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El Sicario, Room 164: A Mexican Assassin Tells All

City Arts Fest 2011: Now This Feels Like a Festival

photo by Marikko Kaiulani Fanning, via FacebookUnion Station.​Writing about City Arts Fest's inaugural edition last year, I complained that for all it did well, it didn't feel like much of a festival. It brought some great acts to town--Belle & Sebastian, Big Boi--and arranged some great event ... More >>

Ask a Mexican!

photo by Marikko Kaiulani Fanning, via FacebookUnion Station.​Writing about City Arts Fest's inaugural edition last year, I complained that for all it did well, it didn't feel like much of a festival. It brought some great acts to town--Belle & Sebastian, Big Boi--and arranged some great event ... More >>

Gold Leaves: Rich & Rare

Grant Olsen mines pop's past, and hits the jackpot with The Ornament.

Whose Shoes? A Grillaxin Special

Photo by Leslie KellyYes, she's been painting her house.​Please indulge us while as we take a detour from the standard Grillaxin format and give in to our slavish shoe fetish this week, playing a little guessing game we're calling "Whose Shoes?" Here's the deal: Any cook is going to work bett ... More >>

Delilah: She Gives Love a Good Name

She's a mother of 11, an ex to three, and a friend to millions, and she's there for you this Valentine's Day.

Karaoke Korrespondent Has a Beatles Jam with Rusty the Piano Man at Hattie's Hat

​Once a month, a guy named Rusty brings his keyboard into the back room of Hattie's Hat, spreads 20 songbooks out throughout the room (from every era), amps up a couple mics, bellies up to a table shaped like a grand piano, and plays song requests for anyone that wants to sing. Singing along ... More >>

Kathleen Hanna Remembers Her "Angry Young Feminist" Friend, Kurt Cobain

Bikini Kill/Le Tigre's Kathleen Hanna appeared (with Beastie Boy husband Adam Horovitz) at Joe's Pub in NYC last week as part of the "Our Hit Parade" concert series. Our Hit Parade is a monthly series that has "superstars perform the top 10 pop songs," and while Bikini Kill never had a top 10 pop ... More >>

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 >>

Everyday Halloween

Your R&R outfit just may be in your second drawer.

Rocktober 31st: Halloween Costume Idea #4, Jailbird Lil' Wayne

​Weezy's almost free -- after spending the bulk of 2010 in Rikers, the man is expected to walk free on November 4. You can honor Weezy's completed jail sentence by dressing up as him this Halloween! A simple list of essential components: Orange prison jumpsuit. Maybe throw a ball and chain ... More >>

5 Other Local Artists Ripe to Be Ripped Off In TV Commercials

The folks at Pitchfork made an interesting discovery yesterday when they noticed a song in a Spanish language commercial for the sports equipment company Kipsta sounded eerily close to "White Winter Hymnal" by Fleet Foxes. It made me think about the Kia car commercial that more or less ripped off ... More >>

Rocket Queen: Rock, Rock 'Til You Drop

Between the Southern Lord and Seattle Founders Day Festivals, there's no rest for the wicked.

Friday Food Porn: Elvis Will Never Leave This Building

Photo courtesy Peter Mumford​ Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Santa, Mohamed Ali, cacti, Mexican banditos--it's all there. And that's just one small corner of Mama's Mexican Kitchen, one little slice of the place, a corner near the bathrooms, that is indicative of the crazy-weird schizophrenic design ... More >>

Oh Mama's: Revisiting Seattle's First Best Mexican Restaurant

Photo courtesy Peter Mumford​ Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Santa, Mohamed Ali, cacti, Mexican banditos--it's all there. And that's just one small corner of Mama's Mexican Kitchen, one little slice of the place, a corner near the bathrooms, that is indicative of the crazy-weird schizophrenic design ... More >>

Mama's Mexican Kitchen: For A Good Time, Call...

