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2011: The Songs I Heard ... on KEXP

I kept track of everything that I liked. And, well, here's everything*.

George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher

I kept track of everything that I liked. And, well, here's everything*.

Paid to Do Nothing

Anti-photography.

Neal Fryett

Anti-photography.

MTV's The Real World Auditioning in Seattle This Saturday

​MTV's The Real World--the show that so gently deflowered America's love for reality television back in 1992--Is apparently still a show. And it turns out that the network would like people to be on this show--Seattle people! So if you're a gender-confused street artist with a case of Crohn's ... More >>

Alec Baldwin Exacts Twitter Revenge on Starbucks Barista Who Wronged Him

​Note to Starbucks baristas: If Jack Donaghy from 30 Rock, aka the next Senator from New York, comes into your store and orders a latte, make damn sure it's a good one and also that you're not an asshole while you make it.

Think Twice: New Latin American Jewelry

​Note to Starbucks baristas: If Jack Donaghy from 30 Rock, aka the next Senator from New York, comes into your store and orders a latte, make damn sure it's a good one and also that you're not an asshole while you make it.

Report: Apple iCloud Is Powered by Microsoft Azure (WTF?)

​The geeks at InfiniteApple claim to have discovered some rather surprising news involving Apple's much-ballyhooed new cloud-computing service iCloud. If they're right, it would seem that Steve Jobs owes Steve Ballmer a hearty thank-you.

Surfer Blood's Been Robbed In Seattle

Surfer Blood's in town--they're playing Sasquatch! on Monday--and, in a totally fucked up twist, they've been robbed. See the following Tweets: .bbpBox73983604623028224 {background:url(http://a0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png) #C0DEED;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 1 ... More >>

Yeah, There's An App For That: Introducing The New "Best Of Seattle" iPhone App

All the best Seattle has to offer.​Following in the tradition of awesome, free local apps we're excited to announce the availability of the Seattle Weekly Best of Seattle app. Why? Because we love you and, if possible, we want you never to have a bad meal (or haircut or first date or Saturday ... More >>

Guinness Book of World Records Names Microsoft Kinect the Fastest Selling Electronic Device Ever

​Definitive guide for honeybee beards and long, gross fingernails, the Guinness Book of World Records, has just handed quite the distinction to Microsoft. The record-keepers have declared the Kinect for Xbox 360 to be the fastest selling electronic device of all time--beating out the iPad and ... More >>

Apptastic Cooking Tools, Part II

​E-cookbooks and cooking apps have a ways to go before they make cookbooks and cooking magazines obsolete. Paper purists will always prefer the tactile feel of a real book. And of course there are the economic realities that make iPads, iPhones, and other devices luxury items few home cooks ca ... More >>

Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death Makes a New Video Using the iPhone Hipstamatic App

Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death: "The Dirty Street" Video (Stereogum Premiere) from stereogum on Vimeo. Stereogum premiered the new Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death music video this morning. "The Dirty Street" is a solemn, mournfully intoning song, and the clip is equally drama ... More >>

Antique Hardback Novel Early Camera Design = Retro Art Epiphany

​It's an old book! It's an old camera! It's the most hipstery item that could possibly be pulled from a messenger's backpack!

Seattle's Eastside Does Coffee Too at Urban Coffee Lounge

​This past fall, Apple launched a "cupping" application for the iPhone. It comes as no great surprise, since the iPhone pretty well has an app for everything by now. This one allows coffee cupping notes to be neatly organized, ranked on a sliding scale (with any of that pesky math stuff done f ... More >>

What Made This Year's Microsoft Company Meeting the 'Best Ever'?

​Yesterday, roughly 20,000 Microsoft workers packed Safeco Field for the company's annual meeting. An Amy Sedaris-hosted event that anonymous blogger Mini-Microsoft declared the "Best...Ever." So what made it the best?

Seattle Weekly iPhone App: Your Free, Essential Guide to Seattle Restaurants, Bars and Music

​It's finally here! Now, you can get information and reviews on Seattle's hottest restaurants, bars, clubs and concerts on your iPhone. The app features over 200 concert and event listings that you can sort by date, "nearby" and neighborhood, local event and entertainment photo slideshows, and ... More >>

Seattle Weekly iPhone App: Your Free, Essential Guide to Seattle Music, Clubs and Bars

​Yes, it's free and it can be yours now! Get the Seattle Weekly iPhone app - featuring concert photos, reviews and over 200 concert and event listings that you can sort by date, "nearby" and neighborhood. You can also browse local event and entertainment photo slideshows, and over 1000 easy-to ... More >>

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 >>

Microsoft Throws Windows 7 Parade, iPhone Funeral (PICTURES)

​Sometimes you just have to wonder if what you're looking at is actually real, or some sort of elaborate hoax. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE TIMES. Microsoft is clearly feeling cocky about Windows Phone 7, its newest mobile device. Because today, a week after it shipped to manufacturers, Microsoft empl ... More >>

Does Not Compete

The absurd effects of the San Francisco Bay Guardian "predatory pricing" suit.

