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    May 11, 2012

    Tell Me About That Album: The Only Place by Best Coast

    Bethany Cosentino, the leader of L.A. duo Best Coast, is one busy lady. In between her summer-long touring schedule, Tweeting for her cat Snacks and releasing the band's hotly-anticipated sophomore album The Only Place, she's been focused on launching a clothing line for Urban Outfitters, something ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 18, 2012

    Craig Ferguson

    Bethany Cosentino, the leader of L.A. duo Best Coast, is one busy lady. In between her summer-long touring schedule, Tweeting for her cat Snacks and releasing the band's hotly-anticipated sophomore album The Only Place, she's been focused on launching a clothing line for Urban Outfitters, something ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Letterman or Bust: The Ten Best Local Performances on Late-Night TV

    The "Thrilla from Chewelah," aka Sir Allen Stone, played Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday, his network debut after a much-vaunted Conan appearance back in October. When your beloved local act plays on national television, you know they've made it. There's something inherently fun about the tradition of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Stephen Colbert On Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos: 'He's a Vindictive Man'

    ​Author Ann Patchett stopped by Comedy Central's Colbert Report Monday night to talk about Parnassus Books, a bookstore she opened last year in Nashville. Patchett told Colbert that small bookstores offer the public a well-read staff and that they're good for the community. This was Colbert's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

    Occupy Seattle Follows Stephen Colbert's Lead With Citizens United Protest

    After relinquishing control of his super PAC to his pal Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert is officially running for president...of South Carolina. The candidate must be busy, ahem, coordinating his campaign, because he ignored Occupy Seattle's request to appear at their demonstrations this weekend. But d ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 28, 2011

    Andy Haynes

    After relinquishing control of his super PAC to his pal Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert is officially running for president...of South Carolina. The candidate must be busy, ahem, coordinating his campaign, because he ignored Occupy Seattle's request to appear at their demonstrations this weekend. But d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2011

    Mike McGinn Jobs Program Is at Least Good for a Few Laughs on Jon Stewart Show (Video)

    ​Mayor Mike McGinn's green jobs weatherization program, already something of a laughingstock of underperformance, drew a new round of guffaws and groans from Jon Stewart's The Daily Show this week. Recapping Barack Obama's plans for a "new green economy" built in part on weatherizing American ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    Jeff Bezos as Steve Jobs? With That Laugh?

    Could Jeff Bezos be the next Steve Jobs, as the Wall Street Journal suggests today, and if so, will he become even more secretive and surly, as Jobs was? The paper quotes Sydney Finkelstein, a professor at Dartmouth College, calling Bezos "the natural contender to [the] throne as America's most dyn ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 21, 2011

    James Blake

    Could Jeff Bezos be the next Steve Jobs, as the Wall Street Journal suggests today, and if so, will he become even more secretive and surly, as Jobs was? The paper quotes Sydney Finkelstein, a professor at Dartmouth College, calling Bezos "the natural contender to [the] throne as America's most dyn ... More >>

  • Diversions

    September 14, 2011

    Ask a Mexican!

    Could Jeff Bezos be the next Steve Jobs, as the Wall Street Journal suggests today, and if so, will he become even more secretive and surly, as Jobs was? The paper quotes Sydney Finkelstein, a professor at Dartmouth College, calling Bezos "the natural contender to [the] throne as America's most dyn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Today Reverb Recommends Going to See the Antlers, Ghosts I've Met, & Avi Buffalo at the Neptune Tonight

    In this week's Short List, my Editor's Pick of the week is tonight's Antlers show at the Neptune. If my words don't convince you, check out this video of the Brooklyn band performing my favorite song off their Burst Apart LP, the opening track "I Don't Want Love," on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon t ... More >>

  • Film

    June 22, 2011

    Conan O'Brien Can't Stop: The TV Host Manages His Dark Side

    In this week's Short List, my Editor's Pick of the week is tonight's Antlers show at the Neptune. If my words don't convince you, check out this video of the Brooklyn band performing my favorite song off their Burst Apart LP, the opening track "I Don't Want Love," on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    Top 8 Artists (Besides the Bieber) We Have YouTube to "Thank" For

    If you're one of the 544 million people who have been swooned by Justin Bieber's puberty-tickling vocals in the music video for "Baby," the all-time most watched video on YouTube, then congratulations--you essentially gave a 17-year-old boy $65.5 million. Bieber, like the following musicians, fou ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 18, 2011

