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  • Music

    May 16, 2012
  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    A Hall of Appreciation, a Touch of Regret

    Watching the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony special on HBO last weekend, I was also struck by how honored I was to have been included in such an epic class of bands and artists. GNR opened for the Peppers a few times in LA back in the early days. They were king-shit on the hill back ... More >>

  • Music

    December 28, 2011

    DIY: The Luxury of the Rich

    Doing it yourself is great, if you can afford it.

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    The Lucky Diner's Chicken and HBO's Luck Are Two Sure Bets

    Sarah Anne Lloyd, 2011.​ Last week, TV Dinner huddled up for warmth in the icy television oblivion of the holiday season with a thick gaudy blanket of indolent listmaking. With that out of the way, things seemed pretty grim in terms of coming up with any other relevant distractions, and the co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2011

    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.

  • Film

    October 12, 2011

    Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival: Now in Its 16th Queer Year

    Two history lessons at this year's festival.

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Game of Thrones and Jak's Grill Offer More Than Blood and Gristle

    Sarah Anne Lloyd, 2011.​ The Night-In: Prime Top Sirloin ("Jak's Size," cooked rare) with Garlic Mashed Potatoes, House Salad and Mixed Vegetables from Jak's Grill to be eaten in front of HBO's Game of Thrones. The Restaurant: Due to Seattle's noticable lack of Medieval Times or really any s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    Sate Your Appetite for Creole with Marcela's and Treme

    Sarah Anne Lloyd, 2011.​ (TV Dinner is a new weekly column that will attempt to feature the most notable take-out joints in Seattle and seeks out a television show that, for better or for worse, corresponds closely with the brown bagged meal. Aimed at the blog-reading shut-ins or the perpetual ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    Cinema Verite and Debunking the Myth of American Innocence

    Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His ESPN.com column runs on Wednesdays.​I am a product of the 70s. To this day, a lot of how I think and act-out on different scenarios are informed by the barrage of childhood imprints that happened during that decade. FM radio. The Vietnam ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 3, 2010

    Louis CK

    Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His ESPN.com column runs on Wednesdays.​I am a product of the 70s. To this day, a lot of how I think and act-out on different scenarios are informed by the barrage of childhood imprints that happened during that decade. FM radio. The Vietnam ... More >>

  • Film

    October 13, 2010

    Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival: Are We Bears or Are We Samanthas?

    Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His ESPN.com column runs on Wednesdays.​I am a product of the 70s. To this day, a lot of how I think and act-out on different scenarios are informed by the barrage of childhood imprints that happened during that decade. FM radio. The Vietnam ... More >>

  • Arts

    July 28, 2010
  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    How to Lie With Jaywalking Stats

    ​Ever since video of a Seattle cop punching a 17-year-old girl in the face surfaced last Tuesday, the city has been debating the relative merits of a relatively victimless crime: jaywalking. Thanks to reporting by Laura Onstot, we now know that the Rainer Avenue-Martin Luther King Way intersec ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 9, 2010

    Temple Grandin

    ​Ever since video of a Seattle cop punching a 17-year-old girl in the face surfaced last Tuesday, the city has been debating the relative merits of a relatively victimless crime: jaywalking. Thanks to reporting by Laura Onstot, we now know that the Rainer Avenue-Martin Luther King Way intersec ... More >>

  • News

    March 31, 2010

    How Treme Can Get It Right

    David Simon's new HBO series uses fiction to honor New Orleans' surreal, heart-breaking fact.

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2009

    If He Only Had a Brain: 'Scarecrow Bandit' Tries, Fails to Rob Two Banks

    "With the thoughts he'd be thinkin' he could be another Lincoln if he only had a brain. Da-do-da-do-do-do-doo."​Burlap isn't a very breathable material. It's also hard to see through, even if you cut out little eye holes. Which might explain why the 'Scarecrow Bandit' is having so much trouble ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    Lofa Tatupu Rewrites Kenny Powers

    ​In a memorable scene in the HBO comedy Eastbound & Down, the former professional athlete Kenny Powers (played by Danny McBride) declares, "I've been blessed with many things in this life: an arm like a damn rocket, a cock like a Burmese python, and the mind of a fucking scientist." Now curren ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2009

    Summer DVD Roundup

    ​August is the cruelest month. It's reached that point in the summer where a movie based on boys' action figures, G.I. Joe, has recently eclipsed another movie based on boys' action figures, Transformers 2. Things will reach a nadir come Labor Day weekend, when studios traditionally dump the w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    DVD Review: Eastbound & Down

    Washed-up major league baseball pitcher Kenny Powers is among the most quotable protagonists in recent memory. In a parlance that's part hip-hop, part redneck, part absurdist literalism, and all insecure machismo, Powers (played by Danny McBride) shoots off at least several lines in each episode o ... More >>

  • Film

    June 17, 2009

    The Proposal: Sandra Bullock Gets Caught in the Rom-Com Grinder

    Washed-up major league baseball pitcher Kenny Powers is among the most quotable protagonists in recent memory. In a parlance that's part hip-hop, part redneck, part absurdist literalism, and all insecure machismo, Powers (played by Danny McBride) shoots off at least several lines in each episode o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2009

    Reno 911! Returns

    There's a recession going on, and that's why we need basic cable. For those of us who can't afford HBO, Comedy Central is returning Reno 911! for its sixth season tonight (yes, April Fool's Day), at 10:30 p.m. Like the reality show COPS, on which it's based, Reno looks to the bottomless bottom of s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 11, 2009

    Blind Boys of Alabama

    There's a recession going on, and that's why we need basic cable. For those of us who can't afford HBO, Comedy Central is returning Reno 911! for its sixth season tonight (yes, April Fool's Day), at 10:30 p.m. Like the reality show COPS, on which it's based, Reno looks to the bottomless bottom of s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 11, 2009

    Louis C.K.

