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  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Alex Rodriguez Spent $1,500 on White Denim at J.Crew?

    ​Alex Rodriguez had a busy weekend. The New York Yankees' third-baseman drove in the winning run against his old team on Friday night. He was greeted with boos and derisively tossed dollar bills at Safeco Field throughout the series. And, according to some random person on Twitter, he finished ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 21, 2010

    Dan Raley

    ​Alex Rodriguez had a busy weekend. The New York Yankees' third-baseman drove in the winning run against his old team on Friday night. He was greeted with boos and derisively tossed dollar bills at Safeco Field throughout the series. And, according to some random person on Twitter, he finished ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Franklin Gutierrez Is the New Mike Cameron

    ​You remember Mike Cameron, don't you? Key piece of what the M's got back in the Griffey trade when Griffey forced his way out of town; and who, currently with Boston, has actually ended up having a better post-trade career than the recently-retired Kid. Five-tool, Gold Glove-caliber center fi ... More >>

  • Arts

    July 28, 2010

    The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events 

    ​You remember Mike Cameron, don't you? Key piece of what the M's got back in the Griffey trade when Griffey forced his way out of town; and who, currently with Boston, has actually ended up having a better post-trade career than the recently-retired Kid. Five-tool, Gold Glove-caliber center fi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 28, 2010

    Mariners vs. Texas Rangers

    ​You remember Mike Cameron, don't you? Key piece of what the M's got back in the Griffey trade when Griffey forced his way out of town; and who, currently with Boston, has actually ended up having a better post-trade career than the recently-retired Kid. Five-tool, Gold Glove-caliber center fi ... More >>

  • Arts

    August 4, 2010

    The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events

    ​You remember Mike Cameron, don't you? Key piece of what the M's got back in the Griffey trade when Griffey forced his way out of town; and who, currently with Boston, has actually ended up having a better post-trade career than the recently-retired Kid. Five-tool, Gold Glove-caliber center fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Don Wakamatsu Fired By the Mariners

    ​When you're as crappy a team as the Seattle Mariners -- blessed with both the worst starting pitcher and worst hitter in baseball -- it's only a matter of time before you go looking for some scapegoats. Today, Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu became that goat. Except he didn't eh-scape blame. O ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2010

    Lowly Mariners to Go Gluten-Free In Section 347

    The food is about the only thing worth going to Safeco for these days.​It's been a godawful year for major league baseball fans in the Pacific Northwest. The Mariners have been out of the pennant hunt since shortly after the season's first pitch and rank among the worst teams in baseball, havi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Seven Seattle Times Celebrity House Ads That Failed to Make the Cut

    ​Never mind that its editorial side might actually have to report critically on some of the local luminaries the Times has recruited to appear in its nauseatingly rah-rah house ad campaign, Fairview Fanny is in cahoots with such radiant Seattle personalities as Ciscoe Morris, every last member ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Letters From Belltown, Which Could Be the City's Crown Jewel of a Neighborhood

    Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what music is circulating through his space every Monday.​Rather than go long on a single issue this week, I thought I'd relay several observations that I've been able to make about the Belltown area of Seattle while I've bee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Return of the Vegans

    Sage Cafe's reuben, vegan through and through​Sometimes it seems like we here at Voracious World Headquarters get off on these weird jags where all of our brains (and appetites) are jamming on the same starving frequency. Some weeks it's barbecue that strikes our collective fancy. Or ice cream ... More >>

  • Arts

    August 18, 2010

    The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events

    Sage Cafe's reuben, vegan through and through​Sometimes it seems like we here at Voracious World Headquarters get off on these weird jags where all of our brains (and appetites) are jamming on the same starving frequency. Some weeks it's barbecue that strikes our collective fancy. Or ice cream ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    Tonight's Game: Seattle R's vs. NY Yankees

    ​From the Times today: Heading into Friday night's series opener against the New York Yankees, 14 of the 25 players on the Mariners roster will have spent time at Tacoma this season for reasons other than injury rehabilitation. Couple that with the importing of Tacoma manager Daren Brown to r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2010

    Breaking: The Mariners Make a Lot of Money for Their Owners

    ​Yesterday, sports blog Deadspin exposed confidential financial documents for a number of baseball teams, including the Seattle Mariners. All teams are privately held, so this kind of data is rarely seen. Which makes it difficult to know if an owner is making any money. Or whether you can trus ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 25, 2010

    Mariners vs. Cleveland Indians

    ​Yesterday, sports blog Deadspin exposed confidential financial documents for a number of baseball teams, including the Seattle Mariners. All teams are privately held, so this kind of data is rarely seen. Which makes it difficult to know if an owner is making any money. Or whether you can trus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    Finally, Proof That Portland Hates America

    ​As a Seattle resident and full-blooded patriot, you've always had your doubts about the people down in Portland. They sell food from carts parked on the street. They travel in packs in government-subsidized motor-coaches. It's all just a little too.. French. Well I'm sorry to tell you this, y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    Seattle Weekly iPhone App: Your New Essential Guide to Seattle, Download it Now for Free

