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  • Susan Powell's Parents Suspect Husband Josh Powell Behind Her Disappearance

    Posted February, 9 at 5:05 pm by Caleb Hannan, The Daily Weekly
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    Susan's parents have finally come around to the idea that their son-in-law might be responsible for their daughter's disappearance.
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    When last we heard from Josh Powell, husband of missing Utah stockbroker Susan Powell, he was packing up his two sons for a move to Puyallup. Now, our sister blog True Crime Report says that Susan's parents have finally turned on Josh.

    "Most of our readers knew all along there was something wrong with Josh Powell's story. He supposedly took a midnight camping trip with their young children from their suburban Salt Lake City home -- in the middle of the winter.

    Then he arrived home after missing a day of work -- only to find his wife Susan gone. There were no signs of forced entry. Her keys, credit cards and cell phone were all at home, as was her car. Friends say there's no way she'd leave without her kids."

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    Topics: Crime & Punishment

  • Grillaxin' with Kevin Davis, Part One

    Posted February, 9 at 4:08 pm by Adriana Grant, Voracious
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    Kevin Davis is the chef/owner, with his wife, Teresa, of Steelhead Diner, a successful upscale diner food restaurant sited in Pike Place Market. Davis has cooked all over the world: in Paris, Australia, New Orleans, and Napa Valley. In March, he will open the couple's second restaurant, Blueacre Seafood, in a location formerly occupied by The Oceanaire, a restaurant Davis helped open in 2002. I spoke with him about what it means to be a chef.

    What are your culinary inspirations?
    I learned at a very young age that cooking was a way to emotionally touch people. My grandmother was a great chef, a Cajun chef, self-taught. She was the matriarch of the family, and everybody just looked to her. She was kind of like the Godfather. If people needed money in the family they would go to her, if they had a tough decision, they would go to her for advice. She held everybody together through food. Her gumbos and her chicken stews, people just would line up around the corner for this stuff. So at an early age I found out that food was very powerful. And then I started cooking, and it was kind of a natural thing. Some people can't season things, and I could do it.


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    Topics: Grillaxin

  • The Best Thing Seattle's Got Going On Tonight: Ladies Night at Neumos with Thee Satisfaction, Lisa Dank and Canary Sing

    Posted February, 9 at 3:54 pm by Sara Brickner, Reverb
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    The talented ladies of Thee Satisfaction.
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    Even though I totally fucked up and forgot to write something about the show for the paper this week, I am going to attempt to make up for my failure by telling you now that tonight's Ladies Night show at Neumos is the best thing Seattle's got going on tonight, and not just because the artists performing are all incredibly talented musicians and MCs. Or because one of the performers, Hollis Wong-Wear (of Canary Sing), writes for this blog, 'cause I saw her at Sasquatch with Gabriel Teodros before we ever met and was riveted by her performance.

    You see, this show is significant because it will be the biggest lady-centric hip-hop show to take place in Seattle in recent history, if ever (people who've been living here longer than me, feel free to chime in and prove me wrong). That's not to say there haven't been similar showcases at smaller venues like the the JewelBox or Hidmo, but like it or not, Neumos is one of Seattle's most universally well-respected venues when it comes to the quality and diversity of the shows they book.

    If this show is well-attended, its success will open more doors for lady-centric and queer-centric hip-hop shows at "regular" music venues, by which I mean venues other than tiny bars and progressive community-oriented spaces like the Hidmo (even though Hidmo shows are unarguably the shit). It will prove that your average show-going Seattle music fan, not just activists and crusty hippies like me, can appreciate hip-hop made by women and/or LGBT folks without being part of a small community of musicians and/or activists.

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    Topics: Live Music Tonight

  • YACHT Covers Weezer, Taints My Junior High School Memories of the Blue Album

    Posted February, 9 at 3:26 pm by Paige Richmond, Reverb
    Leave it to Jona Bechtolt to turn the
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    YACHT combines the power of Weezer and Madonna into one song. Photo by Sarah Meadows.
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    rhapsody of Weezer's Blue Album into a distorted dance number. Bechtolt--also known as the mastermind behind Portland's experimental YACHT--recorded a cover of Weezer's 1994 song "Holiday" for a recent iTunes session EP.

