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  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    100 Favorite Dishes: Garlic Wings at Roxbury Lanes

    In 1982, a Dallas bowler whose son's scorecards were lousy with no-point frames shoved carpet rolls down the gutters where his kid's ball invariably landed. The fatherly solution evolved into bumper bowling, an adaptation that ensures every roll results in a pin drop, and nobody leaves the alley unh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2012

    Say What?!: The Nine Weirdest Feuds in Music

    Do you ever hear of musicians feuding and scratch your head, saying, "huh?" Like, why are these people even talking about each other? I'm not talking about Oasis vs. Blur or Azealia Banks vs. Kreayshawn-- those make sense. They're working in the same sphere, and it's only natural that they don't lik ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Poquitos Helps Drinkers Make Sense of Tequila

    Here's a dangerous lesson for a blogger to learn: Rant and ye shall receive. Last week, I devoted my Reviewing the Review column to my rather strong feelings about restaurants and bars which stock esoteric liquors but don't bothering explaining them to patrons. I even enlisted our graphic designer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Phinney Market Pub & Eatery: Pacifying Kids and Adults with Good Food

    Phinney Market Pub & Eatery owners Caleb and Jaimee Papineau have crafted a bustling neighborhood joint that magically works for parents, children, and kid-free diners. Phinney Market hits the right "something for everybody" vibe: one part tasty food, one part play area, one part bar. Opened last ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Where Do Washington's Mormons Live? Check Out the Interactive Map

    Now that Mitt Romney has put the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints back on the map, let's find out where one is most likely to encounter a real live Mormon. In Washington, Adams County boasts the highest percentage of Mormons (12.73) among any of the 39 counties. Garfield, Lincoln, and Wah ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Rep. Maureen Walsh's Remarkable Speech at Gay Marriage Debate; 'I Don't Miss the Sex'

    Rep. Maureen Walsh, whose daughter came out of the closet a couple of years ago, easily gave the most memorable and heartfelt speech during yesterday's House floor debate on gay marriage. The Walla Walla Republican, her voice breaking at times, offered up a poignant snapshot of her life, her family, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2012

    Comment of the Day: Dumber Than a Breadstick

    ​Mayor Mike McGinn, as we posted recently, is a veritable whirling dervish these days, working like a point guard going to the hole to return an NBA franchise to Seattle. Hizzoner, as everyone knows, has been on the outs with voters for quite some time, so landing a professional basketball tea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    Comment of the Day: Gutless Gregoire

    Gov. Chris Gregoire continues to dole out painful explanations as to why she waited until the final year of her final term to board the gay-marriage bandwagon. As Seattle Weekly's Rick Anderson reported, the governor says she's sorry it took so long and that it was about her Catholic faith that caus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    Hells Yeah! This Bottle of Pinetti Primitivo Is Cheaper Than a Starbucks Double Grande Caramel Soy Latte

    Hey fellow lushes! I hit the cheap wine trifecta this week. Found a bottle of Italian Primitivo that was $5! It did not suck. And it had a twist top. Score! I was on the hunt for something to pour for a crowd at my brother's birthday party. I made his childhood favorite, spaghetti and meatballs, s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

    Let's Head South, Where It's Warm, To Drink Herding Cats

    Ilustration by Andrew Saeger, tHE ARTdept.​Hey fellow lushes! Are you sick of Snowpocolypse yet? I've been holed up for days and I cannot help myself from gorging on the incessant TV coverage of Snowmaggedeon. Make it stop!! That's why The Wino's flying south -- in an armchair travel kind of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Rep. Sam Hunt Proposes Bill To Punish Costco

    Rep. Sam Hunt is none too pleased that Costo won its $22 million battle to take down Washington's liquor system, and now he's seeking revenge. The Olympia Democrat is proposing legislation to prohibit the state's Liquor Control Board from "issuing spirits retail licenses to certain membership organi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    How to Make Il Corvo's Carbonara

    Yesterday Mike Easton told us about the origins of his love for pasta. Today he's giving us the recipe for one of his favorites. The menu at Il Corvo changes daily, so you never know if you'll be able to get any specific dish--though you're always sure to find hand-made pastas, small batch sauces, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Comment of the Day: SPD Turning Itself Into 'Legal Gangbangers'

    ​On Monday Nina Shapiro shared Seattle police officer Casey Steiger's curious explanation for why he told a suspect "The badge is the only thing preventing me from skull fucking you and dragging you down the street." One reader made an apt comparison.

