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The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

Rob Schneider

Blazing Saddles

Free in the Key

Seattle University's men's basketball team is back in Division I for the first time in 30 years. Will their uneven season be the start of a new legend?

Spice Like Us

Last week, we gave you the bland. This week, we give you the five spiciest dishes in Seattle.

The Top 5 Spiciest Dishes in Town

Spice addicts are a strange species: celebrating a food's ability to cause pain, chasing an endorphin rush accompanied by sweat, tears, and colon spasms. When talking about their meals, pepperheads sound more like marathoners than gourmands. This week's top 5 is for Seattle's culinary masochists. If ... More >>

Good Hair: Chris Rock Mocks Locks

Spice addicts are a strange species: celebrating a food's ability to cause pain, chasing an endorphin rush accompanied by sweat, tears, and colon spasms. When talking about their meals, pepperheads sound more like marathoners than gourmands. This week's top 5 is for Seattle's culinary masochists. If ... More >>

Throwback Tuesdays, Pt. 1: "Straight Outta Compton" by N.W.A.

​ My unyielding affection for N.W.A. is well-documented on the pages of SW, and it's a rare night that I play a club set and don't drop "Dope Man" into the mix, so it's no surprise I was instantly transfixed when I came across VH1's Behind the Music special on Eazy-E, Dre, and Ice Cube this we ... More >>

Appreciate Your Bus Driver--Especially Your Bus Driver of the Year

Back in 1997, comedian Chris Rock gave an interview to the New York Times wherein he explained his preference of New York to Los Angeles as follows:

Late Review: Madagascar Sequel

Back in 1997, comedian Chris Rock gave an interview to the New York Times wherein he explained his preference of New York to Los Angeles as follows:

Chatting With Bill Cosby

Back in 1997, comedian Chris Rock gave an interview to the New York Times wherein he explained his preference of New York to Los Angeles as follows:

Chris Rock

Back in 1997, comedian Chris Rock gave an interview to the New York Times wherein he explained his preference of New York to Los Angeles as follows:

What's Coming...

Spring Arts Calendar

Chris Rock Would Have a Field Day at Waid’s Haitian Cuisine and Lounge

Welcoming vibe not immune to a cringe factor.

I Think I Love My Wife

It's official: Chris Rock is no Eric Rohmer.

Jan. 18-25, 2006

This week's specialty screenings and venues.

Dec. 7, 2005

This week's specialty screenings and venues.

Nov. 30, 2005

This week's specialty screenings and venues.

The Aristocrats

Also: Four Brothers, The Great Raid, Junebug, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, Sequins, and Writer of O.

Kontroll

Also: Ladies in Lavender, Layer Cake, The Longest Yard, Madagascar, Mad Hot Ballroom, 3-Iron, and We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen.

Arts Picks

Also: Ladies in Lavender, Layer Cake, The Longest Yard, Madagascar, Mad Hot Ballroom, 3-Iron, and We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen.

Arts Picks

Also: Ladies in Lavender, Layer Cake, The Longest Yard, Madagascar, Mad Hot Ballroom, 3-Iron, and We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen.

The Whole Wide World

Columbia TriStar Home Ent., $19.95

Lessons in Laughter

Tracing comic history with gut-busting CDs.

The Midget on Film

A short exegesis.

Do the right thing

Upright urban attitude confronts nefarious global espionage.

Scary Movie 2

Upright urban attitude confronts nefarious global espionage.

Mayhem and mercy

New action heroes for a new kind of war.

"It was like a movie."

In a universal phrase, a common effort to comprehend.

Who?

Bogus critic debunked.

The purple rose of Kansas

"She's got a kind of wholesome Doris Day thing going," says her would-be killer.

Experts and cranks

"She's got a kind of wholesome Doris Day thing going," says her would-be killer.

CRITICS' PICKS

Seattle Weekly scribes select the year's best records.

Dogma

Kevin Smith's cinema profanity.