Is live theater still relevant in a society where computer users can create high-quality video and distribute it almost instantly via the web? That's been the subject of an ongoing, rancorous debate between two Seattlest contributors, Jeremy and Charles, both former theater artists. Jeremy maintains the theater can yet be a powerful art form -- Charles feels it's a dying, irrelevant medium (most likely wounded by its own hand). To stir them up appropriately, the......

With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it's a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-A-Verse. Luckily, even with all the things we have to do, we still managed to get together to let you know what we've all been up to. After cooling down from a hot weekend of many badass Sunset Junction Street Fair photo dispatches, LAist asked......

Something happened this weekend. The last time it happened, Saddam Hussein was a free man, Michael Jackson's biggest legal problem was an expired chimpanzee license, and Franz Ferdinand was best known for sparking a war that resulted in nine million deaths, not as a hipster band. No, not since November 1 and 2, 2003, had the Huskies and Seahawks both won on the same weekend. Last Saturday, the Huskies obliterated Idaho, 34-6. Then, on Sunday,......