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Grant Hart

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Seattle's Best Meals of 2010

From Potatoes Minneapolis to Moo Dade Deaw.

Friday Food Porn: The Best of 2010, Part 2

Photo courtesy Joshua Huston​ On Friday of last week, we had part 1 of the Friday Food Porn Best of 2010 collection of truly awesome food photography--10 snaps which covered the best of the first six months (or so) of this soon-to-be-concluded year. And today, we're continuing on with a Wedn ... More >>

The Bad Plus

Photo courtesy Joshua Huston​ On Friday of last week, we had part 1 of the Friday Food Porn Best of 2010 collection of truly awesome food photography--10 snaps which covered the best of the first six months (or so) of this soon-to-be-concluded year. And today, we're continuing on with a Wedn ... More >>

Blueacres of Calm

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

Feeling Minneapolis at Blueacre Seafood

​"My menu is just out of the printer--just run out of the big copier in a walled-off section near the hostess station--and it, like the space, is big, the options overwhelming. There are fish, oysters, lobsters and crab, soups and salads and sandwiches and steaks and chicken and an entire sect ... More >>

Dark Dark Dark

​"My menu is just out of the printer--just run out of the big copier in a walled-off section near the hostess station--and it, like the space, is big, the options overwhelming. There are fish, oysters, lobsters and crab, soups and salads and sandwiches and steaks and chicken and an entire sect ... More >>

The Vaselines Visit the States, the Summer Concert Business, and Sting Calls Rock's BS

​-- Sup Pop: The Vaselines will be supporting their forthcoming album, Sex With An X (Sept. 14), with a U.S. tour that so far is skipping Seattle. But the band's playing Portland on Oct. 24 and Minneapolis on the 27th, so maybe they'll sneak in a stop in the 206. -- Pitchfork: Arcade Fire wil ... More >>

Free Stuff: Win Tickets to See Dosh at the High Dive This Sunday

Dosh will be at the High Dive on Sunday - email me to win free tickets!​The Minneapolis-based Rhodes-master Martin Luther King Chavez Dosh - or just Dosh, as he prefers - is a critically-renowned percussionist and composer who's collaborated with the likes of Bonnie Prince Billy and Andrew Bir ... More >>

Heaven

Dosh will be at the High Dive on Sunday - email me to win free tickets!​The Minneapolis-based Rhodes-master Martin Luther King Chavez Dosh - or just Dosh, as he prefers - is a critically-renowned percussionist and composer who's collaborated with the likes of Bonnie Prince Billy and Andrew Bir ... More >>

Purple Rain

Dosh will be at the High Dive on Sunday - email me to win free tickets!​The Minneapolis-based Rhodes-master Martin Luther King Chavez Dosh - or just Dosh, as he prefers - is a critically-renowned percussionist and composer who's collaborated with the likes of Bonnie Prince Billy and Andrew Bir ... More >>

Birthday Suits

Dosh will be at the High Dive on Sunday - email me to win free tickets!​The Minneapolis-based Rhodes-master Martin Luther King Chavez Dosh - or just Dosh, as he prefers - is a critically-renowned percussionist and composer who's collaborated with the likes of Bonnie Prince Billy and Andrew Bir ... More >>

Free Energy

Dosh will be at the High Dive on Sunday - email me to win free tickets!​The Minneapolis-based Rhodes-master Martin Luther King Chavez Dosh - or just Dosh, as he prefers - is a critically-renowned percussionist and composer who's collaborated with the likes of Bonnie Prince Billy and Andrew Bir ... More >>

A Mystery of Violence

As the FBI investigates the possibility of a terrorism “recruitment network” in Seattle, the local Somali community struggles to understand why young men would return to a country they never knew.

