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The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows

From Adele and Arctic Monkeys to the Go-Go's and Calexico.

Carissa's Wierd Releases First New Song in Seven Years, "Meredith & Iris," and Play Neumos Sept. 24

​ Carissa's Wierd, "Meredith & Iris." by hardlyartrecords Beloved Seattle slow-core act Carissa's Wierd reunited this time last year for a one-off show at the Showbox to celebrate local label Hardly Art's release of the retrospective compilation They'll Only Miss You When You're Gone ... More >>

Brandon Barrett's War

The Army didn't tell anyone about a disturbed AWOL soldier until it was too late.

Meet Tom Wilhelmsen, the Mariners' New Pot-Smoking, Globe-Trotting Pitcher

Image source​What did Tom Wilhelmsen do in his past life to build up such amazingly good karma? He must have bathed lepers while feeding orphans and curing an STD, because the dude is leading a seriously charmed life. Wilhelmsen, if you haven't heard, is a tall, hard-throwing right-hander and ... More >>

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Image source​What did Tom Wilhelmsen do in his past life to build up such amazingly good karma? He must have bathed lepers while feeding orphans and curing an STD, because the dude is leading a seriously charmed life. Wilhelmsen, if you haven't heard, is a tall, hard-throwing right-hander and ... More >>

Shawna Forde Murder Case Update: Ex-Everett Council Candidate Sentenced to Death in AZ

Forde​Update, Feb. 22 An Arizona jury that convicted former Everett city council candidate Shawna Forde a week ago today agreed to sentence her to death for two counts of first-degree murder. The Arizona Daily Star says defense attorney Jill Thorpe, in asking jurors to spare Ford's life, said ... More >>

UPDATE: Death Threats Nix Lion Tacos in Tucson

Looks like you're safe, Lion. For now . . .​Last week, I set out to write what was supposed to be a brief, newsy post about a Tucson Mexican restaurant that was going to be serving lion-meat tacos as part of an "Exotic Tacos Wednesday" promotion that has already seen python, alligator, kangaro ... More >>

Jared Loughner's Latest Victim: "Humans vs. Zombies" Game at UW

​Let's get one thing straight: people have been playing the modified tag game "Humans vs. Zombies," aka HvZ, for a lot longer than the country has been freaked out by Tucson psycho Jared Loughner. But now that folks are getting shot in Arizona, faculty members at UW are sick of people playing ... More >>

Alan Gottlieb, Bellevue Gun Nut, Finds Exploiting Tucson Tragedy 'Unconscionable' . . . Unless It's His Group Doing It

Gottlieb​That was fast. Save for a few TV talking heads, chatter about new gun controls has faded away just a week after the anti-gun rage over Jared Loughner's extended-cartridge Glock 19. Duke professor Philip Cook told Salon it's likely because "Those who favor a modicum of gun regulation a ... More >>

The Loughner/Forde Parallel

Accused killers "don't just snap."

Gabrielle Giffords Shooting is the Mainstream Media's Fault, More Than Sarah Palin's or the Tea Party's

​Amidst the typhoon of finger pointing and I-told-you-sos to come out of this weekend's shooting spree in Tucson, Ariz. one thing is clear: the next Jared Lee Loughner will come soon; and when he does, it won't be because of any single politician or political movement. It'll be because of the ... More >>

Jared Loughner, Like Shawna Forde, Turns Out to Have Been No Surprise to Some Arizonans

Giffords​Not that you can't see these things coming. Shawna Forde, the ex-Seattle prostitute who was supposed to be Tucson's big crime story this week, was tipping her hand long before she was accused of killing a father and his nine-year-old daughter last year, both shot in the head during an ... More >>

The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants

But what's been unearthed reveals a culture of cruelty.

Say Hi's Um, Uh Oh Out January 25, Listen to Dark and Grumpy New Track, "Devils"

Jenny Jimenez​Barsuk Records will release Say Hi's sixth studio album on January 25, and it will be entitled Um, Uh Oh. A Barsuk press release says of the album: Say Hi has broken up 37 times in the last decade. If the band were a traditional four-piece rock outfit, things would have run their ... More >>

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Jenny Jimenez​Barsuk Records will release Say Hi's sixth studio album on January 25, and it will be entitled Um, Uh Oh. A Barsuk press release says of the album: Say Hi has broken up 37 times in the last decade. If the band were a traditional four-piece rock outfit, things would have run their ... More >>

Grinding Justice

Operation Streamline costs millions, tramples the Constitution, treats migrants like cattle, and doesn’t work.

Arcade Fire

Operation Streamline costs millions, tramples the Constitution, treats migrants like cattle, and doesn’t work.

