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Cupcake Royale’s Deathcake is less than lethal

The Deathcake is not your traditional white cake, pink frosting and NECCO heart on top Valentine's Day cupcake. Full story

Liam Neeson fights a lot of wolves (and it’s great)

"The Grey" was an entertaining way to spend two hours. 

Internet piracy bill a complex issue for artists

SOPA's reach would extend far beyond the closure of piracy sites.

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SU singer/songwriter releases her first album

If Taylor Bolibol's high school friends heard she was performing a show at least once a month, sometimes twice, they wouldn't believe it.

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Five Fish Bistro has an ocean of tasty seafood

It takes guts to compete against the popular Pike Street Fish Fry. But a new establishment on Broadway, Five Fish Bistro, has accepted this challenge. 

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Student’s ‘Mad’ dogs are grilling the competition

 

Mad Dawg opened last July on Mercer Street and has become a popular place among the Queen Anne community.

Sound Off! has a fetish for SU band Feet

The creative energy was palpable in the recording studio of the Fine Arts building.

Ending the end of the world myths

End of the Mayan calendar by Katie Gilbert The pictures of the big round calendar all over the Internet say the same thing: the world is going to end. The Mayans have predicted it. All of Earth's beings have just 11 months to live it up before the world crashes down around us.

City grants millions to turn parking lot into arts center

The project is slated to be completed fall of 2014 with the help of the entire Seattle community.

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Holiday ice rink comes to Cap Hill

Cal Anderson to play holiday host to new ice rink

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Balloons and clay pigeons: SU Marksmanship Club

Marksmanship Club teaches gun usage, safety

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‘Earnest’ as funny as it was a century ago

Wilde's play earns laughs and approval from Lee Center audiences

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Resolution may allow bars to remain open past 2 a.m.

Seattle may need to adopt New York City's motto of "The City That Never Sleeps" if Resolution 31308 is passed. 

Fall Ball goes fine art, just don’t puke on paintings

For Fall Ball this year, SEAC decided to keep things classy and elegant by not only hosting Fall Ball at the SAM

The quietest, classiest, most literate party in town

The first Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m., people gather in the Sorrento Hotel and they don't talk to each other.

Fragments looks toward future

Fragments is going on its 54th year in print, but things are a little different than they have been in recent years. 

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IQ84 is a beautiful, metaphysical mind trip

 IQ84's beauty lies in Murakami's remarkable talent to combine the mundane with the surreal in an undeniably elegant style.

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Bako’s food overcooked and overpriced

A restaurant can be as pretty as it wants, but the food needs to back it up. Unfortunately, Capitol Hill's new Chinese restaurant Bako is more about looks than substance.

You (secretly) live next to lots of great art

Quit missing out on the artsy-fartsy fun and get your neo-dada derriere over to the ID this Thursday.

Avoiding a hairy hot mess on the Hill

The Spectator cares about your hair, so we subjected our heads to Capitol Hill's salons to protect yours from ne'er-do-wells, and ranked them on our scale.

The Buried Life checks Seattle U off its bucket list

They have done number 59, "Ask out the girl of your dreams," and number 27, "Go to a rock concert all in leather." And their next stop is Seattle University.

EMP makes being in a museum even creepier

Down an eerie red backlit staircase lies the Experience Music Project's (EMP) newest show: A horror exhibit perfect for Halloween.

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KSUB turns up the volume this year

KSUB is Seattle University's own radio station, broadcasting the shows of student DJs every day across the world from the basement of Campion.

GnR bassist comes to campus

Duff McKagan of Guns n' Roses fame is now returning to Seattle University to promote his first novel "It's So Easy (And Other Lies)."

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Blue Men delight with messy performance art

Blue Man Group's longevity—the group has been performing since 1987—may be due to the timeless quality of their messy gimmicks

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Tomten plays KSUB, second album to be released

Surrounded by egg-shell blue walls, record-strewn bookshelves and only steps away from the cushioned couches where their listeners sat, members of the band Tomten rocked the KSUB lounge on Friday. 

All Things Equal takes on ‘isms’

Artists explore capitalism, socialism and terrorism

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Review: Little world utilizes quirky, comic and interactive set

Watching little world is like living inside the head of your favorite kooky grandma.

ArtsideOut shakes things up and expands

ArtsideOut, Seattle University's student art club, is making a few changes this year. The first item on the agenda is to let the student body know that everyone is invited to its events, even those who feel like they don't know jack about art.

Mac Clay Q&A

Mackenzie Clay's thoughts on his mom's work in "little world."

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One-way doors, ghosts, hands and stones

The dark charm of SU's new artist-in-residence

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Banned band returns to roots for Coffee Haus finale

To close out the year for SEAC Coffee Haus series, Capitol Hill's own Campfire OK will be folk-rocking the Student Center Hearth tonight at 8 p.m.

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Skillet takes its street food and settles on Cap Hill

At Skillet Diner, the brand new brick and mortar offshoot of city-renowned Skillet Street Food, love is in the details.

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Student photo show strips subjects, reveals scars

For the next two weeks, Seattle University's Vachon Gallery will be home to the BFA Photography exhibit 

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Faculty New Works: Round two

The Spectator takes a look at more of our fine Fine Arts Professors showing at the Kinsey Gallery

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Students get techy with multimedia art exhibit

The exhibit, featuring various forms of multimedia art created by staff, is  on display at the Vachon Gallery. 

Intiman Theatre forced to cancel its 2011 season

Recently, actors took their last bow at the Intiman Theatre until the next season in 2012.

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Hauschka fills piano with ping-pong balls, paper clips

Volker Bertelmann is a pianist, but before that, he was a hip-hop star.

The Hedreen Gallery gets nautical with ‘Yacht Club’

The almost year-long endeavor, created by co-curators Whitney Ford-Terry and Jessica Powers, uses the house systems model as the basis for a variety of smaller systems, all revolving around various forms of community. 

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Seattle U hip-hop group competes for national title

Currently, the U Crew's "Break It Down" is far outstripping their competition in College Battle of the Bands.

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The Brain Cooks cook-up an undescribable sound

It took guitarist Ben Watts and bassist Adrian Kirn a month to convince Colleen Clement to sing with them.

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Sea-Cat kindles artist community at the Hedreen

Dioramas made from all sorts of boxes varying in sizes took over the space in the Hedreen Gallery on Tuesday, Jan. 24 where the Seattle Catalog (Sea-Cat) launched their newest project.  Full story