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    November 29, 2011

    Farmstead Meatsmith Releases First Instructional Video

    ​The knife-sharpening video which prompted Brandon Sheard of Farmstead Meatsmith to start slicing animal flesh was very informative. But it was "just horribly boring," recalls Andrew Plotsky, who produced Sheard's first instructional online video, a 24-minute overview of whole hog butchery rel ... More >>

  • Music

    October 5, 2011

    According to the Reverb Festival Class of 2011

    (Most of) the 70 bands at Saturday's festival chime in on the Seattle sound today and its intersection with the class of 1991.

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2011

    Branford Marsalis: "Jazz Was Probably Better When There Was No Jazz Radio"

    Branford Marsalis plays Jazz Alley Sept. 15 to 18.​I'm having a good time chipping away at the transcription of my chat with Branford Marsalis, which I started mentioning on Tuesday. I've got a few more highlights to pull out over the next week, but here are a couple interesting exchanges to g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    7 Great Paul McCartney Covers: Jack White, Tina Turner, Foo Fighters, Bob Dylan, and More

    Tomorrow night I'm super-stoked to be going to Benaroya to see "Live and Let Die," the Seattle Symphony's tribute to the music of Paul McCartney. In anticipation, here are my top 7 McCartney covers of all time -- add to it if you want! Jack White, "Mother Nature's Son" -- Earlier this summer, McC ... 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.

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2010

    Bottoms Up Blues Gang

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

  • Music

    March 3, 2010

    The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

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

  • News

    February 10, 2010

    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?

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    A.M. Music News: Bonnaroo's Booked, Pops Is Still Important, and Then There's Adam Lambert

    ​-- LiveDaily: Hippies and hipsters unite: Bonnaroo 2010 dates have been announced. And for five easy payments of $50, you, too, can spend June 10 to 13 on a farm outside Nashville. -- MTV: Speaking of Bonnaroo ... Kings of Leon drummer Nathan Followill met Jessie Baylin there in 2006. Last w ... More >>

  • Music

    March 11, 2009

    Trying to Understand the Logic of The Bad Plus

    Are they just covering the same old ground?

  • Calendar

    October 15, 2008

    Jazz on a Summer's Day

    Are they just covering the same old ground?

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2008

    Live Music Tonight: Ham Carson and Friends

    Are they just covering the same old ground?

  • Music

    August 30, 2006

    Notable Shows

    Highlights-and otherwise-of this week's music calendar.

  • Film

    August 23, 2006

    Seattle Weekly PickBeen Rich All My Life

    Showing at Grand Illusion, Fri., Aug. 25– Thurs., Aug. 31. Not rated. 81 minutes.

  • Music

    August 23, 2006

    Notable Shows

    Showing at Grand Illusion, Fri., Aug. 25– Thurs., Aug. 31. Not rated. 81 minutes.

  • Food

    March 1, 2006

    Rockin' Burrito

    Showing at Grand Illusion, Fri., Aug. 25– Thurs., Aug. 31. Not rated. 81 minutes.

  • Music

    December 14, 2005

    Re-Versions

    Showing at Grand Illusion, Fri., Aug. 25– Thurs., Aug. 31. Not rated. 81 minutes.

  • Diversions

    November 30, 2005

    And They All Wrote

    A roundup of music books for the holidays.

  • Music

    October 19, 2005

    Low Ebb

    A roundup of music books for the holidays.

  • Music

    October 12, 2005

    Silents' Night

    Jazz maverick Dave Douglas dresses up Roscoe Arbuckle's pre-sound comedy shorts with contemporary flair.

  • Music

    June 22, 2005

    Super Mario Jams

    Jazz maverick Dave Douglas dresses up Roscoe Arbuckle's pre-sound comedy shorts with contemporary flair.

  • Film

    May 25, 2005

    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

    May 4, 2005

    This Week's Reads

    Dan Morgenstern, John Haskell, and Barry Miles.

  • Arts

    November 10, 2004

    This Week's Reads

    Roddy Doyle; and Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo.

  • Arts

    September 8, 2004

    Fall Book Favorites

    Roddy Doyle; and Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo.

  • Arts

    September 1, 2004

    Bumbershoot in a Box

    Wish you could take Seattle's biggest arts and music festival home with you? Start with these four CDs' worth of music from this year's lineup — or use it as a guide to Bumbershoot's best.

  • News

    June 16, 2004

    Buzz

    Wish you could take Seattle's biggest arts and music festival home with you? Start with these four CDs' worth of music from this year's lineup — or use it as a guide to Bumbershoot's best.

  • Arts

    May 26, 2004

    This Summer's Cartoon Books

    Wish you could take Seattle's biggest arts and music festival home with you? Start with these four CDs' worth of music from this year's lineup — or use it as a guide to Bumbershoot's best.

  • Music

    May 12, 2004

    Crazy Blues, Classic Rock

    Wish you could take Seattle's biggest arts and music festival home with you? Start with these four CDs' worth of music from this year's lineup — or use it as a guide to Bumbershoot's best.

  • Diversions

    December 17, 2003

    Cheap Gifts!

    Last-minute items for stressed-out wallets that will make you, the giver, look shrewd.

  • Music

    December 17, 2003

    CD Reviews

    Last-minute items for stressed-out wallets that will make you, the giver, look shrewd.

  • Diversions

    December 3, 2003

    Visual Literacy

    Text is beside the point to some of the best books of 2003.

  • Music

    October 8, 2003

    Before the Blues

    An essential new book explores 'hot music.'

  • Arts

    September 17, 2003
  • Music

    August 20, 2003

    The Trophy Case

    The winners by category.

  • Music

    December 18, 2002

    Boxing Day

    Rounding up the latest in multi-CD sets, just in time for your final holiday shopping dash.

  • News

    October 30, 2002

    Unpackaged Presence

    The authentic appeal of bars with a gift for being themselves.

  • Music

    December 5, 2001

    Days of our nights

    The authentic appeal of bars with a gift for being themselves.

  • Music

    October 31, 2001

    Can You Dig It?

    The authentic appeal of bars with a gift for being themselves.

  • Diversions

    February 7, 2001

    Errol Morris' 'Hip-Hop'

    And other PBS music documentaries we'd like to see.

  • Arts

    January 31, 2001

    It's alive!

    But you'd never know it watching Ken Burns' music marathon.

  • Music

    October 18, 2000

    Jazz power

    Earshot lumbers on, attracting Seattle's strong players and ace out of towners.

  • Music

    January 19, 2000

    The Old, Normal America

    A pair of pre-war compilations highlight American pop at its most forward-looking.

  • Music

    December 16, 1998

    Chestnuts toasted

    Judging from this year's Christmas releases, it's best to stick with the classics.

  • News

    March 25, 1998

    Born again

    Charles Johnson's follow-up to 'Middle Passage' revives a living, breathing Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Food

    March 18, 1998

    Resurrecting Paris of the '20s in today's Belltown.

    Charles Johnson's follow-up to 'Middle Passage' revives a living, breathing Martin Luther King Jr.

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