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Seattle Gay News

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Issue 05, Volume 41, February 1, 2013

by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer

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MARGARET CHO TULALIP RESORT CASINO February 15 Margaret Cho hasn’t just been around the block, she’s paved the sidewalk of that block. The first mainstream Asian-American comic – a female one, at that – Cho launched her career in the early ’90s as an improvisational stand-up comedian and then ventured into television, cinema, and music. She earned her third Grammy nomination for last

by Chris Azzopardi SGN Contributing Writer They’ve been on the verge of straight-up pop music for years, but now Tegan and Sara are going all in with Heartthrob. Don’t think they’re all happy and stuff, though. “It’s our most heartbreaking

record,” Tegan reassures us. “It’s a great record for people who loved our past music. It’s just that they have to get past the sound.” The sound she’s referring to was captured in all its heavenly bliss when their seventh album’s first single, “Closer,” instantly aligned itself with some of the best pop songs of the mid-’90s. We revis-

year’s DVD recording Cho Dependent: Live in Concert. Openly Bisexual and outspoken, she’s been a frontline advocate for Gay marriage, among other LGBT issues, in her home state of California. Her newest work, a touring show called “Mother,” is being unveiled to select audiences in the coming weeks, including a soldout performance at Tulalip Resort Casino’s Orca Ballroom on February 15. I reached Cho, who also stars on the Lifetime series Drop Dead Diva, by phone, and here see cho page 29

ited that defining era in music – and even before then, when the girls were hanging New Kids on the Block posters in their bedroom – during our new interview with the Quin sisters. Chris Azzopardi: Are your house parties anything like the see tegan / sara page 33

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by Albert Rodriguez SGN A&E Writer SUZANNE VEGA BENAROYA HALL February 5 They don’t make singer-songwriters like they used to. Case in point: Suzanne Vega. The veteran folk-pop artist is someone who writes songs that tell stories about real people. The kind of stories you can insert yourself into, the

ones you listen to on buses and trains and that feel as if they were written just for you – and all about you. Vega’s newest album, Close-Up Vol. 4: Songs of Family, is a collection of mostly reworked songs from her back catalog that also includes a few unrecorded tracks penned in her teenage years. The Grammy winner performs live at see vega page 32


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