As far as we can tell, Icy Demons are neither icy nor demons. Instead, they are fronted by a guy playing upright bass and wearing panda pants who could easily be Wesley Willis' nephew. The Demons kinda remind us of The Unicorns, in that every song seems to contain bits and pieces of multiple songs from multiple genres, both hits and misses. For the final song of the Chicago band's all-over-the-place opening set, the......

Photo of Team Robot House's rickshaw. Courtesy of Travis Arket, who says, "Let's take this beercan on the road!" Travis Arket, one of the three founding members of Seattle-based Team Robot House to take part in a Himalayan rickshaw race to raise money for Mercy Corps earlier this summer, hardly knows how to begin to describe their adventure. "It was so surreal, so condensed. Think Indiana Jones meets Commando meets Ghandi meets Hotel Rwanda,......

"How I spent my Sunday" by Todd Bates Seattlest spent our Monday this way, though we weren't cool (or crazy?) enough to document the ride in such a fashion. You never know what you'll find in our Flickr Pool.......

Last night, a besuited Crispin Hellion Glover took the stage at Broadway Performance Hall with the perfunctory greeting: "Good evening. Presently, I will read to you from eight books." And he did. Now, we were kinda expecting something along those lines, as the Northwest Film Forum's blurb on his film events this weekend announced: All performances preceded by Glover’s one-hour slide show, which consists of ten eight different stories dramatically narrated by Glover himself.......