The American steakhouse--that dimly lit, mahogany-paneled, mafia-chic hideout for fat cats and their trophy molls--you'd think it would never fly in laid-back, egalitarian Seattle. You'd be wrong. more ›

Last time we checked in on Shawn Kemp, Jr., he was a 6-7 wingman considered a fairly decent prospect in Georgia. more ›

Could we be any vaguer? No, but that doesn't mean there's still not any reason to get excited. With In Rainbows making its formal debut atop the Billboard charts, Radiohead is set to cover North America in two tour legs, one prior to and one following their recently announced European summer tour (June 6 in Dublin through July 8 in Berlin). more ›

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook. On Sunday morning, following a trip to a local farmer's market/major supermarket chain, we will be preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. Then at halftime we will throw our badly burned hands in the air and make hot dogs. more ›

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook. On Sunday morning, following a trip to a local farmer's market/major supermarket chain, we will be preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks opponent. Then at halftime we will throw our badly burned hands in the air and make hot dogs. more ›

Four years ago, Kyle Kendrick was helping Mt. Vernon High advance in the Northwest 4A district playoffs. more ›

The Summer Fiction issue of the New Yorker showed up in the mail box yesterday and the Pacific Northwest (ok, Portland, really, but so what) is well represented. Miranda July, of Portland, has two pieces; one a short story called "Roy Spivey" and the other a recollection of summer movies called "Atlanta." It starts: more ›

SLAM says they don't like Nate Robinson as a basketball player ("he shoots too much, he doesn’t pass enough, he shouldn’t have won the dunk contest") but they do think his attitude is streetball-in-the-NBA. Says SLAM executive editor Lang Whitaker:

As we worked to set up the cover shoot, I got to know Nate pretty well, and once you spend time with him you’ll see he’s pretty hard not to like. The way he plays is the way he talks, the way he carries himself, always bubbling and shining. I grew up in Atlanta during the Spud Webb era, and even though Spud could famously dunk, he never played with the flair that Nate can’t seem to control. Which made Nate the perfect guy to front SLAM presents Streetball.

“When I’m playing basketball, it’s like I got a little devil on one shoulder and a little angel on one shoulder, and the Devil’s like, ‘Go ahead and bounce it and throw it off the glass!’ And the angel’s like, ‘Now Nate, you know if you do this…’ That’s how it is sometimes. Like Kobe said, It’s like Babe Ruth: You swing big. You might miss, but if you hit it it’s going to be a home run. So you can’t hold back, man. Anything can happen.”

Vitals: Gregory Alan Maddux, 41 yo RHP. Born in San Angelo, Texas. 6-0, 180. 336-205, 3.07 career. 3-2, 3.20 in 2007. $10,000,000 salary. more ›

We're pretty sure we stumbled across Nicola Griffith's The Blue Place at Bailey/Coy Books. It's been years since we first read it, and since then "You like mysteries? Have you read The Blue Place?" has been a regular part of our conversations. more ›

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Geoff Kaiser is the commissioner of a roto baseball league in Seattle. He needs owners for a couple of teams. more ›

Hot on the heels of revelations of what it's like to share a condo building with former Seahawk Jerramy Stevens (good if you like getting showered with condoms and vomit), comes a bizarre story from the Atlanta home of new Seahawk Patrick Kerney. more ›

According to the P-I, the Mariners aren't kidding about going after Barry Zito.

The Mariners aren't backing off their interest in Oakland left-handed starter Barry Zito, the pitcher expected to come out of the winter (if not the winter meetings themselves) with the most lucrative contract awarded a pitcher.

Expect an email from your aunt in Jersey, as Seattle's in the New York Times today: more ›

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He's the Mariners starting pitcher tonight against Oakland. more ›

First there was the Honda Fit concert series, and then the Yaris Works. And now, the next chapter in Cheap Japanese Car-Sponsored Hipster Activity/Youth-Focused Advertising Campaign is the Scion Route Independent Film Series. It's taking place in only six cities, so Seattle's in good company with Atlanta, Austin, L.A., Minneapolis, and New York. Looks like the guys in marketing think we're cool. more ›

Face it. There are no good strip clubs in Seattle. more ›

Last night, the Sonics played a mediocre team, the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets. The mediocre team lost their only two point guards to injury. Yet the Sonics still lost. more ›

After years of insisting that “good citizens” were the key to winning ballclubs, the Mariners have hired one of baseball’s notorious bad guys, Carl Everett. more ›

Something happened this weekend. The last time it happened, Saddam Hussein was a free man, Michael Jackson's biggest legal problem was an expired chimpanzee license, and Franz Ferdinand was best known for sparking a war that resulted in nine million deaths, not as a hipster band. more ›

Three Washington natives were picked in the first round of yesterday's NBA draft, an all-time record. So the Seattle Times asked the question: when did Seattle get to be such a hotbed of basketball talent? more ›

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