After the lukewarm show on Friday night, Seattlest wasn't sure we were up for any more unsure bets on local hiphop shows. However, we bundled up, put on a brave face and ventured back to Chop Suey last night for the Parker Brothaz/GMK show. What we came away with: GMK is incredibly tight and infectiously energetic, the "L" in "put your L's UP!" stands for Lucciauno (as in "Free Fatal!"), and we want DJ......

Running text ads on your blog never really struck us as the Get-Richest-Quickest path; we used to have Amazon ads on a book review blog and after a year or two and no checks, we decided we could better use the real estate and quit the program. A few months later we got our first and final check for...$6ish? But Seattle's Furious Seasons blog has just discovered firsthand the pain of algorithmic rejection. The email......

Conventional wisdom says these days ain't happy ones for pulp-and-print publications. Circulation's down. Ad revenues are down. Everyone wants to read online. So nearly every newspaper, magazine and television news program has a host of blogs these days, to compete with the millions of self-described experts, autodidacts, conspiracy theorists and Chuck Norris-aficionados who propagate the blogosphere with their own brand of citizen journalism (read: poor spelling and poorer grammar). Indeed, it's hard to get noticed......

At the moment, Seattlest is an Enemy of Slog, due in part to this critical post on Seattle's aging weeklies. (In retrospect, we should not have implied that Dan Savage was getting older. He's evergreen, like many of our trees.) But we're not bitter -- it's an honor just to be listed! -- but puzzled by the news that Dan's getting kicked upstairs and arts editor Christopher Frizzelle is now Editor di tutti. There's so......

So we'll begin, the guy at the podium said, the huge black blast door in the Microsoft Auditorium at the Downtown Library eased down its track, slowly cutting off our view of the lobby, and we shivered. "I wish the P-I were here," said the Stranger's Josh Feit at one point. "This is what they do really well." Oddly enough, the Seattle P-I, the hands-down leader in news on the web around here, wasn't on......

Yesterday the CDC released the news that one of the smallest subsets of people who kill themselves saw an 8% increase from 2003 to 2004.For all young people between ages 10 to 24, the suicide rate rose 8 percent from 2003 to 2004 -- the biggest single-year bump in 15 years -- in what one official called "a dramatic and huge increase." ... The biggest increase -- about 76 percent -- was in the suicide......

The Columbia Journalism Review has our number. It's not actually true that Baby Einstein videos "suck the vocabulary out of your kid's brain." Wea culpa. Baby Einstein has been playing dueling press releases with the UW for a few days. If they don't stop it soon, we're sending them to their rooms for a time out. Throughout the squabble and on their website, Baby Einstein is careful not to make any specific claims about what......

You probably don't read ex-Seattle Weekly reporter Philip Dawdy's blog Furious Seasons. That's ok. That's why we're here: to read every blog in existence and let you know when something interesting happens (which turns out to be rarely). Philip writes about clinical depression and the little cottage industry of humongous corporations that have grown up around that illness. It's a well-written and well-researched blog by a guy who's been working that beat for several years,......

Permit us to bloviate some on the death of David Halberstam today in a car crash, which is utter bullshit considering that the guy reported from fricking Vietnam and he dies in a traffic accident in San Mateo (the car that hit him driven by, in a terrible irony, a Berkeley journalism student) (actually, I'm an idiot, his driver was a Berkeley student, so there's no irony, just terribleness). Halberstam's Summer of '49, about the......

Real Change executive director Tim Harris says on his blog that the Seattle Weekly wants to exposé his street newspaper back to the Gutenberg age. In Harris' post, entitled "Seattle Weekly: What the Fuck?," he gives the history of his contact with reporter Huan Hua, and relates what he says he heard from a Hua interview subject, former Real Change employee Israel Bayer:From the questions he was asking, Huan's angle wasn't hard to suss......

We don't really have to look any farther afield than the Stranger to get more than our fill of Seattle Weekly bashing in any given week, but right now there's an article in a Phoenix daily about the New Times Media vs. Village Voice Media culture war that jettisoned Weekly longtimers out the Weekly's door (and into something yet to be seen). The gist of the article is that across the country the left-leaning, axe-grinding,......

Mossback Returns! This is the most salient news item we see in the Seattle Times story on David Brewster's Crosscut, an online regional news site slated to hit the e-streets on March 12. [Brewster] has enlisted two other Seattle Weekly veterans to work on the venture. Former Weekly Managing Editor Chuck Taylor will be Crosscut's editor. Knute "Skip" Berger [aka Mossback], the Weekly's former editor-in-chief, will write for the publication. Brewster, who will be......

Activist journalism is a shifting target -- yesterday's activism doesn't always apply. (You'd hope because it's been assimilated by the mainstream.) Here's the classic face of mental illness local media usually provides. But regular, conscientious reporting has got to focus more on the wealth of treatment modalities and medications "made available" to people who may or may not be able to judge between them. And how even doctors are snowed under by pharmaceutical data.......

