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How to Handle a BitTorrent Lawsuit

A three-step guide to keeping your wallet, and sanity, intact.

The 5 Funniest Porn Titles Involved In BitTorrent Piracy Lawsuits

​One of the central figures in this week's feature story--"Porn, Piracy, and BitTorrent"--is John Doe #2,057, an anonymous Seattle man accused of illegally downloading the film Tokyo Cougar Creampies. Doe is adamant that he is innocent--he left his Wi-Fi network open, plus he's legally blind, ... More >>

Porn, Piracy, & BitTorrent

The film industry mounts a sketchy legal strategy in response to illegal downloads.

The Last Mountain: Environmental Ruin in West Virginia

The film industry mounts a sketchy legal strategy in response to illegal downloads.

Report: Washington Has More Fat Asses Than Ever

​Washington has really let itself go. Sure, back in the '90s we were the fit, bike-riding, trail-hiking forest state that was chock-full of people who either exercised daily in mosh pits or did enough heroin to stay skinny. But according to a new report, we're all a bunch of Fatty McFattersons ... More >>

The Top 5 Alternate Uses for Leftover Cereal

​What is sold more widely than cigarettes, advertised more than any other product besides cars, and consumed by 49% of Americans every morning? Cereal. Americans eat an average of 10 pounds, or 160 bowls per person, per year of the stuff. The breakfast favorite now even has its own restaurant, ... More >>

David Stewart, Fort Lewis Soldier, Snorted Bath Salts Before Deadly Rampage

Image source​On the afternoon of April 22, Army medic and two-tour Iraq veteran David "Doc" Stewart gunned down his girlfriend Kristy Sampels and fatally shot himself on I-5 just south of Tumwater after a state trooper pulled him over for speeding after a lengthy chase. Hours earlier, Stewart' ... More >>

I Was a Fat Kid . . . I Was a Really Fat Kid

Image source​On the afternoon of April 22, Army medic and two-tour Iraq veteran David "Doc" Stewart gunned down his girlfriend Kristy Sampels and fatally shot himself on I-5 just south of Tumwater after a state trooper pulled him over for speeding after a lengthy chase. Hours earlier, Stewart' ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican!

Image source​On the afternoon of April 22, Army medic and two-tour Iraq veteran David "Doc" Stewart gunned down his girlfriend Kristy Sampels and fatally shot himself on I-5 just south of Tumwater after a state trooper pulled him over for speeding after a lengthy chase. Hours earlier, Stewart' ... More >>

New York Times Picks Washington as Key to GOP Senate Takeover

​Nate Silver, the human political calculator for the New York Times and the blog FiveThirtyEight, is up with a post touting the Evergreen State as the "most important state of all" in terms of GOP chances for a Senate takeover. The numbers wonk ran thousands of simulations, in which a virtual ... More >>

Those Mysterious Army Deaths: An Update

Russell​A Seattle Weekly cover story last December about the Camp Liberty, Iraq, massacre of U.S. soldiers by John Russell, a deranged Fort Lewis sergeant, also focused on other puzzling non-combat deaths, including soldiers dying in their sleep. Now Georgia author Cilla McCain and San Diego n ... More >>

Langston Hughes African American Film Festival

Russell​A Seattle Weekly cover story last December about the Camp Liberty, Iraq, massacre of U.S. soldiers by John Russell, a deranged Fort Lewis sergeant, also focused on other puzzling non-combat deaths, including soldiers dying in their sleep. Now Georgia author Cilla McCain and San Diego n ... More >>

Tooth & Nail’s Latest Cover Boy

Meet the 25-year-old, Grammy-nominated Seattleite you’ve never heard of, at the local label that gets no respect (in town anyway).

