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March 29, 2012
La Rêve's Croissants and the Ooh La La of Sexual Cravings
As we finish the month of March, I'm finishing my series of sexy small treats, which has turned out to be quite international. Recall that Sexy Feast sampled dill scones from Macrina Bakery, sponge cake from Dim Sum King, and sakura mochi from Umai Do. Now I turn to a classic treat: the croissant. ... More >>
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February 24, 2012
Toast the 2012 Best Picture Nominees With These Oscar-Inspired Drinks
For Sunday night's Academy Award ceremonies, the simplest drink choice is Champagne. After all, what says celebration better than a glass of bubbly? But that seems like the easy way out, especially given cinema's memorable drinking moments over the years. None of the nine nominees for Best Picture t ... More >>
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January 27, 2012
Washington Brewers Pay Homage to Belgian Beers at Belgianfest
In the late 1800s, monks at the Trappist monasteries in Belgium began brewing beer that would later inspire hundreds of breweries around the world. While the Belgian monks weren't the first brewers in the world, they have and continue to brew some of the tastiest beers to come out of that sma ... More >>
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January 11, 2012
Kafe Berlin Redefines the Quick Hot Dog Lunch
When the first floor of the German Heritage Society building functioned as an office, letters, pamphlets and spreadsheets presumably accumulated there. Now that the organization has transformed the space into a restaurant, it's shifted its collection focus from paperwork to the best in local Germani ... More >>
Music
November 16, 2011
Duff McKagan: The Real 9-9-9
I'd like to see Herman Cain try this.
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November 10, 2011
Herman Cain Sucks. Here's the Real 9-9-9: 9 Nights, 9 Shows, 9 Chances to Melt Faces in the UK
Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His memoir, It's So Easy (Simon & Schuster) is out now.Since last week's rather spasmodic entry that entailed me trying to be funny and cute with the written word whilst bouncing around the Irish Sea locked in a tour bus with no power, my b ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
Olympia's Couch Potatoes: State Pays Workers to Sit Home Doing Nothing; Vacations Included
KING-TVFrance at workIt's literally a cushy government job--being paid to sit at home on your couch and watch TV. But it goes on regularly, with Olympia's blessings. In the past four years, while Gov. Chris Gregoire and other state officials claim they've searched everywhere to find more bud ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
Pukkelpop Stage Collapse Kills Three
Image SourceFive days after a stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair killed five people, another stage (this one in Belgium) at another concert (this one the Pukkelpop music festival) has claimed even more lives. Depending on where you end up on the internet, the death toll is somewhere bet ... More >>
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April 13, 2011
Rusko
Image SourceFive days after a stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair killed five people, another stage (this one in Belgium) at another concert (this one the Pukkelpop music festival) has claimed even more lives. Depending on where you end up on the internet, the death toll is somewhere bet ... More >>
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March 25, 2011
Top 6 Songs About Mother Nature's Worst Hits
These days it seems the whole world is crumbling beneath our feet. Earthquakes in Haiti and New Zealand and the recent earthquake and devastation in Japan have rattled nerves around the planet. From songs of great floods to dust-bowl ballads, songwriters have long been giving voice to the d ... More >>
Film
March 23, 2011
The Round Up: Again With the Holocaust Already
These days it seems the whole world is crumbling beneath our feet. Earthquakes in Haiti and New Zealand and the recent earthquake and devastation in Japan have rattled nerves around the planet. From songs of great floods to dust-bowl ballads, songwriters have long been giving voice to the d ... More >>
Film
March 23, 2011
Of Gods and Men: Terrorists Versus Monks in Algeria
These days it seems the whole world is crumbling beneath our feet. Earthquakes in Haiti and New Zealand and the recent earthquake and devastation in Japan have rattled nerves around the planet. From songs of great floods to dust-bowl ballads, songwriters have long been giving voice to the d ... More >>
Diversions
March 23, 2011
Ask a Mexican!
These days it seems the whole world is crumbling beneath our feet. Earthquakes in Haiti and New Zealand and the recent earthquake and devastation in Japan have rattled nerves around the planet. From songs of great floods to dust-bowl ballads, songwriters have long been giving voice to the d ... More >>
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February 16, 2011
Needle and Thread Is One of the Top-10 Secret Hot Spots in the World (According to Worth Magazine)
Chicago, L.A., New York, Hong Kong, Paris, London, South America, Australia and Seattle--the editors at Worth magazine certainly had their passports in order when they set out to put together a list of the "Top 10 (Secret) Hot Spots" for a man with a thirst. This is a list of modern speakeas ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
John Howie Steak: In Case You Happen to Have an Extra $2000 Laying Around...