Blog called DallasFood is making big, brown waves with a ten-part (ten part!!) series about a small, Plano, Tex., chocolate-maker called NoKa. Point being, for starters, that NoKa's not a chocolate-maker per se but a chocolatier who purchases commercially packaged chocolate bars from a third party and uses them to make, or confect, a chocolate couverture. In installments of Dickensian intensity, DallasFood ferrets out the source of NoKa's chocolate: Bonnat, a respected firm based in......

He's not raking muck for any paper publications currently, but ex-Seattle Weekly all-star Philip Dawdy is still managing to rouse the rabble on the internet. He got noticed by Reddit.com this week after making the jump from reporting to editorializing and dissing Google, MySpace, "Web 2.0" and blogs from, uh, his blog. This yearning we've got nowadays to be actualized through an idealized self that isn't real at all, but that everyone thinks is real!,......

The Seattle Public Library hosted 'A Salute to Tim Egan' last night at the inconvenient hour of 5:30 PM. Tim Egan is a Seattle native who won the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism in 2001. He's most well known for writing about the Pacific Northwest. A couple of weeks ago he was awarded the National Book Award for The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Stories of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. Seattle is......

In the old days, when men were men and trees fit in the ground, newspapers were no less biased than the average KVI caller. Most were organs of one political party or the other, and as a result were very entertaining. Then some wisenheimer got the idea that newspapers should be unbiased, and as a result you get the awful flabby boring unreadable product that is the modern American daily newspaper, with headlines like......

Ever get the feeling that food is no longer your friend? That while you used to have some laughs with Stouffer’s lasagne and chill out with your best friend Diet Coke, secretly food has been going behind your back, stealing your boyfriend, gunning for your job, and making you fat? Has food got it in for you? Crazy, we noticed it too. Seattlest is just about ready to skip lunch and get an IV......

What's wrong with Seattle journalism? Look no further than the front page of today's Seattle Times and its pathetic story, headlined "They Needed a Six-Bedroom House". Memo to the Times city editor: the time to run this would have two weeks ago, when it might have been useful. But then, you guys were too focused on screechy-preachy pieces about the teen dance ordinance, weren't you? Better late than never? Nonsense. The Stranger got it right......

Knight Ridder, minority owner of the Seattle Times, got picked up by an outfit called McClatchy Co. this week which is unfortunate because McClatchy, while having a generally good reputation as far as journalism goes, also owns the Tacoma News Tribune and the Times and the News Tribune compete for readers who happen to live somewhere between the two cities. We realize that you may be comatose after reading that last sentence, if in fact......

We enjoyed reading Eli Sanders' piece in The Stranger this week about the imminent death of the Post Intelligencer and how he's personally all for it and everything, but for the record we personally aren't. We've said as much every time a few JOA tidbits leak out to the public (which is infrequently) and we'll say it again now. We would prefer if there was a little more ideological space between the Times and the......

Unlike Londoners during the Blitz, we Seattleites haven't had much of a chance to prove our mettle in the face of danger. There were the WTO riots, but how much danger did we really face from people dressed like turtles? After Pearl Harbor we didn't look too great, rounding up our Japanese neighbors and sending them off to concentration camps. There was the Great Fire of 1889, but the blaze didn't kill a single person......

Seattlest sang the praises of the landmark Capitol Hill eatery Glo's in previous posts not worth linking to now, but when we heard the rumor this morning that Glo's namesake passed away, we suddenly felt like we hadn't written nearly enough. Since we're not a source of actual journalism, but instead merely a blog, we'll just hope that the rumor isnt true. We'll hit the beloved local diner on a less crowded weekday morning soon......

It is a sad day for the music world. None of the usual blog-snarkiness in this post, for Robert Moog, synthesizer/theremin pioneer has died. Whether you've heard of him or not, know that Moog's death is as big as Peter Jennings' death was to the world of journalism. His work helped to change the face of music, both in the rock and electronic realms. Seattle's various scenes abound with Moog influence, from the organic 4/4......

When can the Tyrone Willingham Era be said to begin? The day the UW hired him to coach the Husky football team? The first day of spring practice? The first game? The first time he appears, as he inevitably will, in a commercial for Pro Golf Discount? This is one of life's enduring mysteries. But, for the sake of this post, let's say that the Tyrone Willingham era begins today--the first day of fall practice......

Seattlest is feeling an amount of motivation to write on this subject that is nearing absolute zero, but we already contacted the editors of various weekly newspapers so we feel committed to posting something. The Western Washington branch of the Society for Professional Journalists recently released an avalanche of awards, a great many of which buried the Seattle Weekly under mounds of lucite. Congratulations Seattle Weekly. Seattle's other alternative weekly paper won one honorable mention.......

For some time now, weblogger and documentarian Chuck Olsen has been working on his film Blogumentary. Now, combining a subject and a city near and dear to Seattlest, Blogumentary will be premiering this Friday at the UW's Evans School of Public Affairs....

Last week's insightful critique of area weeklies included a summation of Portland's Willamette Weekly. "Not a bad paper," we said. Little did we know that members of the Pulitzer Board in New York City would follow our links to the Oregon weekly and agree with us. Apparently, the Pulitzer Board likes to make a big fuss over things, though, and their way of saying "not a bad paper" involves a whole award ceremony rigamorale. Something......