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    Seattle Burglar Learns that One Shouldn't Target the House that's Full of Vicious Pit Bulls

    Criminals: This is not your target market​Granted, my experience in the criminal business is rather limited. But from what I've heard, one of the first lessons new crooks are taught in school is that when picking a house to burglarize, they should avoid the ones SWARMING WITH PITBULLS.

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    Olympia's Maxines Make a Helluva Racket for Just Two People

    Sarah Cass​​​​​Band: The Maxines Release: Drugstore EP Label: K Records Release Date: Jan. 24, 2012 Four songs of super fuzzed-out garage rock from this Olympia duo comprised of Matt Murillo and Kelly Norman. For just two people, they make a helluva lot of racket, taking turns singing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    Channeling Grandma is Easy as Pecan Pie

    Eve M. TaiDecadence on your own kitchen counter​The days after Thanksgiving may be those of reckoning for some. Having gorged on turkey, cranberries and pies galore, we may call it quits on the feasting for a bit. For others, the holiday merely kick starts our appetite for more, especially hom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    The Animated Film for Fleet Foxes' "The Shrine/An Argument" Lives Up to the Song's Ambition

    See for yourself. It was created by Sean Pecknold, the brother of Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold, who announced via Twitter this morning that "Being able to give my bro the means and time to make amazing stuff is one of the top two things about doing music in this way. So proud!"

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    Occupy Portland Goes Out Swinging: Arrests, Threats, and Promises to Regroup

    ​The much anticipated face-off between Occupy Portland protestors and the small army of armor-clad police looking to evict them went down this weekend. The results were both everything and nothing like we would have expected.

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    African E-mail Scammers Now Demanding Ransom for People's Missing Loved Ones

    Patti Kreiger​The African e-mail-scammer industry is not without innovation. Take this latest e-mail pitch developed out of the fraud thinktanks of Ghana.

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    Today Reverb Recommends Tuning Into KEXP to Hear Sub Pop Signees Still Corners

    Cat StevensSub Pop band Still Corners plays the Sunset tonight at 9:30 with Ganglians and Witch Gardens. ​ Still Corners are a four-piece out of London whose debut LP, Creatures of an Hour, was released by Sub Pop in early October. The record is a collection of hazy, abstract pop songs anchor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2011

    Today Reverb Recommends Getting a 13-Minute Refresher on the Seattle Music Scene

    Jim BennettPickwick's in-studio performance at KEXP is featured in the new PBS documentary "Something in the Water."​ "Something in the Water" is a new mini-documentary from director Ward Serrill that attempts to answer the question of why so much great music happens to originate in Seattle. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2011

    Sustainable Sushi Chain to Open in South Lake Union

    Mio Sushi​Portland-based sustainable sushi chain Mio Sushi will open its first Washington restaurant at 120 Westlake Ave. N. in South Lake Union on Monday, October 31, according to Eater Seattle. The chain also has plans to open shops in Redmond and Issaquah. Follow Voracious on Twitter and F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Michou's Sweet Little Potato Pie

    Eve M. TaiOne potato, two potato, sweet potato pie.​Sweet potato pie. The words alone charm us, much the way a nursery rhyme might have enchanted us as toddlers. Maybe your mom cooed rhymes to you even as she was spooning pureed sweet potato into your little gaping mouth. (Fortunately, the swe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    Witch Gardens' Casey Catherwood Talks Capitol Hill Block Party: New Songs, Summer Hits, and the POTUSA (The Real Ones)

    ​Capitol Hill Block Party is upon us this weekend; in anticipation of the big event, I decided to ask some of my favorite local musicians playing the fest a few important questions. There isn't a better person to kick off this series with than the Warlock of Witch Gardens (he prefers Mr. Witch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Uneeda Do It, Al Fresco Style

