Dane Cook will perform his "comedy" at Key Arena on Friday, June 5 at 8pm. Now, the last time he was at Key Arena, we also were in Queen Anne for a performance at On the Boards. Big mistake. Parking was impossible (even for Queen Anne), and that night the neighborhood was extra douchey, with the heavy scent of Axe body spray and lots of backward-hatted frat boys giving each other the shocker. Spring break, brah. Well, get ready to avoid the area on June 5th, Seattle's stop on the ISolated INcident - Global Thermo Comedy Tour, which is "touted as the largest comedy tour in history." Dane will hit the US, Canada, Africa, Brazil, Australia, UK, and Germany, the entire time assaulting his audiences by repeating his "punchlines" louder and louder, as if that alone will make them funny. Tickets are $30-$100 and go on sale this Friday, March 20 at 10 a.m. via LiveNation and Ticketmaster. more ›

Seventeen teams showed up at the Old Pequliar last night to see if our voice would give out. We managed to get through the evening without having a Peter Brady moment, but we're grateful to those of you who were willing to step up to the mic at a moment's notice. more ›

No matter what Dane Cook's myspace page says, the Reverend Dr. Samuel McKinney, narrator of the gospel musical Black Nativity, is the only person you'll see on a Seattle stage this month who went to school with Martin Luther King, Jr. Our favorite part of this consistently entertaining show was watching 80-year-old McKinney--who also once met Langston Hughes, its author--tap his toes, silently sing along, and break into a smile during the solos by the Total Experience Gospel Choir. more ›