The Fussy Eye: Lost in the Woods

The absurd effects of the San Francisco Bay Guardian "predatory pricing" suit.

Enter Your Photos In Reverb's Hipstamatic Photo Contest: The Sasquatch! Edition

​So, you're going to Sasquatch! Lucky you. You must be so excited. Your ears must also be burning like chili hell-fire with all the poo-talking those of us who don't get to go are talking about you. Not because we don't like you. Just because we're jealous. Yes, we're going to have writers an ... More >>

The Key to Securing a Grant From the Gates Foundation: Be as Sci-Fi as Possible

ucla.eduCritics say Gates should be funding clean water before Ozcan's disease-detecting cell phone.​At the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Germany, Carlos Alberto Guzman is working on a way to administer vaccines using particles that enter the body through hair follicles and burst ... More >>

Rhapsody in Zune

The best feature of Microsoft's underrated mp3 player just lost some of its shimmer.

If You Have an iPhone and You Listen to Music You'll Want to Know About Rhapsody's Updated App

Let's assume for a minute that you have either an iPhone. The following is now an option: 1. Fork over $10 a month to Rhapsody, the Seattle-based music subscription service. This will give you access to their entire collection of 9 million songs on your computer. 2. Download the updated Rhapsody ... More >>

Another Gadget For Helping Me Find Tacos After Midnight

​I am something of a gadget freak. Not necessarily when it comes to computers or high-end home electronics. Certainly not when it involves building, repairing or disassembling anything. I couldn't care less about stereos or home theater installations or faster web surfing or immersive video g ... More >>

Any Zune Fans Out There? Tell Me What I Need to Know About This Thing

​If I'd seen or held a Zune before today, I don't remember. For at least the last six years I've been all iTunes/iPod/iPhone. Just before I got an iPhone I was ready to toss my iPod out the window. It was, without a doubt, the most unreliable music player I'd ever owned. At the time, I was rea ... More >>

Seattle Blogs: Apple iPad Revealed!

EngadgetApple's new savior device shares its name with a tampon. Of course.​Today's blogs are all hype, little delivery. - TechFlash provided the best local coverage of Apple's unveiling of the newest thing you can't live without. And hey, waddya know: It's just a bigger iPhone that costs $50 ... More >>

Atheists May Have No Faith in God, But They Have Great Faith in Advertising

A 2008 billboard on Denny Way: Behold the power of non-digital media. ​We've been told that God is dead. But then we've also been told that mainstream media is dead, and that's demonstrably untrue. And no one's demonstrating this untruth more clearly than atheists. Not for them is this fast- ... More >>

Is the Rumored Apple iSlate Aimed at Amazon's Kindle?

Will Bezos be laughing when the iSlate arrives?​With the holiday shopping season but a memory, with Amazon likely to report impressive year-end sales, how are retailers, consumers, and electronics manufacturers going to keep busy during the January doldrums? Rumor-mongering, that's how. Appl ... More >>

I Just Downloaded KEXP's New iPhone App

​And you can, too, right over on iTunes. At first glance it looks very functional. I get the feeling I'll actually be able to listen to KEXP on my iPhone, which is more than can be said of the NPR News app, which appears to have been bogged down by all the bells and whistles. Anyway, I'm gon ... More >>

A.M. Music News: The Magnetic Fields, Hallucinogenic Mushrooms, and Bob Dylan's Video for "Must Be Santa"

Marcella D. VolpintestaThe Magnetic Fields return to Town Hall on Febuary 23 and 24.​-- Three Imaginary Girls: The Magnetic Fields are coming to Seattle's Town Hall for a pair of shows on Feb. 23 and 24. -- Pitchfork: King Khan & BBQ: "Officer, I swear, I have no idea where those hallucinogen ... More >>

Q&A: Kenny G on Wayne’s World, Weezer, and Barack Obama

"I’m a sax player that’s trying to become a better sax player."