    ​Seattle is experiencing a burger boom. Among the best of the bunch is Uneeda Burger in Fremont. Uneeda is a casual new eatery from Scott Staples of Restaurant Zoe and Quinn's fame, so it's fair to expect something slightly upscale, but still at an affordable price. A "Classic" burger, made ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Today Reverb Recommends Hitting the Crocodile for The Fading Collection's Trip-Hop

    ​If you're not already planning on witnessing the spectacle that is the Black Lips' live performance as they take down Neumos, opting for for an entirely different approach isn't a bad move. Enter local outfit The Fading Collection: Despite a five-year break at the end of the last decade, Sea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Pierce County Sheriff Eager to Research Warrantless Searches After Kentucky "Toilet Flush Raid" Supreme Court Case

    ​On Monday, the United States Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that cops have every right to break into your house and arrest you if they suspect you have drugs and then hear a toilet flush. This is because a toilet being flushed, as we all know, is a certain giveaway that you're destroying evidence an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    Powdered-Duck-Fat Popcorn Seasoning

    Popcorn can be boring.  As much as I love butter and salt, and I do love butter and salt, shoveling greasy handfuls of soggy popcorn into my facehole gets old within a few bites.  Luckily, we don't have to rely on Orville and Redenbacher for the flavors we crave.  Using tapioca ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Judge Tells Juror: Stop Tweeting In My Courtroom

    ​Note to potential jurors: want to get out of jury duty? Just start Tweeting about the trial right before it starts and wait for the judge to blow a gasket. One juror did that to King County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ramsdell on Wednesday. And while it didn't quite get him booted (after the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2010

    Now, Possibly the Creepiest Use of Twitter By A Restaurant Ever (Luckily, it Ain't Local)

    ​Last week, we discussed what I felt was one of the BEST uses of Twitter by a restaurant: the Canlis hidden menu scavenger hunt, wherein the Canlis brothers hide 1950's-era menus all around town, post Twitter clues as to their whereabouts, and then, if you find one of the menus, will serve you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    UPDATED Canlis at 60: Best Use Of Twitter by a Restaurant EVER

    ​Twitter, people keep telling me, has become a vitally important tool for restaurants to keep in touch with their fans, their friends and their regulars. I follow maybe 50 different local restaurants on Twitter. 50 or 60, plus some of the bigger out-of-state operations, a few from back in Denv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Sunny Jim Fire Is Going to Mess Up Your Afternoon

    ​Hoping to drive/bus/walk/pogo anywhere near downtown Seattle this afternoon? Well I'm sorry to be the one to deliver this news, but an old Georgetown factory that used to make delicious, nutricious peanut butter has thrown a chunky dollop all over those plans. The two-story, vacant building t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    Obooma, the T-Shirt

    ​You have to love America. Just 20 minutes after two scrambled F-15s caused a sonic boom during President Obama's visit to Seattle, some enterprising capitalist had created a t-shirt commemorating the (non-event) event by using the preferred Twitter hashtag of "Obooma." If you want them, they' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    Surfing the Off-Year Election Wave

    Michael LevineKrist Novoselic's writes every Tuesday & Friday . Follow him on Twitter @KristNovoselic.​The political polarization of America seems to be the topic of the day. Right wing, left wing,--it's more like broken wing. We're in an era of charged partisanship, and that might be fine for ... More >>

  • News

    June 2, 2010

    And the Winners Are...

    Seattle Weekly's Best of the Web 2010 Awards.

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    Why I Agree With Bono

    Krist Novoselic's column on music and politics runs every Tuesday on Reverb. Check back on Friday when he writes about what's circulating through his iPod.​When I logged onto Twitter yesterday, I discovered U2's Bono going down in Tweeted flames. Turns out the singer/philanthropist wrote a for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    Reader: Social Media Doesn't Sleep In on Christmas Morning, and Neither Can You

    "No opening presents 'til you update your LinkedIn accounts, kids."​Reader and social media blogger Kristy Bolsinger responds to 107.7 The End's Religious Profiling Twitter Post. "Fine. It was hacked. Now the problem is that someone there doesn't understand social media. You are not allowed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2009

