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April 17, 2012
100 Favorite Dishes: Baked Potato at Wedgwood Broiler
If I learned anything from The Sound of Music - other than how to yodel and outwit Nazis - it was that it's worth polling the group when assembling a list of favorite things. Maria may have liked cream-colored ponies and schnitzel with noodles, but it was up to Louisa, Brigitta and Kurt to remind he ... More >>
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March 12, 2012
Overheard In Email: "Subject: Kelly Clarkson Warning"
This one Editor Mike Seely felt obligated to share with his staff: she's a polarizing artist, but won me over with her jason aldean duet. so now i'm writing her up for shortlist, and need to familiarize myself with her latest album. hence me cranking kelly clarkson from my computer. if this offends ... More >>
Food
February 8, 2012
Where to Drink With Your Kids
15 Seattle bars that let youngsters watch their parents imbibe.
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January 3, 2012
So Long, Seattle Weekly!
Well, folks, it's been a great 15 months, but it's time for this old ship to sail. Today will be my last day here at Seattle Weekly, as I recently accepted a contract position with Microsoft, producing news content with the MSN team and will begin tomorrow.
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September 14, 2011
Def Leppard & Heart
Well, folks, it's been a great 15 months, but it's time for this old ship to sail. Today will be my last day here at Seattle Weekly, as I recently accepted a contract position with Microsoft, producing news content with the MSN team and will begin tomorrow.
Blogs
September 12, 2011
Seattle's Best Dive Bars Guide Goes Mobile
Most dive-bar denizens have no need for a guide to navigate a city's drinking dens; they've got their favorite, and they're sticking to it. But for interlopers who occasionally seek a dark, dirt-cheap and possibly dingy place to throw back a few drinks, it's helpful to know where to go. Seatt ... More >>
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August 17, 2011
Today Reverb Recommends Embracing Your Favorite Annoying Song
Chances are, you can't get enough of a song and/or artist that everybody else despises. See above: Family Guy's Peter Griffin loves The Trashmen. SW editor in chief Mike Seely has a soft spot for Avril Lavigne, clubs editor Erin Thompson still thinks Britney Spears is cool, and this reporter has an ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
Surprisingly Good Sound & a Lifeless KJ at Tukwila's White Horse
The White Horse Bar & Grill in Tukwila was a table-and-a-half away from having zero people for karaoke the Saturday Seattle Weekly editor Mike Seely and I decided to sing there. If we hadn't shown up, their rotation wouldn't have broken five singers through midnight. We didn't mind, but somet ... More >>
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May 11, 2011
Shelby Earl
The White Horse Bar & Grill in Tukwila was a table-and-a-half away from having zero people for karaoke the Saturday Seattle Weekly editor Mike Seely and I decided to sing there. If we hadn't shown up, their rotation wouldn't have broken five singers through midnight. We didn't mind, but somet ... More >>
Blogs
January 7, 2011
Comment of the Week: Acceptable Levels of Smugness by Jonathan Ehrich
On Tuesday, Seattle Weekly Editor-in-Chief and proud pedestrian Mike Seely penned a column about House Bill 1018 and its language on driver-cyclist-pedestrian interaction. In particular, Seely takes issue with the part of the proposed legislation that says a "pedestrian is not relieved of the ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
Mike Seely Named Seattle Weekly Editor-in-Chief
Big changes here at Seattle Weekly. As announced yesterday, longtime editor-in-chief Mark D. Fefer has left the paper. As versatile and talented a journalist as can be found, we wish him all the best. In his stead, managing editor Mike Seely has been moved up to the EIC slot. Here's a message ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2010
VIDEO: Bobcat Goldthwait's "Shakes the Clown" at Artopia
Bobcat and Seely clowning around. Har har har.For those of you who missed Artopia, you missed out on a gorgeous day of art, inspiration, shopping, music, aerialists, installations and more. Saturday night's events were just as stunning - a solid set by Victor Shade, hot (literally) firedance ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2010
Fantasizing About Future Documentaries: The Black Keys Working in the Studio on Brothers