This just came in the mail yesterday. "AS THE ECONOMY TAKES ON A BRIGHTER SHINE, WHY NOT CELEBRATE LIKE 1999? John Howie Steak Offers $2,011 Per Couple New Years Eve 'Best Meal You Will Ever Have'" Really, John Howie? A "brighter shine" is how you want to describe things right now? On the d ... More >>
Film
November 24, 2010
Kings of Pastry: Made With Real Butter
This just came in the mail yesterday. "AS THE ECONOMY TAKES ON A BRIGHTER SHINE, WHY NOT CELEBRATE LIKE 1999? John Howie Steak Offers $2,011 Per Couple New Years Eve 'Best Meal You Will Ever Have'" Really, John Howie? A "brighter shine" is how you want to describe things right now? On the d ... More >>
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November 24, 2010
The Rules of the Game
This just came in the mail yesterday. "AS THE ECONOMY TAKES ON A BRIGHTER SHINE, WHY NOT CELEBRATE LIKE 1999? John Howie Steak Offers $2,011 Per Couple New Years Eve 'Best Meal You Will Ever Have'" Really, John Howie? A "brighter shine" is how you want to describe things right now? On the d ... More >>
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November 19, 2010
Listen to Mogwai's New "Rano Pano," Off Next Year's Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
On February, 15, Sub Pop will release Scottish post-rockers Mogwai's seventh studio album, optimistically entitled Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. It will be the band's first release since leaving Matador Records for Sub Pop in September of this year. As a preview, Sub Pop will release ... More >>
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September 9, 2010
If the Seattle Mariners Were a Country...
...they'd be Spain. Or so says the world's best financial journalist, Michael Lewis: Fusing your two favorite subjects: macro-economic financial issues and Major League Baseball, I thought I would say a European country and you could tell me what team they would be in baseball right now. Spai ... More >>
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August 12, 2010
London's SXSW Chatter, Broken Bells In 3D, the Rolling Stones In PG (And At Pacific Place)
-- NME: Former London mayor Ken Livingstone, a candidate for the post he once held, says that if elected, he wants to launch a SXSW-esque festival in the city. -- UnderWire: Bust out your 3D glasses. You're gonna need 'em for the video for Broken Bells' "October." -- NPR Music has an early ... More >>
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June 10, 2010
On the Road With Jane's Addiction, Reminded of Some of Mankind's Troubling Detours
Jane's Addiction Drummer Stephen PerkinsDuff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what music is circulating through his space every Monday.I've been on a brief two-show European run with Jane's Addiction that started with a gig in Amsterdam. It certainly is interest ... More >>
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June 2, 2010
World Cup Final: Netherlands vs. Spain
Jane's Addiction Drummer Stephen PerkinsDuff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what music is circulating through his space every Monday.I've been on a brief two-show European run with Jane's Addiction that started with a gig in Amsterdam. It certainly is interest ... More >>
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May 14, 2010
More News From Cafe Campagne: From Burgers to Breakfast
In my mind, everything in Paris is in black and whiteYesterday, we had the news that chef Daisley Gordon at Campagne had come up with a new, iconic, totally Froggish burger with which to gild the board at Campagne Restaurant. Today, there is new news, from downstairs at Cafe Campagne, which, ... More >>
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April 21, 2010
Steel Pulse
In my mind, everything in Paris is in black and whiteYesterday, we had the news that chef Daisley Gordon at Campagne had come up with a new, iconic, totally Froggish burger with which to gild the board at Campagne Restaurant. Today, there is new news, from downstairs at Cafe Campagne, which, ... More >>
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April 20, 2010
If Only Election Reform Were as Easy to Get as the Beatles and Led Zeppelin
http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=2975580160President James Garfield, a supporter of Proportional Representation, said, "It is a weak point in the theory of representative government as now organized and administered, that a large proportion of the voting people are permanently disenfranchised."& ... More >>
Blogs
April 9, 2010
25 Years Later, We're Still Not Nearly as Politically Progressive as Monty Python
Here's a little something to get you laughing, courtesy of Monty Python and the US voting system. When I talk to folks in the USA about the proportional representation form of voting, too many think they know what it is by responding, "Oh, that's a parliamentary system." No it's not! Here's the di ... More >>
Blogs
April 4, 2010
Happy Easter, Reverb Readers
As a child of the '70s and the agnostic--if spiritually sympathetic--daughter of a music-loving minister, this is always my jam this time of year. Interestingly enough, Jesus Christ Superstar covers are rather popular in some unusual circles. The Afghan Whigs do a killer cover of "The Temple" an ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2010