​"My favorite table at Mama's Mexican Kitchen is a big, high-backed booth tucked away in one corner of the warren of dining rooms that make up the entirety of the floor. It's past the front room, choked with customers waiting on to-go orders and small parties just in from the heat, wilting i ... More >>

Visual Arts: Design Colony

SOIL sprawls across 11,000 square feet of vacant space in a Georgetown showroom.

One Eel One Wrong Orifice = Worst. Prank. Ever.

Wait a minute... You want to put me where?​Look, if you're partying with cooks and you're dumb enough to pass out while some (or even one) of them is still conscious, you kinda deserve whatever happens to you. You might wake up locked in the trunk of a car headed for the closest international ... More >>

Strongman: Like The Wrestler, Only Real

Wait a minute... You want to put me where?​Look, if you're partying with cooks and you're dumb enough to pass out while some (or even one) of them is still conscious, you kinda deserve whatever happens to you. You might wake up locked in the trunk of a car headed for the closest international ... More >>

Alice Wheeler

Wait a minute... You want to put me where?​Look, if you're partying with cooks and you're dumb enough to pass out while some (or even one) of them is still conscious, you kinda deserve whatever happens to you. You might wake up locked in the trunk of a car headed for the closest international ... More >>

Enough About the T.O. Rumors

If there is one thing that I will detest about the decline of the printed newspaper and the rise of the blogosphere is the lack of credibility and adherence to good old fashioned gumshoe reporting. Driving around Seattle today and listening to KJR AM sports radio (it's just too damn depressing to t ... More >>

A Shot in the Dark: Bleu Bistro Is a Nookie-Free Zone

But you can find a Horny Girl Scout.

Liquid Sketch

But you can find a Horny Girl Scout.

Liquid Sketch

Doris Totten Chase at the City Hall Lobby Gallery.

Nostalgic Tuesday Show Recommendations

Doris Totten Chase at the City Hall Lobby Gallery.

How to Rock the Formal Wear: Sean Osborn

Making sense of stud holes and cuff links with one of the city's busiest clarinetists.

Welcome to Nickelsville

The mayor has become public enemy #1 for a defiant group of homeless organizers. But is he being unfairly singled out?

Seattle Bike Rage Reaches NYT

The mayor has become public enemy #1 for a defiant group of homeless organizers. But is he being unfairly singled out?

Meet a Three-Time Oscar Winner

The mayor has become public enemy #1 for a defiant group of homeless organizers. But is he being unfairly singled out?

Why Is He So Rude?

The mayor has become public enemy #1 for a defiant group of homeless organizers. But is he being unfairly singled out?

Is West Seattle’s Skate Church an Open-Minded Extension of Religion’s Embrace of Secular Culture?

Or a classic bait and switch?

Poopy Diapers or a Poopy Lawn?

Or a classic bait and switch?

The F-Word

Dissecting hipster Seattle's most loathed,least defended figure: the frat boy.

Ragin' & Cursin'

The Country Teasers' satiric weirdness.

A Day in the Life

What goes on in Seattle's musical life over a 24-hour span? Seattle Weekly's music writers spent Friday, Oct. 21, roaming around the city to find out.

Anthropologist of the Everyday

Gregory Blackstock's visual lists catalog all the stuff under the sun.

Friendly Advice

Aesop Rock and his Definitive cast of thousands.

Hello Dolly

Aesop Rock and his Definitive cast of thousands.

The Last Laugh

How Mudhoney survived 10 years in the major-label wilderness and a shifting lineup to produce their best album yet. Getting down in the basement with rock's clown princes.

That Inking Feeling

How Mudhoney survived 10 years in the major-label wilderness and a shifting lineup to produce their best album yet. Getting down in the basement with rock's clown princes.

I remember the first issues of the Weekly. . . . Thanks for hanging in there for 25 years.

How Mudhoney survived 10 years in the major-label wilderness and a shifting lineup to produce their best album yet. Getting down in the basement with rock's clown princes.