Considering that Mike Seely, myself and about nine zillion other music critics and fans agree that the Black Keys completely knocked it out of the park with Brothers, it's especially pleasing to see that they obviously documented its creation in great detail. Here's the first clip that's surfaced; l ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2010
Legislature Finally Adjourns, Here's What They Didn't Do
susanrobb.comSusan Robb used a 4Culture grant to take this installation, titled "Warmth, Giant Black Toobs" on tour. If the legislature doesn't act soon, those grants will disappear.Late last night, the state legislature approved new taxes and budget cuts needed to balance a $2.8 billion shor ... More >>
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March 24, 2010
An Open Letter to Foodportunity
Mike Seely has a question of his own: "WTF is up with that name?"Dear Keren Brown, I'm sorry to do this, but my editor, Mike Seely, is beyond annoyed with your professional food networking series, Foodportunity. Don't get me wrong, he loves the concept; it's the name he has a problem with. I ... More >>
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February 10, 2010
This Week's Cover Story: Free in the Key
Every once in a while you have to let Mike Seely run with a sports story. For weeks, Seely had been talking up the Seattle U Redhawks games at the Key, where some rough-around-the-edges, but highly entertaining, basketball was being played by a team that, after 30 years in the lower rungs o ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2010
Voracious Is Looking for a Few Good Food Bloggers
Do you like what you see on this blog and are itching to (pun alert!) enhance its flavor with your own exceptionally engaging prose? Or rather, do you view this blog as an undercooked stew, and think your contributions will improve the hell out of Voracious? Either way, we'd like to hear fr ... More >>
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December 30, 2009
Loverboy
Do you like what you see on this blog and are itching to (pun alert!) enhance its flavor with your own exceptionally engaging prose? Or rather, do you view this blog as an undercooked stew, and think your contributions will improve the hell out of Voracious? Either way, we'd like to hear fr ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2009
Midway Donuts Has Nothing on Deli Seoul
Mike Seely, aka Bottomfeeder, is the king of the multipurpose restaurant. Tomorrow's column focuses on a diner secretly upping its Greek fare, while Seely's October 27 Bottomfeeder sung what praises he could conjure up about Pacific Highway South's convenience restaurants: "Here, teriyaki pla ... More >>
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December 3, 2009
Reader: Enough With the Damn Monorail Already
What if it was an adorable kitty? Then would you support the West Seattle monorail?Reader Max responds to Joel Horn Still Wants to Ride the Monorail. He's completely wrong about the our position on the monorail (for a healthy dose of skepticism, click here) but at least he's wrong in an enter ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2009
Day 1: A Dive Bar Advent Calendar
In honor of the annual holiday season and resultant Christmas Tension, we thought we'd do our own holiday advent calendar dedicated to that which the holidays drive so many... dive bar drinking. Luckily, Mike Seely wrote a book about it (Seattle's Best Dive Bars, Drinking and Diving in the Em ... More >>
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September 16, 2009
Corner Pocket Billiards
In honor of the annual holiday season and resultant Christmas Tension, we thought we'd do our own holiday advent calendar dedicated to that which the holidays drive so many... dive bar drinking. Luckily, Mike Seely wrote a book about it (Seattle's Best Dive Bars, Drinking and Diving in the Em ... More >>
Blogs
August 14, 2009
7 Things I Learned On Voracious This Week
-- According to Mike Seely, Beth's doesn't even rank among the city's top five diners. -- This is the same guy who voluntarily drinks Busch, the champagne of Aurora. -- Jonathan Kauffman claims he stays anonymous to preserve the integrity of his reviews. I know he does it so the restaurant establi ... More >>
Blogs
June 3, 2009
Seely's Book Displaced on Bestseller List by Misanthropic Tasmanian Vegetable Gardener
