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  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    Dirty Jobs and The Honey Hole: A Match Made in Suggestively Named Heaven

    While languishing in a media atmosphere apparently devoid of any relevant or exciting television programming for weeks on end, TV Dinner has to apologize for completely looking over the few gems offered by the recent "Watch Other People Do Their Jobs" phenomenon that seems (hopefully) to have come t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    Popular Mechanics Teaches You How to Build a Floating 520 Bridge

    ​Did you know that each of the 58 anchors that hold the floating 520 Bridge "can weigh as much as 10 male African elephants"? Neither did I until I read today's piece in Popular Mechanics.

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    Dog in the Park Outruns MTV's Teen Wolf

    Sarah Anne Lloyd, 2011.​ This week's TV Dinner was gripped with an admittedly tough choice between two immediately relevant television hype machines, neither of which seem to be aging very well: Discovery Channel's Shark Week and MTV, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this week. Revi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    Cash Cab Reality Show Taxi Kills Vancouver Pedestrian

    ​In what's being described as a "tragic accident," a replica Yellow Cab taxi used in the reality TV show Cash Cab struck and killed a pedestrian in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday.

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Discovery Channel Seeking Oyster Shuckers for New Reality Series

    ​A new television show is seeking professional West Coast oyster shuckers to test their skills against shuckers from the nation's other top oyster regions. Discovery Channel's The Best in the Business competition is designed to find the most talented workers in a variety of blue-collar occupa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    The Most Inappropriate Tattoo Ever?

    Wise choice, my friend.​A debate is raging here at Seattle Weekly over a photograph taken this weekend at The Discovery Channel's Deadliest CatchCon. What side of the fence are you on? Pic after the jump...

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2011

    "Deadliest Catch" Takes Over Seattle Waterfront

    It's probably not a good idea to titty-twister this guy.​It's not those stray rays of sun that have thousands of people swarming Seattle's waterfront, it's CatchCon 2011, the Discovery Channel's 2nd annual convention for fans of the hit show Deadliest Catch.

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Greatest Hits and What You Missed: Bourdain, Lizards and Loko

    Hey Tony, nice cock​ "Anthony Bourdain earned his reputation as the "bad boy of cuisine" by drinking, smoking, and swearing his way through exotic eating adventures on the Discovery Channel's No Reservations. This is a man who's bravely tried seal eyeballs, sheep testicles, and a warthog's re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2010

    Anthony Bourdain v. Rachael Ray

    ​Anthony Bourdain earned his reputation as the "bad boy of cuisine" by drinking, smoking, and swearing his way through exotic eating adventures on the Discovery Channel's No Reservations. This is a man who's bravely tried seal eyeballs, sheep testicles, and a warthog's rectum - but claims the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    Natalya Manko Survived Three Days Lost in Cascades by Eating Snow, Boy Scout Guide Says She Should Be Dead

    ​It's a good thing the Scoutmaster from Troop 44 wasn't critiquing Natalya Manko over the last few days. It's true she was lost in the Cascade Mountains during a snowstorm with no water and little food for three days and nights, surviving, she says, on snow she ate for moisture. But according ... More >>

  • Food

    September 1, 2010

    Blueacres of Calm

    Oceanaire's spacious heir delivers wisdom, fish, and hash browns.

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2010

    James Lee, Discovery Channel Hostage Taker, Is From British Columbia?

    ​UPDATE: The hostages are safe. Lee has been shot. And the device he was wearing went off. This afternoon, a man carrying a gun and what appeared to be two tanks strapped to his back walked into Discovery Channel's headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, fired off a couple rounds and took a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    The Captain Phil Harris Corn Maze

    ​Captain Phil Harris has been the subject of many a tribute this year. The beloved grumplepuss who starred in Discovery Channel's hit show "Deadliest Catch" died in February of a stroke. Since then he's had his final moments immortalized on film, a well-attended memorial at Fisherman's Termina ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    Could Sarah Palin Survive in the Alaskan Wilderness?

    FacebookThanks to that fur jacket, the cross necklace (means the guy upstairs is on her side), and her unbelievable will to be in our faces forever, Palin could survive for days.​The Learning Channel--with its affinity for crazy/overly reproductive parents like Jon and Kate Gosselin and the 19 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Phil Harris, 'Deadliest Catch' Captain, Dies at 53

    Harris: "Ya gotta be Twisted."​"I always thought about moving down where it's a little warmer," Capt. Phil Harris liked to say of his home in Snohomish County, "but I've been all over the country, and when it's nice out, this is the most beautiful place on Earth." From which yesterday the rowd ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    Taking Iraq War Vets to the Summit

    Tim Medvetz. Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what's circulating through his iPod every Monday.​In the past, I have written a few times about some of the adventures I have been able to experience because of my friend Tim Medvetz. For those of you who don't k ... More >>

  • Arts

    June 24, 2009

    Artopia: “We Stop When We’ve Destroyed Everything.”

    Can’t afford a Ferrari or racetrack fees? How about racing your old blender instead?

