Problems

    Sylvia at Seattle Rep Is Dog Shit
    Posted on 11/23/2011
  • Features

    The 3,000-Mile Myth

    Jiffy Lube Employees Mislead Their Customers and Their Corporate Executives Admit It
    Posted on 11/16/2011
  • Film

    Into the Abyss: Crime and Punishment and Herzog

    Into the Abyss: Crime and Punishment According to Werner Herzog
    Posted on 11/16/2011
  • Suggests

    ‘Suffering, Inc.’

    Posted on 11/09/2011
  • Features

    High Time

    Crack Felons Are Being Released from Jail by the Thousands—and That's a Good Thing
    Posted on 11/09/2011
  • Theater

    Let's Talk Business

    Chekhov Meets The Office, and a New Adaptation of Double Indemnity
    Posted on 11/09/2011
  • Suggests

    ‘Into the Abyss’

    Into the Abyss is yet another brain-stretching and soul-searing documentary by Werner Herzog.
    Posted on 11/02/2011
  • Theater

    Fluffernutter

    Rocky Horror and Café Nordo Bring the Meh
    Posted on 11/02/2011
  • Suggests

    Hari Kondabolu

    The Stranger’s deep affection for comedian Hari Kondabolu is well-documented, but to summarize: Hari is from Queens, lived in Seattle for a while, earned a graduate degree from the London School of Economics, considered a career in human rights, but decided to give comedy a try.
    Posted on 10/26/2011
  • Suggests

    The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

    Merce Cunningham was born in Centralia, went to Cornish College, and basically invented contemporary dance, as we know it, graduating it from Graham and Duncan into a whole new galaxy.
    Posted on 10/26/2011
  • Suggests

    Kaname Izakaya

    The “izakaya” is a revered Japanese version of the European pub or cafe—a place where people go after work or before a show to drink and eat.
    Posted on 10/19/2011
  • Features

    Occupy Seattle’s Big Week

    Occupy Seattle Stumbled, Sprinted, Then Seemed to Hit Its Stride
    Posted on 10/19/2011
  • Theater

    There Is an Upset in All Things

    Two Shows That Seem Eerily Timed to the Protests in the Streets
    Posted on 10/19/2011
  • Books

    Papa's Letters

    Watching Hemingway Become Hemingway from His Hospital Bed
    Posted on 10/19/2011
  • Suggests

    ‘Stormwater: Life in the Gutter’

    For more than a decade, solo performer Stokley Towles has been studying us.
    Posted on 10/05/2011
  • Features

    Cause of Death: “Undetermined”

    How Did 22-Year-Old Burlesque Dancer Sky Dunlap Die?
    Posted on 10/05/2011

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