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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
Published 7:00am Tuesday, August 31, 2010WEDNESDAY 9/1 Books: The Upside of Flooding We’ve had our fill of environmental-disaster movies (The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, etc.), but now scholars are seriously ... Read more
Sicker Dogs
Published 7:00am Tuesday, August 31, 2010Medical costs are climbing at the Seattle Animal Shelter, as more heavily neglected pets are left with them. Read more
The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows
Published 7:00am Tuesday, August 31, 2010The Alfredo Rodríguez Trio / Wednesday, September 1 While this 24-year-old Cuban pianist was “discovered” and championed by none other than Quincy Jones, he obviously ... Read more
Dog Beat Dog
Published 7:00am Tuesday, August 31, 2010To pull off the biggest dogfighting bust in U.S. history, investigators went deep undercover. So did their dogs. Read more
Get too much Groupon love, and a restaurant is liable to run
Published 7:00am Monday, August 30, 2010Get too much Groupon love, and a restaurant is liable to run out of money for aprons.A couple weeks ago, our own Mike Lewis reported ... Read more
Ra Ra Riot just released their sophomore record, The Orchard, last week;
Published 7:00am Monday, August 30, 2010Ra Ra Riot just released their sophomore record, The Orchard, last week; this week Seattle fans have two chances to see the band perform — ... Read more
D. BlackLast night marked the release of D. Black and B. Brown’s
Published 7:00am Monday, August 30, 2010D. BlackLast night marked the release of D. Black and B. Brown’s collaborative EP The Blackest Brown, available on Black’s Bandcamp page. Pros: All of ... Read more
Vampire Weekend, with Beach House, Dum Dum Girls. Marymoor Park, 6046 W.
Published 7:00am Sunday, August 29, 2010Vampire Weekend, with Beach House, Dum Dum Girls. Marymoor Park, 6046 W. Lake Sammamish Pkwy. N.E., Redmond, 205-3661. 6 p.m. $47.50. All ages. At first ... Read more
From our partners at True Crime Report comes this tale of border-state
Published 7:00am Friday, August 27, 2010From our partners at True Crime Report comes this tale of border-state boneheadedness. Shane Alexander, 20, and Jason Vantress, 30, are two huge dumb-asses from ... Read more
Jerry O’Connell in his finest performance yet.The Dinner: Fish, Chips and a
Published 7:00am Friday, August 27, 2010Jerry O’Connell in his finest performance yet.The Dinner: Fish, Chips and a Huckleberry Shake at Mr. Lu’s Seafood and Burgers (4752 University Way NE). The ... Read more
Plato Mexicano at El Camion Here’s a brief rundown of restaurant news
Published 7:00am Thursday, August 26, 2010Plato Mexicano at El Camion Here’s a brief rundown of restaurant news this week… Two taco trucks have added third installations to the city. In ... Read more
One of the few things that’s crystal clear about the two competing
Published 7:00am Thursday, August 26, 2010One of the few things that’s crystal clear about the two competing liquor privatization initiatives is that if either gets approved by voters this November, ... Read more
UPDATE: Booth was caught in Spokane last night.No one is sure yet
Published 7:00am Thursday, August 26, 2010UPDATE: Booth was caught in Spokane last night.No one is sure yet why John Allen Booth was in an Onalaska house early Saturday morning. The ... Read more
Asylum Denied
Published 7:00am Wednesday, August 25, 2010Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum. Read more
Standing in front of an MSR tent and Thermarest mattresses at Cascade
Published 7:00am Wednesday, August 25, 2010Standing in front of an MSR tent and Thermarest mattresses at Cascade Designs in SoDo yesterday, Mayor Mike McGinn unveiled the city’s plan to distribute ... Read more
The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
Published 7:00am Tuesday, August 24, 2010WEDNESDAY 8/25 Opera: Jealous Much? Verdi was all but retired when librettist Arrigo Boito gave him a pared-down, fat-free version of Shakespeare’s Othello (Boito even ... Read more
Coffee Clash
Published 7:00am Tuesday, August 24, 2010The estate of Captain Phil Harris is sued by a former business partner. Read more
Charity Mace
Published 7:00am Tuesday, August 24, 2010Unemployed "99ers" pose a toxic threat to overwhelmed social-service agencies. Read more
Do Mexicans Hike? (For Sport?)
Published 7:00am Tuesday, August 24, 2010Dear Mexican, Oye, I’m a Mexican con un pie aquí y un pie allá, and I have to admit that it is difficult to be ... Read more
Brad TrentWriting about food is as simple as roasting a pig!Have you
Published 7:00am Tuesday, August 24, 2010Brad TrentWriting about food is as simple as roasting a pig!Have you ever wanted to write for the Seattle Weekly? Do you constantly fight the ... Read more