Theatre: A production of Mr. Marmalade got introduced by Curtain Up thusly:If you've always associated marmalade with sweetness, you're likely to expect the title character of Noah Haidle's play to be a sweet, lovable guy -- just the sort of imaginary friend for a four-year-old moppet named Lucy. Well, think again. Playwright Haidle's Mr. Marmalade is a cocaine snorting, emotionally out to lunch businessman with a briefcase packed with kinky sex toys. Not a......

We're sure we don't need to say this, but you can't miss your caucus. This is the first year in our whole time in the Pacific Northwest where it matters what Washington voters think. If you're still wondering where to go, here are two Dem or GOP caucus locators. Caucusing starts at 1pm. We understand that if you know who you support and you don't want to spend an hour or two talking about it,......

For some reason, though we are committed Capitol Hill brunchers, we had not discovered what wonders Monsoon has going on in their little 19th Ave E hideaway. Behold, the Monsoon brunch menu (pdf)! Last Tuesday night, Eric and Sophie Bahn, the chefs, invited a passel of foodie blogging folk over to try out the brunch menu. You had people like Matthew aka the rootsandgrubs guy, Angela from the Stranger -- and somehow we made the......

Six Organs of Admittance is one man--Ben Chasny--and whoever he gets to come along for the ride. Shelter From the Ash, Chasny's ninth album under the Six Organs name (out today), features contributions from his Comets on Fire bandmate Noel Harmonson, Elisa Ambrogio of Magik Markers, and Superwolf/Zwan's Matt Sweeney. The album is a freak-folk magnum opus, full of well-restrained improvisations and fluid ruminations, considered and varied instrumentation (electric, electro, and acoustic), hypnotic vocals,......

Seattlest is obviously rather excited about the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tomorrow night. So excited, in fact, that we thought we'd go to the Google to find out what sorts of happenings are going to, well, happen tomorrow in celebration of the big release. We knew about an event at the University Bookstore and figured something similar would be going down at Elliot Bay Books and maybe one or two local......

MUSIC: Ben Kweller's in town opening for Gomez at the Showbox, but the smart money is on going to see his in-store, since it's free. Go hear some great indie-pop to kick off your evening. 5:30pm // Capitol Hill Sonic Boom, 514 15th Ave E // FREE SPORTS/TV: If you're Seth, you're falling all over yourself with the King County 4A district playoffs. If you're anyone else, you're thinking tonight is a good night......

We didn’t see In DisDress, Marya Sea Kaminski’s one-woman show, when it was part of On the Boards' Northwest New Works Festival last June, but from what we gather, it involved a huge red dress, a television set, and porn. The Washington Ensemble Theatre restaging of that show, In DisDress Now Redux, doesn’t involve any of those things (though porn does get a shout out), and the title primarily exists to allow for the......

THEATER: You have only five more chances to catch WET’s latest offering, In Disdress Now: Redux. Marya Sea Kaminski’s one-woman show was originally developed as as part of On the Boards' Northwest New Works Festival in June 2006. Now the “story of a girl wrestling meaning out of love, porn, and the folds of an enormous red hoop dress” has been expanded into a full-fledged tour de force. 8pm // Washington Ensemble Theatre // 608......

The inhabitants of the Bering on 14th Ave E and E Thomas were delighted to see the Seattle City Light truck roll up last night around 4:30pm. We know because we called one of them, and he was all, "Fuck yeah, I'm delighted. You can quote me." But as you see from this picture we took this morning, these things take time. As Seattlest Seth has pointed out, the Seattle Times is covering the......

We'd just stepped out of our shower this morning when the lights went out...went back on...went out...went back on...went out again. We had to put in our contacts by candlelight. Seattle City Light estimates there were 5499 other people sharing that experience with us. As of their 10:00am update: There is an outage in the east Capital Hill/ Roanoke Area. The cause is unknown. Seattle City Light crews are enroute. It is estimated there......

Those new signs sure don't seem to be doing the trick. Tatsuo Nakata, chief of staff for council member David Della, was killed by a West Seattle motorist while walking in a marked crosswalk. He sustained major head injuries as a result of being run down, and died in the hospital Tuesday afternoon. This morning, an 11-year-old boy was hit in a crosswalk on his way to West Seattle's Madison Middle School. "It appears......

RE: the sign on the door of the North Hill Bakery, we know pigeons are crafty little disease vectors, but this seems positively intolerant. >>>City Hall, Noon-1:00pm. As Boston Globe readers know, Byron Schenkman is a "superb" and "imaginative" pianist. The Seattle resident plays a 1-hour program ranging from classical to contemporary downtown at City Hall. Hear your tax dollars at work. >>>The general area around the QFC parking lot on 15th Ave E,......

We bring you this update on the Lake Union dock fire not because there's some overwhelming demand for additional coverage or because the MSM are failing to keep you informed in any way, but because we have some new MT plugins that we're dying to try out. If all goes well there should be a map just off to the right there. That's 1801 Fairview Ave E or the location of the NOAA dock on......

In the final show of its second season, the Washington Ensemble Theatre tackles a question for the ages: What is Sexy? The answer is not so much a play as a series of ruminations, borne of an open-ended actor's game in which several of WET's founding members (amongst other UW theater students) participated. The ensemble developed it further over the past year into the work as it now stands, buoyantly directed by Marc Kenison......

While there are other characters in Swimming in the Shallows---a lesbian couple ready to get gay-married and a straight couple whose marriage is falling apart over the literal number of things they own---as far as we're concerned, this is the "gay sharkboy" play. Or at least, the love story between a man and a shark is the plot point everyone seems to cite when it comes to this production, currently showing at the Washington Ensemble......

Chin-strokers are everywhere. Whether it's an indie rock show or an electronic show, you're bound to see someone standing off to the side, focusing on production minutiae instead of having a good time. In small doses that's ok, but sometimes you just want to go to a show that's bursting at the seams with energy and enthusiasm. Regardless of your tastes, there are two opportunities to go nuts tonight. It's hard to not have a......

The Boston-area rap duo Big Digits will make their triumphant return to our side of the hood Saturday, nearly one year after their victorious "rap battle in Seattle" (Get it? It rhymes...) whereby their west coast rivals Cancer Rising "got served" a rap-tastic smackdown that shamed Larry Mizell into hiding. But seriously: The show Big Digits put on last May at the Lo_Fi was one of the year's best performances, particularly for the insane,......

Jetpack yourself over to MOHAI at 2 on Thursday to help celebrate the arrival of the Bubbleator Chair, rescued from a future at the dump (or private ownership) by some locals with dough. MOHAI has accepted the donation of the chair, and hopefully will restore it to its initial stainless-steel splendor by, perhaps, getting rid of the orange shag carpet upholstery. The Bubbleator Chair joins the Rainier Beer R and the Lincoln Toe Truck in......

On Friday night Seattlest caught the Washington Ensemble Theatre's production of Crave. Not to be confused with one of our favorite restaurants in town, this play is the handicraft of Sarah Kane, a brilliant, troubled artist who spat out five intense and violent works before hanging herself at age 28. The marketing we've seen for the play would like you to think that the play is "sexy and brutal." Make no mistake---this play is......

Seattlest is depressed. We're beginning to think that finding great pizza in Seattle is akin to finding a great bottle of wine at QFC. It's probable, but such discoveries are to be few and far between. We promise to give as many pizzeria's a chance as we can stand, but so far we haven't hit any place which we would go back to especially for their pie. There is hope in that we haven't......