Lisa Confehr and Kaitie Warren are the co-directors of Balagan Theatre's Romeo & Juliet, and they deserve co-praise for the hectic, breathless pace of this 16-actor-strong production. (Now through March 22nd, Thurs-Sat 8pm, Sun 2pm. Tickets: $15 advance, $20 at the door.) more ›

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This will no doubt turn out to be the easiest Science Lecture to get a seat at: next week brings Harvard psychology profesor Steven Pinker (9/26) and double-helixer James Watson (9/27), and then in November there's Jonah Lehrer, author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist (11/13). more ›

This Tuesday, at 7:30pm, UW professor Roger del Moral visits Town Hall to discuss his findings in natural disasterology. Tickets are $5 at the door, and if we know Seattle, people will gladly pay that much for an evening of science and, hopefully, slides of volcano eruptions or or hurricanes or whatnot. more ›

Seattlest had high hopes for Dayton Contemporary Dance Company's interpretation of Jacob Lawrence's paintings, presented last night as a part of the UW World Series. Our expectations were met halfway.The evening was bookended beautifully, beginning with an iconic, stunning piece by local choreographer Donald Byrd and concluding with an energetic, celebratory hip-hop/modern dance mashup by Rennie Harris. You absolutely should go if only to see those two, both of which left us inspired and reinvigorated about the still endless possibilities provided by modern dance in the hands of fearless, innovative choreographers. more ›

If you missed Reggie Wilson's group at On the Boards a few weeks ago, you have the chance to not only make up for it, but to add three other stellar choreographers and one of Seattlest's favorite dance companies to the bill. Opening this evening at Meany Hall as a part of UW's World Series, the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company performs the Seattle premiere of colôr-ógrăphy, n. the dances of Jacob Lawrence. There have been many works of dance inspired by works of art (and obviously, vice versa), but this strikes us as one of the most inspired and poignant pairings we've heard of. We've long been a fan of Lawrence's ability to craft narrative and emotion with simple graphic representations peppered with explosions of color and implied motion (his "Ironers" hangs in our dining room, still by far our favorite). more ›

Kids have been getting shafted by disputes between their parents since the first caveman hired an attorney to protect his rock collection after breaking it off with the cavewoman. Or at least since the 70s--same difference. But there's a kid down in Oly who's about to suffer above and beyond what most casualties of divorce go through. His father has converted to Judaism (we're picturing Goodman in The Big Lebowski) and wants his son to convert as well. The son has agreed--although maybe "agreed" should have quotes around it because a twelve-year-old can't really disagree with much that his legal care-giver decides--to also convert to Judaism, even though one of the stipulations is that he gets circumcised. more ›

It's like a painting, see? From far away, it's OK, but up close, it's a big old mess. more ›

It’s been over a week since the Viaduct vote, and we’ll admit it, we have no idea what the new plan is. There was some sort of announcement right after the vote that the state will spend some $950 million to spruce it up over the next few years. So, is that it? After years and years of debate, plans, and drawings of ethnically diverse group of people enjoying a better waterfront, was the solution simply to make the existing Viaduct stronger? What are we missing here? more ›

A good rule of thumb for playing trivia: When in doubt, go with your first answer. It saves arguing and cuts right through potentially endless cycles of self-doubt. more ›

It's the end of an era. Check out the standings list below and you'll see "Hüsker Don't," as you might expect -- but you'll see them in third place. Ever-renamed team State of the Onion played Nancy Zerg to HD's Ken Jennings, as did comeback kids Thaiku Hookers, who took second place. more ›

Another in a string of online sex stings recently caught ex King County Prosecutor's Office employee Lawrence Corrigan trying to meet up with a 13-year-old for sex. You asshole, Lawrence. more ›

Town Hall kicked off its Science Lecture Series last night with a talk by particle physicist Lawrence Krauss on Einstein's "biggest blunder." more ›

If you laughed milk through your nose at Lawrence and Gerald, then you owe choreographer Busby Berkeley a great big thank-you. Synchronized swimming was nowheresville until he turned his birds-eye-view camera on the glamor of dancing in and around pools. There's probably no better way to express your gratitude than by attending Chris Jeffries' Kaleidoscope Eyes: Songs for Busby Berkeley. That's at the Northwest Film Forum, July 20-23, 27-30, at 8pm. Tickets are $15 ($12 for members). more ›

We love this town. But we'd love it ever-so-much more if it had these things in it. (Budding entrepreneurs, take note.) more ›

Protector of all things free in the Interwebs, Pied Piper of copyright freedom, Underdog of the digital era--Lawrence Lessig has a new love, and it is...Microsoft? Lessig recently wrote a short post for Wired, in which he lauds the new Borg technology in Vista called InfoCard. more ›

Oh performance art, you're so absurd. Seattlest got a taste of that absurdity first hand at last night's opening of Computer by Seattle-based collective High Kindergarten Performance Group. We weren't quite sure what to expect going into the show---we had read that it would involve an office workday and Lawrence Welk---but we didn't realize that 90 minutes later, there would be stuff everywhere: fake blood, shaving cream, Mountain Dew, and a lotta candy. Nor did we realize there'd be a naked dude on a ladder the whole time. more ›

Collective highlights from Seattlest's year in reading: more ›

Once upon a 1998 the Real World was filmed in Seattle and the cast lived on one of the piers down by Myrtle Edwards. They were probably going for a houseboat feel but couldn't find or build anything large enough to contain the cast along with the cameras and equipment it takes to make the World Real. It probably worked in favor of the show because whenever you're trying to brainwash someone it's best to isolate them from anyone who's not a part of your message and no one lived down there in 1998. Ah, a reality TV producer's wet dream: Eight young adults living drunken and alone near an urban center.. more ›

Three Washington natives were picked in the first round of yesterday's NBA draft, an all-time record. So the Seattle Times asked the question: when did Seattle get to be such a hotbed of basketball talent? more ›

If you are at all interested in digital music, ownership of content and copyrights, then you should check out this presentation by famed digital legal scholar, Lawrence Lessig and Jeff Tweedy of Wilco given at the New York Public Library. They discuss the rights and ownership of music in an age where more music than can be listened to in a lifetime can be acquired for no cost in a matter of seconds. If you are a fan/hater of the 'illegal' file sharing sites and apps, then this will provide some interesting conversation. If you don't have an opinion, then you will learn about what it means to 'own' content. We will also admit that we are totally biased, since we have a a man-crush on both Tweedy and Lessig. more ›

If you’re a radio fan who craves the offbeat and simply weird, there’s no better place to tune in on a Friday night than KBCS, 91.3 FM. From 11 pm until 1 am, the esteemed Reverend Bubba Levi Greenacres spins a strange audio web from a techno remix of Lawrence Welk to the Muppets to Shooby Taylor to Leonard Nimoy to Shonen Knife to the Latin Hebrew Hip-Hop of the Hip Hop Hoodios. more ›