Mexicans Are Part of God's Chosen People

Operation Streamline costs millions, tramples the Constitution, treats migrants like cattle, and doesn’t work.

Are American Mexicans Stuck in the 1950’s?

Operation Streamline costs millions, tramples the Constitution, treats migrants like cattle, and doesn’t work.

What’s Up With the Rich White Girls?

Operation Streamline costs millions, tramples the Constitution, treats migrants like cattle, and doesn’t work.

God Explains Why June Has Been so Miserable

​Every once in a while, a guest author will stop by The Daily Weekly to offer his or her thoughts on an important subject. Today we welcome God -- the creator of the universe and all-knowing being pictured at right -- to explain why He, in His infinite wisdom, has decided to curse Seattle with ... More >>

Badlands

A report from Ground Zero of the immigration crisis along the Mexican border.

Special Ethnic Studies Edition

A report from Ground Zero of the immigration crisis along the Mexican border.

The Anti-Mexican Slur Edition

A report from Ground Zero of the immigration crisis along the Mexican border.

Maps & Atlases Reveal Album Artwork, Headlining Summer Tour Dates

​Barsuk's Maps & Atlases will release their debut full-length, Perch Patchwork, on June 29. (Click here to listen to the record's intricately proggy first single, "Solid Ground"). Today the band revealed Perch Patchwork's album cover and announced a headlining summer tour. They're currently on ... More >>

Things About Arizona That Don’t Suck

​Barsuk's Maps & Atlases will release their debut full-length, Perch Patchwork, on June 29. (Click here to listen to the record's intricately proggy first single, "Solid Ground"). Today the band revealed Perch Patchwork's album cover and announced a headlining summer tour. They're currently on ... More >>

Leaving Tucson, But Not Before a Little "Autobahning"

​Tucson was an awesome bad show. This here town is right outside of Albuquerque...This tour is still looking for a name. This sign provides one option. After the jump, photos of us doing something the locals call "autobahning." The Moondoggies are blogging about their first national tour, wh ... More >>

Why Don't Uninsured Mexicans Just Take the Bus?

​Tucson was an awesome bad show. This here town is right outside of Albuquerque...This tour is still looking for a name. This sign provides one option. After the jump, photos of us doing something the locals call "autobahning." The Moondoggies are blogging about their first national tour, wh ... More >>

Cover Story: Lethally Blonde

How a former teen prostitute and beautician from Everett became an influential anti-immigrant crusader—and alleged murderer.

Next up for the Dawgs: Arizona...Which Means This Guy

Tonight, Lorenzo Romar's 1st place Huskies visit Tucson to play the formerly formidable Arizona Wildcats. But, really, we just wanted an excuse to revisit this picture of Arizona's Chase Budinger simultaneously channeling Larry Bird, Hugh Hefner, and the Spin Doctors' lead singer. As Deadspin's Unsi ... More >>

The Supersuckers

Tonight, Lorenzo Romar's 1st place Huskies visit Tucson to play the formerly formidable Arizona Wildcats. But, really, we just wanted an excuse to revisit this picture of Arizona's Chase Budinger simultaneously channeling Larry Bird, Hugh Hefner, and the Spin Doctors' lead singer. As Deadspin's Unsi ... More >>

Giant Sand

Sunday, October 12

Calexico

Friday, September 26

Hamlet 2: Steve Coogan tortures the Bard

Friday, September 26

Special Tortilla Contest Edition

Friday, September 26

Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk: Rufus at the Paramount

Friday, September 26

Dirty Revelations

Friday, September 26

The Fab Four

The Sonics, Huskies, Zags, and Cougars: on the road to potential greatness.

CD Reviews

The Sonics, Huskies, Zags, and Cougars: on the road to potential greatness.

KEN ROSENTHAL

The Sonics, Huskies, Zags, and Cougars: on the road to potential greatness.

CD Reviews

SUBARACHNOID SPACE, ALIEN CRIME SYNDICATE, and VELVET TINMINE

The Defiant One

After ushering in a double disc of Miracles with his last album, underground icon Steve Wynn explores his troubled soul on the forthcoming Static Transmission.

Mad Science

Sorting through the chaos of health-news reporting.

MARK INSLEY, IAN McCULLOCH, and NICK LUCA TRIO

Sorting through the chaos of health-news reporting.

It's Not Too Late

Sorting through the chaos of health-news reporting.

Destiny's children

Even when the members of Giant Sand aren't together, they're never far apart.

The 'good rain' sucks!

While Seattle's in gloom, these seven Southwest hot spots offer winter refuge.