As we mentioned recently, Washington’s very own Arlene Wagner (founder and curator of Leavenworth's Nutcracker Museum) was one of 12 potential interviewees to be Conan O'Brien's first guest on his new show. The show debuts tonight and the people have spoken. Kind of. more ›

Last summer (ah, summer!) we drove down to Portland for their annual Pickathon Roots Music Festival, where we found ourselves exposed to all manner of folkies from Portland and beyond. One of the bands that stole the weekend for us was from Indiana, of all godforsaken places. On Saturday night, Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band played a show in the barn that seriously blew our mind. Joined by Seattleite Jason Webley, they just played a flat-out barn burner of a show. more ›

Friday night is jam-packed with music: local bad boys Pleasureboaters' all-ages CD release at the Vera Project, Justice's Jesus house party at Neumo's, and "an intimate solo performance and screening of the live concert DVD Circle of Friends" with old-timer Bob Mould at Chop Suey. Our money's on the punk-blues of Hillstomp at the Tractor. more ›

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REMINDER: This Saturday, Annuals open the show for Blonde Redhead at the Showbox and we just might have your tickets right here. more ›

Laure R. King, best-selling mystery author, drew a standing-room-only crowd at the University Bookstore last night. King is the author of two mystery series, one about a lesbian police detective in San Francisco, and another featuring Sherlock Holmes with an ass-kicking emancipated female sidekick-spouse, Mary Russell. The two series finally converge (to the delight, surely, of her publisher) in King's latest, . more ›

Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get to the bottom of it they interview the writer Jonathan Raban. more ›

Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival and geeky gets taken to a whole new galaxy when they talk with the Dragon Queen of the Dark Kingdom. more ›

Seattlest saw and loved Ted Leo + Pharmacists at Neumo's right after the election last fall. It made the bummer better. more ›