Free MP3: Blitzen Trapper's "Heaven and Earth," Off Their Forthcoming Record
Jade HarrisPortland's Blitzen Trapper will release their fifth full-length, Destroyer of the Void, on June 8 on Sub Pop. Right now you can download the record's first single, "Heaven and Earth," on Sub Pop's website - and I really urge you to do so. It's a beautifully clear and focused piano ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2010
Even More Band Of Horses News: They're Opening For Pearl Jam
I guess they haven't completely forgotten their Seattle background - Band Of Horses will be opening for Pearl Jam for a number of tour dates in May, including a stop at Madison Square Garden in New York. These shows will be just one leg of a Band Of Horses tour that will take them around the ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2010
For Guns N' Roses, London Called Early
I am in London this week looking at a bunch of unsigned bands for a new venture that I am part of. It is fresh and fun to see some of these bands: startled kids with huge and hopeful eyes that see a world that is theirs for the taking, energetic, unjaded, and full of piss and vinegar. I need ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2010
Introducing the Surly Gourmand, Voracious' Newest & Nastiest Contributor
You're unlikely to catch the Surly Gourmand dead or alive inside Ballard's Bastille. Okay, maybe dead.Greetings. Many of you already know me. However, I'm aware that not everyone is acquainted with my particular brand of depravity, so I suppose an introduction is in order. I'm the Surly Gourm ... More >>
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November 25, 2009
Morrissey
You're unlikely to catch the Surly Gourmand dead or alive inside Ballard's Bastille. Okay, maybe dead.Greetings. Many of you already know me. However, I'm aware that not everyone is acquainted with my particular brand of depravity, so I suppose an introduction is in order. I'm the Surly Gourm ... More >>
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November 18, 2009
The Books
You're unlikely to catch the Surly Gourmand dead or alive inside Ballard's Bastille. Okay, maybe dead.Greetings. Many of you already know me. However, I'm aware that not everyone is acquainted with my particular brand of depravity, so I suppose an introduction is in order. I'm the Surly Gourm ... More >>
Food
November 11, 2009
Search & Distill: Beaujolais Nouveau’s Not Worth the Money
Buy yourself some solid French wines instead.
Food
November 4, 2009
Search & Distill: The Cure for Cold, Dreary Winters (and Sobriety)
Mulled wine is good wine gone bad.
Blogs
November 3, 2009
Twenty Years After the Wall
Krist NovoselicChad Channing, Gary Thorstensen, Tad Doyle, Kurt Daneilson, Steve Wied & Kurt Cobain humping gear on a 1989 tour.Twenty years ago this week I was touring West Germany with Nirvana, and the Berlin Wall was crumbling. I was fortunate to see history first-hand, along with our fell ... More >>
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May 27, 2009
Peaches
Krist NovoselicChad Channing, Gary Thorstensen, Tad Doyle, Kurt Daneilson, Steve Wied & Kurt Cobain humping gear on a 1989 tour.Twenty years ago this week I was touring West Germany with Nirvana, and the Berlin Wall was crumbling. I was fortunate to see history first-hand, along with our fell ... More >>
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September 10, 2008
England
Krist NovoselicChad Channing, Gary Thorstensen, Tad Doyle, Kurt Daneilson, Steve Wied & Kurt Cobain humping gear on a 1989 tour.Twenty years ago this week I was touring West Germany with Nirvana, and the Berlin Wall was crumbling. I was fortunate to see history first-hand, along with our fell ... More >>
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July 30, 2008
Metro Classics
Krist NovoselicChad Channing, Gary Thorstensen, Tad Doyle, Kurt Daneilson, Steve Wied & Kurt Cobain humping gear on a 1989 tour.Twenty years ago this week I was touring West Germany with Nirvana, and the Berlin Wall was crumbling. I was fortunate to see history first-hand, along with our fell ... More >>
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May 28, 2008
Foals
Friday, May 30
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March 26, 2008
Cabaret
Nick Garrison adds another character to his rogues’ gallery
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March 5, 2008
Uwe Bratzler
How to create mass
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January 9, 2008
Jock Sturges
All Buff, No Fluff: Images of folks with nothing to hide
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November 7, 2007
Back Door Slam
Friday, N ovember 9
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September 5, 2007
Grizzly Bear + Deerhunter
Thursday, September 6
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August 22, 2007
Kay Kay and his Weathered Underground
Saturday, August 25
Food
June 20, 2007
Gaudí Is Spanish Through and Through, Mostly for the Better
The paella’s as authentic as the comfortably frumpy ambience.
Food
October 25, 2006
Anything but Cloves
Pass up the pumpkin ale in favor of these fall brews.
Food
October 26, 2005
Built-in Bubbles
Pass up the pumpkin ale in favor of these fall brews.
Food
August 3, 2005
A Midsummer Night's Beer Garden
Pass up the pumpkin ale in favor of these fall brews.
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