Guy walks into a Belltown bar, orders a cosmo. The new thing, in case you hadn't heard, is ultrapremium spirits. So barkeep pours ultrapremium Ultimat vodka from blown-glass container resembling oversize perfume bottle, adds Cointreau, splash of cran, wedge of lime and proffers resulting pink drink. "That'll be $15." The bar would be Qube, site of the unlamented St. Regis Hotel at 2nd & Stewart on the fringe of Belltown, now complete with seismic retrofit......

By embracing you with hard rocking hands, petting your head with beats, and letting you know in a sweet falsetto voice that the rocking will never stop, Spoon bends you into believing that everything is going to be okay. Even in the hot hot sun, even when the only food you can afford is roasted corn, even when they have David Cross do an interpretive dance of one of their songs and he shows......

Since we are still a little shaken over the story (later retracted) on E!'s website that Nick and Jessica filed for divorce, we haven't really left our house much in the last 36 hours. When we were, even briefly, able to hold back the tears, we've been very much enjoying 'Can't Stop Won't Stop : A History of the Hip Hop Generation' by Jeff Chang. This book traces the rise of hip-hop from its Jamaican......

The Northwest Film Forum's been showing The Girl from Monday for a week now, but for tomorrow night's screening at 8pm, director Hal Hartley will be in attendance to introduce his latest work and hold a post-film Q&A. Since Hartley's veritable indie film royalty, this is a big geeky deal. The Girl from Monday has been dubbed a "fake sci-fi movie," but it's also a dark dystopian satire, a vision of the future where humans......

Occasionally when we take a break from adding bulletproofing to our trusty Seattlest offices on the off-chance 50 Cent stops by for an interview, we amuse ourselves with the Clear Channel College Entertainment site. What is the Clear Channel College Entertainment site, you ask. Well frankly it's one of the more entertaining and revealing sites on the internet. Pause for you to be shocked that Clear Channel can actually provide some entertaining content. Let's say......