We are both completely smitten with our new SAM and completely broke, which means we jump at any opportunity to nix the admissions charge. Tonight is no exception, but with an added bonus! It's first Thursday and not only do we get to hang out at SAM for free, but local band Slender Means will be playing from 7 - 8 p.m. If you love Slender Means like we do, you know their infectious sugar-coated rock makes any night a good one; if you don't love them, you should. Their first album, "Neon & Ruin," was our guilty pop pleasure last summer. Oh yeah, and the lead singer looks like the lovechild of Kirk Cameron & that guy who played Bug in "Uncle Buck" except better looking than you would think. Be there! more ›

The Daily Show appearance of the guy who staged a semi-successful one-man Holy War against An Inconvenient Truth in Federal Way has already been posted elsewhere, but we can't help reposting. He's really a funny guy--his Church Lady and his Al Gore impressions are hilarious and it seems like hanging out with him would be like spending some high energy time with Robin Williams, if Robin Williams were a religious nut who believed that any day now god is going to piss wrath all over the sun and rapture us all (well, not us, obviously, but like Kirk Cameron and those guys) up to heaven. Props to the Daily Show for letting this guy do his bits for awhile before hitting us with the brimstone. more ›

Why is it that all the of the really seductive ideas that are flowing out of Seattle right now and gaining currency around the country come from groups that we barely acknowledge the existence of, much less revere as city institutions? First, intelligent design has its fifteen minutes in the sun, and now Mars Hill is taking over the planet, at least according to Salon this week. more ›