Hometown heroes and diplomats of plaid Nirvana are getting what is claimed to be the single most comprehensive examination of the bands musical and cultural legacy ever come this April at the EMP. more ›

You've got one final week to see the free Bumbershoot poster and art exhibit. It's a fine way to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Bumbershoot. Here's why. more ›

Someone doesn't want you to know about Seattle's water supply--they yanked an interpretative display off the wall of the Volunteer Park Water Tower. But someone else does want you to know: his name is Stokely Towles, which we half-consider to be made-up. He describes his Waterlines installation (also at Volunteer Park, in a trailer on the road between SAAM and the Conservatory) like so: more ›

Above you can see the Woodland Park Zoo's Humboldt penguins in their new, quasi-natural environment. The exhibit opens to the public on Saturday, May 2, so you have to content yourself with video for a little while yet. The Zoo tells us "the penguins, 10 males and 10 females, arrived three weeks ago from five other zoos and aquariums," and were put in quarantine. They range in ages from one to twenty years old, and you can adopt a penguin for just $50, though confidentially we hear you probably want to avoid the teenagers. more ›

DESIGN: Attention parents! Before you pony up the dough to send your little Da Vinci to Cornish, drop in at the Design Faculty Exhibition and see what the faculty at the Design department (Susan Boye, Jeff Brice, Tiffany Laine De Mott, Jon Gierlich, Jacob Kohn, Claudia Meyer-Newman, Julie Myers, Ellen Forney, Julie Gaskill, Hovie Hawk, BeAnne Hull, Marisa Mangum, Dan Shafer, Hal Tangen, Daniel Thornton, and Junichi Tsuneoka) can do. It's due diligence, people, and worth it for no other reason than because Ellen Forney's name is in the middle of that list. more ›

THE NATIVE MASK: Of Myth & Mask, at the Steinbrueck Native Art Gallery, explores Northwest Coast mythology and the regalia used in its storytelling. The exhibit features masks by David Boxley, Corey Bulpitt, Al Charles, George David, Erich Glendale, Eugene Isaacs, Norman Jackson, James Madison, and John Wilson. We were just reading Jonathan Raban's Passage to Juneau, in which he talks about how bowdlerized Pacific Northwest myth was in its retelling by Europeans. So throw away the books and try this "art" thing out. more ›

On this Valentine's Day, we also take the time to honor the kind of love that exists between two straight dudes -- the primarily heterosexual feelings that a man has for his BFF. Exhibit A: Stan and Kyle. Exhibit B: Jay and Silent Bob. Exhibit C: Matt and Ben, the celebrity spoof of the relationship between Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, focusing on the period right before they became famous (i.e., the making of Good Will Hunting). Except in this case, the duo didn't so much write the Oscar-winning screenplay that catapulted them to celebrity status as it literally fell out of sky, fully composed, into Ben's apartment while the two aspiring stars were working on a whole other project: their film adaptation of Catcher in the Rye. more ›

Consider this recent newspaper excerpt, which we'll call Exhibit V:

There's but one non-pizza entree, a wonderful lasagna built on layers of thin, tender noodles, ricotta, provolone and a complex ragu, then baked until bubbly.

Lasagna was layered with a sauce in which the meat was pureed, giving it a funky, almost pasty texture, and the tomatoes had a tinny quality.

Working out at the downtown Gold's Gym these days can be kind of weird/depressing/odd given that the gym's floor-to-ceiling windows face the big display ad images of the petrified cadavers in the Bodies Exhibit across the street. That's almost as weird as the placement of the Monroe high school a few feet and a chain link fence away from the Monroe prison, but whatever. Maybe taking the faces of 'roid-sucking hard-bodies and rubbing it in morbid displays of mortality was always part of the grand scheme of the suspiciously named "Dr. Gunther von Hagens," who the Seattle Times accuses of being "the German physician who originated the plasticizing technique to preserve the corpses." more ›

Would it be worth it to get out of bed that early on a Sunday to score some "free" and no doubt choice real estate probably located on the Moon? more ›

Courtney Love) and we more or less recall the political foment of The Evergreen State College, the lo-pro, no-letter-grades hothouse that produced Rachel Corrie, the student-activist who was killed when she was struck by bulldozer in Gaza three years ago today. more ›

Oh, how the television gods have smiled on us today. After months, nay, years—wait a minute....ten, carry the one—nay, months of cringing at each week's Meredith-dispensed nuggets of, um, wisdom, and begging for mercy, or at the very least a quick and painful execution to put us out of our misery, we're greeted with the sweet, sweet clemency of a George-dictated show. What, oh what have we done to deserve this? Oh, yeah. (Take that, Stacy Keibler. That's right, we said it.) The universe has been righted, once again. more ›

Note to programming execs: Surprises are generally more surprising when they aren't teased within an inch of their life in the week prior to said surprise. Exhibit A: The bombshell info Izzie drops on us halfway through this week's episode that we just Did. Not. See. Coming. Just when we had written off these pre-Super Bowl episodes as a month of filler, you snap back to it and rock us like a hurricane. Nicely done. more ›