    107.7 The End's Religious Profiling Twitter Post

    A controversial Tweet has given 107.7 The End reason to apologize to their followers.​UPDATE: The End's program director responds. Details after the jump. Yesterday, at 3:43 PM, someone logged on to alternative radio station 107.7 The End's Twitter account and posted this:"Not all Muslims are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    Twitter Watch: Fresh Espresso Video Makes the MTV Affiliate Rounds

    According to its Twitter page, local hip-hop duo Fresh Espresso's video for the MJ-style dance jam "Big or Small" will be airing on MTV2, mtvU, MTVJamz and VH1. Check it here:

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Urbanspoon & Citysearch Add Restaurant Twitter Feeds

    ​Urbanspoon announced on its blog today that the Seattle-based online restaurant guide has added Twitter feeds to its restaurant listings. For example, if you search for Monsoon East, you'll see the restaurant's latest Tweet ("I will tell you about it tomorrow. We'll catch up!") as well as a l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    Tweet Away, But Don't Tweet That You're Away, Say AG, Cops

    Could this be a jailbird?Loose lips sink ships, they said in World War II. Today a KOMO article is arguing that loose tweets might sink home security, or something like that. Twitter, of course, is all the rage, used to chronicle everything from bank robberies to basketball games, and even to organi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    How Hetero Is Your Twitter Feed, Seattle?

    Where's the rainbow?It's a question you've probably been asking yourself for a long time, and wishing you had a scientific way to find out. Well, wish no longer. During Pride week, we at SW took it upon ourselves to quantify the gayness of everything from Michael Jackson songs to architecture; con ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2009

    We're About to Twitterview Daniel Pak from Kore Ionz

    In about ten minutes, I'll be twitterviewing Daniel Pak, the frontman for the hometown reggae group Kore Ionz. I'll be asking him about their recent show at a juvenile detention center, their upcoming feature at this summer's Bumbershoot, and how the group weaves together disparate cultures and soun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2009

    We're Currently Twitterviewing DJ Tigerbeat

    Every Thursday at 1pm, SW columnist Hollis Wong-Wear of the group Canary Sing "twitterviews" a local music artist via Twitter. She's a Twitter-fiend on her own time and a savvy interviewer so it only made sense to combine the two and let her start "twitterviewing" intriguing figures in the local mu ... More >>

  • Music

    May 13, 2009

    How Seattle’s Handling the Tweet Beat

    The ADD social-networking site has the local music community atwitter.

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2009

    Reverb Is on Twitter: And Twitterviewing Geo of Blue Scholars Right Now

    Yes, Reverb has given into the Twitter craze and set up an account. We're online cranking out daily content in a new form now, and you can follow us at @swreverb. Right now, new writer Hollis Wong-Wear, who some people might now from her role in the group Canary Sing, is "twitterviewing" Geo of Blu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2009

    Tess Henley Tonight at the Sorrento Hotel

    So some musicians out there are trying to figure out if social networking sites like Twitter are for them or not. Personally, I think that every case is different and it's honestly not for every musician out there. But at the local level, it can be really helpful to get your name out. A few weeks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    Monsoon East: Twittering your boss?

    Accept it, Twitter is bigger than us all, for at least another 12 to 20 months anyway. Last week, a scandal broke with a fake Christopher Walken tweeter, Courtney Love is getting sued for libel in part due to a barrage of slanderous tweets, and opinions roll down the screen at a rate that makes vira ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    Twitter: Good for Something, Seattle's Earliest Happy Hour

    Like a needle in a haystack or a diamond in the rough, enough monkeys typing out 140 characters each (cough, Twitter, cough) can produce a worthy nugget. I was going to write a little ode to the joy that is the Baranof (8549 Greenwood Ave N.) when gotime.com justified my unfettered time spent on Tw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    London Snowpocalypse Vs. Seattle Snowpocalypse

    Photo: Jalopnik.comSo they got a foot of snow in London--or as they measure it there, one third of a meter. The city was incapacitated. But how their frigid problems rate against our snowy December paralysis? Let's compare:Transportation HeadachesLondon Stranded commuters are forced to walk home or ... More >>

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