    Yeah, it's all that.​It's Friday night and thanks to a Seahawks game, Mariners game, a downtown protest and a comic convention, the city is packed. Fear not, dear reader, Seattle Weekly is here to help. We're excited to announce the launch of the Seattle Weekly iPhone app -- Seattle Weekly has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    Hometown Songs for Hometown (Sports) Fans

    Duff McKagan is the founder of Seattle band Loaded, and the former bassist in Guns N' Roses. His Reverb column runs every Monday and Thursday.​Regular readers of this column know I am a big fan of sports. I'm a huge Mariners fan, I mourn the Sonics, and I bleed the Hawks' teal and green. When ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    The Governor's Budget Cuts Would Shut Bremerton Out of Seattle Nightlife, and Be a Major Blow to the Local Music Scene

    Move to Bremerton? Not if the governor gets her ferry cuts. Bremerton may be a punch line, but it's also been an important feeder town to Seattle's music scene going back to the days of Quincy Jones (before he moved to Seattle). Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard can talk your ear off about catchi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    The Seven Worst Days for Seattle Sports in 2010

    ​Really, this post could have just been entitled "Your 2010 Seattle Mariners!" But that's lazy. And fails to account for the Seahawks' stupidest moment of the past year. And who would want to pass up a chance to make fun of Pete Carroll? (Answer: no one.) Let's talk trash about local sports, s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    Frosty Mugs & Postcard Views at the Athenian Inn

    ​The Place: The Athenian Inn, 1517 Pike Place, 624-7166, athenianinn.com. The Hours: 4-7:30 p.m. The Deal: $2.50 frosty mugs of domestic draft beer (typically Busch or Budweiser), $3 wells, $3.99 appetizers (including fish & chips and elk sliders). The Digs: Business (diner) in front, part ... More >>

  • Music

    February 23, 2011

    Macklemore's Moment

    How a freckle-faced kid from Capitol Hill became Seattle's favorite rapper.

  • Music

    March 2, 2011

    Macklemore + The Head and the Heart

    Equal what's wrong with Seattle's appetite for sincerity.

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    Forbes: Seattle Mariners Worth a Paltry $449 Million

    ​If sports teams were sold based on a Forbes value analysis, a lady or gent with $1.7 billion could buy the New York Yankees franchise. But why do that when they could buy three Seattle Mariners franchises and still have $33 million to drop on say, a few of these.

  • News

    March 30, 2011

    Hails From Hollywood

    Emmy-winner Ken Levine is the new voice of the Mariners.

  • Calendar

    March 30, 2011

    $7-$95

    Emmy-winner Ken Levine is the new voice of the Mariners.

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    Maharaja: Seattle's Best-Smelling Sports Bar

    ​Walk into the front door at West Seattle's Maharaja and you'll find a pretty typical Indian restaurant interior: lots of brown, yellow and orange paint and furniture, gaudy chandeliers, and a buffet table at the far end. Most nights, the dining room is pretty empty. But it doesn't really sou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    5 Reasons Why Major League Baseball Should Let Players Chew Tobacco

    Image source​On March 28, 15 directors of public health from across the nation -- including David Fleming, the public health chief of Seattle and King County -- penned letters to Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig and Michael Weiner, the director of the MLB player's association, aski ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Trade Ichiro: Record-Low Crowds Remove the Only Reason to Keep Fan Favorite On the Mariners

    ​For last night's phenomenal comeback win, which catapulted the Mariners to a 3-7 record, 13,056 fans reportedly showed up, breaking the record low of 14,543 set a few days earlier against the Orioles. We were there--the crowd was actually about half that. The Mariners are open about the fact ... More >>

  • News

    April 13, 2011

    5 Reasons MLB Should Let Players Use Chewing Tobacco

    Because it's not like they're smoking.

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    Don't Trade Ichiro! Why The Mariners Should Never (and Will Never) Let Him Go

    Image source​Yesterday on Daily Weekly, Mike Seely made the case that the Mariners ought to trade Ichiro to a contending team in exchange for a few blue chip prospects. Seely is of the opinion that the team only keeps Ichiro around because he's "the main draw" and, as a sparse Monday night cro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Skateboader Rob Dyrdek Helping Build New Seattle Skatepark

    Meaty and Beefy-less in Seattle.​Pro skateboarder and MTV reality show favorite Rob Dyrdek is in town for this weekend's Street League DC Pro Tour at Key Arena - which brings along with it some of the hottest names in skateboarding such as Ryan Sheckler, Paul Rodriguez, Brandon Biebel and Dav ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    9 National League Pitchers Who Out-Hit the 2011 Seattle Mariners

    Image source​The Mariners travel to San Diego tonight to take on their bitter interleague rivals the Padres, and they take with them one of the worst-hitting teams in baseball. Skipper Eric Wedge said it best earlier this week after his club tallied just two runs or fewer in seven of 14 games: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    Fisty Helps Wedgie Deal With Figgy Problem as Mariners Beat Orioles

    Image source​The Mariners clawed their way back to a winning record with a gritty 4-3 win over the Orioles yesterday at Safeco Field. The victory came thanks to 7 1/3 stellar innings from Doug "Fisty" Fister and despite another atrocious performance from Chone "Figgy" Figgins, who struck out w ... More >>

  • Arts

    June 8, 2011

    Seattle's Best Art for Out-of-Towners

    How to make the accessible enjoyable for your guests.