    Craig Ferguson

    If you're one of the 544 million people who have been swooned by Justin Bieber's puberty-tickling vocals in the music video for "Baby," the all-time most watched video on YouTube, then congratulations--you essentially gave a 17-year-old boy $65.5 million. Bieber, like the following musicians, fou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Dear Taco Bell: Lewis Black Wants to Know About Your Meat

    Made of mostly meat! Mostly . . .​On The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart let Lewis Black loose on meat--specifically on Taco Bell and the recent battle over whether or not its taco filling contains enough actual meat to be called "beef." "Like most people," Black said, "all I want is my me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Bill Gates and Jon Stewart Talk Polio, Money, and Whether He Is Indeed Batman

    ​Bill Gates is one of those Jon Stewart guests that probably won't leave you rolling on the floor laughing. He's also not one of the controversial guests that Stewart spars with in epic and riveting clashes of intellect. No, Gates, as Stewart says, is Batman; and when one interviews Batman, it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Jon Stewart vs. Glenn Beck on the Senate's New Food Safety Bill (Trust Me, It's WAY Funnier Than It Sounds)

    ​For the past couple days, Republicans in Washington (the other Washington) have been making a lot of noise about how ABSOLUTELY NOTHING is going to get done until the President of the United States rolls over, plays dead and, basically, allows the GOP to do whatever the hell they want--most o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2010

    Seattle "March to Keep Fear Alive" Not Likely to be Marching

    ​If you haven't heard by now that "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" in Washington D.C. has a Seattle offshoot, then you really need to get out more. What's less known is that there is a also an Emerald City version of "The Colbert Report" host Stephen Colbert's "Mar ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 13, 2010

    Steven Wright

    ​If you haven't heard by now that "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" in Washington D.C. has a Seattle offshoot, then you really need to get out more. What's less known is that there is a also an Emerald City version of "The Colbert Report" host Stephen Colbert's "Mar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2010

    The Daily Show On the Ground Zero Mosque

    ​A couple weeks ago I wrote a short post about how the opponents of the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" in Manhattan were such ignorant, intolerant pricks they were actually ideologically aligning themselves with Osama Bin Laden, another guy who isn't big on religious freedom. But what my post ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    Reverb Questionnaire: Comedian Laurie Kilmartin on Bow Wow Wow, ABBA and Liberation Through the Pretenders

    Laurie Kilmartin is performing at the Comedy Underground through Saturday. Shows are at 10 p.m. ​Laurie Kilmartin used to be a jock, swimming for the University of California, Los Angeles. Now she's a class clown as a professional comic, though she didn't drop swimming entirely--she used to po ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    Al Gore's Sex Scandal, Now On Video

    ​Al Gore's four-year-old sex scandal has more questions than answers. Why would the Portland masseuse making the accusations wait two years to report them and then change her story? If Gore attacked her the way she said he did, why haven't police pressed charges? And could anyone really keep a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Conan's 'Miserable' Life: Laugh to Avoid Crying

    In his "60 Minutes" interview Sunday, filmed in part in Seattle, Conan O'Brien responded to Steve Kroft's queries about his Tonight Show firing and "miserable" days thereafter, a time that O'Brien's wife Liza O'Brien of Seattle said was "really hard for him. It was watching someone's heart get brok ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Public Image Ltd American Bandstand = 10:53 of Surreal TV

    Public Image Ltd, fronted by fomer Sex Pistol John Lydon, plays Seattle tonight for the first time since 1992, taking the stage at Showbox at the Market on the fourth stop of a month-long, 24-date tour of the U.S. and Canada that kicked off last week in California with appearances on Jimmy Kimmel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Conan O'Brien Thinks the SuperSonics Still Play in Seattle

    So am I. So long as he stops reminding us of that basketball team that got stolen away.​Seattle Weekly senior designer and crack entertainment correspondent Sam Dawson went to see the first of Conan O'Brien's two night run at McCaw Hall last night. Here's Sam:I went to see Conan O'Brien last n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    Reader: Gun Rights Are Not the Same as Gay Rights

    Not to be confused with the gay rights movement.​Reader John Pierce of OpenCarry.org responds to Video: "The Daily Show" on Open Carry in Starbucks and Beyond. "I am the open carrier featured in the Daily Show piece and I thought that I would clarify one point. "We do not feel that the strug ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    Video: "The Daily Show" on Open Carry in Starbucks and Beyond

    The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Video: Gary Locke and Jon Stewart Fill Out the Census

    The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Seattle Blogs: Conan O'Brien Rally Tonight, Also Something About Haiti

    Remember, if you really want to help Conan O'Brien you don't have to leave the house. Just watch his show.​Today's bloggy bits can't be slowed by a federal holiday. - The Big Blog reports that tonight's "I'm With Coco" rally in support of NBC pin-cushion/late-night host Conan O'Brien will tak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    Glenn Beck's Golden Shower Temporarily Suspended

    The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009
  • Calendar

    October 21, 2009

    Tom Arnold

    The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2009

    Congratulations, Washington Senators: You're Anti-Rape!