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    Killer Mom and Kids Coming to TV

    A film crew from the Discovery Channel was in town last week, doing background interviews and filming crime scenes. The sordid attraction was Barbara Opel, the now 46-year-old divorced Everett mother of three who hired 11 children and one male adult to kill her employer, Jerry Heimann, and empty his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2009

    The Captain Will Bite Your Head Off

    My Ballard alerts us that a new season of the Deadliest Catch began last night (Tuesdays, 9 PM, Discovery Channel). We missed the inaugural episode, but thanks to My Ballard, not this clip, in which Northwestern skipper and steely Ballardite Sig Hansen--apparently following a Norwegian tradition--bi ... More >>

  • Film

    July 9, 2008

    PICK Encounters at the End of the World: Werner Herzog loves frozen wasteland, hates penguins

    My Ballard alerts us that a new season of the Deadliest Catch began last night (Tuesdays, 9 PM, Discovery Channel). We missed the inaugural episode, but thanks to My Ballard, not this clip, in which Northwestern skipper and steely Ballardite Sig Hansen--apparently following a Norwegian tradition--bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2008

    If the Discovery Channel Had a Sense of Humor...

    My Ballard alerts us that a new season of the Deadliest Catch began last night (Tuesdays, 9 PM, Discovery Channel). We missed the inaugural episode, but thanks to My Ballard, not this clip, in which Northwestern skipper and steely Ballardite Sig Hansen--apparently following a Norwegian tradition--bi ... More >>

  • Arts

    July 2, 2008

    Opening Nights

    Summer camp: Adventures in Mating, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, and Zanna, Don't!

  • Film

    May 28, 2008

    SIFF Week 2: Picks & Pans

    What to see, or not, this week.

  • Film

    May 21, 2008

    Week 1 Picks & Pans

    What to see, or not, this week.

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2008

    Weekend Review: Cat Power, Green Festival, and The Mountain

    What to see, or not, this week.

  • News

    October 24, 2007

    Seattle’s Endangered Tavern Tour: A Near-Death Experience

    If you hate cosmos as much as we do, it's your duty to keep these pint-pushers afloat.

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2007

    Nuking Roaches

    If you hate cosmos as much as we do, it's your duty to keep these pint-pushers afloat.

  • Diversions

    October 17, 2007

    He’s Not That Into You

    If you hate cosmos as much as we do, it's your duty to keep these pint-pushers afloat.

  • Calendar

    October 10, 2007

    Lava Jive

    Hands-on experiments teach volcano lore

  • Calendar

    July 25, 2007

    Ballard SeafoodFest

    Neighborhood

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2007

    Must See HDTV

    Neighborhood

  • Food

    September 20, 2006

    Food News

    September 20 - 27, 2006 (expanded from print version).

  • Diversions

    December 7, 2005

    A Stargazer Is Born

    Give the gift of the heavens for the holidays.

  • Film

    March 16, 2005

    What the #$*! Do We Know?

    Fox Home Entertainment, $29.98

  • Diversions

    November 24, 2004

    Satellite Stars

    With the likes of Howard Stern signing on, satellite radio is in ascendance.

  • Diversions

    November 10, 2004

    Diva Dos and Don'ts

    Take it from a pro: A girl's best friend can be a Makita, but lose the jewelry, ladies, when you reach for the power saw.

  • News

    June 23, 2004

    Starry-Eyed Enterprise

    Maybe it's another eccentric indulgence, but what if Paul Allen's little space program really takes off?

  • Arts

    January 14, 2004

    Visual Arts Calendar

    Maybe it's another eccentric indulgence, but what if Paul Allen's little space program really takes off?

  • Diversions

    December 17, 2003

    Gone to the Dogs

    Keep your friends on a leash by buying for their pets.

  • Music

    August 27, 2003

    A pierced nipple is still a pierced nipple: Lollapalooza 2003.

    Keep your friends on a leash by buying for their pets.

  • Arts

    May 21, 2003

    Adventure 101

    Seattle gets about 40 good days of summermake the most of them.

  • News

    April 16, 2003

    What's Wrong with Channel 9?

    Big ambitions, expanding overhead, shrinking local programming . . . does Channel 9 know what it's doing?

  • Music

    March 12, 2003

    New Day Rising

    Locals These Arms Are Snakes and Harkonen lead a progressive shift in the Seattle hardcore scene.

  • Arts

    November 22, 2000

    Selling danger

    Upscale adventure has its hazards—or does that just add to the allure?

  • Music

    July 19, 2000

    Why Hawaii?

    Upscale adventure has its hazards—or does that just add to the allure?

  • News

    February 23, 2000

    ". . . he has his head shoved so far up his rear he wouldn't see his perfect woman if she was dancing the polka naked in his cubicle."

    Upscale adventure has its hazards—or does that just add to the allure?

  • News

    November 17, 1999

    Mall hours

    Upscale adventure has its hazards—or does that just add to the allure?

  • News

    September 15, 1999

    Click—click—bang—bang

    Upscale adventure has its hazards—or does that just add to the allure?

  • Film

    July 21, 1999

    Witch is it . . .

    . . . fact or fiction?

  • Film

    March 18, 1998

    May the loudest airplane win

    Why I'm getting furious about sound in movies.

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