New music from Blind Boys of Alabama; A Derek Bell tribute from The Chieftains; Music for a memoir by Black 47; The hopes and fears of pop trio Keane; Songs for Silverman from Ben Folds; The deadpan ...

Listening to “Khronos,” the second CD from Seattle-based Maktub, one is immediately struck by the disparate influences on the music. The opening song, “You Can’t Hide,” introduces a band playing ...

Guy Amir and Hanan Savyon, an already-flourishing Israeli TV duo, make the great leap forward onto the silver screen with the serviceable and ultimately rewarding Maktub, a dark hybrid comedy about ...

A little after 1 p.m. on a Tuesday, a cab pulls up at the home of Daniel Spils, keyboardist for Seattle "heavy soul" band Maktub. Out steps lead singer Reggie Watts, bearing his impressive Afro, a box ...

The film's writers and co-stars are veterans of the Israeli TV scene looking to make a splash in the U.S. (JTA) — A deadly terrorist attack might seem like an unlikely starting point for a ...

Successful Israeli TV duo Guy Amir and Hanan Savyon jump to the big screen with sparkling results in “Maktub,” a very funny and warmhearted comedy about two goodfellas who are jolted out of bad-guy ...

Maktub, the title of Oded Raz’s recent Netflix film, means “it is written” in Arabic. His film, a comedy-drama with some crime thriller elements, is about destiny and whether people have the power to ...

Seattle isn’t known for its soul music. In fact, it’s known for the complete opposite—extremely white, jaded independent rock. But Maktub (pronounced Mock-tube), one of the better acts of the neo-soul ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Maktub is a movie about the aftermath of a terrorist attack, but it’s nothing at all like the movie you’re imagining in your head. Conceived by two Israeli ...

One of Seattle's best loved and hardest-working bands is not a bunch of guys in flannel shirts wailing away on guitars. Maktub is a soul band, and it wants to get the rest of the country in the groove ...