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    The Erik Bedard Conundrum: To Trade or Not to Trade?

    Image source​Erik Bedard is finally starting to redeem himself. After three frustrating, injury-plagued seasons and an 0-4 start to this year, he is once again pitching like the guy who finished fifth in the Cy Young Award voting in 2007, ahead of Roy Halladay, Justin Verlander, and Johann San ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Dropkick Murphys Bring Their Concept Record and a Little Bit of Boston to the Paramount

    Dave Lake​Dropkick Murphys Paramount Monday, June 27 The mere concept of a concept album is often enough to make most rock fans bristle (Kilroy Was Here, anyone?). Add punk rock to the mix and many fans will head screaming for the hills. But as Green Day proved in 2004 with American Idiot, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    We Don't Recycle, and 9 Other Reasons Atlanta Is Not Seattle

    No, we don't actually call it "Hotlanta." ​It's nearing on two months since I left the Peach State in search of something less hot and more liberal. Since this is my first time to the Northwest, and the Atlanta Braves are in town to show the Mariners a thing or two about baseball, I figured I' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    The Sound(s) of My Summer: From Glasvegas and the Saints to Prince and Band of Skulls

    Band of SkullsDuff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His sports column on ESPN.com runs every Wednesday.​It has come to my attention that whilst I have been away, Seattle Weekly has been having "guest writers" chime in with what is on their iPod's "Top 10" list. Thought this was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    More Mariners Bad Luck? Kyle Seager Has Heart Condition...

    Image source​After dominating every level of the minor leagues, 23-year-old Kyle Seager was promoted earlier this week after only 12 impressive games at AAA Tacoma to play third base for the Mariners. He made his major-league debut last night against the Angels, but went hitless and struck out ... More >>

  • News

    July 20, 2011

    Poet's Park

    Why doesn't Seattle have a green space for writers?

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Gigantic $1 Billion Radar Chugs Through Elliott Bay at 9 MPH (But It Isn't Leaving Yet)

    ​Theoretically, if Felix Hernandez could pitch a baseball toward Seattle from 2,500 miles away, the giant James Bond-looking platform floating in Elliott Bay could detect it as it approached the U.S. The platform, a Sea-Based X-Band Radar, is a $900-million addition to the Missile Defense Age ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    With Booming Bats & Weak Arms, the Tacoma Rainiers are the Bizarro Seattle Mariners

    ​Since Jack Zduriencik took over as the Seattle Mariners' general manager a couple years ago, he's stuck to a consistent sermon: Exceptional defense and pitching trump the crack of the bat as the key to winning. And at Safeco Field, a notoriously bad park for power-hitters, that may well be tr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2011

    Free Cheap Tuition, and 9 Other Reasons You REALLY Know Atlanta Is Not Seattle...

    Joe Williams​It's been three months since I first arrived in Seattle, and though I'm foaming at the mouth to stay in the Northwest, my education calls. It's a bittersweet departure: I'm not looking forward to 95-degree heat, but I'll be binge-eating Chick-fil-a chicken biscuits for two weeks, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    The Dog Days of Summer Bark for Beer at Norm's

    Curtis Cartier/Seattle WeeklyDublin prefers Guinness​The Watering Hole: Norm's Eatery & Ale House, 460 N. 36th St., Seattle (Fremont) 547-1417. The Atmosphere: The first word of advice for walking into Norm's in downtown Fremont is to look down. Because as perhaps Seattle's most dog-friendly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2011

    The Most Exciting Restaurant Openings This Summer

    ​The summer of 2011 didn't suffer from a shortage of restaurant openings that excited local eaters; people lined up at Potbelly's, for Pete's sake. But a few openings were especially significant. Here, a list of the restaurants which could prove most meaningful for the Seattle dining scene.

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    2011: The Mariners' Best Bad Year

    ​With the exception of a few glorious years in the mid-to-late nineties and early aughts, the Seattle Mariners indisputably rank among the most hapless Major League Baseball franchises of all time. Hence, the true diehard Mariner fan must be trained to view even seasons in which the club finis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Greg Halman, Slain Mariners Outfielder, Was Buried in His M's Jersey

    ​Murdered Mariners outfielder Greg Halman was laid to rest today in his native county of The Netherlands. Shannon Drayer at the Mariner's Blog gives this account of the service, related from attendees.

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Ichiro: "I Felt Desperate Last Season"

    ​It is no secret that at times Ichiro Suzuki has stirred angst in the Seattle Mariner's clubhouse. There's long been whisperings that he's not a team player, that he lives by one set of rules and his teammates by another, that he could have been more of a prolific base-stealer and run producer ... More >>

  • Food

    February 8, 2012

    Seattle Weekly's Drinking Issue

    From news to reviews, an issue saturated in booze.

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