Theatre: A production of Mr. Marmalade got introduced by Curtain Up thusly:If you've always associated marmalade with sweetness, you're likely to expect the title character of Noah Haidle's play to be a sweet, lovable guy -- just the sort of imaginary friend for a four-year-old moppet named Lucy. Well, think again. Playwright Haidle's Mr. Marmalade is a cocaine snorting, emotionally out to lunch businessman with a briefcase packed with kinky sex toys. Not a......

Eco-Theatre: Keep the Light On at Annex is human-powered theatre -- bicycling literally keeps the lights on. The collection of three dystopic one-acts includes Foxy Populi ("a hilarious, sharp-fanged satire on the downfall of Western civilization, through the meltdown of a crazed blond pop star"), 1001 ("a skein of surreal scenes spun by a Scheherazade-like delivery boy who tangles with a one-eyed pharmacist, a homicidal client and a lisping Mexican widow") and ElectriCity (a......

Announced earlier today, the next John in the Morning at Night will take place Friday, March 7th at Neumo's. The lineup so far is the jagged blues-leaning Britrock of The Duke Spirit, the swagger-heavy post-punk of The Voom Blooms (above), and the solid psych alt-country of Tulsa. The latter two bands have never played Seattle before, so this is your first chance to catch 'em live. And who knows? When it comes to KEXP......

It’s one of those Sunday mornings where the air is very still and heavy, and the dim light is giving you plenty of room to recover from Saturday night. For us, it’s the perfect time to visit the newest Victrola Coffee location on Pike Street. We enter the spanky-fresh store, a location mostly done up in the very popular, but tepid modern design. Like a Santa Barbara beach, all the tables are blonde-topped. The......

When the Croc closed last December, Black Mountain was already scheduled to play the venue in early February. Luckily, Neumo's knew better than to leave the druggy psychedelic rock five-piece high and dry - they added Black Mountain to the bill of tomorrow night's show, creating a truly awesome (and diverse) bill. Along with BM's Zep-meets-Sabbath-meets-heavy, acid-laced spacerock, Thursday's lineup also includes the groovy, '70s folk-twinged Americana of Howlin Rain, the tongue-in-cheek electro-pop of......

We saw fine young Canadians Tokyo Police Club about a year ago and have been itching to see 'em headline a show ever since. Now's our chance, as the boys are back tonight at Neumo's with White Rabbits and the Virgins in tow. TPC are still working on their debut full-length for Saddle Creek, but they do have another single under their belt (the above "Your English is Good"), as well as a second......

Considering this is Pride Weekend, you've got a bevy of options for live music in between bouts of sodomy, muff-diving, tina-using, and/or trips to Home Depot. -Seattle Men's Chorus explores the complex love-hate relationship between God and the gays in Scared Faithless at McCaw Hall. Friday-Saturday // 8pm // 321 Mercer St // $15-$57 -The Wildrose (and dragtastic Ursula Android and Jackie Hell) hosts their annual all-weekend party, with approximately nine million performances by......

Tomorrow night, fun-time hip hop trio and sworn defenders of the Constitutionally-protected right to party™ the Saturday Knights are playing a free show (a "boozy little shindig") at Havana, along with the high-energy rock quartet the Cops. Originally, the live performances were going to be in the parking lot, but with this weekend's weather forecast not looking so hot, the festivities were moved indoors. Ain't no thing: the bands will provide the soundtrack to......

Victrola Coffee has their new roasteria location down at Pike and Terry, up from Six Arms, and they're holding public coffee cuppings on Wednesdays to let people in on a more behind-the-roaster view of their morning bean beverage. We've done this, and it's fun, but we warn you that we left thinking hummingbirds looked old and slow. While you're there, try out the new comfy chairs for us. We only had time to snap......

PUPPETS: Puppets are cute when you're a kid, but when you get older they're a bit creepy. Creepy though they may be, Drunk Puppet Night removes the kid context and serves up "mature" puppetry, which may or may not involve tales about puppets trying to make rent. Continues March 2, 3, 9, 10. Doors 7pm, show 8pm // Rebar, 1114 Howell @ Boren // $15 MUSIC: Buttrock Suites sets modern dance to live renditions......

