Seattle piano player Howard Bulson passed away on Monday after a short illness. For nearly 40 years Howard accompanied singers good and awful at a laundry list of defunct Seattle institutions. A while back Seattlest contributor Don Rauf interviewed Bulson for the site and had this to say today: In some ways, it felt like Howard was being chased out of existence. Sorry Charlies closes and then Mirabeau hired him a few nights a week......

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into......

David Lynch premiered his hopeless, boring mess of a film last night at the Cinerama and the only thing worse than sitting through three hours of mindless scenes of people staring in to space and nothing happening was the insipid, gushing fannish Q&A with the Lynch freaks immediately following the film. Did you know that Lynch's fans are all filmmakers too? You do now. Do you care that every one who took the mic wanted......

COMICS: Local cartoonist salon Friends of the Nib, founded by Jim Woodring, will create a work of narrative sequential art right before your eyes. You may purchase a copy of said art at the end of the evening. 6-9pm, drop in anytime // Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, 1201 S Vale St. in Georgetown // TRIVIA: If you think Seattlest James asks tough questions, take a gander at sample categories at the World Affairs Council's Transnational......

So, somehow it escaped our attention until yesterday that in the last issue of Seattle Weekly, Adriana Grant, the editorial assistant, was dispatched to do a hatchet-job on one of our favorite U-District Bars, Kai's Bistro....

Direct from Hollywood: Catch a Fire (Philip Noyce): Several theaters, including Pacific Place and Metro. Running with Scissors (Ryan Murphy): Several theaters, including Oak Tree, Meridian 16, and Metro Saw III (Darren Lynn Bousman): Several theaters, including Oak Tree, Pacific Place, and Metro Indies, revivals, and other abominations against the studio system: Bad Taste (Peter Jackson): Central Cinema Blue Velvet (David Lynch): Central Cinema Camp Death (Blood Squad): Grand Illusion Conversations with God (Stephen Simon):......

Seattlest first heard about the predilection David Lynch has for meditation shortly after 9/11, when he suggested that winning a war against suicidal religious fundamentalists would require us to think happy thoughts and do some breathing excercises. This didnt exactly inspire the requisite confidence to secure a nomination for Secretary of Defense from the neo-cons, but then again, that's not really saying anything. In this msnbc interview from last July, Lynch talks about wanting to......

When we first moved here three years ago, an old restaurant called Sorry Charlie’s was still open on lower Queen Anne opposite one of our favorite bars, Mecca. Our friend Joe McGinty, who runs the Loser’s Lounge in New York City, had tipped us off that at night, Sorry Charlie’s transformed into a piano bar, and we absolutely had to see Howard Bulson, who played piano there. (Howard, who is now 71, has been playing......