News of the Croc's closure sparked a lively conversation at Seattlest HQ yesterday. We suspect reactions at other blogs' virtual newsrooms were equally as visceral. The local blogosphere, if you will, seems to have turned temporarily into a Croco-sphere. Personally, we have found bittersweet solace in the words of Scripture: In 1966, I went down to Greenwich Village, New York City to a rock club called Electric Banana. Don't look for it; it's not there......

Wonderful Town, currently playing at the 5th Avenue Theatre, is, in a word, fantastic. (You thought we would go with “wonderful,” didn’t you? Yeah, not this time, buddy.) Seattlest caught the show last Saturday night, and we genuinely enjoyed it. We were pulled in from the first jazzy notes of the orchestra’s overture. Frankly, we’d forgotten how wonderful a Leonard Bernstein score can be. We’d also forgotten how over-the-top musicals can be, in general, but......