Like the large-scale divorce it is, Seattle and Oklahoma City have divvied up the personal artifacts and furniture once associated with the Seattle Supersonics. We get to keep the trophies, championship banners and retired jerseys--which will be kept and shown at the MOHAI. Oklahoma City and the Thunder (or whatever the team will be called) has been awarded some CDs, a flat screen TV, a basketball inflater, and a replay monitor. For once in this......

The wife of Nicholas Francisco, a 28 year-old father from SeaTac who has been at the center of a national missing person search since February, has filed for divorce from her missing husband. In the dissolution papers filed at King County Superior Court, Christine Francisco cited "willful abandonment that continues for a period of time," as a reason for her request of dissolution. A dead man, or even a man who is suspected to......

Late last year, Sean and Robin Wright Penn filed the paperwork necessary to put their marriage the way of yesterday's hangover. Tuesday night, the couple attended Eddie Vedder's Berkeley, Calfornia show at the Zellerbach Theatre—together. The Into the Wild director apparently even hopped on stage to dedicate one of Eddie's songs to his wife; a special birthday surprise. (We're guessing he didn't choose "Better Man.") Turns out the near-divorcees asked that their dissolution proceeding......

Trouble in Tahiti / Rita: Seattle Young Artists Program @ CHAC 8-10pm, Nov. 16-17 // CHAC // Tickets $20 in advance Friday and Saturday, Seattle Opera's Young Artists Program perform at CHAC with an unusual double-feature. We buttonholed our friend Jonathan Dean, the Education Department's Artistic Administrator, and peppered him with hard-hitting questions to get to the bottom of all this. MvB: You're doing two shows, one by Leonard Bernstein, one by Gaetano Donizetti. What's......

A while ago we interviewed local author Amanda Ford about her new book Kiss Me I'm Single: An Ode to the Solo Life. Tonight's book reading is supposed to include "one or more of the following: a lively discussion of archetypal paradoxes that pervade human existence, origami lessons, singing of vintage sorority songs, libation consumption, kissing, the use of metaphors." Elsewhere she says the book grew out of:...the stormy, excited-yet-fearful energy that has enveloped me......

Initially, we were a little surprised to hear that ACT--A Contemporary Theatre--was putting on Clare Booth Luce's The Women. Although having debuted in 1936 placed the play in the Modern canon, its view of women is about as un-p.c. as they come: in short, the play presents women as gossipy and back-stabbing, assumes marital infidelity is a function of the Y chromosome, and ends with a note suggesting that for the sake of a healthy......

All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything we've been doing! Gothamist headed into the Memorial Day weekend with a number of tasks accomplished. They worried about Long Islanders giving New Yorkers a bad name. They tried......

Kids have been getting shafted by disputes between their parents since the first caveman hired an attorney to protect his rock collection after breaking it off with the cavewoman. Or at least since the 70s--same difference. But there's a kid down in Oly who's about to suffer above and beyond what most casualties of divorce go through. His father has converted to Judaism (we're picturing Goodman in The Big Lebowski) and wants his son to......

--Campuses are rightly freaked out. UW gymnasts report that they're being stalked. --A guy wearing an ammunition belt was arrested at Lewis and Clark in Oregon. We've seen a punk rock version of the ammo belt recently in Seattle. --The Divorce to divorce. --Cutting greenhouse gas emissions is a torturous process only to be undertaken by the those wishing to cleanse their souls of sin. --The condos on top of Hotel 1000 are going......

Monday PREQUEL TO MCARTNEY'S WINGS: Richie Unterberger, the author of several books on the history of rock, shows some film footage and plays some music recordings of unreleased Beatles material. He´s promoting his latest book, The Unreleased Beatles -- Music and Film. We had no idea they were in jail! (Ha! Because of the "unreleased" -- see how...oh...sure, we can move on.) 7pm // Seattle Central Public Library Microsoft Auditorium // FREE GARDENING AT......

No, not the game company. (We'd love to know how many hours Cranium's lawyers spent agonizing over Cranium's Collectibles, though. And whether or not Cranium will be buying craniums.com.) Cranium's has been shuttered for months, but Ericka at Outer Limits reports that the coffee/collectibles/record shop, a popular outpost of funky in nothern Seattle up at 123rd and Lake City Way will not be reopening. We never actually went to Cranium's. When we lived in......

Yes, a real pie is baked onstage during the performance. We'd call it a gimmick, but the theatre was crammed with moms and daughters for whom pie-making, apparently, inspired the same kind of emotion as going for it on 4th and 2 with 1:12 left to play. The flour-sifting, butter-chopping, dough-rolling, and pan-trimming met with hoots, gasps, sighs, and chuckles. It may be a homespun metaphor, but who can say no to pie? Not......

Tuesday 14th >>> P.O.S. at Chop Suey. P.O.S. is one of the latest hot MCs to "blow up" (the term being relative since this is still very underground hip-hop we're discussing here). In any case, there's an opener called the Cleveland Steamers, and how could you not want to see what that sounds like? 8pm doors; $10. All ages. >>> Hot Chip at Neumo's. Hot Chip blurs the line between the electronic and indie......

