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• Seattle loves music, recession or not. Music venues big and small are reporting concert ticket sales holding steady, even selling out, despite the financial slump. We just can't say no to traditions, good music, and outdoor summer concerts.
• Another small plane dropped out of the sky on Monday. This time it wasn't an epic crash landing into port-a-potties, but after losing power, a pilot was able to safely land the plane onto the playfield at Genesee Park, near the shore of Lake Washington.
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Fresh off their box office FAIL, today the Jonas Brothers announced the dates and cities for their upcoming tour. "The Jonas Brothers World Tour 2009 presented by Burger King®" (whaaaa?) makes its Seattle-area stop as the sixth date of the tour on June 28th at Tacoma Dome--before the Jo Bros proceed to lug their 140-foot plus stage, along with a "one-of-a-kind circular water screen [and] multi-color laser effects," all across the country and eventually to Europe and South America. Tickets go on sale March 28th via Live Nation, though there seems to be early presales if you're a Team Jonas fan club member (*shudder*) or enrolled in Citicards' Private Pass program. If the news of this tour doesn't give you an instant (but purity ring-approved) boygasm, we highly suggest you watch tonight's episode of South Park.

(Forgive the most obvious headline ever. We're distracted by the glowing orb in the sky.)

When Seattlest was living in New York City and our then-six-year-old niece came to visit, it made perfect sense to take her to see The Lion King on Broadway. After all, it was a Disney production, based on the cartoon movie by the same name. We joked around with her before the show about how silly it felt to be an adult at a Disney play (even then she liked to goad us sarcastically about such things). But then the lights went low, the music started, and suddenly both us and our little niece were spellbound by the story and the incredible costumes, choreography, and score.

Ro Ro's BBQ inhabits a small shack that used to house the Stoneway Cafe in Wallingford for years. Generally replacing a neighborhood mainstay isn't easy shoe-filling but Ro Ro's has taken to the new location--3620 Stone Way N, between 36th and 38th--with authority.

For those of you without tweens, HSM is the story of smart Gabriella and jock Troy, teens from different high schools who meet during their winter break, sing some karaoke together at a ski lodge, exchange cell numbers, and go back to their respective lives. Gabriella moves to Albuquerque's East High School, home of the Wildcats...and--completely coincidentally!--Troy. The show begins with a he-said/she-said recounting of their meeting (think "Summer Lovin'" from Grease) with their friends from the Archetype Depot. Troy's the basketball star, Gabriella's the academic decathelon star, and they both wind up trying out for the high school musical, Juliet and Romeo, written by Shy Asian Musician Girl. In matching teal, the high school drama queen, Sharpay, and her twin brother Ryan (sort of an understudy for Ugly Betty's Marc St. James) conspire against our two star-crossed lovers for the leads in the musical. Throw in the must-win brain brawl and the big game--both in conflict with the musical call-backs--and, well, you get the idea. It all works out, and all main characters (except Ryan, 'cause this is Disney...) pair up in the end.

We've been hitting shows on the Seattle music scene for about four years now, and if there's one thing we can say with certainty, it's that Seattle doesn't need more musicians, it needs ones. Such may be the consolation of learning that next week, the Seattle chapter of Paul Green's School of Rock opens. If Green's now famous "school" can help create a new generation of musicians whose influences go deeper than Green Day, that alone will be an achievement.

For everyone that doesn't have an eight, nine or ten-year old daughter or doesn't work at either paper or any of the local television stations or at Key Arena, Hannah Montana is some Disney television thing that toured through Seattle yesterday to a storm of coverage and over-inflated ticket prices. The show's pretext is that this teenager leads a double life: everyday anonymous jerk by day, rock star Hannah Montana by night.

Tuesday night Seattlest won $35 playing pub trivia at the Boxcar Ale House in Magnolia. And we earned every goddamn penny -- it was a brutal slog of an evening. "I'm about to get stabby," said one of our teammates at about 9:50, when it was clear that we weren't getting out of there anytime soon.

This weekend Seattlest was standing outside of Jules Maes in Georgetown trying to explain to someone which part, exactly, of the Rainier Cold Storage compound across the street was about to be torn down. It's the Stock House which is north of here a bit--it's, uh...no. Ok, it's down there near the...no. Not thirty feet from us and directly across the street there's a sign that says "Stock House." Yep, that's it.

So, accompanied by friends who've long lived in Morocco, we drop by. Uh-oh. Decorations, good. Romantic hideway, not so much. Diverse delicacies, no way. Of all the gin joints in the world, we've walked into this one. Rick would be aghast.

It's Shakespeare, so you can't complain. That's just "Shakespearean language." Here it is, Act III, Scene 1 from The Merchant of Venice:

If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die?

