“Microsoft’s products are conceived . . . as weapons to be used against competitors rather than effective tools for customers.”
Internationally acclaimed Seattle house producer Jeff Samuel lets the masses come to him.
New York’s Burnt Sugar create an aural melting pot.
Also: The Rough Guide to Boogaloo, Do the Bambi, Stereo Total, Mike Jones, Mariah Carey, and Goldie Lookin’ Chain.
1972: The One Reel Vaudeville Show performs the homemade musical farce Klondike! on the portable stage back of a flatbed…
Philadelphia’s finest embrace history, but they don’t repeat it.
Even the best fiction films were indebted to documentarieswhich turns out to be promising for both kinds of movies.
I’m being very careful about what I say on the radio these days, and I’m not the only one. The…
Save any funeral flowers you were going to send to the Speakeasy Cafe, Seattle’s seminal cybercafe and alternative performance space…
We would not like to thank the Academy.
Before we get started this week, I have an urgent piece of business. Everyone here who doesn’t work for AT&T,…
Ex-Archer and current Crooked Finger Eric Bachmann trades the South for Seattle.
A U.K. garage and hip-hop roundup.
A new rave history gets mired in the subgenres.
“Bumbershoot!” “Bless you.” It’s easy to see how our most hallowed of local festivals could be likened to a sneeze….
While the Gnome visits his British Columbian cousins this week, guest columnist Alan Alda offers his incisive commentary on Seattle’s…
Also: Bettie Serveert, Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower, Live From the Morning Alternative, and the Marshall Tucker Band.
YOU’D PROBABLY never guess it from the casual, chatty tone of my prose, but I am a monumental fussbudget. Almost…
Coals for Jim West Seattle Weekly, along with all the rest of the media, is overlooking the real problem in…
The laughter! The tears! The pathos! The incomprehensible Czech documentaries! Our critics sat through 89 such festival titles to sort…