    The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    Starbucks' Cuppa Joe Runneth at the Mouth

    There was Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, chatting from Seattle, on MSNBC's Morning Joe show, and as Jon Stewart played the clip this week on The Daily Show, you got a good idea just how superb a marketeer Schultz is, and how much Morning Joe is willing to kiss his corporate petute. As Stewart put it, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2008

    Stevens Guilty! Palin to be Senator in DC?

    There was Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, chatting from Seattle, on MSNBC's Morning Joe show, and as Jon Stewart played the clip this week on The Daily Show, you got a good idea just how superb a marketeer Schultz is, and how much Morning Joe is willing to kiss his corporate petute. As Stewart put it, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 9, 2008

    Bill Maher

    There was Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, chatting from Seattle, on MSNBC's Morning Joe show, and as Jon Stewart played the clip this week on The Daily Show, you got a good idea just how superb a marketeer Schultz is, and how much Morning Joe is willing to kiss his corporate petute. As Stewart put it, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2007

    Conversations About the Croc on KUOW

    There was Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, chatting from Seattle, on MSNBC's Morning Joe show, and as Jon Stewart played the clip this week on The Daily Show, you got a good idea just how superb a marketeer Schultz is, and how much Morning Joe is willing to kiss his corporate petute. As Stewart put it, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2007

    Best Late-Night Show Music Performance Ever!

    There was Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, chatting from Seattle, on MSNBC's Morning Joe show, and as Jon Stewart played the clip this week on The Daily Show, you got a good idea just how superb a marketeer Schultz is, and how much Morning Joe is willing to kiss his corporate petute. As Stewart put it, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2007

    MMMmmm Drop!

    There was Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, chatting from Seattle, on MSNBC's Morning Joe show, and as Jon Stewart played the clip this week on The Daily Show, you got a good idea just how superb a marketeer Schultz is, and how much Morning Joe is willing to kiss his corporate petute. As Stewart put it, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2007

    Cleaner Rhymes

    There was Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, chatting from Seattle, on MSNBC's Morning Joe show, and as Jon Stewart played the clip this week on The Daily Show, you got a good idea just how superb a marketeer Schultz is, and how much Morning Joe is willing to kiss his corporate petute. As Stewart put it, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2007

    Saul Williams' Letter To Oprah

    There was Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, chatting from Seattle, on MSNBC's Morning Joe show, and as Jon Stewart played the clip this week on The Daily Show, you got a good idea just how superb a marketeer Schultz is, and how much Morning Joe is willing to kiss his corporate petute. As Stewart put it, ... More >>

  • Diversions

    September 28, 2005

    Oprahfied

    There was Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, chatting from Seattle, on MSNBC's Morning Joe show, and as Jon Stewart played the clip this week on The Daily Show, you got a good idea just how superb a marketeer Schultz is, and how much Morning Joe is willing to kiss his corporate petute. As Stewart put it, ... More >>

  • Diversions

    May 7, 2003

    Straight Talk

    There was Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, chatting from Seattle, on MSNBC's Morning Joe show, and as Jon Stewart played the clip this week on The Daily Show, you got a good idea just how superb a marketeer Schultz is, and how much Morning Joe is willing to kiss his corporate petute. As Stewart put it, ... More >>

  • Arts

    July 3, 2002

    The Nightstand

    Grisham Recommends

  • Arts

    May 8, 2002

    Girl fight

    Author asserts that members of the "gentler" sex can be bullies, too.

  • Arts

    October 31, 2001

    Oprah's outcasts

    What does it take to get booted off her couch?

  • Diversions

    September 27, 2000

    Born yesterday

    Slade's campaign makeover memo revealed!

  • Diversions

    November 10, 1999
  • Film

    November 4, 1998

    Give her a sandwich, already!

    Why are the normal stars turning stickly and leaving us all behind?

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