Microsoft, Amazon, Disney, Nintendo, The Robot Co-Op; the list of big name tech companies in the Puget Sound region includes some of the biggest, which is why we were surprised by the recent bandwidth report that ranked Washington 18th among U.S. states in high-speed internet access. Illinois is 17th, Michigan is 19th. Two fine states but what tech shops do they have? Rhode Island is number one, Kansas 2 and Jersey 3. Apparently the presence of large technology companies has shit to do with the speed of the general interweb in a region. California is 38th (phbbbbttt!) and South Dakota is dead 50th, which should be a warning to us all. Don't be like SD. We take it on faith that a slow internet leads directly to things like full-on abortion bans, although when we tried making a Red State vs Blue State map with these speed rankings it didn't pan out.

Oh, the Northwest New Works Festival is back this weekend and it's promising to be another fantastic installment of our favorite annual creative mindfuck. This year’s festival offers 4 showcases, featuring 18 artists and performance groups and spanning two weekends at On the Boards.

This Eagle is going to be a Flickr hit.

MUSIC: Yeah, we're really not sure about this, it could go either way, but the Crocodile is hosting a Disney cover night, featuring members from Catch, Kane Hodder, Pris, and a bunch of other acts. That's right. Disney covers. If it fails, it should fail in a uniquely horrifying manner.

>>>UW Forum for Science and Ethics Policy, 5:30pm. Dr. Dennis Schatz, VP for Education at the Pacific Science Center, cheerleads for “Making Science as Pervasive as Sports in Society.” His ulterior motive? It can only be to pack the Sonics off to Oklahoma and build our very own Exploratorium right here in Seattle, to which we say “Be Aggressive, Be Be Aggressive!” Free. UW Health Sciences Building, T-478.

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for?

If you think it's too early to talk Halloween, you must really hate those Xmas tchotchkes that have shown up in major retailers near you. We, on the other hand, think Friday the 13th is the perfect day to start celebrating.

Thirteen teams turned out for Seattlest trivia last night at the Old Pequliar. Want to see how you'd do? Here are all the questions. We'll post answers later today, along with a list of team standings and anything else interesting we find to say about the event.

What the hell is this thing doing in Seattle? Is this in honor of the Disney Internet Services employees we have in the area or is there some kind of Disney World NW planned? It's a balloon, right?

Only a couple minutes into Duma, the latest film from Carroll Ballard, king of mature-minded animal flicks (The Black Stallion, Fly Away Home), one thing becomes abundantly clear: Baby cheetahs are really, really f-ing cute. Their fur is all mottled and super fluffy. Rather than meowing, they make a little bird-like peep. We totally want one.

Pizza sucks in Seattle. Feel free to post your own obscure favorite in the comments or simply let it pass. Sure, there are a few highlights here or there around the city where something resembling an actual pizza can be obtained, but the overall quality of the city's pizza is piss poor. Here's a tip: If the crust is wet, it sucks. Wallingford, oddly, has a few ok places, though. The Wallingford Pizza House (previously The Chicago Pizza House hint hint at the writer's hometown) is...so-so. Northlake Tavern and Pizza House is a couple clicks above that on the evolutionary ladder. Very edible. Obviously we're struggling to establish a whole lot of pizza credibility in the neighborhood. Enter Tutta Bella, though.

Hmm...now where have we seen this before? Meredith goes to Joe's bar (Joe!). Meredith meets man. Meredith takes man home and ravishes him for supposed one-night stand only to be faced with him again the following morning. Oh, that's right: The very first episode. But fear not, viewers, those highly original and not at all trite and/or metaphorically-leaning writers have not yet begun to recycle storylines. They have, however, decided it was about time for the Seattle Grace docs to do a little dance, make a little love and get down tonight. Well, get down, but also up...so to speak.

over! Sure, it broke records, but cash isn't the only measure of success. Lucas & Co. have long passed their sell-by dates, hardly able to achieve story rudiments like cause and effect in their visually top-heavy cartoons. And let's not talk about the acting. The crushing weight of special-effects has usurped all common sense at Skywalker Ranch, which bodes ill for the future, as the Man is currently up to something. Fingers crossed that Earth collides with a comet before it sees the light of day, whatever it is.

Even though today is Wednesday, as far as we're concerned, yesterday was Hump Day, since that's when submissions were due for The Stranger's first annual amateur porn contest. Public viewing of the, um, entries will be the evening of August 20th at the Northwest Film Forum, with the awards party later that night at Chop Suey.

The Adam Sandler movie The Wedding Singer hit a note with audiences outside of the traditional Sandler base and probably led directly to his roles in more recent non-funny non-comedy movies. Seattlest thinks he's going to eventually be very good in those roles and we wish him the best with that.