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  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Microsoft Identified as Supporter of ALEC, Conservative Non-Profit Accused of Abusing Tax-Exempt Status

    The watchdog group Common Cause laid out its case yesterday against the American Legislative Exchange Council, a non-profit whose advocacy for gun rights and other conservative causes has stirred controversy (see lampoon at right) in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting. According to Common Cause ... More >>

  • Music

    March 28, 2012

    KISS: 1-800-WTF!?!?!

    The most absurdly named venues on the KISS/Motley Crue summer tour.

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    The 10 Least Rock and Roll Venues on the KISS Motley Crue Tour Itinerary (Other Than the 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre, of Course)

    Setting aside the fact that KISS is the most merchandised band in history, and we love them to death for their shameless commercialization ... I think it would actually sound more Rock and Roll for KISS and Motley Crue to route their summer mega-tour through the nation's Hot Topics than rooms with c ... More >>

  • Music

    November 2, 2011

    Rhapsody: Perfecting the Pitch

    The Netflix of music is celebrating 10 years of being the next big thing. Is it primed to finally turn that prophecy into reality?

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    Village Voice Media Responds to Clergy

    Today 36 clergy affixed their names to a paid ad and open letter to Village Voice and the classified ad site Backpage.com. The full page ad was published in the New York Times. The religious coalition demanded that we close down our legal, adult classifieds. Neither government officials nor God' ... More >>

  • News

    September 14, 2011

    Mike McGinn's Very Bad Week

    Why rumors of the mayor's increased competence were greatly exaggerated.

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Mayor Mike McGinn Proves Columnist Wrong, Is Still Disorganized

    ​Last week Joel Connelly proposed something radical. A consistent critic of Mike McGinn, the P-I columnist nonetheless suggested that, contrary to what his worse-than-Nixon-post-Watergate poll numbers might suggest, the Seattle mayor might still have enough time to reverse his reputation as a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Jeff Bezos Applies for Smartphone Airbag Patent, Over Thinks Things

    ​Sometimes thinking like a genius has its advantages. And sometimes it just makes you forget that there are much simpler solutions to some of life's more mundane problems. Take the problem of cell phones. Or, more specifically, the fact that while they have become ever more central to our liv ... More >>

  • News

    August 3, 2011

    Mayor McGinn's Pothole Problem

    A major bump in the road to re-election.

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    Far East Movement Is Getting Slizzered Up in Renton This Afternoon

    In case you haven't heard, pop music's favorite Asians, the Far East Movement, of the #1 smash seen above, are going to be in Seattle Renton THIS AFTERNOON. FEM is taking some time away from their current gig opening for Lil Wayne's tour to appear at Renton Landing's Verizon Wireless Store. I have ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    When Far East Movement Wants Patrón Shots, Far East Movement Gets Patrón Shots

    Until I got a flurry of text messages to drag my ass down to Pioneer Square, I had no idea Far East Movement was even in Seattle. They played Showbox SoDo, but a friend was DJing and my girlfriend was working at Volume Nightclub--where FM had reserved a post-show booth, and the last place I expected ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    Pothole Claims in Seattle Increase Nearly Three Fold Under Mayor Mike McGinn

    ​Alan Valiev was driving his car on Northgate Way in March when he heard a loud "crack." He'd hit a pothole. And the impact from the hole had broken several expensive components of his wheel assembly. Fortunately for Valiev, he was able to submit a damage claim with the city of Seattle and get ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    Pajama Party: Bremerton Police Department Sex Scandal Involves 18-Year-Old Female, Multiple Officers

    Not a proud day for the Bremerton PD​The Kitsap Sun broke news Saturday of a Bremerton PD scandal involving an 18-year-old female in the department's "Police Explorer" youth program and several Bremerton police officers, including a captain.

