the man accused of yesterday’s quadruple murder.
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“Good Morning America Weekend” decided to look for the best food cart in the country and with the help of its viewers found it right here in Seattle.
Marination Mobile serves a creative Korean-Hawaiian hybrid menu featuring such items as kalbi tacos, kimchi fried rice, kalua pork sliders, SPAM sliders, [...]
Because I’ve never been to a Native American performance, my mind got the best of me. I was thinking big drums, totem poles, wild dancing, maybe even a bonfire. But since this was in Meany Hall, I dropped my expectations a bit and let go of the idea that a [...]
SIFF Cinema concludes their New Italian Cinema series with a quartet of films. Friday night see Pa-ra-da, the based-on-a-real story tale of a French street clown who heads to Bucharest to provide some comic relief to local orphanages and ends up teaching his trade to street kids, and Fortàpasc, [...]
The Seattle Sounders weren’t able to convert an otherwise extremely successful season into a championship, but fans of soccer still get a chance to get in one more game as this weekend Qwest Field plays host to the MLS Cup. To celebrate this [...]
dent may, with ukulele.
Tonight, if the chatting, laughing, drinking, eating, and other assorted revelry of Blogsgiving hasn’t worn you to shreds, you might want to drop by Chop Suey on your way home. There, Dent May and his Magnificent Ukulele(s) can show you that [...]
Although I continue to think that the “Twilight” series of books and movies are completely ridiculous and just can’t fathom the appeal, I do very much appreciate the inspiration they’ve provided for culinary and cocktail creation. Cristin Malone, bartender at the Sorrento Hotel’s Hunt Club has [...]
The Seattle Thunderbirds have had a rough start to their season so far with an 8-13 record that currently sees them at the bottom of the Western Hockey League’s US division, but things are starting to look up for the team after a solid weekend [...]
Let’s face it. Most of us don’t have a lot of spare cash these days. Yet occasionally we still want to go out for dinner and have a nice meal. Here are just a few tips for dining out and while still sticking to your budget.
Use Twitter. Many of [...]
I’m sure most of you out there are already know this, but you can make it from Seattle out to wine country in the same amount of time it takes a bottle of red to properly breathe.
However, I’m not here to talk to you about [...]
Little Big Band, photo courtesy Storms PhotoGraphic.There have been a number of excellent events this year to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition but the concert sponsored by the Burke Museum [...]
Hey, all! I’m super-excited to go see the “Farewell Seattle” show of Jupiter Crash (who are leaving town for brighter climes). Among other bands opening the show is a local metal/prog rockers Hills Of Elysium, who I’ve caught before and love (and I’m not all that in to [...]
Hey! Guess what’s happening tomorrow? OK, time’s up. It’s BLOGSGIVING. Bloggists meeting bloggers, meeting readers, having a real time. Get yourself over to Central Cinema tomorrow from 6 to 9 with a donation in hand and warmth in your heart. Arrive early for your best shot [...]
The Seattle P-I is reporting that Seattle Police have arrested a suspect in the recent series of Greenwood arsons. Greenwood residents and business owners are cautiously relieved. The police will continue their investigation into the fires and continue to patrol the neighborhood, but let’s all hope that they got [...]
Some of my favorite childhood memories involve going clamming. What joy there is in crossing the beach in hot pursuit of the wily razor clam and what pleasure there is concluding the hunt with a clambake. Clams are quite fun to catch and even more fun to [...]
Senegalese pop star Youssou N’dour has made headlines for his music in more than one way – frustrated by negative perceptions of his Muslim faith, he created a deeply spiritual album titled Egypt which he used to call for a more tolerant view of Islam. Youssou N’dour: I Bring What [...]
Lisandro Alonso is a filmmaker from Argentina whose works are provocative and cinematically stunning, but not very well known here in Seattle, where they’ve never been shown. Northwest Film Forum is changing that last bit by bringing Alonso and his four films to Seattle for their At the Edge [...]