Election Night '09: Approve R-71 is Mostly Sure, Almost Positive That Washington Approves of Them

Approve 71 campaign manager Josh Friedes takes the mic.​Party: Approve R-71 Location: Pravda in Capitol Hill Mood: Cautious optimism giving way to outright celebration Drink of Choice: Gin and tonic. "Anything low-cal," says the bartender with a knowing nod. Pity the poor fool who has to spen ... More >>

Election Night '09, the Round-Up: What You Missed by Going to Bed at a Reasonable Hour

FlickrYour new overlord and his right-hand man.​- Dow Constantine had the King County Executive's race wrapped up by prime-time. - But that doesn't mean opponent Susan Hutchison has to do anything hasty, like concede. - Joe Mallahan kind of, sorta, almost surely wants to be your next mayor. ... More >>

Microsoft WinMo Getting Ass Kicked by Cupcake

​While Redmond is crowing and Steve Ballmer is gloating about the successful launch of Windows 7, the smartphone platform Windows Mobile is being treated like a bastard stepchild--locked and starved in the basement, if you will. With the PC operating system market now fairly mature, the new gr ... More >>

Stuff White People Like: Light Rail

Caucasians are flocking to Seattle’s new train.

Happy Monday: 24 Free MP3s From the New NPR.org

Chris KornelisThis is me trying to salvage a pic of Fleet Foxes from REVERBfest 2007. Fleet Foxes plays the "Newport Fucking Folk Festival" on Saturday.​There's a lot of talk swirling around about NPR's revamped online presence at NPR.org. I wasn't a regular before this morning, but if we're g ... More >>

iToke, You Toke, We All Toke: Norm Stamper Defends Pot Legalization in NY Times, iPhone App Directs Users to Legal Pot

Like these muffins, America's gettin' baked!Perhaps the saddest thing about the WTO fiasco is that it pushed Norm Stamper out as the Seattle police chief--though perhaps if he were still chief, he wouldn't be so willing to advocate for drug policy reform. And Gil Kerlikowske would have never become ... More >>

Amazon Vs. Barnes & Noble: The Tale of the Tape

So Barnes & Noble, the world's largest retail bookstore chain, is entering the the ebook market in a big way. As the company announced today, it's promising "more than 700,000 titles, including hundreds of new releases and bestsellers at only $9.99, making it the world's largest selection of eBooks ... More >>

Those UrbanSpoon Guys as iPhone Paradigm

As our Maggie Savarino has reported, Seattle tech startup UrbanSpoon scored such a hit with its iPhone app that it sold last month to IAC/InterActiveCorp. That company is madly acquiring other small app makers who score on the ubiquitous handheld platform. In a New York Times story, UrbanSpoon is re ... More >>

Chihuly Discovers New Thespian Career at SIFF

It's officially underway. The 35th annual Seattle International Film Festival began tonight at the Paramount, where the gala opener, In the Loop, is now playing. SIFF runs through Sunday, June 14. I'll go back to report on the after-party at the Paramount (and in the street!) in a few hours. But fi ... More >>

Amazon Gets More Into Gadgets

The New York Times reports that Amazon has bought the maker of Stanza, an e-book reader application for the iPhone. Judging from its last quarterly financial results, Amazon is doing quite nicely despite the current sucky economy. One small but highly visible contributor to its bottom line is the Ki ... More >>

Zune 2.0?

Could it be? Is this the rebirth of Zune? Will Microsoft not pull the plug on the music player coveted by an astounding zero percent of American teens? Tech Web site Engadget.com is reporting what looks to be a total design overhaul of the device. Over on Cnet.com, they're saying it's likely a touch ... More >>

Dialing for Light

As I've written before, the slow, inane city process for changing out dead streetlight bulbs seems to drag on for months (though a new scheme is planned). Meanwhile, The New York Times reports here that in tech-savvy San Francisco, municipal authorities are switching smart LED streetlights on and of ... More >>

Coolest reason to by a new iPhone

As I've written before, the slow, inane city process for changing out dead streetlight bulbs seems to drag on for months (though a new scheme is planned). Meanwhile, The New York Times reports here that in tech-savvy San Francisco, municipal authorities are switching smart LED streetlights on and of ... More >>

Cory Doctorow

As I've written before, the slow, inane city process for changing out dead streetlight bulbs seems to drag on for months (though a new scheme is planned). Meanwhile, The New York Times reports here that in tech-savvy San Francisco, municipal authorities are switching smart LED streetlights on and of ... More >>

Afternoon Edition: Headlines You Need Before Happy Hour

As I've written before, the slow, inane city process for changing out dead streetlight bulbs seems to drag on for months (though a new scheme is planned). Meanwhile, The New York Times reports here that in tech-savvy San Francisco, municipal authorities are switching smart LED streetlights on and of ... More >>