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  • OMG! Jonas Brothers to Endorse Microsoft Xbox360!

    Posted November, 20 at 1:30 pm by Brian Miller, The Daily Weekly
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    The Jonas Brothers want...more brains!
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    You know what? Let Apple have its annoying Justin Long and nerdy John Hodgman for those Mac versus PC commercials. Microsoft just upped the celebrity stakes by announcing that teen rockers the Jonas Brothers will be endorsing its Xbox360 videogame console. The NYT and others are reporting that a new MSFT ad campaign will prominently feature the tween rockers. The spots are built around the catchphrase "It's more fun time." (Not something you could ever imagine Steve Ballmer saying.) Given that gamers are overwhelmingly male (not the brothers' fan base), it's unclear how the clean-shaven, Disney-created trio will connect with those who prefer Grand Theft Auto and first-person shooter games to bubblegum pop. Unless, of course, a game can be developed that features the Jonas Brothers as evil, brain-eating zombies who, with the power of their their stupefying music, turn millions preadolescent girls into their army of slaves. Oh, wait...

    Topics: Business

  • Local Hardcore Band 'Furious Styles' Uses Cop-Killing to Sell T-Shirts

    Posted November, 20 at 1:20 pm by Caleb Hannan, The Daily Weekly
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    UPDATE: Another former band member disowns the shirt. Details after the jump.

    A big tip of the hat to SeattleCrime.com for what they accurately titled as today's classiest story.

    A local hardcore metal group didn't have the same reaction as most Seattleites to the assassination of Officer Tim Brenton. Whereas most of the city saw the murder of a cop as a good time to remember that peace officers have a very dangerous job and we should be thankful for the work they do, the charming fivesome that is Furious Styles (that'd be those fine gentleman to your right) decided now would be a good time to make money selling t-shirts.

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    Topics: Crime & Punishment

  • Before You Go See Them Crooked Vultures, You've Gotta Give The Sporting Life a Spin

    Posted November, 20 at 1:08 pm by Krist Novoselic, Reverb
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    Krist Novoselic is a regular contributor to Reverb. His column on music and politics runs every Tuesday on the Daily Weekly.
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    With Them Crooked Vultures coming to The Paramount on Saturday, everybody's talking and writing about the members previous musical associations (Led Zeppelin, Queens of the Stone Age, Nirvana). I need to mention the work that Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones did with vocalist Diamanda Galás.

    Released in September of 1994, The Sporting Life is passionate and violent. It's a rock record to the core with Pete Thomas on big drums and Jones on bass. The first track, "Skôtoseme," establishes a rock-groove rhythm section you'd expect from Jones, and this keeps consistent throughout the record. Galás gives a voice that wails in precision over the bass and drums.

    There's no electric guitar and perhaps that would have been redundant - or even stock - considering the unique instrument that is Galás' vocals. It's piercing and intense. Put all these parts together and you've got a heavy rock band that not only has you bobbing your head to the groove, you also recoil from the sheer ferocity.

    Galás plays keys also. There's soul with the old tune "Dark End of the Street". The songs are compelling and tend to menace. Galás wields a knife on the cover of the album and you'll find out her intentions with the tune, "Do You Take This Man?"

    If you're grooving to Them Crooked Vultures and haven't heard The Sporting Life - check it out!!!!!!

    Topics: Krist Novoselic

  • Brian Barr Takes Pictures Now, And They'll Be Hanging at a White Center Brewery Saturday

    Posted November, 20 at 12:58 pm by Mike Seely, Reverb
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    Most of you know Brian Barr as our former music editor and a still-prolific contributor to the section now headed up by Pity the Foo drummer Chris Kornelis (as well as the Weekly Wire). But since leaving Western Ave. at the end of last year, Barr has turned some of his focus to photography, and you can bear witness to the fruits of his lens this Saturday evening starting at 6 p.m. at Big Al Brewing in White Center. Barr lives nearby, and rumor has it that a post-exhibit trip to the Locker Room is in the offing, which should be all the incentive anyone needs.

    Topics: Happenings

  • Cheeseburgers, Sausage, and Meatloaf: Grillaxin' with Palace Kitchen's Brian Walczyk

    Posted November, 20 at 12:41 pm by Angela Garbes, Voracious
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    Chef Brian Walczyk has worked within Tom Douglas' group of restaurants for several years, moving back and forth amid the Belltown restaurants (and working with some of the area's best chefs) along the way. Now chef at Palace Kitchen, Walczyk summarizes his journey like this: "I'm the chef at the Palace Kitchen, and I have been for four months. Before that I was chef at the Dahlia Lounge for the previous two years. Prior to the Dahlia, I helped open Lola as the sous chef and eventually was the chef for a brief stint until Mark Fuller left to open Spring Hill. Then I went across the street (to Dahlia)." Now from his post up the street and around the corner, Walczyk tells Voracious a little more about himself and his love of simple food, including a lifelong dedication to cheeseburgers.

