Late last year, Sean and Robin Wright Penn filed the paperwork necessary to put their marriage the way of yesterday's hangover. Tuesday night, the couple attended Eddie Vedder's Berkeley, Calfornia show at the Zellerbach Theatre—together. The Into the Wild director apparently even hopped on stage to dedicate one of Eddie's songs to his wife; a special birthday surprise. (We're guessing he didn't choose "Better Man.") Turns out the near-divorcees asked that their dissolution proceeding......

As we wrote earlier, the Huskies play Cal-Berkeley tonight in the first round of the Pac Ten Tournament. They'll be doing it without an injured Jon Brockman, seen by many as the team's best player. However, is he any good? Dusty (Yes): Brockman owned Kevin Love at Hec-Ed, and if you say “but Artem Wallace guarded him” then maybe HE should be conference player of the year. AR-TEM! AR-TEM! AR-TEM.…MVP! MVP! MVP! I’m not......

What with his recent Into the Wild success, it's not a huge surprise that Eddie Vedder's embarking on his first solo tour—announced today—up and down the West coast. What is surprising is that he's not playing Seattle. Where Eddie is playing: Apr-02 The Centre Vancouver, BC Apr-05 SC Civic Aud. Santa Cruz, CA Apr-07 Zellerbach Th. Berkeley, CA Apr-10 Arlington Th. Santa Barb, CA Apr-12 Wiltern Th. Los Angeles, CA Apr-13 Wiltern Th. Los......

James Watson, one of the science heroes of the 20th Century, talks tonight at Pacific Science Center. Watson discovered DNA. But not the way Columbus discovered America (ummmm....the Native Americans sort of already knew about it, pal). Native Americans didn't know about DNA. It was all Watson (and Crick, of course). Watson's written a self-help autobiography, a genre first pioneered by another science hero, Benjamin Franklin. Franklin's main dictum was to achieve moral perfection. Watson......

Last week was a bad one for pioneers and philosophers of our favorite beverages. On Thursday, beer (and liquor) guru Michael Jackson passed away at 65. A day earlier, Alfred Peet, founder of Peet’s Coffee, died in his Ashland, Oregon home. He was 87. Had we known Peet lived in the Pacific Northwest, we would have made a pilgrimage to his home. We would have loved to pick his brain on bean-growing regions and roasting......

It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by poop. Finally D.C. contemplated taking Vermont's place as a state and marveled at the GOP lessons learned from the "Macaca Moment." Due to some sad shootings......

Ah, the festival. The half-pound Gorge Burger, the ten-dollar beer, the fragrant smell of weed and clove cigarettes carried along by an occasional, much appreciated breeze. And of course, all that music. By the time our feet hit festival ground, Viva Voce were setting up at the Yeti Stage. We got our burger and a beer and settled in for a bit of Seattlest's favorite married rock couple. We hadn't seen Viva Voce live......

Permit us to bloviate some on the death of David Halberstam today in a car crash, which is utter bullshit considering that the guy reported from fricking Vietnam and he dies in a traffic accident in San Mateo (the car that hit him driven by, in a terrible irony, a Berkeley journalism student) (actually, I'm an idiot, his driver was a Berkeley student, so there's no irony, just terribleness). Halberstam's Summer of '49, about the......

Coach Romar changed his lineup tonight (bringing Quincy Pondexter and Justin Dentmon off the bench), and tightened his rotation (eliminating minutes for Hans Gasser, Artem Wallace and Brandon Burmeister). Still, a third straight loss for the Dawgs, 96-87 to Arizona. Since they're unable to beat anyone in the Pac-10, Romar announced a few changes to the Dawgs' remaining home schedule: Sat, Jan 6: Arizona St. Sarasota St. Thu, Jan 25: Oregon Eragon Sat, Jan 27:......

Actually, your cellphone probably looks like an electronic thumb already. We mention the cellphone, because you'll need it to text your way into your new carpooler's lifestyle. Alan Durning did a Daily Score post about Seattle's Goose Networks the other day, and at first we thought, huh, no way. Now we've looked into it (i.e., visited their site), and maybe it's not so crazy. Basically, you join the service, and then when you need......

As has been pointed out in the local media, in the same old boring and un-imaginative way (Ugh, we don't even know what this guy was trying to say), Saturday is the annual cross state match-up between Washington and Washington State. This is the week when graduates of U-Dub and Wazzu annoy their co-workers with jokes, bets, and occasional violence. Although we didn't graduate from either university, we still love Husky football more than most......

Husky quarterback Isaiah Stanback is out for the rest of his Husky career after his foot imploded during Saturday's loss to the Beavers. Jerry Brewer gets all columnist on the story, while Bob Condotta writes about it like a normal person on his Husky Football blog. We can't think of a worse way for Stanback to end his career with the purple and gold. After early inconsistencies, he had finally come into his own, and......