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Boeing Makes List of Top 12 Corporate Welfare Queens

    Boeing, tax cheat, Fortune 500, Citizens for Tax Justice

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Win a Seat at the Voracious' Judges Table

    ​If you're a food critic trying to hang on to your last shreds of anonymity, judging the Chef Showdown competition at Seattle Weekly's Voracious Tasting and Food Awards requires an elaborate disguise. But all civilian eaters need to join the panel is a cell phone and a bit of luck. Ticket hol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    AT&T To Eat T-Mobile in $39B Monopoly-Flavored Merger

    ​T-Mobile thinks AT&T is just terrible. Or, at least, it used to. Now that the companies announced plans to merge, it looks like T-Mobile will have to stop pointing out how shitty AT&T's service is in almost every commercial it makes.

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    Jason Statham vs. Charles Bronson vs. Chicken Teriyaki

    Patti Perret/CBS FilmsStatham blows stuff up real good.​The Dinner: Chicken teriyaki at Yummy Teriyaki (622 First Ave. N.). The Movie: The Mechanic at Pacific Place (600 Pine St.). The Screenplate: When, in his remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson movie, assassin Jason Statham goes to meet wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    The Thermals, Das Racist, Mad Rad, and Todd Barry to Entertain at 2011 Sasquatch! Launch Party

    We're officially in the run up to Sasquatch! season. Live Nation and Adam Zacks announced this morning that the annual Sasquatch! Launch Party will be held on February 6, this year at a bigger venue--Showbox at the Market. Entertainment will be provided by the Thermals, Mad Rad, and Das Racist, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    Yellow Pages Sues Seattle Over Phone-Book Regs

    ​The phone-book situation in Seattle used to be terrible. As Seattle Weekly Editor-in-Chief Mark D. Fefer has laid out in previous coverage, stacks of unsolicited Yellow Books and Verizon's yellow pages would be dumped on unsuspecting Seattleite's porches and entryways with obnoxious frequency ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Verizon Plans Resurrection of Microsoft Kin

    ​It took all of six weeks between the time Microsoft released its kid-friendly, semi-smart phone the Kin in June, to the time they conceded that no one liked it and they quit making it. Verizon apparently missed the memo or has found a way to make the little phone a little less crappy. In eith ... More >>

  • Music

    October 13, 2010

    Where's the Pitch?

    Artists remain silent as the music industry crumbles.

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    Silent Artists Can't Help Sell a New Business Model for the Music Industry

    Sam Beam, aka Iron & Wine, happy to be on a major label.​Oh, thank God the week of public radio fund-drives is over. Now we can finally go back to listening to public radio and KEXP without our favorite programs being interrupted by reporters and DJs barraging us with reminders about why we li ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    REVERB Festival Tix Still Just $10!!!

    ​Soooooo, Saturday is SW's REVERB Local Music Festival, an all-day exploration of indie, soul, hip-hop, rockabilly, and whatever it is that Lisa Dank does. Your wristband, good for all 60-something bands, is just $10, or $5 for those under 21 through Wednesday (they jump by $5 at the door, sti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    T-Mobile One of 10 Brands That May Disappear

    ​Remember when Joe Mallahan ran for mayor on the strength of being T-Mobile's "ideas man"? Well T-Mobile could really use a couple good ideas right about now. Because according to a post on 24/7 Wall Street, the Bellevue-headquartered company is at the top of a list of businesses that may be g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    Has Microsoft Really Only Sold 500 Kin Phones?

    ​Microsoft hasn't had a successful gadget in ages. And its new line of smartphones, the Kins, doesn't look like a threat to break the losing streak. The phones are "deeply flawed" and even Microsoft doesn't seem to know what they're for, marketing them to teens even though they can't watch You ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Seattle Not High-Tech Hub Enough for Google?

    Hover cars. That's what we need to make Google like us.​When Google announced it was going to provide high-speed fiber-optic internet service to a handful of cities around the country, Mayor Mike McGinn did his eager best to move to the front of the line, sending in Seattle's entreaty 24 hours ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    Nathan Myhrvold Versus The New York Times

    "We're just an innocent little start-up with $5 billion to spend."​Many have speculated, ourselves included, about the intentions and financial performance of Nathan Myhrvold's Bellevue intellectual property investment fund/invention lab, called Intellectual Ventures. Now The New York Times ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Seattle Blogs: SWAT Team Swarms Wrong House?