    YACHT's version sounds more like Madonna's "Holiday" than Weezer's now 16-year-old song (to think I was in the sixth grade when I first heard the Blue Album and associated it with the wholesomeness of Buddy Holly). Bechtolt's gender-bending voice is partially what draws comparison to Her Madgesty, but he's also added a steady drumbeat to the song, giving it a danceable rhythm. The tempo change is most noticeable in the chorus: where Rivers Cuomo held out the word "holiday" like a battle cry, Bechtolt enunciates each syllable like they're cymbal beats.

    Like always, YACHT's music feels a little tongue-in-cheek. There's also a twee moment toward to end of the song, when the lyrics mention Kerouac's "On the Road," and a voice in the background yells, "Oh, I love that book!"

    You can listen for yourself on the band's blog or at Pitchfork.

    Topics: MP3s

  • Seattle Blogs: Paul Allen, Brangelina and the Super Bowl

    Posted February, 9 at 3:19 pm by Caleb Hannan, The Daily Weekly
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    Admit it: You wish they'd adopt you too.
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    -- TechFlash looks at a photo of the World's Most Important Celebrity Couple making out next to Paul Allen in a Super Bowl skybox and asks, "What does it say about the focus on 'Brangelina' that no one seems to have noticed one of the world's richest people standing four feet away?"

    -- Strange Bedfellows says Washington lawmakers are one step closer to suspending the supermajority vote required to raise taxes. Meaning we're all one step closer to another Tim Eyman public tirade. Oh goody.

    -- U.S.S. Mariner wouldn't be good, superstitious sports fans if they didn't warn against inflated expectations heading into spring training.



    Topics: Media

  • Seattle People Q&A: Malcolm Digs The Who, the '70s, Can Remember His First Concert, But Not His Last

    Posted February, 9 at 3:06 pm by Chris Kornelis, Reverb
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    Jenny Jimenez
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    Every week, photographer and conversationalist Jenny Jimenez ventures out into the city and brings back photos and notes about the folks she encounters. This week, she ran into Malcolm Sinclair downtown.

    All questions by Jenny Jimenez:

    What kind of music are you listening to these days?

    I've been listening to a variety of things lately, with a lot of old '70s stuff sprinkled in. Ray LaMontagne seems to come up on the iPod a lot lately. As for '70s stuff, it's anything from Aretha Franklin to Gladys Knight and the Pips. The Eagles.

    Were you actually listening to any of those in the '70's?
    No, I was pretty young, so it was mainly the radio or probably anything coming out of my brother's Chevelle. He used to drive around and I was always in the backseat, subjected to whatever he wanted to listen to.

    Do you have any favorite albums from that time?

    Anything from The Who. My brother was really into The Who. I actually listen to a lot of that now. It's on my iPod at work, and I think everyone is probably sick of my '70s bent right now.

    What were you listening to in high school?

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    Topics: Seattle People

  • Q&A: Aham Oluo on Kind of Blue, Generic Jazz, Radiohead, and the State of the Seattle Jazz Scene

    Posted February, 9 at 2:47 pm by Chris Kornelis, Reverb
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    Ahamefule J. Oluo performs his interpretation of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue at the U District's Lucid Lounge at 9:30 p.m. on Friday.
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    The first time Ahamefule J. Oluo ever heard Miles Davis' Kind of Blue was in a family dorm at the University of Washington. He was 6 years old and the 1959 LP was required listening in his mom's history of jazz class. Friday, the trumpeter--who also dabbles in standup and comedy writing--performs his own interpretation of the classic record at the U-District's Lucid Lounge in the final of a five-week tribute to Davis.

    Here, Oluo talks generic jazz, the Knife, and why he doesn't mind a day job.

    What else have you got on your plate today?

