Texas

Chicken-Fried Porn?

Tonight at Linda's Tavern: Panhandle Slim

Soak It Up: Eggs Cetera

The Map That Matters

Like Chlamydia, The Discovery Institute Is Not Constrained By Geographical Boundaries

Seattle's very own Discovery Institute is at it again, this time delightedly meddling with the science standards of Texas' public schools, pushing for the inclusion of its intelligent design ideas in the science curriculum. Our sister paper, Houston Press, has the coverage. Sorry about that one, Tex ... More >>

Balmorhea

Wednesday, January 28

Lone Star Love: Fat Man on a Little Stool

It's got an hour of solid entertainment. Too bad the show is two and a half hours.

Hard Enough to Fail

It's got an hour of solid entertainment. Too bad the show is two and a half hours.

Nibbling at Hannah

SXSW '07 produces one breakout indie star—and a Michael Moore backlash.

Silence in Sodo

The Mariners are the coldest ticket in town.

Bambuza Vietnamese Bistro

The Mariners are the coldest ticket in town.

The Meaning of Food

The Mariners are the coldest ticket in town.

Red and Blue Ink

Bush and Kerry aren't just fighting it out at the polls.

Lone Stars

Texas-bred, New York-based Calla go dancing in the dark.

Barbecue With Frills

The trimmings may be fancy, but the main dish is mainstream.

Number of the Week

The trimmings may be fancy, but the main dish is mainstream.

Knife in the Water, the Drop.

The trimmings may be fancy, but the main dish is mainstream.

Happy, Texas

Sequins and armadillos in a Texas town.

From Texas, tall tales and true

Lone Star filmmakers celebrate their state of grace.

Washington Joins Iran in Criminalizing Sex Between Consenting Adults

You may remember the school sex bill that set off our unconstitutionality alarm earlier this year--the one that criminalizes sex between high school employees and consenting adult students. Well, the Senate version died, but a House version passed both chambers by a wide margin and was signed by the ... More >>

Rangers @ Mariners

You may remember the school sex bill that set off our unconstitutionality alarm earlier this year--the one that criminalizes sex between high school employees and consenting adult students. Well, the Senate version died, but a House version passed both chambers by a wide margin and was signed by the ... More >>

Indian Jewelry

Monday, July 13

Tea Partier: Let's Hang Patty Murray

Don't mess with Texas. And don't misappropriate the words of great Texans either.​Yesterday, we showed how some more violent political strains were getting sewn into the fabric of the anti-tax Tea Party movement. Then, just like clockwork, one of the 500 attendees at a Take Back America rally ... More >>

Messin’ With Texas: Seattle Bands Sing Songs of the Lone Star State

Don't mess with Texas. And don't misappropriate the words of great Texans either.​Yesterday, we showed how some more violent political strains were getting sewn into the fabric of the anti-tax Tea Party movement. Then, just like clockwork, one of the 500 attendees at a Take Back America rally ... More >>

Tonight: Messin' With Texas at the Tractor, Ghosts I've Met, Cady Wire

Rachel Flotard is one of many artists performing Texan songs at the Tractor tonight.​Messin' With Texas: Seattle Bands Sing Songs of the Lone Star State, with members of Visqueen, Shim, Widower, Pablo Trucker, The Long Winters, The Maldives, The Head & The Heart, Thee Sgt Major III, Hannalee, ... More >>

Like a Pig in Spit

Nothing says summer like Stan Phillips' Kansas City 'cue.

Kinky Friedman

Nothing says summer like Stan Phillips' Kansas City 'cue.

Tonight: Kinky Friedman at the Triple Door, Maylene & the Sons of Disaster at Studio Seven

Michael O'Brian​Kinky Friedman, with Little Jewford, Rat Malone. Triple Door, 216 Union St., 838-4333. 7:30 p.m. $30. All ages. Kinky Friedman's career is not like yours. It doesn't matter who you are, because you're not a satirical, smartass Jew from Texas known as the Lone Star State's Mark ... More >>

The Toadies

Michael O'Brian​Kinky Friedman, with Little Jewford, Rat Malone. Triple Door, 216 Union St., 838-4333. 7:30 p.m. $30. All ages. Kinky Friedman's career is not like yours. It doesn't matter who you are, because you're not a satirical, smartass Jew from Texas known as the Lone Star State's Mark ... More >>

Pageant Play: Kindergarten Tarts

A Texas-sized sitcom.

