Kurt Cobain shaped the country's rock music landscape while wearing Converse sneaks. He blithely, angrily altered Seattle's future, ripped a hole for the city on the map of pop culture, all while wearing Converse. He went nuts on stage. He whispered and screamed. He played the shit out of guitars. He shot up and nodded off in the shoes. Kurt killed himself while wearing Converse. The shoes were prominent in the image that famously......

So we'll begin, the guy at the podium said, the huge black blast door in the Microsoft Auditorium at the Downtown Library eased down its track, slowly cutting off our view of the lobby, and we shivered. "I wish the P-I were here," said the Stranger's Josh Feit at one point. "This is what they do really well." Oddly enough, the Seattle P-I, the hands-down leader in news on the web around here, wasn't on......

One of the weirder blog posts about the Seattle Weekly "expose" of Real Change is over at Crosscut, courtesy of ex-Weeklyite Chuck Taylor. (We'd point you to the Metblogs recap but it's fatally flawed, in that it's missing one of the seminal posts on the subject, namely ours. So no can do. But here's Real Change's take on the kerfluffle-thus-far.) Taylor's post is titled: "You don't have street cred if you can't do the......

Mossback Returns! This is the most salient news item we see in the Seattle Times story on David Brewster's Crosscut, an online regional news site slated to hit the e-streets on March 12. [Brewster] has enlisted two other Seattle Weekly veterans to work on the venture. Former Weekly Managing Editor Chuck Taylor will be Crosscut's editor. Knute "Skip" Berger [aka Mossback], the Weekly's former editor-in-chief, will write for the publication. Brewster, who will be......

Wednesday, January 17 >>> West Side Story at Central Cinema. When we first saw the opening sequence to West Side Story, we were convinced our English teacher was playing some kind of joke. Then the Jets vs. Sharks fight sucked us in, and since then we've known the joke was on us for ever doubting the Greatest Musical Ever Made. 7pm; $10 (plays through the 21st) Thursday, January 18 >>> Carrie Clark & The......

-This item has musical accompaniment, but it's going to have to be user supplied. Hum "Taps" while you read. Today's issue of the Seattle Weekly will be the last from the intrepid Knute Berger, Chuck Taylor, George Howland, Geov Parish team. -We haven't listened to it yet, but apparently this week's Podcasting Liberally contains a discussion between Geov Parrish and Sandeep Kaushik on the theme of an alt-weekly writer's life after alt-weeklies. -We probably won't......

Back in our freelance days, Seattlest was happy to get 50 cents a word. So imagine the triple cherries that flashed before our eyes when we learned that down in PDX you can get 250 writers for three measly bucks! This literary super value menu is Wordstock, a three-day confab that kicks off today through Sunday at the Oregon Convention Center. In addition to local folks Charles D’Ambrosio and Garth Stein and omnipresent indie publisher......

Not since Joe's Asprin Stacking Blog joined forces with Alexis's Rice Crispe World Blog to form Joe & Alex's Little House of Horrors Blog has a merger of this magnitude so shaken Seattle's media environment. Villiage Voice Media, owner of The Seattle Weekly, has announced a merger with alt-weekly publisher New Times Media. Being absolutely ignorant of the specifics of this merger as we currently are, Seattlest can safely say that we are not fans......

Seattlest is feeling an amount of motivation to write on this subject that is nearing absolute zero, but we already contacted the editors of various weekly newspapers so we feel committed to posting something. The Western Washington branch of the Society for Professional Journalists recently released an avalanche of awards, a great many of which buried the Seattle Weekly under mounds of lucite. Congratulations Seattle Weekly. Seattle's other alternative weekly paper won one honorable mention.......

We aren’t over the fact that Portland’s Willamette Weekly won a Pulitzer Prize last week. It’s just so damn impressive, we have to take a moment to dwell on it just a little bit more. The WW is putting on a very good show of playing the whole thing down--it takes a magnifying glass or Google to find any mention of it on their site. Seattlest hopes that somewhere in the background Nigel Jaquiss and......