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Smarty Pants is Run By Drinkers For Drinkers

Published 7:00am Tuesday, May 6, 2008

It’s a Saturday morning match made in heaven. Read more

I’m (Not) With Busey

Published 7:00am Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Jeff Swanson looks, acts, and talks like Mr. Joshua. But the man you bought drinks for at the club ain’t Gary Busey. Read more

The Shaky Hands + Arthur & Yu

Published 7:00am Thursday, May 1, 2008

Saturday, May 3 Read more

Keith Gessen

Published 7:00am Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Moscow-born, Harvard-educated Keith Gessen founded the trendy literary journal n+1 while still in his 20s, earning a kind of geekdom that only a few aspire ... Read more

Aleksandar Hemon

Published 7:00am Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Imagine the headlines if, just after 9/11, a young Arab immigrant had approached our police chief, who immediately shot him dead. That’s essentially what happened ... Read more

Marc Acito

Published 7:00am Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Chapter One: Our hero, Edward Zanni, a budding theater queen from Jersey, gets kicked out of drama school—by Marian Seldes, no less—for being “too ‘jazz ... Read more

Pyramid Sold, French Quarter in Pioneer Square, and Crepes in Ballard

Published 7:00am Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Selections from Voracious, our daily food blog. Read more

Behind My Music: Vol. II

Published 7:00am Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Even as grunge wannabes started applying for jobs at Amazon and buying regular shoes, the music scene in Seattle survived. Read more

Dark Meat Drags Underground Rock Below the Mason-Dixon Line

Published 7:00am Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Their live shows are art-punk spectacles torn from the pages of the most acid-fried comic books imaginable. Read more

I’m No. 5! I’m No. 5!A recent SurveyUSA poll shows Barack Obama

Published 7:00am Monday, April 28, 2008

I’m No. 5! I’m No. 5!A recent SurveyUSA poll shows Barack Obama handily beating John McCain by 13 points in Washington state if a White ... Read more

Seattle in 1994 was like Dawson City in 1898, two years after

Published 7:00am Monday, April 28, 2008

Seattle in 1994 was like Dawson City in 1898, two years after the gold rush. The bloom of Grunge was past, long past, but the ... Read more

Shelby Lynne

Published 7:00am Thursday, April 24, 2008

WTF was country-rocker Shelby Lynne thinking when she decided to record an entire album, Just a Little Lovin’; covering—wait for it—Dusty Springfield? Sampling the material ... Read more

Belmondo Vs. Mastroianni

Published 7:00am Thursday, April 24, 2008

For the next three Tuesday-Wednesday frames, NWFF is pushing “The Duel of the Cool: Belmondo Vs. Mastroianni.” This week’s pairing is Breathless and La Dolce ... Read more

Ursula K. Le Guin

Published 7:00am Thursday, April 24, 2008

Ursula K. Le Guin is one of those authors I have always meant to read. I have a copy of the Earthsea trilogy at home ... Read more

Lijia Zhang

Published 7:00am Thursday, April 24, 2008

The “colourful trash” of capitalism began creeping into communist China in the early ’80s, not long after the death of Chairman Mao. Long hair and ... Read more

Divine Performing Arts Chinese Spectacular

Published 7:00am Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Didn’t get the chance to protest when the Olympic torch recently toured through our side of the country? Well, stand up for Chinese civil rights—or, ... Read more

Circus

Published 7:00am Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Elephantine decor, culinary feats of daring Read more

Saloon

Published 7:00am Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Belly up, cool down, repeat Read more

Cirque du Soleil

Published 7:00am Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil is bringing another big-top-on-LSD production to the Eastside (through June 1), this time telling the story of a clown in some ... Read more

Private

Published 7:00am Tuesday, April 22, 2008

You’d think there was a membership fee Read more