How Do Mexicans Like Their Coffee?

A Texas-sized sitcom.

Fremont Oktoberfest Announces Live Music Lineup: Madly In Dub, Staxx Brothers, More

​ Fremont Oktoberfest, another annual excuse for Fremonters to run around their neighborhood publicly and unabashedly drunk, is coming up -- festivities are taking place for three days on September 24, 25, 26. This year, there will be two stages for live music -- the Verizon Mainstage and the ... More >>

Wedding Belles

​ Fremont Oktoberfest, another annual excuse for Fremonters to run around their neighborhood publicly and unabashedly drunk, is coming up -- festivities are taking place for three days on September 24, 25, 26. This year, there will be two stages for live music -- the Verizon Mainstage and the ... More >>

Opening Nights: Wedding Belles

Your garden club will love it.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry Tries to Steal Seattle Businesses

​Rick Perry, the firebrand Texas governor who wants his state to be its own separate country, decided to stick his neck into the fight over Washington's sale tax initiative, I-1098. He sent letters last Friday to 90 businesses including Amazon, Starbucks and Microsoft, saying that if the measu ... More >>

Orangette, Gluten-Free Girl Among 25 Top Food Blogs, As Chosen by The Daily Meal

​I guess things are getting more than a little bit meta when I'm using my space on this food blog to write about a list of the best food blogs as chosen by another food blog. But who cares, right? Because this Top 25, as put together by the folks over at The Daily Meal, used Google page ranki ... More >>

A Tuna Christmas

​I guess things are getting more than a little bit meta when I'm using my space on this food blog to write about a list of the best food blogs as chosen by another food blog. But who cares, right? Because this Top 25, as put together by the folks over at The Daily Meal, used Google page ranki ... More >>

Opening Nights: A Tuna Christmas

Two actors play a cast of 22.

¡Ask a Mexican!

Two actors play a cast of 22.

Love Me Some Townes Van Zandt

Two actors play a cast of 22.

Wall of Shame

CNN, USA Today, and other media organizations got fooled.

What's Seattle's Answer to Iced Tea?

​I'm happy drinking whiskey, wine, and water, so I haven't had any trouble staying hydrated since arriving in Washington. But my husband, who I've finally accepted will never like the taste of alcohol, has undergone a small beverage crisis. We've spent the majority of our adult lives in the S ... More >>

Pike Place Fashion Show

The do's and don'ts of market clothes-shopping.

Dickey's Barbecue Pit Decides Against a South Seattle Location

​The very last episode of Friday Night Lights airs tonight, an occasion I consider so momentous I'm mentioning it even though it gives Eater another chance to run a picture of me with a Texas-shaped thought bubble over my head. As my friend Lisa Fain noted on her blog Homesick Texas yesterda ... More >>

Idaho Internet Speed Is Slowest in Nation (Partially Because of Bears)

​Bears. If they're not eating people or stealing their picnic baskets, they're apparently slowing down their Internet. In no state is the latter phenomenon more prevalent than our neighbor to the east, Idaho.

Rick Perry: Miracle Faker

Texas' governor paints a pretty portrait of his state. Pretty inaccurate, that is.

Robert Earl Keen

Texas' governor paints a pretty portrait of his state. Pretty inaccurate, that is.

From Seattle Weekly to Texas in the '80s

​Back in the day, Domingo Martinez was a funny, witty colleague at Seattle Weekly, but one who didn't actually write for the paper. Instead, he worked in the production department, designing ads, but also occasionally helping those of us in editorial with Spanish translations and slang. My imp ... More >>

Joe Ely

​Back in the day, Domingo Martinez was a funny, witty colleague at Seattle Weekly, but one who didn't actually write for the paper. Instead, he worked in the production department, designing ads, but also occasionally helping those of us in editorial with Spanish translations and slang. My imp ... More >>

Reverend Horton Heat

​Back in the day, Domingo Martinez was a funny, witty colleague at Seattle Weekly, but one who didn't actually write for the paper. Instead, he worked in the production department, designing ads, but also occasionally helping those of us in editorial with Spanish translations and slang. My imp ... More >>