Occasionally we drop in to see something we've recommended in advance to check if it's worthy of the Seattlest Seal of Approval. Sunday night we took in Chris Jeffries' Kaleidoscope Eyes: Songs for Busby Berkeley. We weren't quite sure what to expect when we walked in. What it turns out to be is a pianist and six vocalists performing "alternate" soundtracks to actual Berkeley-choreographed movie clips -- so it really is a celebration of......

If you laughed milk through your nose at Lawrence and Gerald, then you owe choreographer Busby Berkeley a great big thank-you. Synchronized swimming was nowheresville until he turned his birds-eye-view camera on the glamor of dancing in and around pools. There's probably no better way to express your gratitude than by attending Chris Jeffries' Kaleidoscope Eyes: Songs for Busby Berkeley. That's at the Northwest Film Forum, July 20-23, 27-30, at 8pm. Tickets are $15......

We haven't read the novel that Rebecca Agiewich spun out of her blog Breakup Babe, but we are familiar with the site itself and once upon a time subscribed to the Babe's tales of woe. The Breakup Babe blog chronicled her various spectacular breakups and attempts to date again in their wake, but it's been kinda idle recently and we understand that blogging doesn't exactly increase one's value in the dating pool (shh, don't tell......

Monday's farm report continues with coverage of The Real Dirt on Farmer John, which played at the Northwest Film Forum over the weekend, thanks to the itvs people. The hour-long documentary (see the trailer) is scheduled to play on KCTS sometime in June as part of the Independent Lens series. (It played at SIFF last year.) John Peterson is a third-generation farmer behind Angelic Organics. (Locals Pioneer Organics were at the post-screening Q&A.) Thanks to......

Someone was finally charged with arson in the case of the UW Horticulture fire of 2001 and no it wasn't someone from Eugene although we know you want to jump to that conclusion you anti-Oregonian. She's from Berkeley which we hope was going to be your second guess. Briana Waters, 30, of Berkeley, California is getting arraigned today on arson charges and there's a possibility that she could face 35 years in prison for the......

Our NoCal cousin, SFist recently posted briefly about a house party in Berkeley, CA that also broke out in violence this past weekend. The horribly ironic detail in this case? The person who was shot and killed was the father of three children, who was hosting the party at his family's own home, so he could ensure that his kids would be safe. His killer is still at large. The San Francisco Chronicle has an......

Huskies forward Brandon Roy became only the second Husky (and more importantly, the first Garfield Bulldog) to win Pac-10 Player of the Year honors, beating out Cal-Berkeley forward Leon Powe. Although Powe topped the conference in scoring and rebounding, Roy lead the Huskies down the stretch on both sides of the ball, putting up big numbers and in many games literally carrying the team to victory. Roy said of the honor, "These things are hard......

If those dirty hippies in the Bay Area wont help support our Super Bowl bound Seahawks then we will have to do the next best thing and demolish their college basketball teams. Well, in actuality the next best thing would be to go on the radio and praise the idea of an Al-Qaeda attack on San Francisco, but we're not shit-bat insane. Fresh off sweeps of the Oregon and SoCal schools the number nine Huskies......

Sonics Lose Opener: The season got off to rather poor start, after the Sonics did everything wrong in the final few minutes of last night's opener, and lost to the Los Angeles Clippers of Anaheim 101-93. Not very promising, it was of course only the first of 82 games, and last year the Sonics started their season by getting blown away by the same Clipper squad. Steve Kelley, however, says it is time to panic.......

In meeting college football fans in our travels over purple mountains majesty and through amber waves of grain, we have steadfastly maintained this position: there is no better place to watch a college football game than Husky Stadium. However, we can say this no longer. For though the sun still glistens off of Lake Washington, and the Cascade foothills still loom on the hazy horizon, Husky Stadium has one major drawback: The Huskies play there.......

Thanks to all of the social in-justice in the world residents of Berkeley have many things to talk about. In fact there is nothing they love more then trying to one up each other with tales of misery and woe from around the globe. Then they pay eight dollars for an organic tomato, drive their bumper sticker covered Volvo home, and email Congress about whatever MoveOn.org tells them to. However, because of their local collegiate......

It may not be as desirable as hottest rock star wife or as prestigious as greatest novel, but our own Congressman Jim McDermott has been named the 38th worst American. In a new book by conservative author Bernard Goldberg the 100 worst Americans are ranked, from Michael Moore (number 1) to Hippie O'Flagburner (number 100). Goldberg told the AP that McDermott had made the list because of his visit to Baghdad in the fall......