    - My Ballard says that Seattle SWAT may have come in guns blazing on the wrong guy. - TechFlash says that the AT&T-Verizon pissing match has come to Washington, minus one bloated Wilson brother. - What do an antique dagger, a samurai sword and two "adult toys" have in common? Ask SeattleCrime.

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    "Game Over" for Microsoft?

    Do you really care if this software is or isn't on your phone?​Up in the San Juans, tech analyst Mark Anderson publishes an influential newsletter called Strategic News Service, little read by laypeople but studied intently by industry players in Redmond and Silicon Valley. In a recent pronoun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Microsoft WinMo Getting Ass Kicked by Cupcake

    ​While Redmond is crowing and Steve Ballmer is gloating about the successful launch of Windows 7, the smartphone platform Windows Mobile is being treated like a bastard stepchild--locked and starved in the basement, if you will. With the PC operating system market now fairly mature, the new gr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    And After Chicago Greg...?

    ​Chicago Greg is gone, but who will take his place? As attention turns to the November 3 general election, those who tried to ignore the outgoing mayor must now sort out his would-be replacements. Problem is, the top two vote-getting candidates don't have much flavor to distinguish them. They' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Should MSFT Get Into Smartphones?

    Here's an interesting theory from Slate and Cnet, which is timely given Microsoft's layoffs and miserable stock performance (down to about $18 per share from $32 a year ago). Writing for Slate, Farhad Manjoo suggests MSFT should buy Palm, maker of the very hot, very hyped Palm Pre (above). That woul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2009

    Yellow Pages Terrorism Hits New Low

    In the past, the people delivering hundreds of unwanted phone directories to apartment buildings would simply leave them in a giant yellow turd-pile outside the entryway (as seen at right). However there is a new, even more obnoxious technique, as I discovered at 8:30 this morning, when my buzzer k ... More >>

  • News

    April 16, 2008

    Paul Allen's $69 Million Mystery Bid

    Is Vulcan planning a broadband wireless network?

  • News

    February 6, 2008

    The Cell Sell: There Will Be Blood

    Efforts to create a cell phone directory hits snags in Olympia.

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2008

    Intelius Yanks Cell Directory

    Efforts to create a cell phone directory hits snags in Olympia.

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2008

    More Cell Tower Drama on 'The Island'

    Efforts to create a cell phone directory hits snags in Olympia.

  • News

    January 9, 2008

    Paul Allen vs. Google?

    Cable, wireless phones, and billions of dollars for the FCC.

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2007

    Paul Allen Vs. Google?

    Cable, wireless phones, and billions of dollars for the FCC.

  • News

    August 29, 2007

    Hard to Be Without a Phone Book

    Thanks to telecom deregulation, and the glory of free speech, stacks of books are now being delivered to Seattle three times a year.

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2007

    In Boise Idaho? Jiminy!

    Thanks to telecom deregulation, and the glory of free speech, stacks of books are now being delivered to Seattle three times a year.

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2007

    Verizon aiming to destroy concert experience?

    Thanks to telecom deregulation, and the glory of free speech, stacks of books are now being delivered to Seattle three times a year.

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2007

    Hate the driver, not the phone

    Thanks to telecom deregulation, and the glory of free speech, stacks of books are now being delivered to Seattle three times a year.

  • Arts

    May 3, 2006

    You Can Call Them 'Awesome'

    Just don't call them a rock band.

  • Diversions

    November 24, 2004

    Retro Tech

    For that person confounded by technology, how about a manual typewriter?

  • News

    December 18, 2002

    Find Yourself

    Or find your loved ones and pets—with GPS.

  • News

    December 13, 2000

    Mall hours

    Or find your loved ones and pets—with GPS.

  • News

    December 6, 2000

    Mall hours

    Or find your loved ones and pets—with GPS.

  • News

    November 29, 2000

    Mall Hours

    Or find your loved ones and pets—with GPS.

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