Results tagged “elvis”

Elvis impersonators, start your engines: it's almost time for the 2009 Seattle Elvis Invitationals. You have a few weeks still to have your chosen gold sparkly jacket dry-cleaned and to grow the appropriate facial hair, but on January 24th, it's all going down. The prizes for this year's extravaganza at Club Motor are provided by Archie McPhee, Not A Number, and Piecora's Pizza. In honor of Elvis and the Seattle Elvis Invitationals, not to mention Elvis' 74th birthday today, head over to Imeem ("Not YouTube") and groove to our favorite Elvis songs. Then, watch this:

Like it's not embarrassing enough to just trip and stumble in a public place. A young visitor to the Seattle Art Museum suffered even further embarrassment by tripping and falling into a world famous work of art. The stumbling Seattlite damaged Double Elvis, a piece by Andy Warhol. According to the Slog's report on the incident, the SAM's spokesperson said the piece had been dented and was sent to the museum's conservators for repair.

CLASSIC FILM: The spaghetti western The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, starring Clint Eastwood, plays at SIFF Cinema. This classic film has the classic themes of crosses, double crosses, and treasure! Then go home and rent Unforgiven to see how Eastwood’s work has grown. Or not.

"Irish Elvis" by ReeBeckiSupergirl

We got into Memphis last night, and we'll be here for the rest of the week, celebrating folk music along with people from all over the world at the annual Folk Alliance conference. We'll be going on and on about that in articles for another job we have, but we just wanted to take a moment to express how much we love Seattle. We miss Seattle. But mostly, we miss people.