MUSIC: A Northwest Tribute to Ray Charles. No, Jamie Foxx will not be in attendance. 7:30pm // the Triple Door // $25. DOMESTIC SPYING: Dig out the old hat and big sunglasses and go under-cover for Seattlest at Seattle Met-blog's happy hour event. 6pm // Zig Zag Cafe // Cost of drinks. Additional cost of hat and big sunglasses if you don't already have them. SAVE THE DAY, OR NOT: Got traction tires? All-wheel drive?......

Tuesday, January 9 >>> Fred Gianelli at Baltic Room. Fred Gianelli has worked under a number of pseudonyms over the years, first as part of Psychic TV, then later as Acid Didj, Giannelli, Deneuve, Mazdaratti, and most famously as The Kooky Scientist. He's weathered a few trends in the world of techno, gathering a reputation as a gearhead and quality producer. Will he feature a stripped down setup this time around, or will he......

Over at the mass-market music stores like Sam Goody and FYE, the “Best-Seller” lists are occupied by those finger-puppets artists you’d expect to hear on KISS 106.1 or KUBE 93 (i.e. Black-Eyed Peas, Kelly Clarkson, Jamie Foxx). Meanwhile, at Seattle’s two most successful indie-music shops, Easy Street Records (West Seattle, Queen Anne), and Sonic Boom Records (Ballard, Capitol Hill, Fremont), they too maintain Top-Seller lists—along with earthy atmospheres, scruffy sales clerks (many of whom are......

Santa Claus is so f-bomb-ing yesterday. We all know he is coming to our town to watch us sleep, yadda yadda yadda...Thanks St. Nick, but been there, done that. This holiday season Governor Gregoire is coming to town. However, instead of presents for all the good boys and girls of the state, she will be bringing spending proposals for the upcoming legislative session. Ho-ho-ho. That's right ---while other governors will execute Jamie Foxx, our governor......

If you're like Seattlest, the Academy Awards, like most award shows, can make you feel like the world has gone crazy. You're obligated to watch, or to care, at least to get through water-cooler conversation at work the next day. We usually haven't even seen most of the nominees for Best Picture, and if we have, then we know for a fact that the nominated The Aviator was ridiculous while the unnominated Hotel Rwanda......