The oddest thing about watching last night's Iowa caucus coverage along with the Sonics game is that we had one TV tuned to TNT, and one TV tuned to CNN--and Chuck Norris was on the latter one. Yes, the man who reportedly counted to infinity...twice--was standing behind Mike Huckabee with his (Norris's) ex-model wife. Huckabee's own wife, who if not model material is hardly repulsive, did not appear in your picture as Huckabee spoke about......

Playing tonight at the Croc is Nicole Atkins, who we know from, um, American Express ads. But she's got a silver-throated voice kinda reminiscent of Hope Sandoval and/or Patsy Cline, so we'll let that one slide. Her debut album Neptune City just came out earlier this week and she was on Letterman Tuesday. Not all her songs are quite this Roy Orbison-ly grandiose: We'll check out Nicole for sure, but we know better than to......

This company pissed us off with their graffiti-esque chalk attack advertising recently in Downtown Seattle, but as far as we know not much came of it. Well, an anti guerrilla advertising site was created, but to our knowledge the city of Seattle didn't hold the company responsible for all their visual litter. It's a different story in Bellevue, though. The city to the East is apparently less tolerant of this job site's hyper-aggressive marketing schtick,......

There are a lot of synth-pop bands out there today -- too many perhaps -- so it can be an arduous task, to muck through it all and find the ones that actually have something more to say than, "Check out this keyboard my mom bought me!" See, we don't mind the synthesizers when they're used to good effect and without a shred of irony. Throw in pulse-pounding guitar rhythms and compelling lyrics sang by......

Last night, Young Frankenstein, playing at the Paramount through September 1st, came to life, sang, and did some wicked dance moves. The official world premiere of the new Mel Brooks musical, based on his horror-comedy film of the same name, had the full house's rapt attention from the initial flash of lightning over Transylvania Heights. The script preserves many of the film’s great lines ("Put...the candle...back!"), while adding nearly two dozen original songs with......

Laser Rocket Arms hates it when we call them "the new Husker Don't." Then again, they keep winning, so our motivation to stop doing so is minimal. 16 teams played the quiz, and the mighty Arms overcame a second-place finish at halftime to take the lead in the end. The loudest groan of the night came during the Nudity category, when Seattlest asked this question: Janet Jackson had a famous breast-exposing wardrobe malfunction during......

More snow--today's games are postponed. they'll play a doubleheader on Sunday, and try to make the third game up during an off day later in the season. Geoff Baker reports that a Cleveland paper described Hargrove's heroics last night thusly: "Hargrove pulled an invisible rabbit from his cap and somehow persuaded the umpires to feed it carrots." In other news: --Oregon State isn't OSU anymore, they are OS. It's an attempt to trick recruits into......

Jagshemash! Borat is a hit. It's getting rave reviews, grossing millions, and definitely the most quotable thing we've seen in ages. But Borat seems to have missed most of the -ist cities, and we were all wondering how the film would have been different if he'd made his way around the world on the -ist tour. In Shanghai, Borat would be observing Inane Learnings of Penis Photos for Make Benefit Glorious Flat World of......

Hollywood babbles on: Babel [info and showtimes] Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan [info and showtimes] Flushed Away [info and showtimes] The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause [info and showtimes] Indy films and the temple of the marketplace: Central Cinema Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick): 7 and 9:30pm Fri-Sun The Harder They Fall (Bogart!): 3pm Sunday The Egyptian The Monster Squad ("Wolfman's got nards!"): midnight Fri and Sat Grand......

Things we learned at trivia last night: Some people thought the Molucca Islands might be popularly known as the Rattan Islands, the Rubber Islands, the Molasses Islands, or -- our favorite given the question -- Java. No one reads Ellery Queen these days. (Nor, to be fair, do we.) At least one team thought perhaps Steve Irwin won the women's 400m sprint at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Alternate theory: your mom. Like Seattlest......

If you think it's too early to talk Halloween, you must really hate those Xmas tchotchkes that have shown up in major retailers near you. We, on the other hand, think Friday the 13th is the perfect day to start celebrating. And so does local lowbrow institution Roq La Rue -- they're kicking off their traditional Halloween show ("Monster Mayhem and Day of the Dead Delights") tonight. In a break with tradition, though, it's not......

Today's PI has an article about a new social networking site founded by a couple of ex-Real employees. Shelfari is a place to show off and discuss your favorite books. Founded by former RealNetworks employees Josh Hug and Kevin Beukelman, the three-person company plans today to unveil a Web site that allows people to list book titles, write reviews, recommend books to friends and find like-minded bibliophiles. Shelfari plans to make money by passing leads......

The end is near. Soon SIFF will be but a fading memory. So if you've been putting it off, this weekend is the last chance until next year for you to get some festival action. As an added bonus, on Sunday night at the Broadway Performance Hall, there will be an encore presentation for two of the films (one short, one full-length) that end up taking home SIFF awards. If you missed 'em the......

Sometimes history provides the right man for the times. Napoleon for post-revolutionary France. George Marshall for post-war Europe. Don Knotts for post-Roper Three's Company. And, in our modern times, the Tacoma News Tribune's Mike Sando for coverage of the Seattle Seahawks. This man covers the Seahawks like Cookie Monster eats cookies. Sando's got Seahawks crumbs flying out of his mouth, cascading down his front, like C.M., he probably has his own Seahawks covering song...or movie.......

You're watching this show "The Deadliest Catch" on Discovery right? If you're not the second season is just starting and typical of modern day television they show every episode eight hundred million times over and over again so you'll have no troubles catching up with the fleet. The show follows a handful of crab fishing vessels up in Alaska through their season with a bunch of cool videography and a ridiculous narrator ("DEATH IS ALWAYS......

This just in from the "No Shit Sherlock" department at King County: There are more overweight people in the suburbs. Please someone, stop the presses. The Neighborhood Quality of Life Study has released the results of their investigation into urban sprawl, linking a lack of "walkability" in suburban neighborhoods to an increase in body mass index, or BMI. Just 30 minutes a day drops the pounds--a message being pummeled into people by their doctors,......

Long intrigued by those screaming TV ads, we finally attended our first monster truck show two days ago (um, SUNDAY!!!) at the Tacoma Dome. The USHRA Monster Jam began with pairs of colossal five-ton trucks racing around the dirt track until an overall winner emerged: the pimped-out Escalade, with its six-foot tires, neon ground effects, spinning rims and Mohawk-having driver. Like pro wrestlers, each truck has its own uniquely ridiculous theme. We liked Jurassic Attack......

You're looking at the official map of Seattle's Downtown Ride-Free Area. You may not know it, but this kind of thing makes Seattlest mad as hell. We have a dysfunctional relationship with Metro where we just suffer silently. Today we're publicly asking who would like to keep their job and earn praise by accomplishing an essential but heretofore-ignored responsibility of Seattle public transit: Where's a useful freaking map, guys? For god's sake, we just want......

Position: Sea Monster Company: City of Seattle Compensation: Negotiable If you're a sea monster looking for exciting employment you should know of this opportunity in Seattle. Our residents are desperate for an unknown aquatic lifeform (sea monster) and this is the perfect chance for you to grow professionally while at the same time building your skills and gaining experience. You will be responsible for making frequent appearances on local websites and newscasts and must......