With the playoffs underway we thought it would be fun to look at all of the former Mariners you may come accross DODGERS Derek Lowe—Last year he went through a very public divorce after it was revealed that he was having an affair with Carolyn Hughes, a reporter for the Dodger’s pre-game show. The name of the program: ‘Dodger Insider.’ Giovanni Carrara -- “I’m-a gonna strike-a you out Delgado.” Aaron Sele—Quick note to the Dodgers......

Another copious serving of live tunes (not to mention opportunities to leave your smelly apartment), courtesy of Seattlest. You can thank us later. Tuesday 26th >>> The Presets at Chop Suey. Between The Presets electro-rock and opening acts The Girls and No-Fi Soul Rebellion, this show can't help but to leave you in a sweaty heap by the end of the night. 9pm doors; $8 adv. 21+ >>> DJ Krush at Neumo's. Japan's DJ......

Monday night at the Showbox, things were just a little off. In the smokers' area outside the venue, a blond dude writhed on the ground, either having a seizure or a "seizure," we couldn't tell which. The venue's bouncers were being tough on digital SLR cameras, due to their potential use as weapons (whaaa?). Right next door at the Green Room, some guy was getting kicked out and a girl was crying. Meanwhile, inside the......

Now that Memorial Day weekend is past us, and Folklife and Sasquatch have played their last rain-soaked notes, it's time to focus on the things that really matter: SIFF films. Just for fun, go check out the SIFF 2006 profile on Flickr. It's got a lot of great pics, including a bunch of Jessica Biel looking vacuous and a dozen photos of Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn. Dudes, we understand that you really like......

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. Shanghaist gets all excited this week over a new nightclub in the city unfortunately named "Snatch" and Mike Tyson is scheduled to......

Another week of Seattlest making all your plans for you. You don’t even have to think! Joy! Monday 20th: >>Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's second album sounds like they've started hanging out with the Black Keys. Hallelujiah. With Elefant and The Morning After Girls at the Showbox. 8pm, $17adv/$19 door, (21+) >>Shock Therapy: DJs Deutcher Meister, Lu Ying, Kamikaze at The Bad Juju Lounge Free! Tuesday 21st: >>Fish Scale Tour: Ghostface Killah, M-1, Common Market......

Call Rumsfeld! The United Kingdom is exporting weapons of mass distortion to the U.S.! [Insert laugh-track] Hovering between #7 and #10 on the Sonic Boom Top Seller lists is the debut album, “Everything Is,” by Nine Black Alps. (Easy Street is nearly a week late in posting their list, so who knows what’s going on over there.) Hailing from Manchester, England, Nine Black Alps traveled to Los Angeles to record with producer Rob Schnapf......

Right now, if you want to see The Squid and the Whale, one of Seattlest's favorite films from 2005, you don't have much by way of options. Until recently, it was playing at the Uptown Theatre. You could wait for it to be out on DVD; its post-Oscars release is not until March 21st. Nah, don't bother: director Noel Baumbach's third full-length continues to play both locations of the Big Picture, the cushiest theatres in......

There was *a lot* going on last weekend, what with the game itself and all other Superbowl-related activities. This weekend, not so much. So if you don't have anything planned for tonight (besides four episodes of Arrested Development), you could always drop by Chop Suey for a free show featuring The Divorce and Wolfmother. Expect a lotta hipsters, as both DJ Franki Chan and The Cobra Snake will be on hand. OMG, I can't wait......

While you may not be accustomed to getting music news from Seattlest that's not along the "Die, Fledermaus, Die" lines lately we do actually listen to the rock music. You, know, sometimes, when we're feeling guitar-y. We have a copy of The Lashes new CD at Seattlest HQ but we've been so busy trying to break the copy protection on it so we can distribute it to the world via our P2P of choice......

Over the weekend, Seattlest had the chance to make it the Grand Illusion's showings of Love Crazy (1941) and Double Wedding (1937). (These aren't from the Thin Man series, but we thought more people would twig to a post titled "Nick & Nora" than "Bill & Myrna.") You have until Thursday to see them, at 7pm and 9pm showings. Both of these pairings of William Powell and Myrna Loy had the tiny little theater in......

Here we are in the home stretch of the 31st annual Seattle International Film Festival. If you haven't seen a great foreign film/documentary/indie flick, or at least an advertisement featuring aspects thereof, you only have till this Sunday to do so. Between now and then, some festival films of note (and in a nutshell) include: · 5 X 2 - Five Times Two, from the director of Swimming Pool, a look at five significant events......

Since we are still a little shaken over the story (later retracted) on E!'s website that Nick and Jessica filed for divorce, we haven't really left our house much in the last 36 hours. When we were, even briefly, able to hold back the tears, we've been very much enjoying 'Can't Stop Won't Stop : A History of the Hip Hop Generation' by Jeff Chang. This book traces the rise of hip-hop from its Jamaican......