John Darnielle’s struggles with his faith may be the motivation behind his latest [...]
IFP Seattle is a not-for-profit organization that exists to help local filmmakers advance their craft by providing education on the business side of film making and helping them make connections and get exposure on a national level. One of their programs is the Spotlight Award, a grant that gives [...]
Break the Hump Day doldrums by heading out to Rebar for the second annual Literary Death Match, a wild cross-disciplinary shootout, with readers like Stacey Levine (who won the PEN/West Fiction Award for My Horse and Other Stories) and Aaron Dietz (author of Reserved for Emperors) and [...]
Hey! Remember last year when all of Seattle’s most wonderful bloggers and most adorable reader got together for drinks, amazing hand turkey art making, socializing, and raised a bunch of money for Northwest Harvest, convincing many an attendee from the mixer upstairs that we were more [...]
Mariners pursuing John Lackey? Rumors circulate that the Seattle Mariners are in the hunt for Angels free-agent pitcher John Lackey.
This rumor comes with a clear caveat: The cost to land Lackey will be astronomical, likely requiring a long term deal well over $80 million, way out of the range [...]
Man oh man! Last night I was fortunate enough to see the last performance of Diane Sniezblum’s piece “Alaska” at On the Boards. At it’s most fervent moments, the piece cast a hypnotic spell over the audience.
In one particularly effective moment, a woman’s naked body was re-arranged by the [...]
King County is preparing for the possibility that there may be serious flooding this winter.
If you live in the Green River Valley, you really, really don’t need me to tell you this because you’ve been hearing about it for a while. Still, it’s important that you don’t just tune [...]
For someone who doesn’t watch much TV–and it’s mostly sports or Spongebob when I do-I’ve sure managed to get introduced to a lot of great musicians from watching it. Case in point – Nashville native singer/songwriter Landon Pigg whose sweet, understated “Falling in [...]
The last time Dirty Projectors were in town I felt horrible about missing them, both because parts of their new record, Bitte Orca nearly caused me to trip over myself while listening to it on my morning commute [...]
In case you missed it, Seattle’s premier gaming expo was ground zero for an outbreak of swine flu (or what Wired is calling H1Nerd1).
Penny Arcade, the organization that hosts [...]
11:00 AM – Storytelling at NAAM
Northwest African American Museum
Children of all ages are invited to experience the art of storytelling and the power of stories with a featured guest.
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7:00 PM – Cecile Andrews & J. Kingston Pierce: Book Release Party
Santoro’s Books
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Ankneyd’s shot of UW from the Seattle Metblogs Flickr pool
Thanks to the Puget Sound Business Journal, I discovered today that a survey compiled by economics survey team analysists at the American Institute for Economic Research reveals that out of 360 metropolitan statistical [...]
To be fair, Charles Wesley Cooley has had his own grave, and for quite some time now. The US Civil War veteran was buried at the old pioneer Western State Hospital more than a century ago, so he’s a little beyond any of this. However, a volunteer group dedicated to [...]
Alright! So let’s finish up talking about the Bumberfest.
The Lonely Forest packed the EMP tight enough that they were asking everyone to move at least a half step forward. I had no idea they were so popular, but clearly, I am dumb: these Anacortes boys brought the sort of powerful [...]
My favorite band of the day was Soulsavers featuring Mark Lanegan.
Delhi to Dublin were a close second place, though.
For non-musical acts, I really liked Flexion by Wise Fool New Mexico’s acrobatics.
SIFF’s programming of the One Reel [...]
There have been brief, fleeting glimpses of the sun today, but by and large it has been one degree of wet or another. Drizzle, light rain, heavy downpour…and it shows o signs of suddenly transforming into one of those magic days where the sun magically bursts into the sky and [...]
Romance in the EMP
Hey you guys, today it has been raining off and on. FYI.
It turns out that U.S.E has the power to both make it rain and make it stop raining, among other talents like creating dance parties and wearing gold spandex. They’ll be having [...]
