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Oh, Gothdammit!

When they're not onstage together, the four Grave Babies are sleeping together.

Pulp Fiction

When they're not onstage together, the four Grave Babies are sleeping together.

Through @ 2: Oh, Gothdammit! Grave Babies Talk Blasted Sounds and Bed Hogs

The situation On a recent Thursday evening, I'm at Pony on Capitol Hill with three-quarters of Grave Babies--vocalist/guitarist Danny Wahlfeldt, bassist Mitch Saulsberry, and drummer Keith Whiteman. (Keyboardist Tyler Robinson is absent.) How They Got Here The band has only been back in town for a ... More >>

KIll Bill Volumes I & II

The situation On a recent Thursday evening, I'm at Pony on Capitol Hill with three-quarters of Grave Babies--vocalist/guitarist Danny Wahlfeldt, bassist Mitch Saulsberry, and drummer Keith Whiteman. (Keyboardist Tyler Robinson is absent.) How They Got Here The band has only been back in town for a ... More >>

Printer Tells Lesbian-Produced Play It Can't Print Its Programs Because of "Content"

​Last night at the premiere of The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, a play adapted from a book by the "Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction," the audience at Re-bar was given an interesting backstory on, of all things, the play's programs. As Sasha Summer Cousineau -- one-third of the hydra that makes up t ... More >>

The 15 Best '90s Movie Soundtracks

Oh, Uma!​Last week's list of the best soundtracks of the '80s naturally got us thinking--what happened in the next decade? We instantly thought of so many classic '90s soundtracks we couldn't limit it to just 10. Turns out a lot of cool stuff happened in the decade of Zubaz, boy bands, and All ... More >>

Dick's Snohomish County Turf War

Blazing Onion brings the challenge to Dick's in Snohomish County.​Dick's Drive-In's Edmonds location is under construction and soon, Snohomish county residents will be able to stuff their faces with a deluxe and fries. But the county to the north is not unburgered territory. There is already ... More >>

Our Summer Guide Calendar

Music! Art! Food! Sports! Unnecessary Exclamation Points! And More!

Courtney Love Claims She's Twice Saved Kelly Osbourne's Life and "Put Things In Her Boobs"

​Over the weekend Courtney Love took a break from begging her Twitter followers to become de facto lawyers in favor of a much more familiar activity: lashing out at another celebrity. Her target was fellow weirdo Kelly Osbourne, and her weapon of choice was a story about how Osbourne played th ... More >>

Nothing "Phony" About Pho Tic Tac

The original Pho Tic Tac, after the fire. ​When the Greenwood arsonist went on his burning spree in 2009, one of the businesses he razed was the neighborhood's Pho Tic Tac. But for owner Loan Nguyen, seeing her Vietnamese noodle shop blowing ashy clouds like Uma Thurman chain-smoking in Pulp ... More >>

Real Restaurants and Make Believe People: Favorite REAL Restaurants from Movies and TV

That blurry, shiny head? It's Stefan Richter from Top Chef​So last night, I'm watching the premier of Entourage on HBO. Which is to say, I had the premiere of Entourage playing on the TV while I was...I don't know. Eating a sandwich or reading a book or talking with my wife or something probab ... More >>

Dinner & a Movie: "The A-Team" and The Thali Team

Doug Curran/20th Century FoxYes, Jessica Biel always wears her gun and bulletproof vest for dinner.​The Dinner: Thali and beer at Poppy (622 Broadway E.). The Movie: The A-Team, at Pacific Place (600 Pine St.). The Screenplate: The A-Team was nobody's idea of great TV during its primetime ru ... More >>

Tarantino Dream

Gospel and liquid gold at the Silver Fork.

Tarantino at the Silver Fork

​ From this week's review of the Silver Fork: "If ever I was asked to location scout for Quentin Tarantino, the Silver Fork is where I'd bring him. 'Dude,' I'd say. 'No, dude, for serious...' And we'd go there for breakfast, early on a Sunday, in the swinging lull between early-early church ... More >>

Hell Ride: Enough With the B-movie Homages Already!

​ From this week's review of the Silver Fork: "If ever I was asked to location scout for Quentin Tarantino, the Silver Fork is where I'd bring him. 'Dude,' I'd say. 'No, dude, for serious...' And we'd go there for breakfast, early on a Sunday, in the swinging lull between early-early church ... More >>

The Casino, the Mayor's Son, and the Shuffle That May Have Suckered Them Both

Once thought of as political operative material, Jacob Nickels was part of a nationwide casino-cheating ring, prosecutors say.

North America

Once thought of as political operative material, Jacob Nickels was part of a nationwide casino-cheating ring, prosecutors say.

Six Degrees of Denigration

Backbiting and betrayal never go out of style in Hollywood—thank God.

Vérité Coffee

Backbiting and betrayal never go out of style in Hollywood—thank God.

Kung Fu for Dummies: Kill Bill Vol. I

Half a sword-wielding revenge epic is better than a whole decade without Tarantino. But his latest is more like a movie-survey course than a movie.