On Saturday the beloved Seahawks will play the Redskins in the opening round of the NFL Playoffs. Taking up the issue on whether or not the Hawks will lose are author Pauls Toutonghi, marketing genius Jason McDonald, and comedy festival standout Dusty Warren. YES! by Pauls Toutonghi I actually am hopeful that we will win. Please print this. I believe it is a possibility. But -- and this is a significant but -- I do......

THEATER: The Brown Derby Series, which debilitated audiences last year with their staged production of Trapped in the Closet, is back, this time they're doing Total Recall. With Seattlest favorite Dusty Warren! Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm // Re-bar [1114 Howell] // $12, 21 and over only, runs through Thursday. No reservations, you may want to line up early. SPORTS: #1 O'Dea hosts #4 Chief Sealth. You've gotta see a game at O'Dea's gym......

Great comedy minds regulary rave about sketch comedy group Kasper Hauser so we felt we were in good hands going in to Thursday's night's show at Re-bar. In town to promote their new book Sky Maul: Happy Crap You Can Buy From a Plane, Kasper Hauser weaves their sketch character's in and out of CEO presentations for the fledgling SkyMaul corporation. Each speech includes some of the humorous catalogue items from the book. It makes......

Books: Isabel Allende reads from her new novel, Ines of My Soul. The Ines in question here is...ah...a real person...who, well, she's got something to do with Chile, historically. It's all there in the book. And what difference does it make? Allende is so damn charming to listen to. 7:30pm // Town Hall // Free Music: The Long Winters, Tapes 'n Tapes and "Awesome" We have a crush on every one of these bands. Which......

Kaspar Hauser, the San Francisco sketch group that performs Thursday at Rebar, is smarter, faster, more creative, and miles ahead of any intentionally funny sketch comedy group performing today. They're here celebrating the release of their new book with a collection of comedy sketches that have made people much funnier than both of us laugh hysterically (Patton Oswald, Fred Willard, and John Hodgman, among others). Now, while just a show from Kasper Hauser would......

The Seahawks play in Kansas City on Sunday--their first trip there since 2001. But back when the Hawks were in the AFC West, they played there every year. And usually lost. From 1981-2001, the Hawks went 2-18 in Kansas City. One win was an unremarkable 31-19 victory in the 1999 season. But that other victory--oh, that other victory. Setting the scene: The Hawks were down six points with four seconds to go. Kansas City's Derrick......

This is the third time we've seen Dusty Warren's one-man show, All-American Push Up Party, and it's still funny as hell. The thing's a masterpiece. As our companion noted, "not a single joke falls flat." It's true. Warren portrays seven characters in short monologues, including a bike cop who "needs your eyes right here," a doctor with some bad news about "your Jeff," a prison guard with coping tips. The most incredible achievement is......

SketchFest Seattle, the country's first sketch comedy festival and the only one in North America to take place at Capital Hill's Erickson Theatre, is entering its final weekend of shows. The line-up includes Summer of Tears, Oh, You and Your Bone Spurs, kevINda, and Seattlest-recommended Becky and Noelle and All American Push Up Party. In fact we can't recommend All American Push Up Party enough. The comedic masterpiece from Dusty Warren plays tonight at......

The problem with most fringe sketch comedy shows is that they are not very funny or original. If you've ever sat through a painfully humorless show, we feel your pain. For the next two weekends, however, SketchFest Seattle will be featuring comedy groups from all over the country (not the South) who are actually funny. The first weekend features three very strong groups and three others we have never seen, but that are sure to......

With SketchFest Seattle chugging into its final weekend, we had a sit-down with Dusty Warren. Seattlest figured he'd be a good guy to talk to, as he's been performing sketch comedy in Seattle since 2000 and is a member of two groups performing this weekend. First there's Flaming Box of Stuff---they just returned from New York where they were a part of a HBO showcase at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre---and then there's the two-man......