MUSIC: Dancing on the Valentine features wall-to-wall Duran Duran songs covered by local bands, including Say Hi to Your Mom, Valu-Pak, Speaker Speaker, and Peter Parker, all to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. 8pm // The Crocodile, 2200 2nd Ave // $10 -- to fight disease! MOVIE: Age of Consent, a rare Michael Powell film featuring James Mason (Eddie Izzard's voice of God) slurring his lines and Helen Mirren as an incredible young hottie,......

ART: OKOK's move to Ballard has been good for them. The new space puts more focus on the art, separating it a bit from the (still great) retail. Free Parking, a new group drawing exhibit, opens today with works from ten artists. 6-10pm // OKOK Gallery, 5107 Ballard Ave NW // FREE COMICS: Do anything well for 25 years and you acquire almost mythic status, regardless of area. Love and Rockets has been doing......

MUSIC: The Lawnchair Generals have always had our respect because of their ability to both accept and transcend the West Coast house sound, playing and producing records that appeal to masses the world over. This is hardly Just Another House Night, and you'd do well to see two of Seattle's house ambassadors at work. *Sample set: Live on Mix Up Radio Australia, November 2006 Doors 10pm // Neumo's, 925 E Pike St. // $10,......

SEX: Sex-positive retailer Babeland closes out 2006 with their annual three day sale, with even some of their most popular toys marked down 25%. Let's face it, the other gifts you may have received this holiday season won't provide the long-term satisfaction something you pick up here will. 11am-10pm (also Noon-7pm Sunday and 11am-10pm Monday) // 707 E Pike St. // 25% off whatever pleasing your bits and pieces is worth MUSIC: As hard as......

DONATE: For as much as gamers earn their nerdy reputations (and thus our ridicule), Child's Play gives them a chance to both share their geek pride and help the world around them through donations to help kids in hospitals. You want to help too, right? Anytime // Child's Play // However much you can COMICS: Seattlest favorites Ellen Forney and Peter Bagge provide a double-dose of awesome with Comics Rock!, featuring Forney's "I Love......

It's been forever since we've heard from local sketch comedy troupe Train of Thought. Alright, so it hasn't even been a month since they kicked off their participation in JibJab's Great Sketch Experiment (you can still vote on that for another week here), and they're already performing again at the Northwest Actor's Studio. While their new show is overall middling, it's peppered with moments of sheer brilliance. Perhaps part of the mixed-baggedness is due......

Wednesday, October 25 >>>Rendezvous Jewel Box Theater, 7:30-10pm. Are you afraid of the dimmed lights in a theater? A Guide to Visitors presents their annual Ghost Story night. Spooky stories about haunted office buildings and ghost quests, told by people such as the woman who leads a ghost tour of Pike Place Market. The press release says the Jewel Box is haunted, so maybe the dead will chip in a tale or two themselvs.......

When the Absurd Reality Theatre's production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) kicked things off with a recitation of the flight attendant safety speech, Seattlest buckled up for a long night. Even though the production is advertised as "3 men, 37 plays, 90 minutes," the play dragged. And we're pretty sure it's not the work as written (by Jess Borgeson, Adam Long, and Daniel Singer), since we've heard from friends who've seen......

There was a time about a year ago, when we went to dinner at the Oasis Cafe for the first time, and, after receiving average food and abominable service, we vowed never to go there again. Fast forward to last night: we were hungry for sushi, while our companion for the evening was hungry for Thai. So we figured, what the hell, we'd give that pan-Asian Oasis another try. This time around, the food was......

Do you remember the nineties, when electronic music was hailed as the "next big thing?" MTV had its show Amp, which showed nothing but videos from electronic artists (some of them absolutely amazing). The rave scene was in full swing, and glowstick shares were trading up. Of course it couldn't last, and it didn't. There are plenty of reasons why it didn't work out they way some executives thought it would, but the lack......

There is nothing quite like finding the perfect t-shirt. The t-shirt that speaks to you on a deeper level, that makes you smile, makes you laugh, or just shows off the results of your time in the gym. There's also the self-branding involved with wearing a shirt of your favorite band, team, university, or witty phrase. Here at Seattlest, we understand the plight of the male in search for the right shirt, and we're here......