Reader: Punishment for Northwest Pilots Who Overshot the Runway Is Too Harsh

FlickrWhen you're responsible for hundreds of lives floating 36,000 feet off the ground, the accountability factor is a little higher.​Reader Tom responds to Northwest Pilots Who Overshot Runway Want Second Chance. He thinks we're holding the pilots who missed a Minneapolis runway by 100 miles ... More >>

Anti-Immigration Prankster Gets Teabaggers to Cheer for Deportation of Europeans

Courtesy of HorsesAss comes video from an anti-immigration rally in Minneapolis. A prankster takes the podium and delivers an impassioned, and well-received, rant about illegal European immigrants. He's so convincing, it's not apparent whether any of the teabaggers catch on until long after they'r ... More >>

Q&A: DJ BK-One Goes Canibal

​Minneapolis-based DJ BK-One is best known for standing behind the tables holding down Brother Ali for the last decade, but today, he releases his own full-length album, Rádio do Canibal. The album, which blends samples and rhythms from a wide swath of Brazilian music, features some hometown ... More >>

Purple Rain

​Minneapolis-based DJ BK-One is best known for standing behind the tables holding down Brother Ali for the last decade, but today, he releases his own full-length album, Rádio do Canibal. The album, which blends samples and rhythms from a wide swath of Brazilian music, features some hometown ... More >>

P-I Writer Sees Her Future in...Banking?

​Post-Intelligencer business writer Andrea James was one of the few who ended up with a newspaper job after the P-I folded its print edition in March. And she was delighted to stay. "Journalism is just too much fun to give up." she told the Columbia Journalism Review. And "I feel like I was bo ... More >>

Happy Apple

Tuesday, May 19

SXSW - My Best Of

Best New Band Pete and the Pirates/ First Communion Afterparty Pete and the boys were the only band I made the effort to seek out twice. Their super-fueled take on modern Brit Pop coupled with the fact they are the most cheek-pinchabley cute band since Blur rates them high on my list. First Commun ... More >>

West Seattle Blog Lashes Back at NYT

Or, actually, Tracy Record of the West Seattle Blog was responding to media mogul Steve Brill, who, in The New York Times' roundtable editorial on the struggling newspaper biz, dropped this ill-informed nugget: "I think in many ways the prospects may be brighter for papers like the Seattle P.I. or t ... More >>

P.O.S.

Friday, February 6

The Gigantics

Thursday, January 22

Seattle Is Awesome at Reading

Seattle tied Minneapolis (who, rumor has it, "juked" their stats) for the most literate city in the U.S. in 2008.  (Minneapolis won in '07, ending our long stay at the top.) But you don't have to take my word for it!

People Are Getting Pissed

Seattletimes.com's lead headline declares that sand is actually worse for the environment than salt--the superior ice-buster. "That's the opinion of scientists who have studied the issue and officials from other cities that use salt to clear icy roads," STimes reports. The story doesn't actually quo ... More >>

The Blind Shake is Scary Good

And you'll feel it.

Some Show Suggestions For This Evening

And you'll feel it.

Slow Food Nation, Lunch Boxes, and Other Food News

And you'll feel it.

Learning from past mistakes

And you'll feel it.

The Drive-By Truckers and Hold Steady Team Up

And you'll feel it.

Vain Salon Gets a Makeover

And you'll feel it.

Sunday Morning Coming Down

A guarded speakeasy meets the press.

Reviewing the Reviews: Tapes 'n Tapes

A guarded speakeasy meets the press.

The Daily Wire: Bastards of Young

A guarded speakeasy meets the press.

Jim Walsh

A new history of one of Minneapolis’ great bands

Seattle Ain't Best in More Literate Person Prize

A new history of one of Minneapolis’ great bands

Homecoming Kings

A new history of one of Minneapolis’ great bands

Eyedea & Abilities

Tuesday, December 11

Juhu Beach + Birthday Suits + Madraso + Division of Planes

Friday, August 10

Radost Turns 30

The Balkan folk-performance group celebrates with a big dance party.

Restless Farewell

The Balkan folk-performance group celebrates with a big dance party.

Hockey Night

The Balkan folk-performance group celebrates with a big dance party.

Pretty in Pinko

Smashing the state of punk rock with Minneapolis' Soviettes.

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Smashing the state of punk rock with Minneapolis' Soviettes.

Oceanaire Seafood Room

Smashing the state of punk rock with Minneapolis' Soviettes.

Fire Men

Electric Six get down.

Nightclub jitters

A Minneapolis band explores the underworld and redeems the concept album.