The Dinner: Beef Stroganoff, with beet salad, a freshly-baked roll, spicy carrots and bacon-fried onions at Cafe Yarmarka in Pike Place Market--all for under 10 bucks.
The Movie: The Other Dream Team...
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This year's Seattle International Film Festival might as well be renamed the Mark Duplass Film Festival, seeing as the writer-director-actor is starring in two films and co-directing another with his ...
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For every Pearl Jam or Nirvana that made it huge during Seattle's grunge zenith in the early '90s, there were half-a-dozen Alcohol Funnycars--bands which had the sound down pat and toured the world wi...
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This post was written by Pete Seazle, whose work regularly appears on the West Seattle Fun Blog:
Memorial Day Weekend is one of the biggest booze fests of the year, shadowed only by the likes of St. ...
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The Dinner: A medium Logger Special (Canadian bacon, Italian sausage, black olives, green peppers, and white onions) at Northlake Tavern & Pizza House, located underneath I-5's Ship Canal Bridge, in b...
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The latest invention to come across aspiring entrepreneurs' "fuck, why didn't I think of that firstr!" radar is Jason Burke's Vegas-based Hangover-Helper Bus, where, for massively hungover Sin Citian...
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Elvis Costello & the Imposters
Paramount Theatre, Seattle
April 12, 2012
Elvis Costello and his Imposters took the stage last night, nattily dressed in top hats and ties save for drummer Pete Thomas,...
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The Dinner: Kids eating and throwing food around at the University Village Boom Noodle while adults drink and marvel at the ensuing mess that the waitstaff will have to clean up.
The Movie: Friends W...
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The CEO of the Seattle Mariners bitching about possibly having to share a neighborhood with an NBA and NHL arena is like a registered sex offender complaining about the nice young couple building a h...
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The Dinner: An enormous beef burrito at Puerto Vallarta in West Seattle's Alaska Junction.
The Movie: Casa de Mi Padre at Pacific Place in Downtown Seattle.
The Screenplate: Casa de Mi Padre is easi...
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Paul Kelly
The Triple Door
March 26, 2012
Dylan. Springsteen. Costello. Simon. If a singer is to be judged against the artists whose music he chooses to play between sets, then the Australian folksi...
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Hattie's Hat has come full circle. No, it's not back to its emulating its first 90 years as a dingy hangout for chronically thirsty longshoremen fresh off the graveyard shift, girding for a fight. Rat...
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According to the New York Times, Seattle is on the vanguard of a movement to make work environments more like libraries, where you're more apt to find a powerful executive tapping away on her laptop i...
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SXSW used to be a festival where the next Bruce Springsteen, Lil Wayne or Jay-Z performed. Now it's a festival where Bruce Springsteen, Lil Wayne or Jay-Z perform. What was once the Independent Spirit...
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The parcel of land that the Alki Tavern sits on is among six owned by Salty's operator Gerry Kingen which have been for sale for several months now, with a still-cool real estate market precipitating...
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Ballard is in the midst of a barbecue boom, and the booming local barbecue chain RoRo is in on the action, having taken over the landmark Zesto's space earlier this week. But it's in Georgetown where ...
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The Dinner: Pasta and wine at Al Boccalino, 1 Yesler Way, 622-7688, PIONEER SQUARE.
The Movie: Safe House at the Meridian, 1501 7th Ave, DOWNTOWN.
The Screenplate: Do double agents and CIA operativ...
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SoDo Pizza, which just celebrated its 12th birthday, does not make phenomenal pie. But pizza doesn't have to be phenomenal; it just needs to taste awesome when you're drinking. And more than any other...
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The Place: Il Bistro, 93A Pike St, 682-3049, PIKE PLACE MARKET.
The Hours: 5-6:30 p.m. nightly; 10-midnight, Sun-Thurs; 11 p.m.-1 a.m., Fri-Sat.
The Digs: Just because master mixologist Murray Stens...
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Perhaps the two most undeserving targets of budget hawks during the Great Recession have been schoolteachers and Planned Parenthood. In the minds of conservatives, teachers somehow went from being chr...
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The image that's been presented of Chris Hansen, the San Francisco hedge-fund manager--a profession which recently polled a close third behind Satan's executive assistant and Darth Vader's fluffer for...
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The Dinner: A Chieftain Burger (beef, bacon, cheese, avocados, lettuce, onion, tomatoes) and fries at the Chieftain, 908 12th Ave, CAPITOL/FIRST HILL.
The Movie: Haywire at Pacific Place, DOWNTOWN.
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