As we noted in a post last night, Mike Seely's softcover debut, Seattle's Best Dive Bars, recently cracked the Northwest bestseller list. Seely's book was #10 among nonfiction paperbacks for the week ending May 24, according to sales reports from indie booksellers. But what a difference a week mak ... More >>
Blogs
June 2, 2009
Indie Bookstores' Must-Reads of the Season: Pollan, Kidder, Horwitz, Zakaria, Mayer, Seely
One of these things is not like the other. And yet the most recent sales reports from indie bookstores in the Pacific Northwest confirm the startling truth, a truth that might very well make Alfred A. Knopf roll over in his leather-bound grave, that Mike Seely's debut novel, Seattle's Best Dive Bars ... More >>
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April 22, 2009
Mike Seely
One of these things is not like the other. And yet the most recent sales reports from indie bookstores in the Pacific Northwest confirm the startling truth, a truth that might very well make Alfred A. Knopf roll over in his leather-bound grave, that Mike Seely's debut novel, Seattle's Best Dive Bars ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2009
Drinking & Diving With Mike Seely
Earlier tonight Seattle Weekly managing editor Mike Seely held the first reading for his new book, Seattle's Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the Emerald City, at none other than the Blue Moon (712 N.E. 45th St.), the bar that graces the book's front cover. Said Seely, "When people ask me, 'Wh ... More >>
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April 8, 2009
Mike Seely
Earlier tonight Seattle Weekly managing editor Mike Seely held the first reading for his new book, Seattle's Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the Emerald City, at none other than the Blue Moon (712 N.E. 45th St.), the bar that graces the book's front cover. Said Seely, "When people ask me, 'Wh ... More >>
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December 3, 2008
Seattle Seahawks vs. New England Patriots
Earlier tonight Seattle Weekly managing editor Mike Seely held the first reading for his new book, Seattle's Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the Emerald City, at none other than the Blue Moon (712 N.E. 45th St.), the bar that graces the book's front cover. Said Seely, "When people ask me, 'Wh ... More >>
News
October 15, 2008
Comments
Cats--indoors or out? Plus: An Iraq War vet speaks out.
Blogs
October 6, 2008
A Post About Post
Cats--indoors or out? Plus: An Iraq War vet speaks out.
Blogs
July 23, 2008
The Gift of Ice Cream, Tom Does Tacos
Cats--indoors or out? Plus: An Iraq War vet speaks out.
Film
May 21, 2008
SIFF Generis: An introduction and taxonomy to this year’s fest.
Cats--indoors or out? Plus: An Iraq War vet speaks out.
Blogs
May 8, 2008
Battling Muffulettas: Virginia Inn v. Marcela's
Cats--indoors or out? Plus: An Iraq War vet speaks out.
News
April 23, 2008
Keith and Janet: The Untold Story?
Plus: Adam Sandler, still controversial.
Calendar
April 2, 2008
Sonics Versus Nuggets
Plus: Adam Sandler, still controversial.
Food
March 26, 2008
Changes at Mistral, Beard Awards, and the Death of Stan's
Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.
Blogs
February 24, 2008
The Daily Wire: 70MM Gore
Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.
Blogs
January 14, 2008
The Weekend Review
Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.
Blogs
October 25, 2007
About Liquor Licensing and Food
Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.
Blogs
June 4, 2007
Weekly Nabs Five Firsts at SPJ Banquet
Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.
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April 27, 2007
Beef: It's What's for Gluttony
Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.
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April 2, 2007
Huh?
Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog.
Diversions
October 25, 2006
Second & Bell
Just around the corner the young and coiffed are playing, but on Second Ave., it's strictly old kids on the block.
News
September 6, 2006
Buzz
Pesos, Beers, Burgers and Scooters.
News
August 30, 2006
Redefined, Doomed & Hammered
Is Mt. Rainier still a mountain? Plus: Viaduct apocalypse theories in the nation's 12th drunkest city.
News
July 19, 2006
SuperSonics: Up in the Air
Also: Waterfront-tunnel opposition, a new job for Paul Berendt, and a new NYT scribe is coming.
News
May 10, 2006
The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea
"There's more to sail racing than midlife crisis...."
News
November 7, 2001
Where has all the money gone?
It's not just the terrorists, it's the economy
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