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The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events

13 Coins and Boardwalk Empire Deliver Classic American Excess

This week on TV Dinner, we will be introducing a level of tawdry sophistication to your trays, following the hedonistic gangster chic of HBO's Boardwalk Empire with a doggy bag from the tall, clandestine booths of late-night traditional American fare purveyor 13 Coins.

Duff McKagan: The Real 9-9-9

I'd like to see Herman Cain try this.

Herman Cain Sucks. Here's the Real 9-9-9: 9 Nights, 9 Shows, 9 Chances to Melt Faces in the UK

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His memoir, It's So Easy (Simon & Schuster) is out now.​Since last week's rather spasmodic entry that entailed me trying to be funny and cute with the written word whilst bouncing around the Irish Sea locked in a tour bus with no power, my b ... More >>

The Secret to Getting the Singer Gig With Velvet Revolver (Or Any Band, For That Matter)

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His memoir, It's So Easy (Simon & Schuster) is out now.​At this moment in time, I am absolutely balls to the wall, with touring with Loaded, as well as doing a book tour over here in the UK. Typical day: Wake up in bus on ferry being tossed ... More >>

Thanks, Guys. See You on the Road (and on Dr. Phil!)

Well, guys, your trusted scribe is heading out for his first-ever book tour (see all my the dates here)--not only here in the U.S., but also in the UK and Ireland. You are left in the trusty hands of, well, my book. Seattle Weekly will be running selected excerpts from It's So Easy (And Other Lies) ... More >>

The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows

Well, guys, your trusted scribe is heading out for his first-ever book tour (see all my the dates here)--not only here in the U.S., but also in the UK and Ireland. You are left in the trusty hands of, well, my book. Seattle Weekly will be running selected excerpts from It's So Easy (And Other Lies) ... More >>

SIFF: Week 2 Picks & Pans

Well, guys, your trusted scribe is heading out for his first-ever book tour (see all my the dates here)--not only here in the U.S., but also in the UK and Ireland. You are left in the trusty hands of, well, my book. Seattle Weekly will be running selected excerpts from It's So Easy (And Other Lies) ... More >>

Come Forth, a Short Story By Duff McKagan

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His ESPN.com column runs on Wednesdays.​James was born into the famine. The blight on the potato crop--while affecting all of Europe in an economic fashion--laid waste to Ireland and its inhabitants. James' dad left his mother to fend for h ... More >>

Best Restaurant Cities, 2010: Esquire Magazine's John Mariani Loves The Pike Place Market and Seattle, In That Order

​It wasn't all that long ago that Esquire magazine tagged Seattle as having one of the best cocktail bars in the world. There was Arnaud's French 75 in New Orleans, Tiki Ti in L.A., Charlie B's in Missoula, the Pegu Club in New York and Nye's Polonaise in Minneapolis, followed by Harry's in Pa ... More >>

Listen to Mogwai's New "Rano Pano," Off Next Year's Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

​On February, 15, Sub Pop will release Scottish post-rockers Mogwai's seventh studio album, optimistically entitled Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. It will be the band's first release since leaving Matador Records for Sub Pop in September of this year. As a preview, Sub Pop will release ... More >>

15 Bars Every Man Should Drink at Before He Dies: Tokyo, Paris, Manhattan... Seattle.

Thanks, Esquire!​As briefly mentioned in the today's earlier Boozamahol post about Gatorade (of all things...), Esquire magazine just came out with its globetrotting list of "15 Bars Every Man Should Drink In Before He Dies"--a kinda snooty but partially awesome round-up of some of the best an ... More >>

Duff McKagan: I've Been Listening to My Passion, General Fiasco, and Marina and the Diamonds

Marina and the DiamondsDuff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what music is circulating through his space every Monday.​Yep, just back from London and saw some really cool new bands. I wrote a bit about how that town makes me feel in last Thursday's column, so I w ... More >>

Saying Goodbye, Pete Doherty (Naked), and a Good Book or Two

Justin Dylan RenneyNew Loaded drummer Isaac Carpenter. Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. McKagan writes about what's circulating through his iPod every Monday.​As I stated last week, my band Loaded is back on tour and back in the UK, where we have been reasonably well receiv ... More >>

Global Shakedown: Dehli 2 Dublin are Blowing Minds

Is it too early to get excited for Bumbershoot? Maybe. Capitol Hill Block Party hasn't even gotten here yet, but then again, Block Party is such a cooler than thou neighborhood festival, those who aren't in the know probably need something else to look forward to when it comes to large music event ... More >>

SIFF Week 4: Picks and Pans

Is it too early to get excited for Bumbershoot? Maybe. Capitol Hill Block Party hasn't even gotten here yet, but then again, Block Party is such a cooler than thou neighborhood festival, those who aren't in the know probably need something else to look forward to when it comes to large music event ... More >>

PICK Hunger: Starvation as Art

Is it too early to get excited for Bumbershoot? Maybe. Capitol Hill Block Party hasn't even gotten here yet, but then again, Block Party is such a cooler than thou neighborhood festival, those who aren't in the know probably need something else to look forward to when it comes to large music event ... More >>

Spokesong

Is it too early to get excited for Bumbershoot? Maybe. Capitol Hill Block Party hasn't even gotten here yet, but then again, Block Party is such a cooler than thou neighborhood festival, those who aren't in the know probably need something else to look forward to when it comes to large music event ... More >>

St. Patrick's Festival

Wear green and drink Guinness for your favorite patron saint

Visual Arts Calendar

Wear green and drink Guinness for your favorite patron saint

Weekly Notable Shows

Wear green and drink Guinness for your favorite patron saint

Stateless in Seattle

Jonathan Raban has become the Northwest's premier man of letters. He's more at home inside his head than anywhere else, yet with an immigrant's fresh eyes he's able to shed light on his adopted home and country, as in his new book, My Holy War.

Ian McFeron

Jonathan Raban has become the Northwest's premier man of letters. He's more at home inside his head than anywhere else, yet with an immigrant's fresh eyes he's able to shed light on his adopted home and country, as in his new book, My Holy War.

The Empire Falls Down

Eventually. The lessons of Rome in the deserts of Iraq.

Dubya Is for War

A survey of the current literature of global conflict.

Brief Encounters

A survey of the current literature of global conflict.

All Over but the Shooting

A tragic turning point in Irish history is powerfully re-created.

Latest on Axl Rose, Nikki Sixx, Wilco, and more.

A tragic turning point in Irish history is powerfully re-created.

Hair farce

Looking for laughs in a lethal environment.

Mixed forecast

The highs and lows of winter film.

Visual field of dreams

Summer arts cover all the bases.

True grit

Summer arts cover all the bases.

Mayor Schell's Dutch treat

He's no longer a Port commissioner, but he still took a posh Port junket—for the city's sake, of course.

Wish you were here

David Holmes' New York trip