We're No. 36! Washington Narrowly Beats DC in National Happiness Ranking

What's the matter, Washington? Still bummed about the election results?​Of course you are familiar with the Oswalt/Wu index of life satisfaction. The two scientists have published a paper in Science magazine (see abstract), based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and ... More >>

U.S. Supreme Court: Constitution Can Require Judges to Sit Out Cases

Washington Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders recently got in trouble for not recusing himself from a case whose ruling might later help pad his pockets; today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that not recusing yourself can rise to the level of a Constitutional violation. (Full opinion here.) West V ... More >>

Washington's Movin' on up

 If "movin' on up" means joining the ranks of Oregon, Wyoming (whose population is smaller than Seattle's), and ten states whose infant mortality rates rank between Croatia's and Latvia's.The beige states in the picture above have no general assistance-unemployable programs--i.e. programs that ... More >>

County Line Reportedly Closed

We are sad to report that South Park's notorious County Line has slung its last stiff, cheap drink. This is according to former South Park resident/current Showbox proprietor Chad Queirolo, who describes the Line, aptly, as "where Seattle meets rural West Virginia meets Mexico under the influence ... More >>

McCain Might Have Picked the Right Runningmate

We are sad to report that South Park's notorious County Line has slung its last stiff, cheap drink. This is according to former South Park resident/current Showbox proprietor Chad Queirolo, who describes the Line, aptly, as "where Seattle meets rural West Virginia meets Mexico under the influence ... More >>

Spam with Style

We are sad to report that South Park's notorious County Line has slung its last stiff, cheap drink. This is according to former South Park resident/current Showbox proprietor Chad Queirolo, who describes the Line, aptly, as "where Seattle meets rural West Virginia meets Mexico under the influence ... More >>

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Wednesday, August 13

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Wednesday, August 13

Live Free or Die Hard: Bruce Willis Clings Manfully to the Timex Past

Willis rejects digital reboot in favor of rusty action-flick mechanics.

DVDs of the Week

The name is Borat, James Borat

We Are Marshall

Opens at Metro and other theaters, Fri., Dec. 22. Rated PG. 127 minutes.

Ms. Lucie, 1971–2006

The cautionary tale of a purebred Tonkinese feline supermodel from Appalachia.

Doing the Flip-Flop Flip-Flop

The cautionary tale of a purebred Tonkinese feline supermodel from Appalachia.

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

Showing at Varsity, Fri., April 7–Thurs., April 13. Rated R. 97 minutes.

Bubble

Opens Fri., Jan. 27, at Metro

Performance Picks

Opens Fri., Jan. 27, at Metro

Media, State Government

Opens Fri., Jan. 27, at Metro

Music, Comedy, Visual Arts, and Film

Opens Fri., Jan. 27, at Metro

Log-Cabin Cooking

It may not be Grandma's, but it's the next best thing.

Chalk Talk

'Inspirational' teacher tale is a dry academic exercise.

Rhymes with Seltzer

'Inspirational' teacher tale is a dry academic exercise.

Rhymes with Seltzer

'Inspirational' teacher tale is a dry academic exercise.

CD Reviews

'Inspirational' teacher tale is a dry academic exercise.

Sips

The seven-whiskey lunch

Proof

Again, Crowe refuses to be stumped by formulas.

Basement flacks

Again, Crowe refuses to be stumped by formulas.

Aging Amazon

The New Economy turns out to be a lot like the old one.

Startling reflections

A gifted writer takes us into a locked, forgotten world: Washington's prisons.

Tin ears for the 21st century

The folks at Cantametrix think they know what music you will like— and what music you stole.

Hard cell

The folks at Cantametrix think they know what music you will like— and what music you stole.

Before your eyes

The folks at Cantametrix think they know what music you will like— and what music you stole.

Big Apple Bezos

The folks at Cantametrix think they know what music you will like— and what music you stole.

CDs by Will Oldham, Valvola, and more.

The folks at Cantametrix think they know what music you will like— and what music you stole.

The state I'm in

The folks at Cantametrix think they know what music you will like— and what music you stole.

Sweet Scientists

Women invade the boxing ring in ever larger numbers.