It was our second play at the Rep in as many months, so we know: a gay character in a Seattle Rep performance this season has about the same odds at survival as a redshirt on an away team mission did in the original Star Trek. That is to say, he dies. Apparently that's how you illustrate "families being torn apart" or something these days. The Breach tells the stories of a disparate group of......

This is pretty heartwarming stuff. The NBA asks teams who play against New Orleans to do a little community service while they're there. Teams do, often haphazardly, sending a couple of players along to some pre-selected site. But the Sonics entire staff--coaches, players, security people--showed up to serve food at a New Orleans substance abuse center for 45 minutes, reports the P-I's Gary Washburn. Then, after that, coach P.J. Carlesimo wanted to do more, so......

There are a lot of things we can see being seized at the border between Canada and the United States: handguns with the serial number filed off, bricks of heroin, briefcases with the radioactivity sign on the side. Hard drives we'd expect to make it through, but unfortunately we'd be wrong. The guy bringing the masters of the songs Chris Walla recorded in Vancouver back down to Seattle had the drive containing them yanked by......

Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU, spoke last night at Town Hall to publicize his new book In Defense of Our America. Notwithstanding the scheduling genius that placed Romero opposite mega-bestselling author Khaled Husseini (The Kite Runner) the lower auditorium was full of citizens waiting to voice their displeasure with ACLU policies. Romero didn't get any criticism for defending the Ku Klu Klan, Neo-Nazis, Ollie North, Fred Phelps, and NAMBLA. No, Seattle's citizens......

This just in: Seattle Rep’s 2007-2008 season in the Bagley Wright Theatre begins with Shakespeare’s beloved comedy, Twelfth Night, followed by a powerful play about the Cuban revolution, The Cook by Eduardo Machado. A new play, The Breach about Hurricane Katrina comes next, then the classic Molière comedy, The Imaginary Invalid, and finally Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney brings his skills to a classic Greek adventure in The Cure at Troy. In the Leo......

Providing yet more evidence why you should avoid documentaries with far more than a 35-millimeter pole, the producer of Iraq in Fragments today released a gag-inducing "open letter" to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences calling on them to apologize because someone made a joke he didn't like. The offender? Jerry Seinfeld who, to quote the aggrieved documentarian "poked fun" at documentaries in his introduction of the five nominees for Best Doc., and......

Hurricane Katrina forced the NBA's Hornets to play most of this and last season in Oklahoma City, but they'll play all 41 of their 2007-08 home games in New Orleans.The New Orleans Hornets planned to let a deadline pass Wednesday on the team’s option to play a third season at its temporary home in Oklahoma City. “Obviously we’re extremely grateful for the people in this community, the way they’ve embraced us and have supported us,”......

Okay so West Seattle isn't exactly the most convenient place for going out on a weeknight, unless, of course, you live in West Seattle. But for those of us acoustic music enthusiasts here in the cool part of town (ouch!), it'll have to do for now. A new group of local promoters, going by the moniker of Four Sheep (we're not sure if this is a biblical reference or not, but we'll let it slide......

Congressman Jim McDermott is calling for Seattle to move quickly on a plan to replace the Viaduct. This leaves us wondering if he’s spending to much time in that other Washington, because clearly he has forgotten how we do things out here. Upon returning from a tour of areas damaged by Hurricane Katrina he told the AP, "I came away with the strong feeling that here in Seattle we have to have our own plans......

The Senate was asked to support the troops this morning via a defence spending bill that included money for soldiers in Iraq, Katrina aid and, of course, drilling for oil in the Alaskan wildlife refuge. Attaching ANWR drilling to a defence spending bill that must get passed was the brainchild of Senator Stevens of Alaska who has been trying to dig up the refuge for twenty years, a move that Senator John McCain called,......

Apple Cup week in Seattle means one thing: really crappy weather (rimshot...crickets). But there is also a football game, and this year is no exception. On Saturday at Husky Stadium the 2-8 Huskies will take on the 3-7 Cougars, in what is sure to go down as an official NCAA game. The Cougars, however, have already claimed the first victory of the week by out raising Husky alumni and winning the Space Needle Challenge. For......

Q: Why was there a Washington State Cougars flag flying above the Space Needle yesterday? And a Husky flag today? A: Because of a contest to raise money for Hurricane Katrina relief. The school's alumni who donate the most money to Habitat for Humanity each day get to see their school's flag flying above the city. It's part of the buildup to the Apple Cup, the football game between the state rivals, played annually the......

With the weather having finally made its turn, and daylight savings coercing us to retire for the evening at ridiculously early hours, it's hard to convince yourself to make it out. Staying at home is an all-too-easy and oh-so-warm option, but you'll have to fight that temptation and make it out. It's good for the spirit as well as the body (well, provided you don't abuse the body too much with drink specials). A healthy......

Why do some people prefer pets? Mark Twain answered the question (probably with his corncob pipe resting at a rakish angle) thusly: "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." Hundreds of starving dogs owe their lives to a group of volunteers from local animal rescue farm Pasado's Safe Haven. The dedicated animal lovers traveled......

Our mysteriously long commute this morning (the rain? aurora borealis centralized on 99?), in concert with an even more mysterious mp3 player outage (battery power? the gods telling us we need an iPod? technical ineptitude?) forced us to catch Harvey Danger on KEXP. KEXP is broadcasting out of the Museum of Television and Radio in NYC currently, which has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Harvey Danger (we think it was Sean?)......