Bumbershoot program, 1993, courtesy of the Seattle Municipal Archives. From our Flickr pool.
12:00 PM – Christian Lander: Stuff White People Like
Bumbershoot
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1:45 PM – Spencer Moody: The Enablers Have Spoken and You’re Fine
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Are you looking at Metblogs on some sort of mobile device? Are you at least willing to let me pretend that you might be? Elvis Perkins in Dearland will be playing on the Northwest Court Stage at 8:30. They played in the KEXP Music Lounge this afternoon [...]
I hardly know what to do with myself at a Bumbershoot with neither blazing sun nor pouring rain, but fortunately there are plenty of distractions on hand.
The Exhibition Hall (Rockstar Energy Drink Stage) continues to be one of the worst places ever to see a band, but Australia’s Sick Puppies [...]
At the risk of jinxing my good luck, I have to point out that it hasn’t yet rained on me, and is in fact kind of humid. In case the weather at Seattle Center is behaving differently than elsewhere in town.
The crowd at Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head [...]
Grey and damp with periodic sun breaks makes for perfect Bumbershoot weather: there are enough people on hand to provide enthusiastic audiences for the early afternoon shows but it’s still easy to walk through the Center grounds while hopping from venue to venue. If you like to camp out on [...]
They say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. This is one of the worst covers I have ever seen.
12:00 PM – Neil Low: Sign of' [...]
In addition to the fifteen official Bumbershoot venues packed full of music, theater, literature, and other spectacle, there are a couple of other stages on the Seattle Center grounds. In general, they feature acts performing in more prominent settings during the festival, but have the advantage of being more intimate [...]
Celebrate Northwest film with Grand Illusion’s Washington Grown festival, three whole weeks of shorts and features all created by Washington filmmakers. Week one offers up two separate line-ups playing daily: “Local Laughs” is a collection of comedy shorts from local independents and “Fringe Favorites” features the best of Seattle’s [...]
Nothing is scheduled today, probably in anticipation of Bumbershoot, so have a little local history, instead.
Tyree Scott (1940-2003) led the CCAs fight for equal opportunity in 1969. Photo courtesy of HistoryLink.
On this [...]
Okay, it’s a bit late in the evening but if you’ve got back to school shopping to do and you’re not too far away from Southcenter, head to the Southcenter Office Depot (300 Andover Parkway) and buy at least $20 worth of supplies to get [...]
With the biggest names on the Bumbershoot poster typically dedicated to music (often of the confusing mainstage variety), the most visible [...]
We’ve all heard by now that H1N1 (also known as “swine flu”) is out to get us. Experts continue to predict a severe pandemic and want everyone ot be prepared ahead of time.
King County’s helping out local citizens by offering a guide to dealing with a flu [...]
You’ve no doubt by now noticed that the sites got a bit of a re-design and some things got changed around last week. We wanted to highlight two changes to make sure everyone knows what changed.
The first and biggest is COMMENTS! Registration is no longer required to [...]
Belltown, your brunchtime options are expanding: this weekend Del Rey started serving brunch. I don’t know how it will compare to Rite Aid during the afternoon as a pick-up spot, but I do know that the Kahlua french toast was really, really good. The batter was not too [...]
7:30 PM – Vicki Halper & Diane Douglas: Choosing Craft: The Artist’s Viewpoint
Elliott Bay Book Co.
“Vicki Halper, an independent curator/writer who formerly was associated curator of modern art at the Seattle Art Museum, and Seattle CityClub director Diane Douglas, who formerly directed [...]
2:00 PM – Donald Margulies: Dinner with Friends
Elliott Bay Book Co.
The Tenth Annual Staged Play Reading Series presents– in conjunction with ReAct Theatre and sponsored by the Mayors Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs– the modern American Pulitzer Prize-winning dramedy, Dinner with [...]
This weekend is an excellent one at NWFF where you can’t go wrong with either of the movies that start a week of screenings on Friday night. Art & Copy is a documentary about the world of advertising–its history, its development, its inner workings and its ineffable impact on [...]
