By GENE STOUT
You might expect to travel to Los Angeles or New York to attend a live taping of a musical on ice featuring nine champion skaters, as well as Seattle-bred saxophonist Kenny G and Grammy-winning singer Gladys Knight.
But all these performers and more will perform during a taping at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, [...]

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By GENE STOUT
We’ve got a winner in the “Pop Up Live” competition you read about last week: Seattle’s Ramona the Band, featuring singer Dion Vox, has won the fan-driven contest sponsored by PopChips, Spin and Reverbnation.
The competition allows emerging bands to get national exposure. In that sense, Ramona the Band has just made a quantum [...]

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Like the mythical Superman, cast members of Cirque du Soleil’s “KOOZA” can perform some pretty amazing feats.
Well, maybe not leap tall buildings in a single bound or move faster than a speeding bullet.
But their repertoire of stunts is really impressive. Such as performing somersaults on stilts, jumping rope on a highwire, juggling six hula hoops [...]

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If you love acrobats and clowns, the latest incarnation of Cirque du Soleil has plenty of both.
“KOOZA,” which opens Thursday (June 3) for an extended run at the Grand Chapiteau (”big top”) at Marymoor Park in Redmond, celebrates two grand circus traditions: acrobatic performance and the art of clowning. In that sense, “KOOZA” is a [...]

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