    My kids have a half day so I'm picking them up from school. Then I'm taking a nap. I've been trying to find time to sleep.

    How old are your kids?

    Six and eight. They're old. I had kids at a really young age, and I've pretty much been a single father for the majority of my adult life. Obviously it creates complications with, you know, being an artist that you can't just be out every night. But I think it's definitely added to my perception of the world and art.

    Do you support your family by doing your art?

    Sometimes. I do for a period of time, then I have to get a day job. I have to start a day job next week. I haven't had a day job for about a year and a half. Beyond just the financial aspect, it's really nice to have a day job. When you're doing music for a living, you inevitably end up doing things musically that you really wouldn't do if money (wasn't an issue).

    I don't want to play "Stella By Starlight" for the 500th time. I don't even listen to musicians who do that type of thing. Listening to generic jazz really does absolutely nothing for me. It did when I was a kid. But I don't really listen to that much jazz anymore. I haven't for a long time.

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    Topics: Interview

  • Culinary Three-Way, Old Seattle Style

    Posted February, 9 at 1:20 pm by Jason Sheehan, Voracious
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    The list was growing long--Laura and I huddled up on the couch, tapping away at laptops, trying to find the shape and texture of an entire city's restaurant scene while still living out of luggage and boxes that were fast becoming furniture.

    "This looks good," she'd say, tilting her machine in my direction to show me some architectural plate stacked with butter lettuce and prawns, a white bowl of yellow curry, plate of beef shellacked in hoisin varnish and speckled with sesame seeds. I'd dutifully scribble down names and vague addresses on the legal pad I was filling, try to connect one place to another nearby, two places to four more by cuisine, by style, by chef, link those six into a sketch of a neighborhood.

    Choosing where to eat is never an easy thing. There are so many variables, so many possibilities. And doing it blind--in a new town, a new scene, with nothing to go on but instinct and appetite--is like playing culinary Russian roulette with all the chambers loaded but one. Luck is rare. Disaster and a mess on the carpet a nearly sure thing.

    Option paralysis. That's where we eventually found ourselves. Too many restaurants, not enough time, not enough resources, not enough data.

    "So what are we going to do, Jay? We need to eat somewhere ..."

    As promised, after last week's introduction, this week I'm doing an actual review. And not just one actual review, but three--a triptych of old Seattle classics. And as also kinda half-promised, the lineup comes straight from the blog comments posted to my original "where in the hell should I eat first?" essay. I took the advice of Tournant and went for the trifecta: Ivar's, Dick's and Pagliacci.


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    Topics: From the Gut

  • Man Found Shot to Death on First Hill in Seattle's Third Homicide of 2010

    Posted February, 9 at 1:12 pm by Vernal Coleman, The Daily Weekly

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    Late Monday night, a security guard working on First Hill called 911 to report that he'd just heard what sounded like three gunshots. Police searched the area near James St. and Terry Ave., eventually finding a man in his late 50s shot to death behind the wheel of his still-running pickup truck.

    A search of the area near the 76 gas station where the victim was found turned up no suspects, say police. KOMO News reports that surveillance cameras at the gas station didn't capture any activity related to the shooting.

    Police now say that the killing is being investigated as a murder, the third in Seattle proper so far this year.







    Topics: Chalk Outlines

  • No Toys for the Troops? Microsoft Refused to Sell Xbox to U.S. Army

    Posted February, 9 at 11:11 am by Brian Miller, The Daily Weekly
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    The ladies of Grand Theft Auto can help provide invaluable military training.
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    In a time of war, with our soldiers spread thin on two fronts, is there some reason they shouldn't be able to spend their precious R&R back on base killing zombies, bitch-slapping hos, and battling flying dragons in enchanted kingdoms? Well, according to a report on Wired, Microsoft refused to sell its popular Xbox 360 console to the U.S. Army for training purposes.

    Writer Michael Peck says an Army technology officer cited MSFT's reasons, including that a major military purchase could create a shortage of Xbox 360 units on the consumer market. Is this a case of profits over patriotism?

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