7:30 PM – Mary Malloy: The Wandering Heart
Elliott Bay Book Co.
This debut novel is the first in a trilogy, featuring historian Lizzie Manning. Malloy is a historian herself, and the author of Devil on the Deep Blue Sea, a biography of Sam [...]
Light Reign, a James Turrell Skyspace. Photo courtesy of the Seattle PI.
Next weekend, August 14th-16th, Seattle poetry press Wave Books, with the UW’s Henry Art Gallery, is hosting a poetry festival: three days [...]
The first public lending library in Seattle didn’t officially open until the spring of 1869, but it was on this date, August 7, back in 1868 that the library association that would someday become the Seattle Public Library was formed. Every two weeks until the library opened the group [...]
NWFF presents On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, in which George Lazenby takes his first, and only, turn as super spy James Bond. Following Sean Connery’s strong performances in establishing the film version of the popular character would’ve been a tough act for anyone, but audiences really seemed to dislike [...]
The UW Library has announced that sound engineer Jim Anderson’s collection of recordings from the previous incarnation of the Crocodile Cafe will be available on August 11th for perusal in the Odegaard Library Media Center. No online streaming for now, due to copyright restrictions, but a great chance [...]
Swimming race at Colman Pool, circa 1960 by Seattle Municipal Archives
From 1:30-3p.m. Saturday, you can get free admission into the Rainier Beach and Meadowbrook pools, part of Seattle Parks and Recreation’s Summer Splashtacular. There will also [...]
6:00 PM – Rachael Brownell: Mommy Doesn’t Drink Here Anymore: Getting Through the First Year of Sobriety
Elliott Bay Book Co.
Brownell has an easy, readable style and a simple message. There is no glowing happy ending, just the reality that life must be faced one [...]
You thought there could be nothing cuter than a baby tiger, but you were wrong: baby snow leopards are cute critical mass. And Woodland Park Zoo has them!
Two of them in fact, female cub Batu and her male twin brother whose name WPZ would like [...]
A fire at the Lawrimore Project yesterday torched SuttonBeresCuller’s There Goes the Neighborhood, a living room in a trailer that has been hauled into King County’s suburbs. No other artworks were damaged because of some remarkable consideration on the part of the firefighters, who moved some art [...]
11:00 AM – Phyllis Yasutake: Storytelling
Northwest African American Museum
“This summer at the Northwest African American Museum, gifted griots—storytellers—will enchant young and old with tales recounted following oral traditions. Children of all ages are invited to experience the art of storytelling and the power of [...]
Ballardites will get a new pizza option soon, in the form of Delancey Seattle which will be opening mid-August at 14th & 70th. Drawing inspiration from joints such as Pizzeria Bianco, Di Fara, and Pizzeria Mozza, they hope to offer “Brooklyn-inspired wood-fired pizzeria using local ingredients.”
Can’t [...]
The relentlessly productive Phil Elverum has already prepared another new album for your eager listening. Today, National Public Radio presents an exclusive “first listen” for Mount Eerie’s Wind’s Poem , which apparently takes its primary inspirations from David Lynch’s television series [...]
7:00 PM – Carolyn Wright & Robert McNamara: Majestic Nights: Love Poems of Bengali Women / Cat Under the Stairs
UW Bookstore University District
“We welcome not one but two people to talk about Bengali poetry. Carolyne Wright will discuss the anthology she put together of [...]
The National Night Out is an annual event designed to heighten crime prevention awareness by getting people outside their own homes and into their neighborhoods to get to know their neighbors and their communities. An interconnected neighborhood traditionally has lower crime rates and happier residents.
All across the Seattle [...]
Zee Grega, josh, gomez, stevenblum, Jay, Shawn, Patricia Eddy, nowhereman, Dylan, yayunicorns
Alberto Garcia Aspe helps plant a tree with Dallas, TX-area Home Depot associates
