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Big Trouble in Little China

"Scientists Discover Unknown Lizard Species at Lunch Buffet": The Greatest Food Headline of All Time

​ Thank you, CNN, for writing the greatest food headline in the history of food headlines. Thank you for the combination of revulsion and giddy excitement I experienced when reading it, for that moment of hope I had, thinking, "Please, please, please let this have happened in Seattle," and fo ... More >>

Big Trouble in Little China

​ Thank you, CNN, for writing the greatest food headline in the history of food headlines. Thank you for the combination of revulsion and giddy excitement I experienced when reading it, for that moment of hope I had, thinking, "Please, please, please let this have happened in Seattle," and fo ... More >>

Steve Duno

​ Thank you, CNN, for writing the greatest food headline in the history of food headlines. Thank you for the combination of revulsion and giddy excitement I experienced when reading it, for that moment of hope I had, thinking, "Please, please, please let this have happened in Seattle," and fo ... More >>

Yeah, But How's the Food?

​"It was maybe my fourth or fifth time at the Zig Zag Café before I ever ventured beyond the bar and sat at an actual table. I'd stood, with friends, outside the front door like a schlub waiting for the place to open, like a petitioner at the gates of a highly selective church. We'd watched t ... 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 >>

Big Trouble in Little China

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 >>

Army of Darkness

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 >>

Big Trouble in Little China

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 >>

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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 >>

Your Arts & Cinema Weekend Planner

​For whatever reason, several repertory films are playing this weekend, which we'll begin with the bestselling author whose novels have been adapted to more recent movies. Nick Hornby has a new novel out, and he wrote the script for An Education, which is already earning good reviews in New Yo ... More >>

Army of Darkness/Evil Dead II

​For whatever reason, several repertory films are playing this weekend, which we'll begin with the bestselling author whose novels have been adapted to more recent movies. Nick Hornby has a new novel out, and he wrote the script for An Education, which is already earning good reviews in New Yo ... More >>

Your Arts & Space Weekend Planner

​The last weekend of August begins on the moon! That's where much of the LP record cover art is set in a new show at EMP: It's refreshing to seen a museum exhibit that doesn't pretend to offer great music or great art. Culled from the collection of an L.A. music industry executive, Spaced Out ... More >>

Your Weekend Sports and A&C Advisory

Tonight's the night for baseball, says our Damon Agnos, as the Mariners lead us into May with a homestand against Oakland: They're hardly titans, but they're not the Titanic either. This year's Seattle Mariners are a mediocre team fortuitously placed in a lousy division, among whose lousy members a ... More >>

The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Notable Events

Tonight's the night for baseball, says our Damon Agnos, as the Mariners lead us into May with a homestand against Oakland: They're hardly titans, but they're not the Titanic either. This year's Seattle Mariners are a mediocre team fortuitously placed in a lousy division, among whose lousy members a ... More >>

Chicken Run

Tonight's the night for baseball, says our Damon Agnos, as the Mariners lead us into May with a homestand against Oakland: They're hardly titans, but they're not the Titanic either. This year's Seattle Mariners are a mediocre team fortuitously placed in a lousy division, among whose lousy members a ... More >>

This May Be The Freakiest Crime Story of the Year

In what sounds like a nightmarish mash-up of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Single White Female, a dude named Oumar Lam is being accused of attempting to sacrifice his live-in girlfriend. From the P-I story:According to police, Oumar Lam's 26-year-old girlfriend arrived at their Queen Anne ... More >>

Popcorn in December

The series of Mummy pictures, launched in 1999 and staring the Cornish-trained Brendan Fraser, were better than they needed to be. In its first two installments, at least, the franchise had a certain lightness beneath all those impressive CGI effects. Fraser knew that his pre-WWII adventurer-archae ... More >>

If You Think The Show Is Good, You Should See the DVD Menu!

The series of Mummy pictures, launched in 1999 and staring the Cornish-trained Brendan Fraser, were better than they needed to be. In its first two installments, at least, the franchise had a certain lightness beneath all those impressive CGI effects. Fraser knew that his pre-WWII adventurer-archae ... More >>

No Ticket? You Can’t Have-a-the-Panda

A local drive-in is forced to charge kids for the first time since Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Crystal Skulls, Explained

A local drive-in is forced to charge kids for the first time since Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Son of Rambow

Like Rocky, Only Handmade and Cute

Fool’s Gold: Again, Matthew McConaughey Takes Off His Shirt

Like Rocky, Only Handmade and Cute

Snakes on a Plane

The year's most shameless B-movie delivers exactly what it promises.

Aug. 16-23, 2006

Pee-Wee seeks bike, Mary Pickford versus alligators, and a Sideways-themed wine tasting at the Grand Illusion.

Oddballs, Events, & Rep

Pee-Wee seeks bike, Mary Pickford versus alligators, and a Sideways-themed wine tasting at the Grand Illusion.

Cracked Code

There's no room for surprise in this hoax.

Water

Opens at Seven Gables, Fri., May 12. Rated PG-13. 114 minutes.

Bones and Blonds

Kennewick Man serves as a reminder to separate fantasy and science.

This Week's Reads

Holiday Reinhorn and Vicki Constantine Croke.

Plot Issues Resolved in Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith

Holiday Reinhorn and Vicki Constantine Croke.

The Village

Buena Vista Home Ent., $29.99

The 100 Greatest Don Knotts Movies of All Time

Part of the fun of making a canon of video favorites is breaking the movie snobs' mold.

National Treasure

Also: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

This Week's Attractions

Also: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

A Cure for Boredom

The Catheters get curious on their second album.

The XXL Files

He's big. He's red. He anchors a paranormal action comedy that will make the Hulk green with envy.

The Sit-Down

He's big. He's red. He anchors a paranormal action comedy that will make the Hulk green with envy.

THE MATRIX RELOADED

Warner Home Video, $29.95

28 DAYS LATER

Fox Home Video, $27.98

Fargo

MGM Home Entertainment., $24.98

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

MGM Home Entertainment., $24.98

Flashback

Celebrating the Evans era.

Run Silent, Run Deep

Dueling commanders vie to save stricken sub in fact-based story.

Topping Off

An uncertain visit to the haberdashery.

By the book

Scholarly hero wins 1,000-year-old virgin.

The mysterious west

New discoveries poke a hole in imperial Chinese "history."

Sarah Dougher, Innerzone Orchestra, Vermont, Tower of Power

New discoveries poke a hole in imperial Chinese "history."