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    Topics: Grillaxin

  • 5-Spot's St. Lou Menu Has Port Steaks Too, and Throws a Sausage in the Slinger

    Posted November, 20 at 12:38 pm by Mike Seely, Voracious
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    "It's difficult for me to act like a heterosexual poonhound, but man did i nail this role."
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    Last week, I expressed extreme enthusiasm for the 5-Spot's latest regional menu, which features the cuisine of my onetime home, St. Louis. A couple amendments: (1) I neglected to mention that, on the dinner menu, is a pork steak, a backyard BBQ delicacy best accompanied by a half-rack of Busch; and (2) they substitute sausage for hamburger on the Soulard Slinger. Not a big, fat, fucking sausige-uh, but a slender, healthy-ish patty. Which is sort of cheating. But it's still good.

    Topics: Bottomfeeder

  • Sports Guy Bill Simmons Shocked to Find Love for the Sonics Can't Get Him Out of a Speeding Ticket

    Posted November, 20 at 12:33 pm by Caleb Hannan, The Daily Weekly
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    The Sports Guy is beloved by Sonics fans, less so by state troopers.
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    Celebrities expect to be treated differently than non-celebrities. That's part of why they're famous. But it's one thing to expect favorable treatment. Bitching publicly about not getting it is quite another.

    Bill Simmons is a celebrity. The ESPN.com writer known more commonly as "The Sports Guy" has parlayed his fan's-perspective style into a role as the most popular columnist in America. For proof, look no further than Amazon.com where "The Book of Basketball," Simmons' 700-page opus to the NBA, is currently the number-one bestselling sports book and 12th overall.

    Simmons' stardom spans the country, as witnessed by the Disneyland-long lines during his recent book tour. But in Seattle, Simmons is more folk-hero than quip-maker. Which may explain why, while he's within the city limits, Simmons doesn't think the rules apply to him.

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    Topics: Sports

  • Also Tonight: Brandi Carlile at Easy Street Records!

    Posted November, 20 at 12:32 pm by Sara Brickner, Reverb
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    I almost forgot to remind you guys about this show, but Brandi Carlile -- the very same country songstress who sold out the Paramount Theatre a few short weeks ago -- is making another appearance at Easy Street Records in Queen Anne at 7 p.m. tonight as part of our Reverb-sponsored in-store performance series. It's free, as in-stores always are, and all ages. If you're of age and feeling drinky, some of the Seattle Weekly music staff will be prefunking at Solo Bar starting at 6 p.m. Come say hello!

    Topics: Happenings

  • Hybrid Vehicles to Become Even More Annoying on Seattle Streets

    Posted November, 20 at 11:23 am by Brian Miller, The Daily Weekly
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    As previously mentioned, our state contributed accident data to a recent federal traffic safety report that concluded that the Prius and other silent hybrid vehicles were striking a disproportionate share of pedestrians and cyclists. It seemed a cruel irony: Those eco-conscious Prius drivers might inadvertently cause harm to their fellow greenies. But now Chevy comes to the rescue.

    As reported by Jalopnik, the Chevy Volt hybrid now comes equipped with a chirping warning signal drivers can flick to alert those who don't hear the car coming. Certainly this is better than having a motorist honk at you, which can be so startling to a cyclist to cause, not prevent, an accident. But to be serenaded with a gently scolding "Ping ping ping" sound every time a hybrid breezes by? That would be even more annoying than the redundant old Obama bumper stickers they refuse to take off. (Dude, we know how you voted.) So here's a tip to Toyota: Let Prius drivers download custom warning tones for bikers and peds. Or let them hook up their iPods. So when we hear the music of Yanni, we'll know they're coming.

    Topics: Transportation

  • Tim Lincecum Wins Cy Young, Proves Voters Don't Mind Less Victories or Pot Arrests

    Posted November, 20 at 10:56 am by Caleb Hannan, The Daily Weekly
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    This guy likes to get stoned? Impossible.
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    Former University of Washington pitcher and current San Francisco Giant Tim Lincecum won his second-straight National League Cy Young award yesterday.

    The hardware comes a couple days after Zach Greinke took home the same honor in the American League. Combined, Lincecum and Greinke's victories constitute a trend: The slow devaluation of the win as the primary measure of a pitcher, a fancy way of saying that voters are getting smarter as baseball stats get more accurate.

    More interesting, however, is the fact that two weeks ago Lincecum, a dead ringer for Mitch from "Dazed and Confused," was busted for pot possession while speeding down a highway in Southwest Washington. So which is more progressive: Voters overlooking Lincecum's low win total (he had three less than his closest rival, Adam Wainwright) or his hot-boxed Mercedes?

    Topics: Sports

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