There is one well known way to render a movie that is bad enough into a thing of truly sublime wonder. That way, of course, is the above mentioned method, by which one drinks an ugly movie pretty. Booze can make a movie that should be awful a transcendent comic experience. Watching a film drunk builds a bond between friends, not unlike that which exists between soldiers who have shared a foxhole. more ›

That was the subject line of an email in ye olde inbox this morning (sans the sarcastic quotation marks, of course). What followed was a long letter from Adam Duritz that rambled for a bit before ultimately announcing that the Counting Crows were leaving Geffen, their label for 18(!) years--since back in the day when they were labelmates with Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and the Posies, amongst others. And then he gives a weird shout-out to Madonna, complete with a free mp3 of their cover of "Borderline." Not the weirdest press release we've ever received, but pretty inexplicable all the same. Full text after the jump. more ›

Late last year, Sean and Robin Wright Penn filed the paperwork necessary to put their marriage the way of yesterday's hangover. more ›

Well, it's been a month, and that can only mean one thing: time for the next free edgy youth culture documentary, care of Scion. Last time around, the topic was blood diamonds in hip hop; this time it's all about nightclubbing in the late '80s NYC queer community. more ›

Cooper's quiz is scheduled for 8:45 Tuesday nights, though last night's kicked off at 9:00. It's 40 questions, uncategorized. Teams trade answer sheets for scoring. After about 15-20 minutes the host announces results. That's a longish delay, but it's a well-paced quiz overall. more ›

Pearl Jam’s singer and most frequent songwriter will be releasing a solo album bunch of songs later this year. Without the four guys who, surrounding him, comprise the one band that survived the grunge explosion/implosion and still rocks today. It seems he and Sean Penn think so much alike (politically? Madonna-ly?) that Vedder recorded a near-recordful of songs for Penn’s latest directorial effort, Into the Wild. (Eddie contributed to previous Penn projects I Am Sam and Dead Man Walking.) Here’s the theatrical trailer: more ›

In the early '90s, we never guessed that "Groove Is in the Heart" would cross generations. But when DJ Derek Mazzone pumped the peppy sounds of Dee-Lite through the speakers shortly after we arrived at Baby Loves Disco, Little Miss Seattlest channeled Lady Miss Kier, shaking her diapered booty with a vengeance. Baby Loves Disco is a cross-country phenomenon, at least among parents. The line outside Chop Suey at 11:10 Sunday morning testified to... more ›

In the final show of its second season, the Washington Ensemble Theatre tackles a question for the ages: The answer is not so much a play as a series of ruminations, borne of an open-ended actor's game in which several of WET's founding members (amongst other UW theater students) participated. The ensemble developed it further over the past year into the work as it now stands, buoyantly directed by Marc Kenison and playing until May 29th. more ›

We want to see you naked: Do you love to express yourself in a Madonna-esque fashion? Have you seen a burlesque show and said "that should be me on that stage!" Do you have your sexy stage name picked out? The lovely ladies of Glitzkrieg Burlesque Bombshells want to hear from you. They want to hire some new performers for their troupe. Full details and some sexy photos are on their website. We may not have interviewed them (yet), but we recommend their stage show. more ›

During the telecast of the Mariners' 6-2 win over Oakland last night, the TV cameras captured an activity we haven't seen much of in the Mariner dugout recently--laughter. more ›

For those of us compulsive channel-changers whose dials aren't permanently affixed to KEXP or NPR, finding good stuff on the radio can be maddening. more ›