    There's a recession going on, and that's why we need basic cable. For those of us who can't afford HBO, Comedy Central is returning Reno 911! for its sixth season tonight (yes, April Fool's Day), at 10:30 p.m. Like the reality show COPS, on which it's based, Reno looks to the bottomless bottom of s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 29, 2008

    Iron Jawed Angels

    There's a recession going on, and that's why we need basic cable. For those of us who can't afford HBO, Comedy Central is returning Reno 911! for its sixth season tonight (yes, April Fool's Day), at 10:30 p.m. Like the reality show COPS, on which it's based, Reno looks to the bottomless bottom of s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2008

    The Music of HBO's True Blood

    There's a recession going on, and that's why we need basic cable. For those of us who can't afford HBO, Comedy Central is returning Reno 911! for its sixth season tonight (yes, April Fool's Day), at 10:30 p.m. Like the reality show COPS, on which it's based, Reno looks to the bottomless bottom of s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2008

    2000 All Over Again

    There's a recession going on, and that's why we need basic cable. For those of us who can't afford HBO, Comedy Central is returning Reno 911! for its sixth season tonight (yes, April Fool's Day), at 10:30 p.m. Like the reality show COPS, on which it's based, Reno looks to the bottomless bottom of s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 27, 2008

    The Wire: The Complete Fifth Season

    There's a recession going on, and that's why we need basic cable. For those of us who can't afford HBO, Comedy Central is returning Reno 911! for its sixth season tonight (yes, April Fool's Day), at 10:30 p.m. Like the reality show COPS, on which it's based, Reno looks to the bottomless bottom of s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2008

    Final Cannes-tasy?

    There's a recession going on, and that's why we need basic cable. For those of us who can't afford HBO, Comedy Central is returning Reno 911! for its sixth season tonight (yes, April Fool's Day), at 10:30 p.m. Like the reality show COPS, on which it's based, Reno looks to the bottomless bottom of s ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 9, 2008
  • Blogs

    June 19, 2008
  • Blogs

    March 4, 2008
  • Calendar

    November 7, 2007

    Louis C.K.

    Too smart for the masses, but not for us

  • Music

    August 15, 2007
  • Arts

    June 27, 2007

    Bob Saget's Always Been a Dirty Bastard, You Just Didn’t Know It

    It’s hard to imagine Danny Tanner wrapping up spousal and child abuse, incest, excrement, and semen in a single joke.

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2007

    Dance With Me, Seona

    It’s hard to imagine Danny Tanner wrapping up spousal and child abuse, incest, excrement, and semen in a single joke.

  • Film

    March 21, 2007

    DVDs of the Week

    The name is Borat, James Borat

  • Film

    January 31, 2007

    Kenneth Anger's Candy-Colored Absinthe Freakout.

    Plus Ricky Gervais, Peruvian marching powder, and other new releases.

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2006

    Welcome to Reverb

    Plus Ricky Gervais, Peruvian marching powder, and other new releases.

  • Arts

    September 6, 2006

    Shakespeare in the City

    HBO's The Wire would've played well with the groundlings at The Globe.

  • Film

    August 16, 2006
  • Film

    July 19, 2006

    Entourage, Gram Parsons, and Grand Prix.

    To be Aquaman, or not to be Aquaman?

  • Film

    April 12, 2006

    Left of the Dial, Little Manhattan, and Occupation: Dreamland

    Raging liberals, puppy love, and the hazards of Iraq.

  • Film

    March 22, 2006

    Action and Class of 1984

    Hollywood is like high school with money.

  • Diversions

    November 30, 2005

    All Sexed Up

    The naughty and nice. Plus five more picks.

  • Film

    July 21, 2004

    Project Greenlight: The Complete Second Season

    Miramax Home Entertainment, $39.99

  • Diversions

    February 11, 2004

    Introduction & Contents

    Miramax Home Entertainment, $39.99

  • Diversions

    December 3, 2003

    Farrah Forever!

    Guilty favorites, hidden pleasures, and obscure treasuresthe TV vaults have opened up and are flooding onto DVD.

  • Film

    September 11, 2002

    In Memoriam: New York City 9/11/01

    Guilty favorites, hidden pleasures, and obscure treasuresthe TV vaults have opened up and are flooding onto DVD.

  • News

    December 20, 2000

    Screen test

    Now invading Seattle nightspots: a sex-obsessed e-commerce gambit from Time Warner.

  • Film

    May 13, 1998

    A grump's SIFF advice: 'No habla inglés'

    That's right, see the boring-sounding ones.

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